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would give us hundreds of millions of dollars per 
year?’’. 
(35) Former UNRWA general counsel James 
Lindsay noted in a 2009 report that: 
(A) ‘‘The United States, despite funding 
nearly 75 percent of UNRWA’s national budget 
and remaining its largest single country donor, 
has mostly failed to make UNRWA reflect U.S. 
foreign policy objectives . . . Recent U.S. ef-
forts to shape UNRWA appear to have been in-
effective . . .’’; 
(B) ‘‘[T]he United States is not obligated 
to fund agencies that refuse to check its rolls 
for individuals their donors do not wish to sup-
port.’’; 
(C) ‘‘A number of changes in UNRWA 
could benefit the refugees, the Middle East, and 
the United States, but those changes will not 
occur unless the United States, ideally with 
support from UNRWA’s other main financial 
supporter, the European Union, compels the 
agency to enact reforms.’’; and 
(D) ‘‘If the [UNRWA commissioner-gen-
eral’s] power is used in ways that are conflict 
with the donors’’ political objectives, it is up to 
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the donors to take the necessary actions to en-
sure that their interests are respected. When 
they have done so, UNRWA—given the tight fi-
nancial leash it has been on for most of its ex-
istence—has tended to follow their dictates, 
even if sometimes slowly. 
(36) The Government of Canada has placed re-
strictions on its contributions to UNRWA, dem-
onstrating consequences for UNRWA’s malfeasance 
and setting an example for the United States and 
other donor governments. 
SEC. 802. UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNRWA. 
Section 301 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 
is amended by striking subsection (c) and inserting the 
following new subsection: 
‘‘(c)(1) 
WITHHOLDING.—Contributions 
by 
the 
United States to the United Nations Relief and Works 
Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East 
(UNRWA), to any successor or related entity, or to the 
regular budget of the United Nations for the support of 
UNRWA or a successor entity (through staff positions 
provided by the United Nations Secretariat, or otherwise), 
may be provided only during a period for which a certifi-
cation described in paragraph (2) is in effect. 
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‘‘(2) CERTIFICATION.—A certification described in 
this paragraph is a written determination by the Secretary 
of State, based on all information available after diligent 
inquiry, and transmitted to the appropriate congressional 
committees along with a detailed description of the factual 
basis therefor, that— 
‘‘(A) no official, employee, consultant, con-
tractor, subcontractor, representative, or affiliate of 
UNRWA— 
‘‘(i) is a member of a Foreign Terrorist 
Organization; 
‘‘(ii) has propagated, disseminated, or in-
cited anti-American, anti-Israel, or anti-Semitic 
rhetoric or propaganda; or 
‘‘(iii) has used any UNRWA resources, in-
cluding publications or Web sites, to propagate 
or disseminate political materials, including po-
litical rhetoric regarding the Israeli-Palestinian 
conflict; 
‘‘(B) no UNRWA school, hospital, clinic, other 
facility, or other infrastructure or resource is being 
used by a Foreign Terrorist Organization for oper-
ations, planning, training, recruitment, fundraising, 
indoctrination, communications, sanctuary, storage 
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of weapons or other materials, or any other pur-
poses; 
‘‘(C) UNRWA is subject to comprehensive fi-
nancial audits by an internationally recognized third 
party independent auditing firm and has imple-
mented an effective system of vetting and oversight 
to prevent the use, receipt, or diversion of any 
UNRWA resources by any foreign terrorist organiza-
tion or members thereof; 
‘‘(D) no UNRWA-funded school or educational 
institution uses textbooks or other educational mate-
rials that propagate or disseminate anti-American, 
anti-Israel, or anti-Semitic rhetoric, propaganda or 
incitement; 
‘‘(E) no recipient of UNRWA funds or loans is 
a member of a Foreign Terrorist Organization; and 
‘‘(F) UNRWA holds no accounts or other affili-
ations with financial institutions that the United 
States deems or believes to be complicit in money 
laundering and terror financing. 
‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(A) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COM-
MITTEES.—The term ‘appropriate congressional 
committees’ means— 
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‘‘(i) the Committees on Foreign Af-
fairs, Appropriations, and Oversight and 
Government Reform of the House of Rep-
resentatives; and 
‘‘(ii) the Committees on Foreign Rela-
tions, Appropriations, and Homeland Secu-
rity and Governmental Affairs of the Sen-
ate. 
‘‘(B) 
FOREIGN
TERRORIST
ORGANIZA-
TION.—The term ‘Foreign Terrorist Organiza-
tion’ means an organization designated as a 
Foreign Terrorist Organization by the Sec-
retary of State in accordance with section 
219(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1189(a)). 
‘‘(4) EFFECTIVE
DURATION
OF
CERTIFI-
CATION.—The certification described in paragraph 
(2) shall be effective for a period of 180 days from 
the date of transmission to the appropriate congres-
sional committees, or until the Secretary receives in-
formation rendering that certification factually inac-
curate, whichever is earliest. In the event that a cer-
tification becomes ineffective, the Secretary shall 
promptly transmit to the appropriate congressional 
committees a description of any information that 
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