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Monday, October 26, 2015

Another disgusting incitement cartoon on @UNRWA teacher page

UNRWA teacher Mohamed Odeh posted this on his Facebook page:

The entire purpose is to incite.

By the way - guess who pays his salary?

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Antisemitic cartoon - and Al Aqsa incitement - from UNRWA teacher

From the Facebook page of UNRWA teacher Lubna Habrumman:

The Arab world is worshipping Western money while the stereotypical Jew steals the Dome of the Rock.

Five more workers who violate @UNRWA policies

So when can I expect my paycheck from UNRWA for doing the job that they are supposed to be doing?

Basem Arram, UNRWA teacher, promotes violence:

Ahmed Banat, UNRWA teacher, promotes violence:

Hazem Mitchell, UNRWA teacher, supports Hamas in this cover photo:

Halla Moh, UNRWA worker, is another fan of jihadist terror groups:

"Abou al Baraa," probably really named Yousef Zanhar, UNRWA worker, is yet another fan of the Hamas terror group:

Explicitly supporting violence, terror and terror groups must be the criteria UNRWA uses when hiring. (Ahmed Banat, above, only started teaching at UNRWA last week, showing how much UNRWA checks its employees.)

Unfortunately, all of those are against UNRWA's neutrality policy for which employees supposedly could be docked for pay or suspended or fired. We have no evidence that this has happened outside of UNRWA's tepid statement this week with no details.

.@UNRWA admits that employees post antisemitism on Facebook

From UN Watch:

The spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon quietly announced on the UN website that UNRWA employees have, “in a number of cases,” beeen subject to disciplinary action, including suspension and loss of pay, following an investigation that verified evidence published by UN Watch — in one report last week, and another in September — of incitement to anti-Semitic violence committed by at least 22 UNRWA employees.

Curiously, the following statement was made public only as a bracketed addition buried deep in a UN transcript, and not posted as a stand-alone statement by the UN, or indeed anywhere at all on the UNRWA website:

UNRWA takes all allegations of violations of UN principles as well as its neutrality and established social media policies very seriously. UNRWA condemns and will not tolerate anti-Semitism or racism in any form. Every allegation brought to our attention has either been or is being assessed, and where there are prima facie facts to support the allegation, in accordance with due process. Some allegations have been found to be authentic, others not.

Already, working closely with Facebook’s legal team, UNRWA has brought about the removal of more than 90 imposter or unauthorized Facebook pages. In some cases, it has determined the alleged ‘UNRWA staff’ are not in fact UNRWA employees or are no longer UNRWA employees.

However, and very regrettably, in a number of cases so far, the Agency has found staff Facebook postings to be in violation of its social media rules. These postings have been removed and the staff have been subject to both remedial and disciplinary action, including suspension and loss of pay. The remaining allegations are under assessment.

In light of the above, UN Watch is now demanding a full apology from UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness for his McCarthyite tirade against what he called UN Watch’s “baseless allegations about antisemitism.”

This is of course not enough. UNRWA was forced, kicking and screaming, to even get to this point. They need to be transparent about who was suspended, who was fined and who used UNRWA's name when they weren't really employees. UNRWA needs to publicly inform its employees about this policy. They do not appear to be taking this seriously if they don't even issue a stand-alone statement about this.

I will continue to post daily examples of UNRWA employees posting hate and terror-supporting messages. But this is also something UNRWA should be doing themselves. They clearly aren't taking this seriously if they aren't looking for the offensive posts.

Moreover, UNRWA should explain clearly why it allows its own school logos to erase Israel. This is also against UNRWA's stated policies, but nothing has been done against that. By only focusing on the worst antisemitic and pro-terror messages, UNRWA is giving the impression that it has no problem with other posts that are not as extreme are perfectly OK according to UNRWA rules. We need to know where they draw the line, and why these logos are still being used.

.@UNRWA teacher really enjoying Arab attacks (update)

UNRWA teacher Jaffar Ismail is a dedicated fan of the current terror spree, with links to many videos showing Arabs attacking Jews with knives.

His current cover photo shows a knife-wielding Arab, pretending to be a journalist, chasing a soldier in Hebron seconds before he is shot dead. But the scene of an Israeli trying to save his own life is apparently worth the small price to pay of the attacker dying, in the twisted mind of Ismael.

UPDATE: Jaffar is another fan of Hitler.

But not to worry - he passed the UNRWA Ethics Course!

(h/t Bob Knot)

More violent images from an @UNRWA teacher (update)

Asmaa Qatoum is a science teacher at UNRWA.

She posted this on Facebook:

"I built a fortress out of the singing of the bullets, as a sacrifice for Islam that forgot its wound"

And she doesn't seem to keen on a two-state solution, taking a dig at her employer:

(Reading right to left):

"You have your 'state'....and I have my homeland."

It sounds like the embraces UNRWA-style tolerance in her lessons.

(h/t/ Ibn Boutros)

UPDATE: Sorry, I made a mistake; these images were posted by friends of hers who tagged her. So it only reflects her friends. (h/t Bob K)

.@UNRWA teacher wants her kids to die for Allah

From UNRWA teacher Hiba Yassin's Facebook page:

Caption: "Dying for the sake of Allah is our loftiest hope."

The one-finger salute is associated with Islamist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood.

I believe that this is her daughter; she has other photos of her with jihadist slogans.

What do you think she teaches her students?

Also:

"The #intifada of Ramadan" (meaning July 2014. Yes, UNRWA teachers were calling for a new intifada last year too,)

And she recently changed her cover photo to this peaceful image:

"Strike (i.e. throw) and from your hand the rain will pour down"

#the intifada_has_begun

(h/t Ibn Boutros)

Another @UNRWA teacher supports stabbing Jews

Alaa Elian is an UNRWA teacher in Gaza.

He recently posted this on Facebook:

I am not even close to running out of examples of UNRWA teachers and employees posting hate.

By the way, one UNRWA worker I exposed recently, Sohaib Fayyad, simply eliminated any mention of UNRWA in his Facebook page and keeps on posting hate.

It seems doubtful that he was fired, because if that was the case he would just list UNRWA as a former job. Instead, he cleansed any mention of UNRWA

(Literally as I was writing this, the page was taken down again.)

.@UNRWA "youth ambassador" releases new song glorifying violence as UN plays dumb

UNRWA's "youth ambassador" and former Arab Idol winner Mohammed Assaf has released a music video that shows that he supports violence.

The video includes romantic scenes of rock throwing and firebombs.

The lyrics also indicate that Nazareth is "occupied," meaning that Assaf is singing to destroy Israel, not just end the "occupation."

The headline in Palestine Press Agency about this video says that it shows that Assaf is involved with the "Al Quds uprising."

The UN, when asked about UNRWA employees spreading hate on social media, claims that "it remains to be seen" if the people posting this hate are really employees at UNRWA.

Because, you know, when people say they work at UNRWA, display UNRWA certificates that they received, show photos of their schools and classrooms, it could all be a big Zionist hoax.

UN Watch issued a statement about this:

"This is absurd — the UN is trying to stick its head in the sand,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a Geneva-based non-governmental organization that monitors the world body.

“We have presented Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with new and unequivocal evidence of at least ten self-described UNRWA officials engaged in racist incitement, so it’s simply outrageous for the world body — which famously makes snap condemnations in situations when it has seen no evidence — to ignore what everyone can see with their own eyes,” said Neuer.

“UN Watch’s report includes archived screenshots as well as live links to antisemitic incitement by UNRWA officials, many of whom post pictures of themselves teaching in UNRWA classrooms,” added Neuer.

UN Watch issues new scathing report on @UNRWA employees

From UN Watch:

GENEVA, October 16, 2015 – UN staffers are using the imprimatur of their official positions to incite Palestinian stabbing and shooting attacks against Israeli Jews, with one UN-identified employee calling on Facebook to “stab Zionist dogs,” according to a new report issued today by UN Watch, the Geneva-based non-governmental organization that is accredited by the United Nations with the mandate to monitor the world body’s compliance with its charter.

UN Watch submitted the report today to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, UNRWA chief Pierre Krähenbühl, and U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power, whose government’s $400 million annual grant makes it the largest funder of UNRWA.

“The UN and top funders of UNRWA such as the United States government must act immediately to terminate employees who are inciting murderous anti-Semitism and fueling the deadly pandemic of Palestinian attacks against Israeli Jews that have claimed innocent men, women and children, aged 13 to 78,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch.

“Despite UNRWA’s promise, in wake of our previous report, to take action and dismiss UNRWA perpetrators of incitement, there has been no accountability whatsoever,” said Neuer. “On the contrary, UNRWA’s main response has been to try and intimidate UN Watch.”

“We call once again on Ban Ki-moon and UNRWA to immediately terminate their employees who incite to murder. Moreover, we call for the establishment an independent commission of inquiry, to include representatives of the U.S., the EU (gave $139 million), the UK ($95 million), and other top UNRWA funders, to investigate the culture of impunity for perpetrators of racism and incitement that pervades UNRWA.”

“UNRWA’s strategy of impunity, denial and deflection only enables more incitement and violence. It’s time to put an end to the pattern and practice of UNRWA school principals, teachers and staff members posting antisemitic and terror-inciting images, indicating a pathology of racism and violence within UNRWA that must be rooted out — and not buried, as UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness has attempted to do by calling for boycotts of newspapers or NGOs that dare to report these incidents of hate,” said Neuer.

“We’re urging the UN to finally recognize that these despicable posts, published on Facebook accounts run by people who openly identify themselves as UNRWA officials, constitute a gross violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which prohibits incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence,” said Neuer.

They bring eight examples of UNRWA employees supporting terror, including five that I have reported about in recent weeks (they give me credit for two of them.)

So far I have identified scores of examples of UNRWA teachers (and several examples of schools) supporting terror and antisemitism.

.@UNRWA workers glorify stone throwers

Two UNRWA workers with similar profile photos:

Saleh Mohsen from Gaza:

Ribhi Tomalieh of Ramallah:

"Oh pulse of the West Bank, do not calm down,

announce a revolution,

shatter your chains,

make your flesh the bridge for Return,

Oh pulse of the West Bank, do not calm down"

Yes, this is what UNRWA employees exhort their friends - and probably their students - to do.

Official @UNRWA youth ambassador (and Arab Idol winner) glorifies violence

UNRWA's webpage proudly says:

Mohammed Assaf is UNRWA's first ever Regional Youth Ambassador

As a "child of UNRWA," Mohammed Assaf is the ideal individual to be the first goodwill ambassador in the more than six decades of our history. A Palestine refugee himself, he grew up in the Khan Younis camp in Gaza. Not long ago, he was one of the over 220,000 students attending the Agency's 245 schools in Gaza. For him, the connection continued at home: His mother, too, was an UNRWA teacher. Throughout his childhood – at school, at the doctor's, at community centres – he saw firsthand the work that UNRWA does for Palestine refugees.

Since his appointment in June 2013, by Commissioner-General Filippo Grandi, as the Agency's Regional Youth Ambassador for Palestine Refugees, the 23-year-old Arab Idol winner has used his voice and his talent to help UNRWA give other young people the same support it gave him. With the universal language of his music, he carries the message of UNRWA and young Palestine refugees to new audiences, including in the region – to Dubai and Kuwait – and even further. In November 2013, he took that message to the United States, bringing the voice of Palestine refugee youth to the United Nations in New York City.

This wonderful, shining example for UNRWA explicitly supports attacking Israelis.

This was his Instagram message yesterday:

I am not quite sure about the symbolism, but his image is supportive both of rock throwing and, apparently, of shooting (those are bullets sprouting from the flowers, right?)

This is also on his Twitter account.

Mohammed Assaf the perfect youth ambassador for UNRWA.

Remember - at UNRWA , "peace starts here."

And based on the extensive evidence I've collected, "peace" for UNRWA means no Jews left alive in the Middle East.

(h/t Craig, Bob K)

.@UNRWA employee shares video on building a bomb while UNRWA justifies terror

Remember Sohaib Fayyad, the UNRWA employee who changed his Facebook icon to a graphic of a "Like" icon modified to hold a stabbing knife?

He recently shared a video from "Jerusalem Intifada" on how to build a homemade bomb:

UNRWA yesterday issued a disgusting press release that condemned anything Israel is doing to defend itself from the current wave of stabbings, shootings, stonings and car rammings. It didn't mention the terror except for one sentence that was purposefully ambiguous enough to possibly refer to Israeli Arabs who are being shot during their knife rampages.

UNRWA is deeply alarmed by the escalating violence and widespread loss of civilian life in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel. Only robust political action can prevent the further escalation of a situation that is affecting Palestinian and Israeli civilians.

...According to the UN Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials: “Law enforcement officials shall not use firearms against persons except in self-defense or defense of others against the imminent threat of death or serious injury, to prevent the perpetration of a particularly serious crime involving grave threat to life, to arrest a person presenting such a danger and resisting their authority, or to prevent his or her escape; and only when less extreme means are insufficient to achieve these objectives. In any event, intentional lethal use of firearms may only be made when strictly unavoidable in order to protect life.”

Where alleged violations of international law occur, there must be a prompt, impartial, effective and thorough investigation of the events and full accountability in accordance with international standards.
...
The root causes of the conflict, among them the Israeli occupation, must be addressed. Across the occupied Palestinian territory there is a pervasive sense of hopelessness and despair resulting from the denial of rights and dignity. In the West Bank communities living under occupation feel profoundly marginalized. While in Gaza the latest demonstrations are evidence of a generation that has lost hope in the future; not least because of the lack of economic prospects -- youth unemployment is one of the highest in the world – but also because of the lack of reconstruction more than a year after the conflict. An entire generation of Palestinians is at risk. All political actors must act decisively to restore their hope in a dignified, secure and stable future.

That last paragraph justifies violence by saying it is a result of "feeling marginalized" and "hopeless" and other inanities.

Most of all, UNRWA is ignoring its own role in fomenting violence - by allowing its employees to teach and promulgate incitement against Jews in the classrooms and on social media.

Incitement is the root cause of the current violence - not Israeli actions. And it has been that way for decades. No one justifies terrorism anywhere else in the world the way UNRWA and others justify Palestinian terrorism.

And UNRWA is directly responsible for some of this, because it does not teach in any of its schools that Jews have the right to life.

(h/t Malel)

UPDATE: The Facebook page has been taken down.

.@UNRWA worker changes Facebook "Like" icon into a stabbing knife

Here is the Facebook profile icon for UNRWA worker Sohaib Fayyad, who lives in Khan Younis:

Fayyad, who is linking to lots of anti-Israel videos from Shehab News Agency and others, is clearly advocating that Arabs stab Jews.

His main profile image shows rock throwing as well, associating it with the colors of the PLO flagm happily proclaiming that "the intifada has begun":

Sounds like he is right in the mainstream of other UNRWA employees that we have been uncovering for months now - gleefully supporting violence against Jews.

Yesterday I reported on two other apparent UNRWA employees, both teachers, who also chose romantic allusions to violence as their Facebook profiles pictures. By any sane measure, given UNRWA's stated neutrality aims, people who literally define themselves by violence - as seen by their choice of profile pictures on Facebook - must be fired. It is the cyberspace equivalent of a teacher in the US deciding to place a tattoo of a notorious violent gang on his or her face.

But UNRWA will do nothing besides asking the workers to remove the images, because it could jeopardize their funding. Which, after all the high and mighty rhetoric about upholding the UN's ideals, is all they really care about.

(h/t Ibn Boutros)

.@UNRWA teacher celebrates the music of stabbing Jews (update)

This cartoon gained some notoriety over the weekend for its romanticizing the wave of stabbings by Arabs of Jews in Israel recently:

UNRWA teacher Hiba Miari of Lebanon wasted no time to make this "artwork" her Facebook profile image.

Will UNRWA discipline her, as they promise to for the many cases like these that I uncover, or will they just silently have the pages removed and cover up the incident, as they have been?

One thing is for sure: UNRWA is reading this blog and often acting on what I find. They know that they condone this kind of incitement and only reactive to my research, rather than pro-actively working to root out the problem themselves.

Did they send a memo to their staff warning them on how to conduct themselves on Facebook? Did they discipline any of the other teachers or schools that I showed were pushing the worst kinds of terror apologetics and antisemitism?

I have plenty more examples in the queue, and I'm finding more all the time. If UNRWA really cared, they could find them before I do.

But they don't care.

UPDATE: Another UNRWA teacher from Khan Younis also uses this as her profile picture.

Here's an UNRWA teacher photo that UNRWA won't take down

Over the past two months, I have found scores of offensive anti-semitic and pro-terror postings on Facebook by UNRWA employees.

But I haven't even bothered with the everyday photos that show that UNRWA teachers have no desire to allow Israel to exist.

Like this profile photo of Khitam Ashour, an UNRWA teacher from Nablus:

Many of the antisemitic posts have been removed by UNRWA, which refuses to acknowledge that I exist while clearly reading my posts.

But this one won't be. Because this is exactly what UNRWA has been teaching its students, directly, for over sixty years. (The mural itself is in the UNRWA Aida camp near Bethlehem.)

As I've pointed out, numerous UNRWA school logos erase Israel as well, many with very similar maps:

UNRWA cannot deny that it directly teaches its students that they will one day "return" to replace Israel with "Palestine." Its maps betray its policy.

And this call for the destruction of a UN member state is a direct violation of UNRWA's supposed neutrality standards.

They can pretend that the many pro-terror posts are mistakes done by individual teachers. They can sweep under the rug and quietly remove the school websites that teach hate (as they did with the Deir Yassin Co-ed Secondary School Facebook page featuring antisemitism and pro-terror posts, which was silently removed altogether.)

But UNRWA cannot remove this image because UNRWA educational policy, clear albeit unofficial, is that Israel has no right to exist.

.@UNRWA employee posts cartoon showing Palestinians hanging a religious Jew (update)

UNRWA employee Musallem Salem posted this cartoon promoting Palestinian unity - by showing two Palestinians representing Gaza and the West Bank working together to kill a Jew:

"The gun unites us"

Yesterday, he shared this video on Facebook showing an old woman taking stones that were being distributed and throwing them towards an unseen target, presumably soldiers.

Other ways that he violates UNRWA's published standards of neutrality include this poster lionizing all major Palestinian terror groups, also posted yesterday:

(H/t Ibn Boutros)

UPDATE: The page was taken down. The Whack a Mole game continues - I find stuff, they make it disappear without admitting anything is wrong.

When this "martyr" was first killed, though, Selhe was careful not to identify him with Hamas. He waited until after the war, because Hamas wanted everyone to appear to be a civilian.

Dhafer Abukishk is another UNRWA employee who is a big Hamas fan: