Wednesday, January 31st, 2024 at 12 PM ET
This past Friday, the United States suspended aid to UNRWA, followed by Canada, Australia, Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Finland. As we are all painfully aware, the events of October 7th constitute some of the worst human crimes against humanity, and certainly the blackest day in Jewish history since the holocaust. Israel has filed intelligence briefings to the United Nations accusing several of UNRWA’s employees of being directly complicit with the acts of October 7th.
UNRWA claims to have fired 12 of these employees after Israel filed its implicating evidence.
Many of the barbaric atrocities, or the incitement leading up to atrocities such as those documented on October 7th, have been enabled by various UN agencies, such as UNRWA, who have been purporting to represent humanitarian assistance and human rights. How much of this assistance has been diverted to help the construction of the massive Hamas terror tunnels underneath Gaza? Which agencies have been assisting the Hamas control and command centers embedded in mosques, schools, hospitals, and homes from which missiles are launched? What is being taught in the UNRWA schools how are the professionals in these schools being vetted, and by whom?
Here to answer these questions and more is Professor Gerald Steinberg of Bar Ilan University, and Founder and President of NGO Monitor.
About the Speaker: Professor Steinberg completed his bachelor’s degree in physics and Near Eastern Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, his master’s degree at the University of California, San Diego, and his Ph.D. at Cornell University. In government in 1981. He founded NGO Monitor in 2001.
