(Spiked-UK) Brendan O'Neill - UNRWA - the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees - announced it was investigating allegations that its employees in Gaza took part in the Hamas pogrom of Oct. 7. UNRWA oversees vast swathes of social and educational life in Gaza, as well as providing health and welfare. Yet the illusion that UNRWA is a good, neutral body that just happens to have a few bad actors in its ranks is dangerously simple-minded. In truth, UNRWA has helped to institutionalize a Palestinian politics of grievance, increase both local and global hatred for Israel, and provide spaces in which Gazan Islamists have been able to indoctrinate a new generation with their Jew-hate that masquerades as "Palestinian liberation." Liberating Gaza from UNRWA ought to be at least a medium-term goal of everyone who cares about Israelis and Palestinians.
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