The United Nations has allowed antisemitism to blossom in its own agencies and councils, only to be surprised that those violent antisemitic thoughts turned into antisemitic actions.

The United Nations has fired nine U.N. Relief and Works Agency staff members of the 19 who were investigated for allegedly taking part in Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of 1,200 Israeli civilians. Just one of the 19 was cleared, while it was determined that there was “insufficient” evidence to take action against the remaining nine.

It should be absolutely unacceptable that at least nine employees of a supposed refugee aid organization took part in a terrorist attack that slaughtered 1,200 civilians, including women, children, and elderly people. Women were raped, and hundreds of civilians were taken hostage, several of whom were killed later. The fact that UNRWA had not one, but nine employees, at least, who took part in such an attack should be enough to permanently destroy the reputation of any “relief” organization.

And yet, there is an insistence from the U.N. that UNRWA is a necessary organization. This is, in part, because UNRWA is another U.N. money pit that operates using a different definition of “refugee” to justify its continued existence, and funding, even as the agency acknowledged that its mission should be temporary shortly after it was founded. The U.N. begged countries not to defund UNRWA because its “humanitarian needs” and U.N. salaries need to be met, even as the agency fostered the conditions that led to nine employees taking part in terrorist activities.

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UNRWA employees taking part in the Oct. 7 attack isn’t where this story began, though. In 2004, the head of the agency said he was “sure” that it employed Hamas terrorists and that it was no big deal. UNRWA’s schools have been promoting antisemitism to young Palestinians, and the agency’s headquarters in Gaza was revealed to be coincidentally sitting over a Hamas military compound.

The problem isn’t the nine UNRWA workers who were fired. The problem is that UNRWA is an antisemitic mess to its very core as an organization and that the United Nations continues to promote it as a necessary agency that must be venerated and respected. The fired UNRWA workers who took part in Hamas’s massacre of civilians are symptoms of UNRWA’s and the U.N.’s antisemitism, not some sort of anomaly that can be dismissed as irrelevant now that they have been fired.