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Why It’s Time to Defund UNRWA | 1.12.25

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🗓️ 12 January 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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The executive director of UN Watch, discusses his organization’s extensive investigation into the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. UN Watch has uncovered years of ties between UNRWA staff and terrorist organizations like Hamas. Get the facts first on Morning Wire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Since the Hamas, October 7th terror attack against Israel, a highly controversial Palestinian aid group has come under intense scrutiny.

0:10.6

The United Nations relief and work for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA, has been revealed to have terrorist leaders and supporters among its staff.

0:20.0

The Biden administration directed over a

0:21.9

billion dollars to the group before pausing funds last year. In this episode, we talk with the

0:27.0

executive director of UN Watch, which has documented UNRUS terrorist ties and says it's high time

0:33.2

to shut the group down. I'm Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley with Georgia Howl. It's Sunday,

0:39.3

January 12th, and this is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.

0:45.9

Joining us now to discuss the controversy surrounding UNRWA is the executive director of UN Watch,

0:51.6

Halel Neuer. Halel, thank you so much for coming on. So your organization has

0:55.6

been watching very closely the actions of the United Nations, including UNRWA, which has come under

1:00.7

a lot of scrutiny for good reason in the last year. First, what prompted your team to investigate

1:06.0

UNRWA's radical ties? Well, you know, we've been tracking UNRWA to some degree over the past 10 years.

1:12.9

I would say every year, a couple times a year we would take a look at who the teachers are,

1:17.7

what they're up to on their social media, because UNRWA has operations in Lebanon,

1:23.8

Syria, Jordan, Gaza, and so forth. And I don't have immediate access to those places,

1:29.6

but on social media, you can actually see who the teachers are and what they're saying. And we

1:33.8

discovered over a period of 10 years, is going back to 2015, that UNR teachers regularly were

1:40.2

glorifying terrorist attacks, glorifying Adolf Hitler, calling to slaughter Jews, jihad

1:47.5

against the West. So this was regular stuff that's being put out by unread teachers.

1:52.1

So that's the background we were exposing for 10 years. And in the past year, it reached

1:57.6

the next level. The October 7th massacre, we learned, included among the

2:02.9

people perpetrating the massacre from Gaza were actual unrewred employees, unrucial workers,

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