Ari Blaff
National Post, Feb. 20, 2024
“Palestinian “society is unified around one thing only, which is their common desire to annihilate Israel, as we saw on Oct. 7,” Caroline Glick, an Israeli-American journalist who ran for Knesset in 2019, told the Post from Washington D.C. “This is the nature of the organization.”
Hillel Neuer, the executive director of UN Watch, believes this may be different. The horrors of Oct. 7, he hopes, have changed the prospects of the human rights group’s long campaign against UN agencies.
Since that bloody day, UN Watch has offered multiple revelations about the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the body overseeing Palestinian refugees, revealing its close ties to Hamas. Neuer says the world appears to be finally listening this time.
“There’s a substantial difference,” Neuer told the National Post from Jerusalem, contemplating UN Watch’s recent contributions. “More than 15 countries representing more than half a billion dollars have frozen their funding.”
Neuer, a Montrealer who took the helm of UN Watch two decades ago, has energized it into a leading force scrutinizing the UN’s constellation of agencies and arms on the diplomatic frontlines in Geneva, Switzerland. Born and raised in Montreal’s Cote des Neiges district, he traces his skepticism of the UN back to high school and the Hebrew Academy in Montreal, where he wrote “an article critiquing the UN” for the school newspaper.
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