Emily Benedek
ARTICLES BY: Emily Benedek
Michigan Congressional Candidate Pushes an Anti-Israel Agenda
The 13th Congressional District in Michigan is one of the state’s poorest and neediest. Still reeling from the departure of longtime US Representative John Conyers,...
Why We Must Uncover the True Number of Palestinian Refugees
On a desk in the US State Department lies a report that has the power to upend the seemingly endless zero-sum game of the Israeli-Palestinian...
Is America Finally Ending Funding for Palestinian Terrorism?
A curious item appeared last month on the Facebook page of the Palestinian Ministry of Education. “The UNRWA Director in Jerusalem, Scott Anderson ... confirmed that the Palestinian...
Will the World Finally Turn Off the UNRWA Spigot?
It’s been a rough few months for UNRWA -- the UN agency dedicated to providing care for more than five million Palestinians in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Gaza,...
How Palestinian Education and UNRWA Incitement Lead to Innocent Deaths
Teachers work hard to find real-life examples to help pique the interests of their skeptical students. Teachers in UNRWA schools face the same challenge. But...
Why Is the State Department Protecting Palestinian Terrorists?
In recent weeks, three important European players in the education of Palestinian children -- the European Union, the UK Parliament, and the Finnish government -- all took steps to...
It’s Time to Tell the Truth About UNRWA
In December 2017, Lebanon conducted its first-ever census of Palestinian refugees living in the country -- and the results were startling. The census workers counted 174,422 people -- a number...
The ‘Industry of Lies’ Targeting Israel
A few years ago, the Israeli journalist Ben-Dror Yemini encountered two protesters outside of an event in Boston. They were young women carrying placards denouncing the...