UNRWA admits teaching hate
January 22, 2021
United Nations Relief and Works Agency Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini admitted in a series of tweets that “inappropriate” material was indeed distributed to over 300,000 students in UNRWA’s care.
IMPACT-se released a report containing the first-ever audit of UNRWA-produced educational materials. The report uncovered extremist content, which does not comply with UN standards or UNRWA’s own stated principles.
The report found the UNRWA-produced material contained content that encouraged violence, glorified jihad and martyrdom, erased the UN-member Israel from maps, and re. For access to this article please sign in or subscribe.
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UNWRA admits its educational material distributed to Palestinian students exhorts to violence
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which serves Palestinian refugees, has admitted that its educational materials contain exhortations to violence, hate speech, and terrorism that violate UN regulations.
UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini admitted that “inappropriate” material was indeed distributed to over 300,000 students in UNRWA’s care.
Lazzarini stated new material that adheres to UN values has been distributed. He did not show evidence of this new material, nor explain how the UN organization will collect the harmful content from over 300,000 homes of the Palestinian students.