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UNRWA football tournament named after terrorist Abu Jihad

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Feb. 18, 2010

Please note that following Palestinian Media Watch's report, the PA official daily later published UNRWA’s denial of hosting a tournament in the name of the terrorist Abu Jihad.
To see PMW’s bulletin with UNRWA’s denial, click here.

UNRWA honors terrorist
as football tournament at UNRWA school
named for Abu Jihad

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik

An UNRWA educational program in Ramallah has honored the terrorist Abu Jihad with a football tournament in his name. The tournament was organized by the Fatah's youth movement at UNRWA's Women's Training Center and Faculty of Educational Sciences in Ramallah:

"The Student Union Council and the Shabiba [Fatah youth] students' movement at UNRWA's Faculty of Educational Sciences has launched a football tournament under the name, 'The Shahid (Martyr) Abu Jihad Tournament'."

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Feb. 17, 2010]

Abu-Jihad

Remnant of bus hijacked by Mughrabi

UNRWA's hosting a tournament honoring a terrorist is facilitating the Palestinian Authority's ongoing policy of glorifying terrorists. In the past the UN has named summer camps for terrorists including UNICEF's naming in 2003 of "the camp after the shahida waffa idris," the firs woman suicide terrorist, for example click here.

Dedicating sports tournaments and summer camps for Palestinian youth to terrorists who have killed Israelis is a policy of the Palestinian Authority. Palestinian Media Watch has often documented on the Palestinian Authority's glorification of terrorists.

Abu Jihad was one of the founders of the Fatah Movement and the orchestrator of the organization's terror activities from the mid-1960's. Second to Arafat, he headed the military wing of PLO and served as deputy supreme military commander of Fatah. Abu Jihad planned many of the major Fatah terror attacks, including the worst terror attack in Israel's history, in which 37 civilians were murdered by a team of terrorists in a bus hijacking led by Dalal Mughrabi in 1978. He also planned the hostage taking at the Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv in 1975 in which eight hostages and two Israeli soldiers were killed. Abu Jihad was killed in 1988 in an operation attributed to Israel.

To view PMW's case study From terrorist to hero on the terrorist Dalal Mughrabi, click here.

"UNRWA's Ramallah Women's Training Center and Educational Sciences Faculty"
http://www.rwtc.edu/arabic/

UNRWA's educational institution prides itself on being "the pioneering UNRWA institute that provides Palestinian refugee women with high quality vocational and technical education..." according to its web site:

The web site further state's that:

"The college has a board of trustees of seven members working with UNRWA. All hold high qualification and have long experience in the field of education."

[http://www.rwtc.edu/english/faculty.htm]