In withdrawing support for UNRWA, donors are openly backing Israeli genocide

Forced from their homes - desperately overcrowded camp supported by UNRWA

In the wake of several large donors withdrawing their support for UNRWA Jonathan Cook examines the history of the organisation. He writes on X (formerly Twitter):

'UNRWA is separate from the UN's main refugee agency, the UNHCR, and deals only with Palestinian refugees.

Although Israel does not want you to know it, the reason for there being two UN refugee agencies is because Israel and its western backers insisted on the division back in 1948.

Why? Because Israel was afraid of the Palestinians falling under the responsibility of the UNHCR's forerunner, the International Refugee Organisation. The IRO was established in the immediate wake of the Second World War in large part to cope with the millions of European Jews fleeing Nazi atrocities.

Israel did not want the two cases treated as comparable, because it was pushing hard for Jewish refugees to be settled on lands from which it had just expelled Palestinians. Part of the IRO's mission was to seek the repatriation of European Jews. Israel was worried that very principle might be used both to deny it the Jews it wanted to colonise Palestinian land and to force it to allow the Palestinian refugees to return to their former homes.'

To read on see: www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2024-01-30/war-un-refugee-israel-genocide/