February 5, 2024
The Honorable Mike Johnson The Honorable Charles Schumer
Speaker Majority Leader
United States House of Representatives United States Senate
Washington, DC 20515 Washington, DC 20515
The Honorable Hakeem Jeffries The Honorable Mitchell McConnell
Minority Leader Minority Leader
United States House of Representatives United States Senate
Washington, DC 20515 Washington, DC 20515
Dear Speaker Johnson, Leader McConnell, Leader Jeffries and Leader Schumer:
It is a moral imperative that the United States Congress affirmatively defund the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) and prohibit the Biden Administration from directly or
indirectly providing any taxpayer funding or support to the openly antisemitic and now apparently
terrorist organization.
The United States can no longer fund UNRWA with a clean conscience. For years, the American
people were told a litany of lies aimed at creating a false understanding of UNRWA as simply a
humanitarian organization that needed the hard-earned tax dollars of the American people to
provide services for millions of Palestinians misleadingly characterized as “refugees.”
For years, many of us knew these claims were lies.
With the recent allegations of UNRWA employees actively participating in the October 7th attack
and thousands of UNRWA employees celebrating the attack confirms the lie.12 Congress can no
longer pretend that UNRWA is simply a humanitarian organization.
UNRWA funding is the red line.
Not one cent of American taxpayer money should ever again be used to directly or indirectly
support UNRWA. Congress must defund UNRWA in the next appropriations vehicle that becomes
law.
Thank you,
Paul Teller Ambassador David Friedman
Executive Director Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel
Advancing American Freedom
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