COVERUP: UNRWA removes "human rights" webpage after hate and lies exposed

It's happened again.

For the second time, after I exposed that UNRWA's Gaza school curricula include many examples of promoting hateful ideas that directly contradict those of the UN and UNRWA themselves, the organization has stealthily removed the evidence without any acknowledgment or apology.

 My 2012 exposé of how UNRWA schools were teaching hate, martyrdom and jihad to students, with many examples of essays and poems, resulted in UNRWA removing many individual school sites and specific pages and domains from the Internet without any public notice.

Now, my latest exposés showing explicit antisemitism and hateful historical lies in the UNRWA site dedicated to its "human rights" curriculum has resulted in UNRWA pulling that entire site down as well. (The Google cached version of the site is here, for now. The document that included the explicit antisemitism is cached here. I uploaded it here.)

We have once again proven not only that UNRWA teaches hate and lies, but that this UN organization has no transparency whatsoever in its teaching methods. It teaches hundreds of thousands of students the worst kinds of hate. Instead of admitting it when these examples are exposed, it engages in cover-ups.

UNRWA spokespeople did not respond to my request for comment.

This is how you would expect a criminal organization to act.This is not how an NGO that gets its funds from the world's nations is supposed to do its business.

This is scandalous. Every nation that funds UNRWA, no matter their feelings towards Israel, should be outraged that their money - nearly $1 billion annually -  is being used in secret and illicit ways. Without UNRWA publicly admitting that it has taught hate for generations and without an explicit apology and concrete, published plans on how they plan to ensure that their curricula will be transparent and public, we must assume that UNRWA is continuing its practices of teaching a new generation of children antisemitic lies.

It is way past time that UNRWA's funders and the mainstream media take notice of how UNRWA is misusing its resources towards goals that are contrary to its own stated principles.

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Plenty of hate and lies in the UNRWA "human rights" curriculum

UNRWA is very proud of their human rights curriculum:

We have been delivering human rights education in our schools since 2000 to promote non-violence, healthy communication skills, peaceful conflict resolution, human rights, tolerance and good citizenship.

In May 2012, the Agency endorsed its new Human Rights, Conflict Resolution and Tolerance (HRCRT) Policy to further stregthen human rights education in UNRWA. This policy builds upon past successes, but also draws from international best practices and paves the way to better integrate human rights education in all our schools.

...In Gaza, we have developed a dedicated human rights curriculum.

Specialists from UNRWA, the Red Cross, human rights NGOs and the wider academic community developed the comprehensive curriculum, anchored in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. All of our over 200,000 students have a dedicated human rights lesson each week.

All children are taught about:

• Fundamental human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration
• Their individual responsibilities, including tolerant behaviour
• The history of the global struggle for human rights
• The historical context that gave rise to the Universal Declaration.

I reported on Monday that the UNRWA Arabic "human rights" curriculum website includes antisemitic statements.

Other documents on that same site do not reflect any of the self-congratulatory standards that UNRWA boasts about in English.

Here is how another document on that same site describes the history of Zionism:

From the beginning the land of Palestine was the core of the conflict with the Zionist movement that founded the State of Israel. One of the decisions of the First Zionist Congress, which was held in the city of Basel in Switzerland in 1897, was that Palestine is a land without a people, and it is the duty of the Zionists to displace the world's Jews to live in Palestine, and since that day the Zionist movement has been working day and night on the theft of Palestinian land and the resettlement of Jews in our country.

In the catastrophe of 1948, the Jews committed massacres in order to displace the Palestinian people. Most of the Palestinian people migrated from the land of Palestine to become refugees in neighboring countries. Not only that, but the Zionists worked by all means in order to take over the remainder of the land from the hands of the Arabs who remained in their homes through their policy of Judaization of Arab land, and through the development of unjust laws, such as the confiscation of the land of absentee landlords and military reasons for the confiscation and seizure under the pretext of developing the Galilee and other laws.

The Basel program does not resemble how this "history" describes it in the least.

In short, UNRWA is teaching lies. Those lies turn directly into anti-Jewish incitement.

Which is only one way how the UNRWA "human rights" curriculum actually teaches hate.

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Current UNRWA "human rights" website includes antisemitism

I found this document, titled "The historical development of human rights throughout history," at an UNRWA Arabic website dedicated to human rights.

It goes through the human rights postures of a number of civilizations, from ancient times to today. It is dated June 2014.

Here is what it says about human rights in Judaism:

Judaism is a heavenly religion revealed to the Prophet of Allah Musa [Moses], peace be upon him, included human rights through its focus on the goal of liberating the individual and the community. The right to freedom from oppression is a supreme value highlighted in Jewish holy books (Rashidi: 2005: 60). The commandments of Moses, peace be upon him, include prohibiting murder, adultery and theft.

But if we look around us at communities supposedly protecting human rights and at well-known oases of democracy we do not see [human rights] but instead charges that the victim was a terrorist or supporter of terrorism, and also pornography justified freely as rights. We see monopoly and fraud justified by the right of ownership and earnings in any form (Mokbel: 2005: 5) All of this happened as a result of distortion and misinformation by the Jewish clergy. The Jews in the sixth and seventh centuries promoted social corruption (1981: 39), and the claim that they are God's chosen people demonstrates that the Jews did not know anything about human rights.

Of course, it has nothing bad to say about human rights in Islam.

I cannot tell if this is an official UNRWA curriculum or if it is merely considered good enough to be posted on the UNRWA human rights website as reference material. The author appears to be an UNRWA human rights instructor, so it seem likely that this is being taught, today, in UNRWA schools.

The last time I pointed out that UNRWA Arabic websites included things that were clearly against UN principles, the sites were quietly removed without UNRWA admitting anything. On the contrary; UNRWA still insists that it is a liberal organization that supports human rights and does not teach hate.

Let's see what happens this time.

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