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A number of US congressional staffers are pushing for removing allegedly “anti-Semitic” content from the curricula taught to Palestinian children in schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
This comes against the backdrop of the Joe Biden administration’s decision to resume US funding to UNRWA after former President Donald Trump froze assistance for the agency.
Criticisms of Israel labelled as antisemitism – Cartoon [Carlos Latuff/Twitter]
Four years ago, however, Palestinians accused UNRWA of seeking to make changes related to national issues in the schools’ curricula, which it supervises in the Palestinian territories.
The Palestinian Authority had agreed with UNRWA that there would be no change to the curricula taught in UNRWA schools and that any amendment to them would be made in full consultation with the Ministry of Education.
Last week, Biden announced $235 million of aid to the Palestinians, two-thirds of which allocated for UNRWA, which suffered a financial crisis since Trump’s 2018 suspension of aid to the UN agency.
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