Email from Zionist Organization of America   ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA NEWS RELEASE ZOA Strongly Praises Pres. Trump for (Again) Withdrawing from Antisemitic Anti-Israel UNESCO (After Biden Rejoined UNESCO in 2023) Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement: ZOA strongly praises President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio for again withdrawing the United States from the antisemitic, anti-Israel so-called United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), effective on December 31, 2025. The U.S. State Department withdrawal announcement correctly explained that “UNESCO’s decision to admit the ‘State of Palestine’ as a Member State is highly problematic, contrary to U.S. policy, and contributed to the proliferation of anti-Israel rhetoric within the organization.” Pres. Trump previously withdrew from UNESCO in 2017 due to UNESCO’s anti-Israel bias. But in 2023, then-Pres. Biden undid Pres. Trump’s important first-term effort to combat UNESCO’s antisemitism: Biden rejoined UNESCO and pledged to pay $600 million in “back dues.” Shortly after President Trump’s second term began, in a February 3, 2025 Executive Order that ZOA strongly praised, Pres. Trump ordered a 90-day review of UNESCO, including “an analysis of any antisemitism or anti-Israel sentiment” within UNESCO.[1] Pres. Trump’s decision to withdraw from UNESCO is well warranted. Indeed, ever since the non-existent “State of Palestine” was admitted to UNESCO in 2012, UNESCO has tried to erase the Jewish people’s connection to the Jewish people’s holiest sites, by renaming them “endangered” “Palestinian world heritage sites” in the “State of Palestine,” and renaming the sites themselves with Arabic names. UNESCO has libelously expunged the Jewish connections to: the Temple Mount (Judaism’s holiest site); Jerusalem (the Jewish people’s holiest city and capital); the over-3,000-year-old Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives; Jericho (the first city in Israel the Jewish people entered after wandering in the desert for forty years after the Exodus from Egypt); and Hebron (site of the Jewish people’s first purchase of land in Israel thousands of years ago, King David’s anointment and thousands of years of Jewish history), among others. In addition, UNESCO regurgitates on its website annual reports provided by the pretend and non-existent “State of Palestine” condemning and libeling Jews. For instance, the 2024 “Hebron/Al Khalil report on the state of conservation of the property” claims that “illegal Israeli settlements and archaeological excavations” [meaning, Jews living in their own ancient lawful Jewish homeland including in Hebron, and careful, lawful Israeli archeology work] “endangers” the “Palestinian” site of “Hebron/Al Khalil.” It’s a total inversion of reality.   CONTINUE READING   Share This Email Share This Email Share This Email     Donate Copyright © Zionist Organization of America 2025. All rights reserved. Zionist Organization of America | 633 Third Ave 31 B | New York, NY 10017 US Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice