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** UNESCO Vote Highlights Continued UN Bias Against Israel ([link removed])
Congress Must Block Funding, Biden Should Reconsider His Decision to Join
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by Pete Hoekstra • September 11, 2023 at 3:00 pm
* In one of the latest examples [of anti-Israel bias], UNESCO recently announced it will designate the city of Jericho as a "Palestinian" heritage site.
* This is a clear attack on Christians and Jews, who also view the city as an important part of their cultural and religious history. The Biden administration should object to this designation and protest UNESCO's clear bias strongly.
* [A]s former U.S. Ambassador to the UN and former National Security Advisor John Bolton advised in his strong article, "Biden's foolish rush to rejoin UNESCO has nothing to do with China": "Congress should firmly block any UNESCO funding, as it has consistently done."
* Rather than building a culture of peace, UNESCO is perpetuating a culture of anger and division.
* By exiting UNESCO again, the U.S. would send a clear message that it will not tolerate the organization's anti-Israel bias and that it will stand up to other racist and anti-Semitic actions at the UN.

In one of the latest examples of anti-Israel bias, UNESCO recently announced it will designate the city of Jericho as a "Palestinian" heritage site. Pictured: Delegates attend the UNESCO Extended 45th session of the World Heritage Committee in Riyadh on September 11, 2023. (Photo by Fayez Nureldine/AFP via Getty Images)

Most people know the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) through its eponymous and popular designation of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. By UNESCO's own definition, "World Heritage sites belong to all the peoples of the world, irrespective of the territory on which they are located." But an impending late-September vote by UNESCO again calls into question whether the organization holds to its stated beliefs or fits into the broader pattern of anti-Israel bias that permeates the United Nations.

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