Brendan O'Neill: How Western governments are funding the persecution of Jews

We know UNRWA has intimate links with Hamas, so why are we giving it money?

The British government helped to fund the persecution of a British Jew. That’s the takeaway from Emily Damari’s revelation that she was held in an UNRWA facility for some of the hellish time she spent in Hamas captivity. Keir Starmer’s Labour government pumps millions of pounds into UNRWA.

David Farrar: Israel declares UNRWA to be a terrorist entity

The ABC reports:

Israel’s parliament has passed legislation targeting the main UN agency providing aid to people in Gaza.

The new laws designate the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) a terrorist organisation, cutting diplomatic ties with the agency and barring it from operating on Israeli soil.

David Farrar: Hamas Data HQ is under UNRWA HQ!

The Times of israel reports:

Beneath the Gaza Strip headquarters of the controversial united Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, known commonly as UNRWA, the Hamas terror group hid one of its most significant assets, the Israeli military has revealed.

Alexander Gillespie: The UN’s top court didn’t call for a ceasefire in Gaza......

......how does NZ respond now?

The provisional measures issued by International Court of Justice (ICJ) in South Africa’s case against Israel under the Genocide Convention was, on balance, a victory for Israel.

While South Africa’s application was not thrown out, and the ICJ accepted it could rule on what is happening in Gaza, there was no provisional order for an immediate ceasefire.

Brendan O'Neill: UNRWA is worse than you think

For far too long this UN agency has provided moral cover to the anti-Semitic haters of Israel.

I long ago lost faith in the left. But even I wouldn’t have believed it if you’d told me that one day they would spend Holocaust Memorial Day cheering an organisation whose members stand accused of slaughtering Jews. That as everyone else was lighting candles for the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, they would be swarming the internet to praise and even fundraise for a group whose staff are suspected of massacring Jews. That on the very day we remember the worst act of anti-Semitism in history, they’d be heaping love and cash on an organisation whose people allegedly played a part in the worst act of anti-Semitism of the 21st century. The left is bad, I know, but are they that bad, I’d have wondered?