We all were shocked and utterly horrified by the news from Israel on Oct. 7.

In just hours, Hamas terrorists killed more than 1,200 innocent people, mostly Jews. And did so with unimaginable cruelty.

The gruesome carnage stunned and appalled much of the Western world — but in Gaza, teachers employed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) celebrated the massacre.

That is just one reason why Congress MUST eliminate all U.S. taxpayer aid to UNRWA — a 1.6 billion-dollar U.N. agency that teaches young Palestinians to harbor malice, resentment, and seething hostility against Israel.

And you help pay for it as an American taxpayer.

UN Watch revealed recently that a Telegram group of 3,000 UNRWA instructors reacted with GLEE just hours after the brutal 10/7 Hamas assault took place.

These Israel-hating UNRWA teachers praised the invading terrorists as “heroes.” They posted photos of dead or kidnapped Israelis and called on Hamas to murder the hostages.

One UNRWA teacher shared an image of a suicide vest wired with explosives, with the caption, “Wait, sons of Judaism.”

“May Allah grant them [terrorists] victory,” prayed another teacher.

In a later incident, another UNRWA teacher in Gaza reportedly held an Israeli hostage locked up in the attic of his house for 50 days. The hostage had little to eat and almost no medical attention.

But these disturbing incidents are just the tip of the UNRWA iceberg.

A notoriously pro-Palestinian U.N. agency, UNRWA instills hate for Israel in the hearts and minds of the nearly 550,000 students it teaches in 706 schools across Gaza, Judea and Samaria, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.

Thanks to Joe Biden, the U.S. is UNRWA’s largest donor. And that means you and I, as taxpayers, are helping to induct young Palestinians into the cause of jihad.

YOUR FAXES forced Biden’s State Department to backpedal on its jihadi education funding.

Last Friday, the Biden State Department announced it will “pause” funding to UNRWA as the Biden administration reviews allegations that 12 UNRWA employees were involved in the October 7 massacre.

But a “pause” in funding, especially over just one incident in decades of documented abuses is simply not enough.

Americans would NEVER pay educators to teach children in American schools that Jews are “pigs” made for slaughter whose “corpses” need to be desecrated. So why on earth would we pay for this sort of “education” elsewhere?

Congress MUST act now by permanently eliminating ALL funding for the jihad-inspiring UNRWA. Otherwise, Joe Biden will simply wait until this storm blows over and return to funding UNRWA’s jihad teachers to the tune of hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars per year.

And let’s be honest, those hundreds of millions of dollars currently being spent on UNRWA would go a long way in bolstering our own American schools. Please, fax Congress with your demand today.

As you do, please prayerfully consider making a generous one-time gift or even a small recurring monthly gift to fund our important work defending the world’s only Jewish state.

Thank you for standing with Israel in this profound time of need.

Mat Staver
Chairman
Christians in Defense of Israel

P.S. As we begin a new year, I ask for your generous and much-needed gift to defend Israel in 2024. Your gift now will help us fight the Biden administration’s attacks on Israel. Please, give generously today! And sign our petition.

Sources:

“Released Hostage Says He Was Held by UNRWA Teacher in Gaza - Report.” 2023. The Jerusalem Post, November 30, 2023. Jpost.com/middle-east/article-775777.

Shapiro, Emily. “State Dept. Pauses Funding for UN Agency amid Allegations Employees Involved in Israel Attack.” ABC News, January 26, 2024. Abcnews.go.com/International/state-department-temporarily-pauses-funding-unrwa-reviewing-allegations/story?id=106708513.