UN Watch warns that UN teachers indoctrinate children in Gaza and promote terrorism
In 2022, the United States contributed at least $344 million to finance these educators.
(Cordon Press)
A report by the non-governmental organization UN Watch revealed that teachers from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza, largely funded by the United States and the European Union, indoctrinate Palestinian children and promote terrorism and antisemitism.
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Titled "UNRWA: Hate Starts Here," the document detailed that at least 20 teachers and other UNRWA staff celebrated the Oct. 7 massacre of Israeli civilians by Hamas on their social media accounts. The messages were collected by UNWatch, an independent human rights monitoring body based in Geneva.
"The new cases are in addition to 133 UNRWA educators and staff who were exposed for promoting hate and violence in UN Watch’s last report, released in March 2023," UN Watch explained.
'Allah is great': Message from the teachers
Educators who used their personal social media channels to spread hate and celebrate the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack include:
- UNRWA Gaza teacher Osama Ahmed posted “Allah is Great, Allah is Great, reality surpasses our wildest dreams” as the massacre was unfolding.
- UNRWA school principal Iman Hassan justified the massacre as “restoring rights” and “redressing” Palestinian “grievances.”
- Director of the UNRWA Khan Younis Training Center Rawia Helles, who is featured in and UNRWA campaign, glorified one of the terrorists as a “hero,” “raider,” and “prince of Khan Younis.”
- UNRWA English teacher Asmaa Raffia Kuheil excitedly posted “7th, October, 2023! Sculpture the date!” adding a heart emoji.
- UNRWA school administrator Hmada Ahmed posted “welcome the great October.”
Likewise, the organization explained that it believes that the number of teachers who promote hatred towards Israelis is higher: "The report only examined a sample of Facebook users who publicly identified themselves as UNRWA employees, and therefore UN Watch estimates that the number of UNRWA staff who incite violence and hatred includes hundreds if not thousands among the agency’s 30,000 staff," it indicated.
'Teachers who preach antisemitism'
UN Watch maintained that UNRWA teachers are largely funded by Western countries that provide the bulk of the agency's $1.6 billion budget. In addition, it pointed out that the budget promised for 2022 included $344 million from the United States and $107 million from the European Commission.
Finally, UN Watch said that the problem is not social media posts, but teachers who preach antisemitism and terrorism. "We call on the governments that fund UNRWA to declare that they will stop enabling a system that teaches new generations of Palestinians to hate and murder Jews," UN Watch said.
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