What if you found out that a local charity, one to which you are currently donating money, was actually using that cash to turn around to violently rob your closest friends and neighbors, commit arson, rape, and even murder among other despicable acts? What if you found out they were undermining your family’s well-being while sticking up for known lawbreakers? Wouldn’t you stop giving them money?
Of course. Any reasonable person would. It is time America started embracing the same common-sense approach in how we spend money abroad, starting with the United Nations and its various agencies.
Look at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East — more commonly known by its acronym, UNRWA. While the group portrays itself as a United Nations agency meant to help refugees with “primary and vocational education, primary health care, relief and social services, infrastructure and camp improvement, microfinance and emergency response,” recent events have ripped its mask off and left U.S. policymakers with a clear moral and strategic imperative: defund it.
Earlier this year, information surfaced alleging at least a dozen UNRWA “aid” workers took part in the brutal Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. Their contracts were reportedly terminated. Then Israeli Defense Forces found Hamas tunnels running right underneath UNRWA’s headquarters in Gaza City.
This comes as little surprise to some of us. Even before the current war, UNRWA’s true allegiance and aims have been hiding in plain sight for years. Speaking of tunnels, a Hamas terror tunnel was discovered under a UNRWA school back
