UN Secretary General Defends UN Agency That Teaches One Palestine "River to Sea"

"The Secretary General, through his spokesperson, bestowed special praise for UNRWA's supposed contributions to the education of Palestinian children. It "provides education for half a million refugee girls and boys, teaching them human rights and tolerance," the Secretary General spokesperson's statement said.

In point of fact, UNRWA teaches hate against Jews in the schools it runs. It also bent to pressure from Hamas and the Palestinian Authority by abandoning plans to change textbooks it uses in its schools that contain maps showing a "Palestine" that runs from river to sea...

In other words, despite the Palestinian Authority's claim to support a two-state solution and to recognize the state of Israel, it aligned itself with the terrorist Hamas organization in demanding that the United Nations teach in its schools the fictional narrative of one Palestine from river to sea, as if Israel did not exist at all. In bowing to the Palestinians' wishes, UNRWA is thereby aiding and abetting the undermining of the two-state solution the UN professes to support.

Moreover, acceding to such pressure from the Palestinian hate-mongers does not advance lessons on 'human rights and tolerance' that the Secretary General's defense of UNRWA claimed UNRWA was teaching.

I asked the Deputy Spokesperson why the Secretary General had not at least reflected concern about UNRWA's participation in an educational program for children that undermines the very principle of a two state solution that he and the UN in general have espoused so consistently. In response, the Deputy Spokesperson said, 'the relationship between UNRWA and its host is an issue that's complex. What they try to do in the places where they operate is to encourage the instruction of tolerance, and they do try to teach messages of tolerance in all the curricula in the countries where they operate.' He repeated this tripe several times.

UNRWA should be forced to make a choice. Either show some backbone and not participate in advancing a curriculum in its schools that directly contradicts the two-state solution the UN claims it supports, or lose all funding from the United States, by far its biggest contributor."