How predictable: the UK restores aid agency funding and the villains complain.
Do you remember how UNRWA – the United Nations aid agency for Palestinians – was found innocent of involvement in terrorist activities by Hamas after Israeli authorities claimed thousands of its employees were members of terrorist organisations – but the UK cut funding to it anyway?
The UK’s former – Tory – government was urged to restore funding after Israel failed to provide any evidence to support its claims, but did nothing.
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Now, Labour foreign secretary David Lammy has announced he is restoring funding to UNRWA, with £21 million being divided between UNRWA’s flash appeal for Gaza (£6 million), and the agency’s budget to provide services in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and wider region (£15 million).
So funding was cut in January and restored in July. The UK responded immediately to Israel’s false claim and then took three months to reverse that decision when it was shown to be in error.
Conversely, despite having concrete proof that Israel is using UK-made weapons to commit a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the UK’s government – both Conservative and Labour – has done nothing to stop providing those weapons to the perpetrators.
Lammy’s excuse is that Israel is surrounded by enemies so a blanket ban would not be right. But despite calling for publication of internal legal advice to the former (Tory) government while in opposition, he has refused to publish that advice himself, now he is in government.
Draw your own conclusions about what that advice says.
The decision to restore UNRWA funding has already attracted detractors – and you can draw your own conclusions about them, too.
For example, here’s the Board of Deputies of British Jews – and an apt description of it:
Perhaps there should be an investigation into the activities of that organisation?
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UK restores aid agency funding and the villains complain
How predictable: the UK restores aid agency funding and the villains complain.
Do you remember how UNRWA – the United Nations aid agency for Palestinians – was found innocent of involvement in terrorist activities by Hamas after Israeli authorities claimed thousands of its employees were members of terrorist organisations – but the UK cut funding to it anyway?
The UK’s former – Tory – government was urged to restore funding after Israel failed to provide any evidence to support its claims, but did nothing.
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Now, Labour foreign secretary David Lammy has announced he is restoring funding to UNRWA, with £21 million being divided between UNRWA’s flash appeal for Gaza (£6 million), and the agency’s budget to provide services in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories and wider region (£15 million).
So funding was cut in January and restored in July. The UK responded immediately to Israel’s false claim and then took three months to reverse that decision when it was shown to be in error.
Conversely, despite having concrete proof that Israel is using UK-made weapons to commit a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the UK’s government – both Conservative and Labour – has done nothing to stop providing those weapons to the perpetrators.
Lammy’s excuse is that Israel is surrounded by enemies so a blanket ban would not be right. But despite calling for publication of internal legal advice to the former (Tory) government while in opposition, he has refused to publish that advice himself, now he is in government.
Draw your own conclusions about what that advice says.
The decision to restore UNRWA funding has already attracted detractors – and you can draw your own conclusions about them, too.
For example, here’s the Board of Deputies of British Jews – and an apt description of it:
Perhaps there should be an investigation into the activities of that organisation?
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