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UNRWA: Illegal To Fund, Illegal Not To Fund. Can Both Sides Be Right?

Two lawsuits were recently filed about the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA), the UN body charged with assisting Palestinian refugees. One, at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), seeks to compel Germany to give UNRWA money and says any country that stops funding UNRWA is complicit in genocide. The other, filed in U.S. District …

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In Interviewing Asylum Seekers, Moral Difficulties the Hardest

In April, the Atlantic magazine ran an informative article by Graeme Wood about the techniques German immigration authorities use to try to sort legitimate asylum seekers from those who aren’t entitled to that status. In addition to outlining the cultural, political, and economic difficulties connected with absorbing refugees, Wood focuses on the methods used to …

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