Posted on 01/02/2019 7:17:56 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The United States and Israel officially quit the U.N.’s educational, scientific and cultural agency at midnight, January 1 as both states cite the organization's anti-Israeli bias.
Associated Press reports, "The Paris-based organization has been denounced by its critics as a crucible for anti-Israel bias: blasted for criticizing Israel’s occupation of east Jerusalem, naming ancient Jewish sites as Palestinian heritage sites and granting full membership to Palestine in 2011."
What's not to hate?
The withdrawals will not greatly impact UNESCO financially, since it has been dealing with a funding slash ever since 2011, when both Israel and the U.S. stopped paying dues after Palestine was voted in as a member state. Since then officials estimate that the U.S. — which accounted for around 22 percent of the total budget — has accrued $600 million in unpaid dues, which was one of the reasons for President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw. Israel owes an estimated $10 million.
UNESCO Director General Audrey Azoulay took up her post just after Trump announced the pullout. Azoulay, who has Jewish and Moroccan heritage, has presided over the launch of a Holocaust education website and the U.N.’s first educational guidelines on fighting anti-Semitism — initiatives that might be seen as responding to U.S. and Israeli concerns.
They put up a website on the Holocaust and this is supposed to make up for all the Holicaust-denying members? Sheesh.
In recent years, Israel has been infuriated by repeated resolutions that ignore and diminish its historical connection to the Holy Land and that have named ancient Jewish sites as Palestinian heritage sites.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
We opt out from another “Global Government” entanglement.
hopefully, this is our first step to getting the hell out of the UnitedNazisOrganization !
(or maybe just keep our seat on the security council, eliminate our subsidies for the evil UN and evict it from USA)
Best to keep an eye on them is right. But we should not be paying a single dime towards it.
These spies operate openly from our own country.
Damn us for fools.
Good!
Forty years late.
Yes I have hated UNESCO for a long time.
Yes. They’re mostly supposed to stay in my. But as a practical matter they can go all
Over spying
Independence Hall...Statue of Liberty...
Those are the last places that should be ruled by some UN alphabet soup agency.
There are hundreds of these places around the world. The UN doesn’t rule them, they just highlight them as important to the world heritage... or something... Generally it doesn’t seem to have any practical meaning.
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