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Biden: We have UNRWA’s commitment to ‘zero tolerance’ for antisemitism
(JTA) – Days after resuming U.S. funding for the troubled U.N. agency that administers to Palestinian refugees and their descendants, the Biden administration says it has the commitment of UNRWA to “zero tolerance” for antisemitism, racism or discrimination. “UNWRA has made clear their rock-solid commitments to the United States on the issues of transparency, accountability, and neutrality in all its operations,” a senior U.S. official said in an interview this weekend, describing the process that led last week to the administration announcing the resumption of funding for the agency. “And what neutrality means in the context of the United Nations is zero tolerance for racism, discrimination, and antisemitism.” The official said the resumption of aid was consistent with a Biden administration policy of favoring a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israe
Marcus Sheff, the chief executive of Impact-se, told the
Telegraph that the Houthis appeared to have no red lines in their education drive.
“The closest we have seen to being this extreme is ISIS materials,” he said.
Houthi textbooks included graphic images of dead children and glorified violence as “the only solution for resolving conflicts”, the Impact-se report said.
The United States was described as the “Greater Satan” and as the enemy of all Arabs and Muslims, it said.
The American flag was used in images as a symbol of “oppression, colonialism or simply the enemy”, researchers found.
Children were taught a Houthi slogan including the words “Death to America, Death to Israel” as part of an exercise on learning Arabic, the report said.
The closest we have seen to being this is extreme is ISIS materials, said one analyst
15 April 2021 • 6:30am
Primary school students celebrate the end of their academic year at their school in March in Houthi-controlled capital city Sanaa
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Three million Yemeni children living in areas under Houthi control are being indoctrinated with education material filled with violent, anti-Semitic propaganda, an official from the Yemeni Teachers Syndicate has told the Telegraph.
Yahya Al-Yinai, the union’s head of media, said he had documented hundreds of changes to the teaching curriculum by the Iran-backed group, which since 2014 has fought a war against the government of Yemen.
“Death to America. Death to Israel. A curse upon the Jews. Victory to Islam,” reads the banner of the Ansar Allah the Partisans of God more commonly known as Yemen’s Houthi militia.
The Iranian-backed force, which has been embroiled in a six-year civil war for the control of Yemen, has often taken it upon themselves to be that curse.
Last month, the Houthis succeeded in expelling nearly all of the last remaining Jews in Yemen.
At the demand of the group, 13 Jews – all members of a single family – were exiled from Yemen and relocated to Egypt. It’s far from the only such story; earlier this year two other Yemeni Jewish families were transferred from the country to the United Arab Emirates. Only six elderly Jewish men are estimated to remain in the country.
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