EU parliament condemns @UNRWA teaching hate and violence, UNRWA denies it all despite materials with their own logo

From i24News:

The European Parliament on Wednesday adopted a resolution condemning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) for teaching hate and violence in Palestinian Authority (PA) schools.

The resolution expresses concern "about the hate speech and violence taught in Palestinian school textbooks and used in schools by UNRWA" and insists that financial aid be conditioned on the removal of educational materials that promote hatred and incitement to violence. 

The facts are incontrovertible. UNRWA teaching materials, with UNWRA's logo, praised violence and "martyrdom" and erased Israel from the map, time and time again, like this one  encouraging the "sword" to "free the motherland."

Or this exercise encouraging violent jihad:

Jihad is one of the doors to Paradise.

The Palestinians have become an example of sacrifice.

(Find the verb) in the sentence “The resistance fighter attacked the Enemy’s position”

The Palestinian died as a martyr to defend his motherland.

We shall defend the motherland with blood.

The scent of musk emanates from the martyr. 

To redeem their motherland with their blood, for it is the most precious thing they own.

Instead of apologizing and committing to fixing the problem (which was UNRWA's usual method in the past,) this time they are just brazenly denying what anyone can see for themselves.

Adnan Abu Hasna, the media advisor to the Palestinian Refugee Relief and Works Agency [sic] in Gaza, denied the accusations of the European Parliament’s decision, which relates to the Palestinian educational curricula and textbooks inside its schools.

Abu Hasna confirmed on Thursday, that the adoption of this decision was based on false allegations and political motives, pointing out that it did not rely on facts that actually occur in UNRWA schools, "which the whole world praised." 

He said that the decision was surprising, because "the European Union is one of the most important investors in the Agency's education system, and it can be proud of this investment in the field of human development."

Abu Hasna said, "It is not true. UNRWA does not teach hatred, violence or discrimination, and we do everything that promotes a culture of social tolerance and non-discrimination."

Even Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh lobbied for UNRWA in the face of these facts. 

This episode shows not only that Palestinians teach their kids violence and hate, but they they are very comfortable lying directly to their funders in the West.

This is something that the Western donors to UNRWA and to the Palestinian Authority should keep in mind.

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