In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP non-resident fellow Peter Beinart interviews Chris Gunness, formerly the Spokesman and Director of Strategic Communications at UNRWA. They discuss the enormous humanitarian crisis in Rafah and Gaza more broadly as well as the history and function of UNRWA – the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East – and the campaign against it. Also see: transcripts of this podcast – English; Hebrew.  Also see Peter Beinart’s new piece, The Campaign to Abolish UNRWA, (Jewish Currents 2/13/24). 

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