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January 18, 2014 7:19 pm

U.S. ‘Deeply Disappointed’ With UNESCO Decision to Axe Jewish Exhibit

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The exhibit at UNESCO headquarters in Paris just needed to be hung up.

JTA –  The Obama administration is “deeply disappointed” with a decision by UNESCO, the United Nation’s cultural arm, to cancel the opening of an exhibition on the Jewish presence in the land of Israel and is seeking its placement “as soon as possible.”

Complaints by Arab states led UNESCO to cancel the exhibition, organized by the Simon Wiesenthal Center along with the governments of Canada and Montenegro. It was scheduled to open Jan. 20 at the Paris headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

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