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| January 18, 2014
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White House presses UNESCO on its sudden cancellation of ‘Jews in Israel’ exhibit

 

The U.S. administration is ‘deeply disappointed’ with UNESCO after it succumbed to pressure by Arab League.

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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.”

UNESCO headquarters

UNESCO headquarters Photo by Unesco.org

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 January 20 at the Paris headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Continue Reading »

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| January 17, 2014
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UNESCO postponed Jewish ties to Land of Israel exhibit saying it could harm peace process

 

UNESCO has postponed a Jewish exhibit 2 years in the making, entitled “People, Book, Land – The 3,500 Year Relationship of the Jewish People and the Land of Israel,” after a last minute protest from the Arab League.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
 

 

Less than a week before the planned opening of an exhibit chronicling 3,500 years of Jewish ties to the Land of Israel, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has postponed the event, slated to open at its Paris headquarters Monday, out of concern that it could be harmful to the peace process.

UNESCO advocates for Syrian youth education, another example how the Arab League controls UNESCO

UNESCO advocates for Syrian youth education, another example how the Arab League influences UNESCO

“UNESCO is deeply committed to the successful outcome of the peace process in order to achieve stability in the region and we have a responsibility in ensuring that current efforts in this regard are not endangered,” wrote director-general Irina Bokova on Wednesday to the exhibit’s cohost, the Los Angels-based Simon Wiesenthal Center. Continue Reading »

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| November 8, 2013
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United States & Israel Forfeit UNESCO Voting Rights

 

Both the U.S. & Israel automatically loose voting rights after intentionally missing dues deadline  to world’s cultural agency.

Both the U.S. & Israel suspended prospective funding in 2011 after UNESCO went political & accepted Palestine as member without  there existing such a country.

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American influence in culture, science and education around the world took a high-profile blow Friday after the US automatically lost voting rights at UNESCO, after missing a crucial deadline to repay its debt to the world’s cultural agency.

Mayan UNESCO site in Guatemala (Photo: Reuters)

Mayan UNESCO site in Guatemala – Photo: Reuters

The US hasn’t paid its dues to the Paris-based UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in protest over the decision by world governments to make Palestine a UNESCO member in 2011. Continue Reading »

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| June 26, 2013
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Once again UNESCO resolution censures Israel’s activities in Jerusalem

 

UNESCO World Heritage conference in Cambodia becomes battlefield as its members pass a Palestinian-sponsored, Jordanian-authored resolution condemning Israel’s activities in its capital.

Saudi newspaper: Israel razing Al-Aqsa mosque to build Second Temple.

By Israel Hayom Staff

Israel is irate at UNESCO for having adopted a Palestinian-sponsored resolution that denounces Israel’s activities in Jerusalem’s Old City. The resolution was presented to the 37th World Heritage Convention in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Sunday, where it passed with a narrow majority of 8:3 with 10 abstentions.

Entrance to Jaffa Gate - IsraelandStuff/PP

Jaffa Gate Entrance to the Old City – IsraelandStuff/PP

Estonia, Germany and Switzerland voted against the resolution, while Algeria, Iraq, Malaysia, Qatar.

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| May 31, 2013
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PA Condemns Israel for Cancelling ‘Politicized’ UNESCO Mission to Jerusalem

The PA’s foreign ministry blasts Israel for its cancelling a UNESCO investigative mission to Jerusalem’s Old City, after the PA manipulated the schedule to politicize it.

By Elad Benari

 

The Palestinian Authority’s foreign ministry slammed Israel on Thursday for having called off a United Nations investigative mission to Jerusalem’s Old City, calling it an act of “contempt of international law and institutions,” according to AFP.

David's Citadel in Jerusalem - IsraelandStuff-PP

David’s Citadel in Jerusalem – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

The ministry said it “condemns in the strongest possible terms the decision of Israel, the occupying power, to prevent the technical mission of UNESCO from carrying its monitoring mission in the Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls.” Continue Reading »

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| May 21, 2013
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Israel postpones UNESCO Jerusalem delegation’s visit at last moment

FM officials: PA broke agreement by manipulating what was planed as a purely professional UN visit and ‘politicized’ it.

By HERB KEINON

 

 

Israel on Monday called off a planned visit by a delegation from UNESCO, the United Nation’s cultural organization, to inspect preservation work in Jerusalem’s Old City, saying that the Palestinians had “politicized” the delegation.

UNESCO - Photo Charles Platiau Reuters

UNESCO – Photo: Charles Platiau/Reuters

“The delegation as a delegation has been postponed,” a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

“The Palestinians violated all the agreements we had with UNESCO: that this was to be a purely professional, not a political visit,” he said.  The official said the Palestinians asked to introduce a “slew” of political elements into the visit, with PA Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki characterizing it as a fact-finding commission to investigate Israeli steps in Jerusalem.

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| April 26, 2013
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Gaza Rulers Blasts PA for Postponing Anti-Israel Resolutions

Hamas condemns PA compromise which allows the PA to postpone anti-Israel resolutions in exchange for a UNESCO ‘investigation’ on Jerusalem.

By Elad Benari

 

Gaza’s Hamas terrorist rulers condemned on Thursday a decision by the Palestinian Authority to postpone five UNESCO resolutions against Israel.

David's Citadel - IsraelandStuff-PP

David’s Citadel, Jerusalem – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

“This step is like a reward to the occupation for its crimes and violations,” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement quoted by the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency.

“It is a contribution in erasing the Arabic and Islamic identity of Jerusalem, and it encourages the occupation to continue its Judaization program,” Barhoum said. Continue Reading »

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| April 24, 2013
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Jordan Reports: Israel to Allow UNESCO to ‘Investigate’ Old City

Jordan reports that Israel has agreed to allow the UN mission to “investigate & assess” heritage conservation site in Jerusalem’s Old City.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

 

Jordan said on Tuesday that Israel has agreed to allow a UN mission to “investigate and assess” heritage conservation in Jerusalem’s Old City for the first time since 2004.

The Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site for well over 3,000 years.

The Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site for well over 3,000 years.

 

“Jordan and Palestine, supported by Arab states, succeeded in pressuring Israel, for the first time since 2004, to accept and facilitate a UNESCO experts’ mission to investigate and assess the status of heritage and conservation of the Old City of Jerusalem and its walls,” a palace statement said, according to a report in the AFP news agency. Continue Reading »

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| April 16, 2013
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Hamas bulldozes 3,000-year-old Roman seaport for military training

Hamas military wing destroys part of ancient Roman, Byzantine harbor, slated as UNESCO heritage site, due to “urgent need” for military training site.

By JTA

 

 

The Hamas-run government in Gaza bulldozed part of a UNESCO heritage site to expand a military training zone.

Palestinian diplomats at UNESCO - Photo: REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

Palestinian diplomats at UNESCO – Photo REUTERS Benoit Tessier

The military wing of Hamas, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, bulldozed a part of the ancient Anthedon Harbor in northern Gaza along the Mediterranean Sea last month, the Al-Monitor news website reported.

The 3,000-year-old seaport discovered in 1997 was named an international heritage site by UNESCO in 2012, and is the oldest harbor in Gaza.

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| March 7, 2013
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PA Advances Plans to Register Additional Sites with UNESCO

Palestinian Authority forms committee to prepare applications to register additional sites, including the Dead Sea, on UNESCO’s world heritage list.

By Elad Benari

 

The Palestinian Authority cabinet on Tuesday decided to form a committee to prepare applications to register sites on UNESCO’s world heritage list, the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency reported.

Omar Awadallah, the head of UN file in the PA’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the committee’s mission was to prepare heritage sites for the list to “protect them from harm.”

Each ministry has been asked to cooperate with the UNESCO committee, and will prepare the files, he said. Continue Reading »

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| November 5, 2012
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The Palestinians are Stealing Rachel’s Tomb

Using deceit, the Palestinians over the past several years have succeeded in convincing UNESCO that Rachel’s Tomb is actually a mosque built to commemorate the Prophet Mohammed’s first muezzin.

Historical documentation & hundreds of thousands of Jews who remain loyal to Rachel’s Tomb continue to hinder the Palestinian’s attempt into turning it into a Muslim site.

By Nadav Shragai

 

It is doubtful whether any other place between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River illustrates the concept of self-defense that has trickled into Israel’s security mindset as well as Rachel’s Tomb. The formerly picturesque site is engraved in the memory of many people as a stone building with a dome on top and an ancient olive tree in front of it, on the road between Jerusalem and Hebron.

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| November 4, 2012
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Exposé: Stealing Rachel’s Tomb

Using deceit, the Palestinians over the past several years have succeeded in convincing UNESCO that Rachel’s Tomb is actually a mosque built to commemorate the Prophet Mohammed’s first muezzin.

Historical documentation & hundreds of thousands of Jews who remain loyal to Rachel’s Tomb continue to hinder the Palestinian’s attempt into turning it into a Muslim site.

By Nadav Shragai

 

It is doubtful whether any other place between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River illustrates the concept of self-defense that has trickled into Israel’s security mindset as well as Rachel’s Tomb. The formerly picturesque site is engraved in the memory of many people as a stone building with a dome on top and an ancient olive tree in front of it, on the road between Jerusalem and Hebron.

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| September 20, 2012
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Jewish History Being Ignored

The display of statues at Třebíč Ghetto synagogue is just another example of European insensitivity

By Yochanan Visser

 

Fresh manifestations of European anti-Semitism raised their heads once again when Jewish religious leaders were physically attacked by thugs in Berlin and Vienna at the end of August.

Jewish cemetery in Prague – Photo: Ronnie Shelo

Recent data show that anti-Semitism in Europe is on the rise again, especially in Eastern Europe. The situation seems to be worst in Hungary, Poland and Ukraine. A recent Jewish Anti Defamation League poll carried out in Hungary revealed that a majority of that country’s population holds anti-Semitic views. Continue Reading »

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| July 16, 2012
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Palestinians Plan to Revive Bid for UN Recognition

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat says timing of the request in asking the U.N. General Assembly to recognize Palestine as observer state will be decided next week by the Arab League.

By The Associated Press

 

The Palestinian Authority has announced that it plans to reapply for U.N. recognition. Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Sunday that the timing of the request would be decided next week by the Arab League.

Gaining U.N. recognition requires a prospective state to achieve a two-thirds majority at the U.N. General Assembly. – Photo credit: Reuters

Gaining U.N. recognition requires a prospective state to achieve a two-thirds majority at the U.N.

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| July 3, 2012
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Expose by Giulio Meotti: Catholics Label Rachel’s Tomb a Mosque

The PA wants the Church of the Nativity to be the world’s 1st heritage site, and now they also say that nearby Rachel’s Tomb is a mosque. She lived thousands of years before Mohammed, so they can’t claim her for Islam. Christians are backing them.

By Giulio Meotti

 

Giulio Meotti

Giulio Meotti

The Palestinian Authority (succeeded in) making a historic bid to list Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity as its first world heritage site under the United Nations.

The PLO knows the consequences of locating King David and Jesus’ city as being in the “country of Palestine”. The final goal is the de-Judaization of the land of Israel.

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