[New York Sun ] Benjamin Sarlin - Bowing to pressure from pro-Palestinian Arab activists in America, the United Nations Children's Fund is cutting ties with billionaire Israeli donor Lev Leviev, in response to allegations that one of his companies is financing the construction of settlements in the West Bank. Anne Bayefsky, senior editor of the watchdog group Eye on the UN, said: "UNICEF apparently has no problem taking money from thugs, dictators, and butchers the world over. But when it comes to money from Jews they suddenly have a problem. Let's call it what it is: It's racism." Bayefsky noted that the governments of several member nations that sit on UNICEF's executive board, including Burma and Zimbabwe, are widely regarded by the international community as serial violators of human rights.
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