Bye, UNESCO. It's Not Us; It's You

PJ Media ^ | 22 July 2025 | Sarah Anderson

[Rummyfan]

State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce announced on Tuesday that the United States will withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization or UNESCO. It's the third time the United States has made such a move. The first instance occurred in 2019 under the first Trump administration.

The Biden administration rejoined it in 2023 and vowed to repay approximately $600 million in dues incurred since the U.S. stopped paying. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump signed an executive order stating that UNESCO, among other United Nations organizations, deserved renewed scrutiny, in large part, due to its anti-Israel and antisemitic stances.

UNESCO frequently uses language that suggests that Israel is occupying Palestine and basically never condemns Hamas. It's even gone as far as to designate Jewish holy sites as “Palestinian World Heritage" sites.

President Ronald Regan also withdrew the U.S. from UNESCO in 1984, stating that it "has extraneously politicized virtually every subject it deals with. It has exhibited hostility toward a free society, especially a free market and a free press, and it has demonstrated unrestrained budgetary expansion." We rejoined in 2003 under President George W. Bush. In 2011, Hillary Clinton "became the first sitting Secretary of State to visit UNESCO where she helped launch a partnership promoting education for women and girls."

[econjack]

If you read the literature handed out by UNESCO, you will be cheering its demise. It is a Leftist newsletter and little else.

[SmokingJoe]

Excellent!

[thinden]

The Biden administration rejoined it in 2023 and vowed to repay approximately $600 million in dues incurred since the U.S. stopped paying

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so, what happened to the $600mm?

did the big guy get his 10%

can trum/congress rescind the loot or is it long gone?

[PGalt]

Another BAD collective. UNaccountabe bureaucrats.