Trump to Pull U.S Taxpayer Funding from Pro-Hamas UN Agency

President Donald Trump is pulling American taxpayer funding from the pro-Hamas United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

This from slaynews.com.

Trump’s Monday executive order will also prohibit future funding for the UN’s agency for Gaza refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

According to Politico:

[T]he factsheet announcing the withdrawal accused the UNHRC of not fulfilling its purpose.

The UN agency is also charged with being:

[A] protective body for countries committing horrific human rights violations.

The document states:

The UNHRC has demonstrated consistent bias against Israel, focusing on it unfairly and disproportionately in council proceedings.

Further:

In 2018, the year President Trump withdrew from the UNHRC in his first administration, the organization passed more resolutions condemning Israel than Syria, Iran, and North Korea combined.

Trump withdrew from the UNHRC during his first term in 2018.

At the time, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley accused the council of scapegoating nations with clean human rights records.

Haley said:

[T]he UNHRC [is] propping up the world’s worst human rights abusers.

Some of the world’s worst human rights abusers currently serve on the UNHRC, including Cuba, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, China, and Qatar.

The Obiden Regime paused funding to UNRWA following reports that some of its staffers participated in the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel.

In addition, Israel banned UNRWA from operating on Israeli land last month.

As Slay News reported:

[S]everal recently released Israeli hostages said they were held in UNRWA facilities in Gaza.

UNRWA has also come under fire for its schools promoting hatred of Jews.

The organization has promoted Palestinian dependency on the global community by granting refugee status to the descendants of refugees. However, no other group is granted this privilege.

In December, the watchdog UN Watch released a report revealing that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has ignored some of the world’s most oppressive regimes. The report showed that Türk condemned the United States more than China, North Korea, Cuba, and Qatar combined.

The report added:

Türk has not touched on the human rights violations in Cuba, North Korea, Algeria, Eritrea, Mauritania, Lebanon, and Qatar.

However, the UN commissioner has condemned American allies such as the United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, France, and Israel.

Meanwhile, Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon has voiced support for a letter written by European lawmakers demanding that UNRWA be removed from the United Nations.

The letter to UN chief Antonio Guterres was signed by dozens of lawmakers from 14 European countries. It came after Mandy Damari revealed that her daughter Emily was held by the terror group Hamas at UNRWA facilities in Gaza during her 15 months of captivity.

The lawmakers wrote:

UNRWA has contravened all its missions and has helped a terrorist organization to hide hostages, which is politically, morally, and legally highly reprehensible.

They call for UNHCR, the UN agency mandated to aid all other refugees around the world, to take responsibility for the Palestinians as well.

Damari, a dual British-Israeli national, is one of 18 hostages—civilians, soldiers, and Thai nationals—kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, 2023. The hostages were released during a ceasefire that began in January following a deal secured by President Donald Trump.

Responding to the letter, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote:

Claims that hostages have been held in UNRWA premises are deeply disturbing and shocking.

We take any such allegations extremely seriously.