In fact, the campaign against UNRWA in Congress is a campaign to retire the Palestinian refugee question all together. Nor was it created to resolve the refugee question. Another agency may eventually take over classrooms, clinics and relief programs, but the institutional acknowledgement that the refugee question remains unresolved dies with UNRWA. It is whether the Palestinian refugees will still exist as a political entity or not. He writes on Palestinian refugees, Palestinian politics and the evolving role of the Palestinian American community in U.S. public life.