UNICEF: Facebook likes don’t save lives, Contributions do

Juan Cole 05/01/2013

UNICEF reminds us that Facebook ‘likes’ don’t save children’s lives– cash contributions do.

Plus, it helps if the US Congress steps up.

The Israel lobbies have been threatening congressional UNICEF funding over Palestine issues. Really, Congress? You think that would help Israel or its image?

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page