No, the statement from UNRWA explicitly states that "the dismissal of the staff is not part of a disciplinary process and does not constitute in any way a validation of the claims made against them." CIJA is deliberately misrepresenting this story in order to demonize and defund the most important humanitarian organization in Gaza, as Israel deliberately starves the Palestinian people and deprives them of the means of survival. Canada is right to support UNRWA and other humanitarian orgs in the face of the grotesque, genocidal attacks against them.

There are FAR MORE Christian zionists in Canada and the US than there are Jewish zionists. Did you know that? I know that because as a kid I had to dis-indoctrinate (is that a word?) myself from Christian end-times zionism. It was pretty brutal. Literally brutal.

You can’t make this stuff up: the EU is sanctioning the critic of its evidentiary methodology in issuing sanctions! The same sanctions apparatus whose evidentiary basis Regavim’s reporting and research has rigorously critiqued is now being turned on Regavim and its founder. This is outrageous, no matter where one sits on the political spectrum. France’s foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot characterized the targets as “the main Israeli organizations guilty of supporting the extremist and violent colonization of the West Bank” but that politically charged accusation elides the fact that Regavim has done nothing more than credible research on the way manipulated data is being systematically weaponized against peaceful Israelis on government land. Last year, Regavim exposed the scale of the distortion in collected data. Of the thousands of incidents OCHA classified as “settler violence” against Palestinians between 2016 and 2023, it found over 98% of the alleged violence were not acts of civilian settler violence at all. Most involved clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces including during terror attacks; incidents include peaceful, lawful guided visits to the Temple Mount logged as ‘Storming Al-Aqsa’; misclassified events like road-paving, electrical pole installation and 19% of complaints in Judea & Samaria related to tourists or hikers being present on land, with no assault or property damage reported; outright fabricated records. Crucially, OCHA states that it requires two independent, reliable sources before logging an incident of “settler violence” against Palestinians. What counts as “two sources”? Apparently, the Palestinian who reports the incident and the Palestinian Authority body that intakes the report -- obviously not two independent sources, it’s one source and its receipt. The Palestinian Authority District Coordination Office isn’t independently witnessing or corroborating anything, it is merely transcribing the same person’s account. OCHA calls it two sources without considering the valuation work or threshold for the PA to log an incident. That’s word play in a serious report with far reaching implications, not verification. Sanctions law in the United States, both the Biden-era Executive Order 14115 framework and its analogues in EU Council decisions, requires evidentiary support for designations of specific individuals. “OCHA reporting” was relied upon by State Department, Treasury, and counterpart European agencies as evidentiary. Regavim proved “settler violence” warrants serious analytical attention as a category. UN OCHA reports informing US and EU sanctions decisions are demonstrably methodologically flawed. Now the EU is sanctioning the same research group, that uncovered the data corruption underpinning the EU sanctions regime! Importantly, the IDF and Shin Bet’s own internal numbers, released in January, record 1,720 nationalist-motivated incidents by Israelis against Palestinians since October 7, 2023. Last year alone, the defense establishment documented 845 such incidents, in which four Palestinians were killed and 200 injured -- a 25 percent increase over the 675 incidents recorded in 2024. Shin Bet attributes most of the violence to roughly 300 extremists, about 70 of whom it considers the “hardcore” responsible for the most severe attacks. So the problem is real, being condemned in Israeli media, being tracked by Israeli authorities and prosecuted. But it is much more marginal than is widely reported and the involvement of international EU sanctions is unwarranted when compared, for instance, with Italy’s extensive human rights abuse record against the Roma where no sanctions have been imposed. Regavim, False Flags and Real Agendas: “Settler Violence” – A Modern Blood Libel (June 2025, 125 pp.), authored by Yona Admoni (Coblenz) and Moriah Michaeli. PDF is hosted directly on Regavim’s site: regavim.org/wp-content/uploa…