"We've been organizing this coalition for the past two-plus years, and in the process of those two years, we have been successful in preventing about $7.2 billion of additional money going to ICE and CBP, but we still haven't seen defunding happen," Shah said.

For the Trump team, however, international law is "unrealistic." Palestine seems to be regarded as part of a real-estate business a property they can devalue by closing diplomatic missions, defunding UNRWA, canceling aid to Palestinian hospitals or withdrawing scholarships for Palestinian students.

Quite the opposite, the US has left the UN Human Rights Council over its criticism of Israel and is in defunding of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the aid agency for Palestinian refugees.

Defunding the Palestine refugee agency now will threaten Israeli security, especially in the beleaguered Gaza Strip, create chaos in the Occupied Territories, bring down the Palestinian Authority and enrage host countries.

Defunding the infrastructure projects of 24 'undesirable' solons would derail economic development, an opposition lawmaker said on Saturday.

This defunding is undisguised show of power with the message: Gagawin namin dahil kaya namin.

Defunding the Eugene Natives Program is devastating to current students who count on the program for cultural enrichment and awareness.

* "Defunding Planned Parenthood." The President has made it abundantly clear, "I am committed to ...

Peacekeeping, especially during Pierre Elliott Trudeau's era, morphed into a euphemism for "defunding" the military.