Posts Tagged: UNESCO Israel
Is UNESCO Going to Erase Jewish History From Another Israeli City?
When the United States rejoined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in July of this year, there was some cautious optimism that...
The US Needs to Use Its Influence on UNESCO to Counter Anti-Israel Bias
After a six year absence, the United States has rejoined the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which it dramatically left in 2017...
UNRWA Leads to a Path of Violence for Israel, Not Peace
When UNWRA (the United Nations Relief and Work Agency) was formed In December 1949, it was supposed to temporarily tend to the needs of the...
Israel Retracts Opposition to US Returning to UNESCO, Says Report
JNS.org - Israel told the Biden administration in recent days that it is no longer opposed to the United States returning to the United Nations...
An Open Letter to UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay
Madam Director-General, In the 28 years of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s NGO accreditation to UNESCO, it came as a shock to learn in February 2020 from...
The Theft of Childhood: Protecting Our Children From Ideological Warfare
Around the world, millions of childhoods are under threat from war. Sadly, this isn’t a new phenomenon. Protecting children isn’t something that humankind has historically...
Thank Goodness We’re Done With UNESCO
JNS.org - Thank God, it’s over. When 2018 ended, Israel’s withdrawal from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) took effect. Don’t feel bad....
Danon Denounces UNESCO’s Latest Anti-Israel Decisions
JNS.org - Israel slammed the PX Commission of the Executive Board of UNESCO on Wednesday as it adopted resolutions titled “Occupied Palestine,” which declared that the...
How UNESCO Encourages Antisemitism
JNS.org - In October, the US State Department notified the director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) that America would be withdrawing from the...
It’s Time to Get Tough on US Allies at the UN
JNS.org - The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is one shot across the UN’s bow. And UNESCO...
New French Jewish Leader Brings Hope of Change to UNESCO
JNS.org - The election of the first Jewish director-general of UNESCO -- French politician Audrey Azoulay -- is raising hopes that she might return the organization to its original mission. In recent...
Israeli Reps Exit Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly After Muslim Harassment
JNS.org - In the wake of Israel announcing its withdrawal from United Nations cultural body UNESCO due to anti-Israel bias, Israeli representatives walked out of the...
‘Qatarstrophe’ Averted, World’s Democracies Should Remain in UNESCO, Jewish Human Rights Group Urges
A leading Jewish human rights organization has expressed its relief at the defeat of Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari – the Qatari candidate for the post of...
UNESCO Vote Rewards Palestinian Lies and Terrorists — and Endangers Peace
Even by UN standards, the actions taken at UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee meeting in Krakow, Poland, was diplomatic theater at its most absurd. With Muslim and Christian...
