Dear UNICEF: Using information from sources that are affiliated with terrorism, is not child's play - by Nadav Shragai

...According to the Fatah website, Adamir is a branch of the PFLP. We should perhaps clarify that the U.N. does not classify the PFLP as a terrorist organization, the same way it does not class Hamas as one. It might be easier for UNICEF to take in data from Adamir without suspecting that something is off.

Nadav Shragai..
Israel Hayom..
02 March '18..
Link: http://www.israelhayom.com/2018/03/02/not-childs-play/

In 2005, Salah Hamori plotted to kill former Chief Sephardi Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. He spent seven years in an Israeli prison and was freed as part of the deal to bring home captive IDF soldier Gilad Schalit. For the past few years, Hamori has had a new career. He became an investigator for the Adamir organization, which spearheads a campaign of support for Palestinians who were convicted of security crimes, casting them as political prisoners.

Some Adamir activists are also associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terrorist group. A few have even served prison time for activity for or contact with that organization. Adamir describes the terrorist stabbing in Halamish last summer in which Yosef, Elad and Chaya Salomon were stabbed to death in their home as the "Halamish operation" which culminated in the deaths of three settlers.

Adamir wouldn't be worth our notice if it and other organizations like it weren't working to put the IDF on a U.N. blacklist of "grave violators of children's rights." Other names on the list include the Islamic State, al-Qaida and the Taliban. Adamir is no longer a curiosity to be dismissed.

Although Adamir isn't officially part of the UNICEF-led working group called Children Affected by Armed Conflict, which collects information on and reports "grave violations against children in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory," and which theoretically obligates contributors to be neutral and impartial regarding the conflict, it is a partner in UNICEF's information collecting project and therefore receives funding from them. It's hard to imagine anything farther from neutrality or impartiality than Adamir.

Israeli UNICEF official resigns after Israeli left launches campaign against her

“There is nothing I value more than human life,” she wrote on November 12th, “How is it possible to make peace with people whose children are fed hatred towards Israel from the moment they are born? How is it possible to make peace with people who have it in their DNA to hate us? I am willing to make real peace at any price. The problem is that there is no partner. I wish I was wrong.”

Danielle Ziri..
JPost..
25 December '12..

The initiator of the recently launched campaign against Judy Shalom Nir Mozes as Chairwoman of the Israeli branch of UNICEF, Ari Remez told the Jerusalem Post on Monday that “she was using the international position for her owns personal means.”

Shalom Nir Mozes decided to step down from her position at the UN’s organization for children’s rights last week.

She had been nominated to represent UNICEF in Israel two months ago and joined a sparkling list of celebrities who have been ambassadors of the organization in the past years including David Beckham, Sarah Jessica Parker, Shakira, Queen Rania of Jordan and even Kate and William of the British royal family.

But during Operation Pillar of Defense, Shalom Nir Mozes sparked controversy after posting a few statuses on Facebook in support of the Israeli government taking action in Gaza.

“There is nothing I value more than human life,” she wrote on November 12th, “How is it possible to make peace with people whose children are fed hatred towards Israel from the moment they are born? How is it possible to make peace with people who have it in their DNA to hate us? I am willing to make real peace at any price. The problem is that there is no partner. I wish I was wrong.”

Another post followed two days later where she wrote: “I very much hope that Bibi [PM Binyamin Netanyahu] will not surrender to the pressures of our enemies and continue the operation until the last terrorist is murdered in Gaza.”

After the statements, Remez, who is a theater director from Haifa, along with a group of his friends, launched a social media campaign against Shalom Nir Mozes as a representative of UNICEF.

Gordon - Choosing Hatred Over Clean Water

Evelyn Gordon..
Commentary/Contentions..
05 June '12..

If you want to understand the real reason why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been unsolvable for decades, one fact suffices: Palestinian leaders and activists would rather deprive their entire population of fresh water than allow an Israeli company to land a contract.

And if that assertion seems far-fetched, just consider what befell UNICEF last week when it sought to move forward with plans to build a desalination plant in Gaza.

According to both the UN and the Palestinians themselves, Gaza has a desperate shortage of pure drinking water. An official report issued by the Palestinian Water Authority last year stated that 90 percent of Gaza’s water supply is polluted, posing a serious threat to the health of Palestinian residents. A report issued the previous year by the UN Environment Program put the figure at 95 percent. Thus, if ever a place was in desperate need of a desalination plant, it’s Gaza. So UNICEF decided to step into the breach.

Fact Checkers Draw a Yellow Card

Backspin/Honest Reporting
06 December 09

Here's another reason not to believe everything you read: Recent reports that Zinedine Zidane was visiting Gaza as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF were a hoax.

As the Jerusalem Post writes, this is a problem not just for the French soccer star and UNICEF, but for Israel and journalism as well:

This is extremely worrying for all concerned: UNICEF, UNDP, Zidane, the children of Gaza who expected a visit from a soccer legend and Israel.

And it is also troubling that so many journalists fell for it.

The quotes, which were so widely reported, specifically criticized Israel without blaming Hamas or any other Palestinian groups for the conflict.

They implied that Zidane, whose parents are Algerian-born Muslims, is willing to use his fame to slam Israel.
It appears that someone, or some organization, made a decision to create the entire story in order to smear Israel and garner support for the Palestinian cause.

And what did Zidane allegedly say that was so widely quoted?

"I will make every effort to give Gaza residents great big smiles on their faces. Gazans have suffered serious losses, damage, and injuries due to Israeli acts of violence."

Related reading: A Failure to Fact Check

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