The Campaign Against UNRWA w/ Chris Gunness | Connections #92

Connections Episode 92
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The Campaign Against UNRWA
Join us on Wednesday, 13 March for a conversation with Chris Gunness about UNRWA and the campaign against it led by Israel and the United States. This episode of Connections will examine the allegations against the Agency, the agenda of its critics, and the objectives of the anti-UNRWA campaign.

Guest
Chris Gunness is an award-winning journalist who spent 23 years at the BBC as producer, correspondent, and anchor. In 2006 he joined The Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) in Jerusalem. In 2007 he was appointed Chief Spokesman and Director of Strategic Information and Advocacy for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). He left UNRWA at the start of 2020, and in 2021 established the Myanmar Accountability Project, a legal initiative which brings criminal prosecutions against war criminals in the Myanmar junta.

Host

Mouin Rabbani is a researcher, analyst, and commentator specialising in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He has among other positions previously served as Principal Political Affairs Officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Head of Middle East with the Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, and Senior Middle East Analyst and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group.

Rabbani is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, where he also hosts the Connections podcast and edits its Quick Thoughts feature, Managing Editor and Associate Editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, and a Contributing Editor of Middle East Report. He is Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) and at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN).

A graduate of Tufts University and Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS), Rabbani has published, presented and commented widely on Middle East issues, including for most major print, television and digital media.
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[@eliseocolonjr2133]

Appreciate these conversations. Thank you.

[@Afaq-vw6hm]

Chris is giving a ROBUST VIEWPOINT about Israel and UNRWA that is needed and good for him. His heart is in the right place...

[@sandrajensen497]

Great interview!

[@-bret]

Gotta love a Mouin Rabbani meets Elton John podcast

[@AndalusPoet]

……”Zionism is a genocidal ideology”. “It should be dismantled and destroyed “. Professor David Miller, a former Bristol University academic. Israel is a brutal occupying colonialist Power which committed Genocide in 1948, slow incremental genocide before October 7th, now full-blown genocide and ethnic cleansing at many different levels in the Palestinian Territories. It is first and foremost the security of the Palestinians that should be given topmost priority.

[@ccgraass]

is this podcast on apple podcasts? I can't find it