UNRWA links to Hamas

Asaf Romirowsky PhD, is the Executive Director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) and the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) Romirowsky is also a senior nonresident research fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA) and a Professor [Affiliate] at the University of Haifa. Trained as a Middle East historian, he holds a PhD in Middle East and Mediterranean Studies from King's College London, UK and has published widely on various aspects of the Arab-Israeli conflict and American foreign policy in the Middle East, as well as on Israeli and Zionist history. Romirowsky is visiting Brussels to speak on Israel's NGO Quagmire: He says that UNRWA's ties to terror go back decades, as do their denials of the obvious. Everyone in UNRWA knew and lied, just as everyone in Gaza knew that Hamas was constructing a 500-kilometer tunnel network that diverted construction materials and goods from international aid. As a result, the international community, through UNRWA, funded a vast portion of Hamas' operations by freeing it to focus on terrorism rather than health and education. He also speaks about Higher Education & Hamas, and says the most shocking side effects of Hamas' horrific October 7th attack on Israel has been to expose the indecency at the heart of the American university. The question is what to do about it. But the question of how to reform universities remains. The most profitable non-profit industry from the perspective of its well-compensated and bloated management, is deeply entrenched. Its faculty is outwardly radicalized by a relatively small percentage of haters, but supported by a much larger percentage of believers in the absolute sanctity of their own freedom from oversight. And billions of dollars in Qatari donations have skewed priorities towards indulgence of the right sorts of intolerance. Romirowsky is co-author of Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief and a contributor to The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel. Recently, he co-edited Word Crimes: Reclaiming the Language of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, a special issue of the journal Israel Studies. Romirowsky’s publicly-engaged scholarship has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The National Interest, The American Interest, The New Republic, The Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, Ynet and Tablet among other online and print media outlets.

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