Designate UNRWA as a Terrorist Organization

It is mind-boggling to read in the New York Times this morning that the Biden State Department is assuring its fellow transnational progressives and Hamas pom-pom squads not to worry because only a tiny amount of American taxpayer funding for the Hamas branch known as the United Nations “Relief and Works” Agency for Palestinian “Refugees” (UNRWA — my sneer quotes) has been “paused” (more sneering).

Biden flack Matthew Miller explains that the administration — which restored funding that the Trump administration had righteously stopped — has already transferred over 99 percent of congressionally budgeted funding to UNRWA. Only $300,000 out of about $121 million is being withheld — and that’s just for the time being. Note: That $121 million is just a fraction of the $1 billion that President Biden has plowed into UNRWA since 2021. The implication, of course, is that the American dollars that pay for jihadist atrocities will continue flowing once Biden figures the heat is off.

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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It is mind-boggling to read in the New York Times this morning that the Biden State Department is assuring its fellow transnational progressives and Hamas pom-pom squads not to worry because only a tiny amount of American taxpayer funding for the Hamas branch known as the United Nations “Relief and Works” Agency for Palestinian “Refugees” (UNRWA — my sneer quotes) has been “paused” (more sneering).

Biden flack Matthew Miller explains that the administration — which restored funding that the Trump administration had righteously stopped — has already transferred over 99 percent of congressionally budgeted funding to UNRWA. Only $300,000 out of about $121 million is being withheld — and that’s just for the time being. Note: That $121 million is just a fraction of the $1 billion that President Biden has plowed into UNRWA since 2021. The implication, of course, is that the American dollars that pay for jihadist atrocities will continue flowing once Biden figures the heat is off.

About the Author

Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.