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Elizabeth Campbell directed a U.N. agency using textbooks that glorified terrorism The Biden administration has hired the former director of a United Nations agency accused of promoting anti-Semitism and terrorism in Palestinian schools to help oversee refugee issues and U.N. reform at the State Department. Elizabeth Campbell was hired as deputy assistant secretary of state at the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration last month, according to reports. From 2017 to 2022, Campbell served as Washington, D.C., director of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), a U.N. agency that runs schools for...

If ever two people living in this metropolitan area stood poles apart, it would be centenarians Strom Thurmond and Elizabeth Campbell, both of whom had impacts on Arlington. Thurmond was a bulwark of racism and whites-only schools; Campbell was a bulwark of humanity, who promoted integration and education in ways that benefited not only Arlington, but also the entire nation. Trent Lott praised Thurmond, who died last year at 101, saying that if Thurmond had been elected as the Dixiecrat president in 1948, “we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years.” Elizabeth Campbell, on the other hand,...