President Biden, in his obsession with reversing all of Trump’s policies, means restoring funding to the United Nations Employment and Relief Agency – hundreds of millions of taxpayers a year for a teaching agency to Palestinian children to hate “the enemy” Israel and believe “Jihad is the path to glory.”
UNRWA began producing its own educational material last year to help with learning at home during the pandemic, and some of its content is more poisonous than Palestinian Authority propaganda.
The Jerusalem-based Institute for Monitoring Cultural Peace and Tolerance in School Education opened the cover of outrageous teaching materials in November, revealing that they glorified terrorism because of the destruction of Israel. Canada and Australia opened investigations, but UNRWA claimed it had dealt with the matter internally and replaced the “inappropriate” material.
It was not like that. Although the Office blocked access to its material, IMPACT found it and released a report on Wednesday showing that the agency still teaches hatred and intolerance to more than 320,000 Palestinian children.
A mathematical problem asks students the number of martyrs in the first intifada. A grammar exercise includes the phrases “The occupier commits all kinds of torture” and “We are a busy people.” In an Arabic lesson, the children write a text read by a family member who says that “our Arab relatives have sadly recognized our enemies and have begun to interact with them,” referring to Abraham’s agreements. , and insists that one day “our enemies will be banished, God willing, as failed losers.”
Even a history lesson on the destruction of ancient Carthage by the Romans asks students to call a Palestinian people destroyed by “Israeli occupation.” In fact, Israel is only known as “the enemy,” “the Israeli occupation,” or “the Zionist occupation.” Neither the maps of the materials show nor the Jewish state.
President Donald Trump was right to cut funding ($ 360 million a year) to UNRWA, which devotes most of its budget to “education.” Biden should rethink his plan to reverse this: These hat sellers don’t deserve a penny.