Monday, August 12, 2019

The UN Agency for Palestinians Is Even Worse Than You Think It Is

by Dr. Alex Joffe and Dr. Asaf Romirowsky


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A corruption scandal involving sexual misconduct, nepotism, retaliation against whistleblowers, and lots of business-class travel has gripped the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). It represents a new low for UNRWA and is an indictment of the idea of an international agency dedicated to a single interest. But it’s also a unique opportunity to see behind the curtain of a billion-dollar UN bureaucracy and phase it out.

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