Why Is a Study of Palestinian Books Used in UNRWA Schools Being Kept Secret from the U.S. Congress?

"Why does the US State Department continue to block the publication of the congressional investigation of Palestinian textbooks taught in schools run by the United Nations?

That question is now being asked two years after the chairman of the Senate's Near East subcommittee - Senator James Risch (R, ID) - asked Congress' Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate the school books used by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

UNRWA is an American issue because - among other things - America is the agency's largest funder, donating 30% of the $1.2 billion UNRWA budget. Some 54% of the UNRWA budget is allocated to UNRWA education efforts.

The GAO completed its comprehensive report on UNRWA education at the end of April. Sources at the GAO confirm that the GAO study documents that Palestinian Authority (PA) textbooks used by UNRWA promote terrorism, Jew-hatred, and murder. These books also work against peace and reconciliation, and insert war indoctrination throughout the PA education system.

But on May 3, the director of public affairs at the GAO - Chuck Young - issued a statement that the US State Department would not allow the report to be released to Congress (which had ordered the report in the first place.)

Why? Mr. Young referred that question to the State Department...

Why would the State Department not want to disclose what half a million Palestinian students study in UNRWA schools that America funds?...The answer is simple: publication of such a report would make it difficult for the Trump administration to maintain its policy that the Palestinian Authority is a genuine peace partner..."