Introduction:
Last week, PMW published that US money was being used for a Palestinians girls´ school, named for the terrorist Dalal Mughrabi. The State Department immediately demanded that the Palestinian Authority change the name of the school, which they did. The following is today´s page 2 Jerusalem Post story:

"A Palestinian girls´ high school near Hebron nearly had its US funding cut, after the State Department learned it had renamed itself after a terrorist, sources said. The Haj Issa school had recently decided to call itself the Dalal Mughrabi school. Mughrabi is a female terrorist who took part in the killing of 36 Israelis and one US citizen in 1978.

"The school is receiving thousands of dollars in funding for renovation from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) via ANERA (American Near East Refugee Aid), a non-governmental organization.

"Palestinian Media Watch first published an item about the name change last week. The State Department, after being alerted to the name change, promised to terminate aid to the school if it did not change the name back, sources in Washington said.

"Neither USAID nor ANERA was informed after the school decided to name itself after Mughrabi. An official at ANERA confirmed the name had been changed back.

"They changed the name back. So there´s no issue anymore. The US embassy has been made aware of it," Philip Davies, vice president of ANERA said. One source in Washington said the State Department had responded quickly.

"What surprised me was how quickly they made a policy decision that they were not going to do the funding," the source said." (PMW.ORG.IL 08/11/02)Jerusalem Post Janine Zacharia Sunday August 11, 2002