UN Agency That Helps Palestinians in Serious Need of Reform: Jewish Group

B’nai Brith questions Canada's $10M donation given the fomenting of anti-Israel hate in UNRWA schools

UNRWA’s commissioner-general Pierre Krahenbuhl waves to refugee students at the UNRWA Rimal Girls Preparatory School in Gaza City Jan. 22, 2018, during the launch of a global fundraising campaign seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in response to funding cuts by the Trump administration. AP Photo/Adel Hana

Ottawa’s recent $10 million emergency donation to the U.N. agency that helps Palestinian refugees has drawn criticism from Canada’s former ambassador to Israel and Jewish groups who say the agency is in need of serious reform, including curbing the incitement of hate against Israel in its classrooms.

Following the U.S. government’s decision in January to withhold $65 million of its $125 million planned funding to the UN Relief and Welfare Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the head of the agency appealed to other donor countries to supply emergency humanitarian aid, claiming the loss of U.S. funding would risk instability in the region.