The European Union’s 2022-2024 UNRWA aid budget will be 40 percent lower than during the previous three-year period, the E.U. announced last week.

The E.U. commissioner, who announced the reduced funding package, said last year, after the Parliament’s condemnation, that the European Union would fight antisemitism and should consider conditioning aid to UNRWA on full adherence to UNESCO standards of peace and tolerance in textbooks.