Thirty some odd years ago, when I was still living in Canada, my son decided to donate his ‘proceeds’ from ‘Trick or Treating’ to UNICEF. He was aware of the conditions endured by children in other parts of the world and wanted to help them.
This seemed to have upset some of the zionists living in the area, their attitude being ‘UNICEF helps Palestinian children so we won’t help them’….. Typical! The positive side of their rantings resulted in my son getting involved in local ‘Read-a- Thons’ to raise even more money for the Organisation. He spent an entire summer collecting pledges from people to be ‘paid’ after he read a certain number of books…. and there were many and he raised quite a sum of money.
UNICEF had other money making schemes in those days, there were the Greeting Cards which was a successful part of their fund raising campaigns. And help they did. All funds went to help children in need of it, including those in Israel. But the zionists saw only THIS…
UNICEF did not/does not discriminate….. neither did my son as he continued supporting them. As can be seen by his Blog, he is still the same caring person today that he was when he was a child.
BUT….UNICEF does discriminate when it comes to where they accept funds from to carry out their work…. they do not want blood money!
The UN children’s fund UNICEF has severed ties with an Israeli billionaire and financial backer due to his suspected involvement in building settlements in the West Bank, UNICEF said on Friday.
Lev Leviev, a real estate and diamond mogul who is one of the richest men in Israel, has supported UNICEF with direct contributions and indirectly by sponsoring at least one UNICEF fund-raiser.
He is chairman of Africa Israel Investments, a conglomerate whose units include Danya Cebus, which the Arab rights advocacy group Adalah-NY charges has carried out settlement construction, considered illegal by the United Nations.
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UNICEF decided to review its relationship with Leviev after a campaign by Adalah-NY and found “at least a reasonable grounds for suspecting” that Leviev companies were building settlements in Palestinian territory, a UNICEF official said.
The above is taken from THIS Reuters report. I can’t help but suspect that the reason the likes of a Leviev supported UNICEF in the first place was to get them to change their policies on what children needed help the most…. Palestinian children languishing in refugee camps or Israeli children living on lands stolen from the parents and grandparents of those Palestinian children.
Surely this principled position taken by the directors of UNICEF will cost them dearly, but in the long run, this type of integrity will get others, like my son, involved in the ‘nickel and dime’ campaigns which will make up for those losses.
A PDF file of the letter sent from UNICEF to Adalah can be seen HERE.
CNN SUCKS said,
June 21, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Years ago I heard how UNICEF got busted for untold millions of dollars in donations which never reached the poor. I can now guess just where that money went, as the Canadian media wouldn’t specify who was involved.
Cadavre said,
June 21, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Great – now if only the UN would quit rubber stamping everything Condi and Necromancer Necroponte demanded – we’d be off to a good start.
El Baraidi of the IAE said he would quit if anyone attacks Iran – now that’s a real man. The UN should follow suit and leave NYC.
The UN ought to it’s operations to the true center of the world, like Hong Kong or Be Jing or Tokyo.
All that is happening in NYC is corruption by the Zionist Mafia and diplomats offices being bugged by the US government. The UN should move where the new center of the world is and away from the graveyard Zionism has turned NYC into.