Palestinian children are being taught that Israelis are pigs and snakes. So said Arnon Groiss, senior journalist for the Israel Broadcasting Authority's Arabic Radio, during a congressional briefing last week. The schools these young refugees attend are funded by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which receives 20 percent of its funding from the United States, according to testimony organized by The Center for Near East Policy and Rep. Chris Smith...

Textbooks provided by the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency (UNRWA) to Palestinian schools have been found to contain strongly anti-Israeli and anti-American sentiments. Experts testified on the content of the textbooks last Wednesday on Capitol Hill, prompting some to once again call into question the United States’ financial support of the UN. UNRWA, opened in 1950 following the Arab-Israeli war in 1948, is responsible for the health, education, and social services of over...

By REUTERS The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) is one of the greatest stumbling blocks to the peace process, MK Einat Wilf (Independence) said at a meeting with 65 ambassadors and senior diplomats from around the world in Bar-Ilan University on Tuesday night. Wilf launched a new, international parliamentary campaign to restructure UNRWA and “combat the inflation of numbers of refugees” to make a two-state solution possible. “When I hear a...

Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), chairman of the House subcommittee on Human Rights and co-chairman of the Bi-Partisan Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism, told CNSNews.com that U.S. donations to the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency (UNRWA) make the federal government accountable for what is in the books. “We are responsible for the content and the content has been, year in and year out, explosively anti-Semitic, anti-American and...

Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), chairman of the House subcommittee on Human Rights and co-chairman of the Bi-Partisan Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism, told CNSNews.com that U.S. donations to the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency (UNRWA) make the federal government accountable for what is in the books. “We are responsible for the content and the content has been, year in and year out, explosively anti-Semitic, anti-American and...

Member, Advisory Council on the Comprehensive study of incitement in Middle East textbooks, commissioned by the Council for Religious Institutions in the Holy Land, an interfaith association of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim leaders UNRWA is a UN agency that is responsible, among other tasks, for the education of Palestinian refugee children in its own schools. It uses textbooks provided by the Arab various governments, including the Palestinian Authority. These books sometimes contain items...

Parents Forum for Justice ParentsForumForJustice.blogspot.com 1-201-256-1516 January 19, 2012The Honorable Eric H. Holder Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice Robert F. Kennedy Building Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Attorney General: We the undersigned are parents whose children, all citizens of the United States, were severely injured or killed by Palestinian terrorists in the past ten years. In almost every case, some of those responsible for the relevant...

Chemical Qassam rocket fired from Hamas controlled Gaza, explodes into Eshkol Council (Photo credit: Eshkol Council Spokesman) Eshkol Council Complains to UN After Gaza regime fires chemical weapons at the Western Negev residents. Haim Jelin, chairman of the Eshkol Regional Council, on Monday forwarded a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon, complaining of the use of chemical warheads against residents of southern Israel by the Gaza regime. The letter describes how phosphorous-tipped...

Between 1967 and 1993, just a few hundred Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza won the right to live in Israel by marrying Israeli Arabs (who constitute nearly one-fifth of Israel’s population) and acquiring Israeli citizenship. Then the Oslo Accords offered a little-noted family-reunification provision that turned this trickle into a river: 137,000 residents of the Palestinian Authority (PA) moved between 1994 and 2002, some of them engaged in either sham or polygamous marriages. ...

It was August 1, 2011 the first day of Ramadan. I had made plans to meet George (not his real name) a tall blonde blue eyed German who was living in Ramallah at 4 o’clock on the Palestinian side of the Qalandia checkpoint. I knew from having been to the checkpoint before that the Israeli security fence wasn’t placed at Qalandia by accident. I have heard Israelis over the years talk about how Jerusalem has always had a small airport, called Orot. It turns out that this is where...