The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, denounced on Wednesday 31 August the “coordinated campaigns by politically motivated advocacy groups” that accuse the schoolbooks used by UNRWA of spreading hate messages, calling them “baseless and shameless” accusations.
“UNRWA has zero tolerance for hate speech, incitement to violence and discrimination”, he told the European...