On February 26th, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Brown University hosted an event featuring speakers who discussed Palestinian...
Simply put, because UNRWA’s mere existence — separate from the UN’s main humanitarian agencies — is political. The title of the event, “Delivering Critical Assistance,” and Lazzarini’s speech itself, illustrate this point. While pleading for more money, Lazzarini told the story of a young person:
[S]he explained to us how difficult it was to do e-learning, or distance learning, with her household of seven daughters, all of them needing a device. And all of [a sudden], she burst into tears and she said that ‘my dream has always been to be accepted at Oxford. But how do you want me to be accepted at Oxford if I do not have access to a device and do not have access to digital learning?’