"A top United Nations official is facing criticism following a recent speech before a well known anti-Israel organization that supports boycotts of the Jewish state, denies Israel's right to exist, and has promoted anti-Semitic materials.
Elizabeth Campbell, director of the UN Relief Works Agency's office in Washington, D.C., recently spoke before the Jerusalem Fund, a Washington-based pro-Palestinian activist group that promotes boycotts of Israel as part of the Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment movement, or BDS...
White House-allied policy advisers with knowledge of the talk told the Washington Free Beacon that it is just another example of UNRWA's biased attitude towards Israel and its efforts to legitimize groups that take a hardline stance against the Jewish state...
The Jerusalem Fund regularly holds events that suggest the group's affinity for Hamas and make explicit its support for BDS. The title of a recent event was 'Hamas: From Resistance to Government.' Another was titled, 'Building the BDS Movement.' Another asked, 'Israel: Democracy or Apartheid State?' with the speaker endorsing the latter...
A...Trump administration adviser who works on Middle East issues told the Free Beacon that appearances such as this have become routine for UNRWA.
'No one is surprised by this, least of all the Trump administration's UN and Middle East officials,' the source said. 'Ambassador Haley has spent an enormous amount of time trying to call attention to the UN's hostility toward Israel, which exists at every level. Of course a UN official is being hosted by a group that advocates economic attacks against Israel. They're on the same side.'"