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UNESCO against the Jews
YNet ^ | 07.19.11 | Giulio Meotti

Posted on 07/20/2011 6:26:01 PM PDT by SJackson

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted a decision calling on Israel to immediately cease all archaeological works in the Old City of Jerusalem. In particular, UNESCO, one of the UN’s most prominent and influential agencies, attacked the renovation of the Mughrabi Bridge that links the Western Wall plaza and Temple Mount

The decision, initiated and promoted by Arab states, was adopted by consensus of the Western members of the commission. Indeed, the vote is the latest anti-Jewish initiative launched by the UN office meant to promote culture, education and science around the world. In fact, UNESCO’s robber barons are sanctifying the current global campaign aimed liquidating the legitimacy of the Israeli regime.

In 2009, UNESCO designated Jerusalem as “capital of Arab culture,” working with Palestinian Authority officials and key Arab figures to protest against what they described as “the Israeli occupation of Holy Jerusalem.” Other cities granted the title over the years were Algiers, Damascus, Cairo, Tunis, Amman, Beirut and Khartoum.

The Arabs find it difficult to convincingly portray Israel as usurper of the land as long as the world believes there is a huge connection between the people of the Bible and the land of the Bible. UNESCO is denying this connection by depicting Jewish history in the Middle East as no more than an insignificant, brief sojourn by arrogant colonizers.

UNESCO appears to deny that the Jewish people has laid its roots in Israel more than 4,000 years ago, or that 1,000 years before Christ, King David made Jerusalem the Jewish city par excellence, never entirely abandoned even in times of deadly persecution.

The City of David in Jerusalem, a major target of UNESCO’s anti-Jewish fury, is now the hottest open archaeological site in the world, with biblical artifacts, ancient burial spots and royal seals. There, UNESCO is using archeology to bash Israel and treats Israeli archeologists as nationalistic martinets.

In recent years, UNESCO increased its collaboration with ISESCO, the cultural body of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. According to ISESCO’s propaganda, the Biblical story and the Jewish temples are only fiction, Jewish monuments are Islamic treasures stolen by the Zionists, and Israeli archeological works are criminal acts against Muslims.

UNESCO’s ideology portrays the Jews as no more than invading colonizers, while the Muslims who invaded the country and ravaged it in the Seventh Century are, by some inexplicable leap, the descendants of the so called "indigenous Canaanites."

In 2010, UNESCO decided that Rachel’s Tomb and Hebron’s Cave of the Patriarchs are “Muslim mosques.” Western countries didn't raise any protest. UNESCO never mentioned that in addition to the famous Tomb of the biblical Patriarchs, Hebron contains also the tomb of the first judge (Otniel Ben Kenaz), the tomb of generals and confidants to Saul and David and the tombs of Ruth and Jesse, David’s great-grandmother and father. There is also no word by UNESCO about the fact that Rachel’s tomb is unanimously revered as the burial site of one of the Bible’s great women, the wife of Jacob, the Jewish blessed mother.

During the Second Intifada, UNESCO condemned Israel for “the destruction and damage caused to the cultural heritage in the Palestinian territories” as “a crime against the common cultural heritage of humanity.” However, UNESCO remained silent when a Palestinian mob destroyed Joseph’s tomb, a major Jewish religious shrine, and built a mosque on the site.

Upon the outbreak of the Second Intifada, Palestinian terrorists also attacked Rachel’s tomb, and for 41 days Jews were prevented from visiting the compound. UNESCO never condemned it. Recently, dozens of graves at the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem were vandalized, the latest in a series of attacks on Judaism’s oldest cemetery, where Jews have been buried since biblical times. Again, UNESCO remained silent.

UNESCO also “boasts” a long list of decisions to boycott and isolate the Jewish State. On November 7, 1974, UNESCO voted “to withhold assistance from Israel in the fields of education, science and culture because of Israel’s persistent alteration of the historic features of Jerusalem.” On November 20, 1974 UNESCO voted also to exclude Israel from its European regional group. This anti-Jewish ostracism was not abandoned until 1978, after the United States withheld $40 million in payments from the organization in protest.

UNESCO’s war on Israel and the West continued and was so blatant that in 1984 the US, UK and others Western countries left the organization. In 1989 UNESCO made the claim that “Israel’s occupation of Jerusalem” was destroying the holy city by “acts of interference, destruction and transformation” (then-mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy Kollek, expressed “deep disgust at UNESCO’s attitude.”)

In 1990, UNESCO attacked what it described as the “irreversible” changes to Jerusalem's architectural heritage resulting from Israeli “occupation.” UNESCO’s apparatchiks decried the “lost loveliness” of the city. In 1993, then-UNESCO director-general Frederico Mayor boycotted an international conference on science in Jerusalem, despite Israel’s history of scintillating enlightenment, like the highest production of scientific publications and museums per capita in the world.

In 1996, UNESCO organized a symposium on Jerusalem at the body’s Paris headquarters. But no Jewish or Israeli groups were invited. When in 1998 a UNESCO delegation visited Jerusalem, it refused to meet with Israeli officials. In the past, UNESCO also has called for “financial sanctions against Israel” and passed hundreds of resolutions criticizing Israel’s activities in Judea and Samaria.

In 2001, UNESCO promoted the “Cairo Declaration Document for Jerusalem Antiquities Preservation,” which falsely accused Israel of destroying Islamic antiquities on the Temple Mount and in Jerusalem’s Old City in an attempt to divert attention from Palestinian crimes against archeology and history. When the United Nations celebrated its 50th anniversary, UNESCO refused to mention the Shoah in its World War II resolution, intentionally ignoring Israel’s request to include a reference to the destruction of European Jewry.

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On a final note, a recent UNESCO report on science, Jewish physician and theologian Maimonides is classified as a Muslim named “Moussa ben Maimoun.” So the Rambam - for Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon – has been forced to “convert” to Islam by the UN’s revisionist historians.

During the Middle Ages, the French Inquisition confiscated and burned Maimonides's books. From the elegant Parisian boulevards, UNESCO’s inquisitors are now following the same dreadful solution of rendering history and the Holy Land "Judenrein."

Giulio Meotti, a journalist with Il Foglio, is the author of the book A New Shoah: The Untold Story of Israel's Victims of Terrorism


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
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1 posted on 07/20/2011 6:26:04 PM PDT by SJackson
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2 posted on 07/20/2011 6:27:01 PM PDT by SJackson (Normal people don't sit cross-legged on the floor and bang on drums, WI State Sen Glenn Grothman (R))
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The UN condemns Israeli archeology efforts, because as we know, the JOOZ have no claim nor history in or around The Holy Land or Jerusalem. In fact, there were no JOOZ in the entire region until they attacked the peaceful arabs of palestine and invaded the land historically free of the JOOZ and planted the supposed "historical artifacts" that are known to be faked.

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3 posted on 07/20/2011 6:41:10 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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And yet, liberal Jews continue to send their money in hopes that their eyes, ears and common sense are deceiving them. What are they waiting for? Those really are shower heads in the ceiling, really.


4 posted on 07/20/2011 6:41:36 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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The UN condemns Israeli archeology efforts, because as we know, the JOOZ have no claim nor history in or around The Holy Land or Jerusalem. In fact, there were no JOOZ in the entire region until they attacked the peaceful arabs of palestine and invaded the land historically free of the JOOZ and planted the supposed "historical artifacts" that are known to be faked
Yup . . . heaven forefend that actual physical evidence verifying the Biblical claims appears, right? "Palestinian" propaganda must prevail.

Meanwhile, UNESCO protests weakly in the face of Iranian plans to flood Pasargadae in Persia (I refuse to call it "Iran") where King Cyrus the Great is buried . . . most likely because King Cyrus was the man that assisted the Jews in the return to Judaea and to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.
5 posted on 07/20/2011 7:04:00 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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Thanks SJackson.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted a decision calling on Israel to immediately cease all archaeological works in the Old City of Jerusalem. In particular... attacked the renovation of the Mughrabi Bridge that links the Western Wall plaza and Temple Mount. The decision, initiated and promoted by Arab states... is the latest anti-Jewish initiative... sanctifying the current global campaign aimed liquidating the legitimacy of the Israeli regime. In 2009, UNESCO designated Jerusalem as "capital of Arab culture"...
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6 posted on 07/20/2011 8:13:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Yes, as a matter of fact, it is that time again -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SJackson

That crazy Huxley family. Ya gotta wonder why the liberal Jews are such big supporters of the UN.

From page 21 of UNESCO: It’s Purpose and It’s Philosophy. It was written in 1946 and as far as I know it’s still the guiding shadow.

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0006/000681/068197eo.pdf

Thus even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for Unesco to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable...

How’s them last twenty-two words sound to you?


7 posted on 07/20/2011 8:52:20 PM PDT by MurrietaMadman
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The Allies won WWII, but the Nazi-mentality won the peace that followed through engineering the UN, by authoring its founding documents, and by selling it to the average citizen as the best, bright hope for future peace and prosperity.

Re the last twenty-two words or so, I learned by watching "The Third Reich - The Rise" on U-Tube that the Nazis sterilized women for things like having had a nervous breakdown or a family history of even minor genetic faults. The healthy girls, 16 and up, were encouraged to get pregnant by their male Hilter Youth counterparts, and openly defied their parents wishes and teachings on the matter.

No, we ain't there yet, and the attempt at social control of the individual will be more subtle, but it's where the globalists want to lead us.
To think I once admired Aldous Huxley and his clan. All geniuses I thought.

8 posted on 07/20/2011 10:16:35 PM PDT by ARepublicanForAllReasons (The world will be a better place when humanity learns not to try to make it a perfect place)
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To: SJackson
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted a decision calling on Israel to immediately cease all archaeological works in the Old City of Jerusalem.
How do you say BITE ME in Hebrew?
9 posted on 07/21/2011 4:59:42 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits [A.Einstein])
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To: SJackson

UNESCO, Geh cocken offen yom


10 posted on 07/21/2011 5:14:57 AM PDT by SUSSA
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To: SunkenCiv

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted a decision calling on Israel to immediately cease all archaeological works in the Old City of Jerusalem. In particular... attacked the renovation of the Mughrabi Bridge that links the Western Wall plaza and Temple Mount. The decision, initiated and promoted by Arab states... is the latest anti-Jewish initiative... sanctifying the current global campaign aimed liquidating the legitimacy of the Israeli regime. In 2009, UNESCO designated Jerusalem as “capital of Arab culture”...


Bump.


11 posted on 07/21/2011 5:27:58 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: SJackson

Let me guess: UNESCO didn’t say one word about the Muslims bulldozing away centuries of archaelogical material on TOP of the Temple Mount. Of course not, since most of the material was Jewish.

BTW, thanks for posting the article. I had not realized how long the UNESCO’s history was of “revisionist history” a la Orwell’s “1984”


12 posted on 07/22/2011 12:43:32 PM PDT by JoyjoyfromNJ (everything written by me on FR is my personal opinion & does not represent my employer)
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