Mick Hartley

From the Times today:

The United States has said it is suspending funding for the main UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees after 12 of its employees were accused of taking part in the October 7 attack on Israel.

The United Nations confirmed earlier that it had taken action against the employees. “I have taken the decision to immediately terminate the contracts of these staff members and launch an investigation in order to establish the truth without delay,” Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner general of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), said without specifying the number involved.

It's not just a few bad apples: the whole institution is rotten.

The agency provides health and education to residents of Palestinian refugee camps across the Middle East, including in Gaza and the West Bank.

They look after health and education so that Hamas, supposedly the government in Gaza, can get on with the business of killing Jews. In the UNRWA schools they teach hatred of Jews and the glories of martyrdom. And why, some 75 years after Israel was founded, is there still a need for an organisation solely dedicated to Palestinian refugees? None of the other great population transfers of the 20th century still require all that money and all those people – certainly not the Jews expelled from Muslim countries. It just perpetuates the Palestinian refugee status, used by the surrounding Arab states as a justification to refuse assimilation of their fellow Arabs and to deny the legitimacy of Israel.

Update: and now the UK too. Maybe the tide is turning.