UNRWA criticized for failure to dismiss teachers

(Israel Hayom via JNS) — The director of UN Watch has criticized the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East for its failure to dismiss six educators the Geneva-based NGO claims have engaged in anti-Semitic incitement.

A recent review by UN Watch of UNRWA operations in Palestinian schools found that the teachers had repeatedly and publicly called for the murder of Jews. Following the publication of the UN Watch report, the NGO demanded the six educators be fired.

Instead, they were placed on administrative leave.

“Teachers who call to murder Jews must be...