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Rep. Mark Green: Rejoining UNESCO ‘Undermines’ US-Israel Relationship

By Menachem Wecker

“Any organization that doesn’t treat Israel as a legitimate and contributing nation does not deserve U.S. support or participation,” the Tennessee Republican said.

Israel / US / Antisemitism / United Nations (UN)

Israel Retracts Opposition to US Returning to UNESCO, Says Report

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The United States and Israel left UNESCO in December 2018 after the organization passed several anti-Israel resolutions.

Eye on "Palestine" / UK

UK: Bill Against Terrorist Incitement in PA Schools Introduced in Parliament

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Research shows that the word “peace” does not appear in any text used in PA schools.

Featured / Politics / Government / Europe / Jerusalem

If Recognized by Israel, Kosovo Would Open Embassy in Jerusalem

By JNi.Media

According to a 2011 Census, 95.6% of the population of Kosovo are Muslim.

Featured / Israel / Travel / Media / United Nations (UN)

Tel Aviv Celebrates 15th Anniversary of UNESCO's 'White City' Proclamation

By JNi.Media

Since receiving the title, every year the city of Tel Aviv celebrates the proclamation with a series of White Night events that connect to Tel Avciv's DNA of a Nonstop City.

Featured / Government / United Nations (UN)

Despite Righteous Indignation, Israel Not Allowed to Leave UNESCO

By JNi.Media

It appears that Israel will not be able to walk out in a huff and slam the door on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, despite reports earlier this week that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed Israel's ambassador to UNESCO, Carmel Shama Hacohen, to submit the Jewish State's resignation, Ma'ariv reported Thursday. Netanyahu […]

Headline / Government / History / Judea & Samaria

KKL Decision Creates New Reality on Ground for Kfar Etzion

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

KKL has completed registration of 700 dunams land purchased from residents of the PA village of Beit Ummar, several kilometers south of Kfar Etzion, prior to the war of independence.

Featured / US / Politics / History / Jerusalem / United Nations (UN) / Judaism

Sen. Cruz Pushing Resolution Confirming Jewish Connection to Jerusalem

By JNi.Media

Senator Cruz's resolution proposes that the Senate condemns any past, present, or future efforts at UNESCO to delegitimize Israel through attempts to rewrite and deny the history of Jerusalem.

Headline / Israel / US / Politics / History / Antisemitism / Arts and Entertainment / On Campus / Education / United Nations (UN) / Archaeology

New French Jewish UNESCO Chief: the Organization Must Change

By JNi.Media

After the vote, Azoulay said, "if my nomination is confirmed, my first action would be to restore the agency's credibility and the confidence of member states in its ability to confront the challenges that only UNESCO can face."

Ari and Jeremy

Israel Inspired: The Hidden Blessings of UNESCO's Curses

By The Land of Israel

What is the connection to the United Nations delegitimizing Israel, calling Jews the occupying power in Jerusalem in the have to do with the Torah portion of Balak. Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel discuss this and more on Israel Inspired.

Israel Uncensored with Josh Hasten

Israel Uncensored: UNESCO SHMESCO - Despite the Votes, Israel is Not Isolated

By The Land of Israel

BDS has failed and Israel is not isolated regardless of any UN votes. Today on Israel Uncensored with host Joshua Hasten.

Featured / Video of the Day

Brave Muslim Woman Bashes UNESCO Over Hebron Resolution

By Video of the Day

Despite threats on her life, Sara Zoabi - a brave Israeli Muslim - decides to stand up for the truth and bashes UNESCO's resolution.

Featured / Headline / Video of the Day / Judea & Samaria

A Video Response to UNESCO's Lies

By Video of the Day

Watch this response to UNESCO's lies about Hebron and Israel.

Video of the Day

Tzipi Hotovely Takes on UNESCO (in English)

By Video of the Day

Hotovely did a good job explaining. Let's see what happens next.

History / News Briefs / United Nations (UN) / Archaeology

Israel Denies Entry to UNESCO Team

By Jewish Press News Desk

UNESCO and the PA now want to erase Israel's connection to Hebron and the Tomb of the Patriarchs.

Headline / Eye on "Palestine" / Government / Jerusalem / Judea & Samaria / United Nations (UN) / Judaism

UN Secy-Gen Spokesperson: Hebron, Cave of Patriarch is UNESCO's Mandate

By D.S. Levi

If the Palestinian Authority is ignoring the Oslo Accords, why is Israel still moving forward with goodwill gestures to Ramallah?

Israel / NY / News Briefs / United Nations (UN)

Jewish Organizations Protest UNESCO Insult to Judaism

By Jewish Press Staff

Marchers protested UNESCO's effort to erase Judaism from the Jewish people's holiest sites.

Keeping Jerusalem

The UNESCO Problem: What Can Be Done?

By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Silberstein / KeepJerusalem.org

Why do the Jewish ties to Jerusalem, Hebron and Nablus (Shechem), all 3 duly purchased, draw the most vociferous objections? Because the enemy knows our holy sites are the key to the entire struggle

Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / The Knesset / Jerusalem / United Nations (UN)

Swiss MP at the Knesset: UNESCO Resolution on Jerusalem 'Absurd'

By JNi.Media

MP Eichenberger-Walther is the head of a European association for fighting BDS, and emphasized during her meetings that she is ceaselessly working to improve relations between Switzerland and Israel.

Op-Eds

India and UNESCO: Historical View vs. Jihad View

By Jagdish N. Singh

After so many recent votes at UNESCO erasing Judeo-Christian history in favor of Islamist misrepresentation one thing is clear: the sooner democracies leave the UN, the better

Dovid Ben-Meir

The UNESCO Follies

By Dovid Ben-Meir

The Hebrew Bible (Tanach) mentions Jerusalem more than 660 times. The Qur'an – zero (0). That is a VERY lopsided boxscore.

Elder of Ziyon

Does the UNESCO Resolution REALLY Nullify Jewish Ties to Temple Mount? Yes, it Does.

By Elder of Ziyon

The lack of mentioning any Jewish (or Christian) connection to the Temple Mount, and the refusal to use any other name but the Muslim names for the site, are clearly deliberate.

The Tamar Yonah Show

The Tamar Yonah Show - Islamic Jerusalem?

By Israel News Talk Radio

Jerusalem is not for Jews -according to UNESCO vote.

Phantom Nation

UNESCO Makes Me Smile

By Israel News Talk Radio

UNESCO's aggression against the Jewish People.

Israel

UNESCO Passes Resolution Denying Jewish Ties To Temple Mount

By Sean Savage

Susan Michael, U.S. director of the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, told JNS that UNESCO’s efforts to deny the Jewish connection to Jerusalem also denies the Christian history as well.

Op-Eds

UNESCO, Uman, and the Final War on Jerusalem

By David Mark

By rejecting Jewish ties to the Temple Mount, UNESCO, as a world body, opened the first shot in the world’s war against Jerusalem, as prophesized ago millennia ago

@Israel_Shield

UNESCO Unmasked - and Letters to the World

By '@israel_shield

I am applauding because this UN organization has finally unmasked its real intent.

Eye on "Palestine" / Government / History / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Boycott / BDS / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / On Campus / Education / United Nations (UN) / Religion / Judaism

UNESCO Executive Board Adopts Resolution to Erase Jewish History From Jerusalem

By Jewish Press News Desk

UNESCO has adopted the controversial resolution advanced by the Palestinian Authority obliterating the historic link between Judaism and Jerusalem's holy sites.

Government / News Briefs / Jerusalem

Mexico's Jewish Envoy Saving the Day at UNESCO

By JNi.Media

Mexico’s Jewish ambassador to UNESCO in Paris walked out of the hall on Friday because he couldn't bring himself to obey his government’s instructions.

The Danger Zone with Gadi Adelman

The Danger Zone - When Will We Learn?

By Israel News Talk Radio

The terrorist's daughter and the ridiculous UNESCO claims, that Jews have no connection with the Temple Mount!

Bulletproof

BULLETPROOF - ISIS, UNESCO & CoverGirl. You Can't MAKEUP This Stuff

By Israel News Talk Radio

UNESCO erases Jewish history and CoverGirl now has a cover-boy. The world is upside-down.

Politics / Government / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / United Nations (UN)

Ehud Barak Blames UNESCO Decision on Netanyahu

By JNi.Media

Most of the Arab countries felt the resolution was over the top, but had no choice but to support it, lest they be seen as not favoring the Palestinian Authority which pushed it.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Jerusalem / United Nations (UN) / Russia

Russia Voted in Favor of UNESCO Resolution on Jerusalem

By Jewish Press News Desk

Russia, supporting Syria and Iran, voted for the anti-Israel UNESCO resolution on Jerusalem.

US / Politics / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / United Nations (UN)

UNESCO Resolution Denies Jewish Ties to Temple Mount, Kotel -- Western States Vote Against

By JNi.Media

Speaking on the eve of Sukkot, President Rivlin said, "The festivals of Israel all highlight the inextricable bond between our people and our land, and no forum or body in the world can come and deny the connection between the Jewish people, the Land of Israel and Jerusalem."

News Briefs / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / United Nations (UN)

Rivlin: UNESCO “Humiliating Itself” if it Approves Resolution Denying Jewish Ties to Jerusalem

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

UNESCO is scheduled to vote Thursday on a Palestinian Authority initiative condemning Israel and denying Jewish ties to the city’s holy sites.

Elder of Ziyon

UNESCO has a Curious Definition of "History"

By Elder of Ziyon

The word "historic" to refer to pre-1967 could easily be used to claim that any Jewish presence in the Old City is a violation of the 1948-1967 status when Jordan ensured the Old City was Jew-free

Analysis

Time to Leave UNESCO - Again

By Guy Millière

UNESCO's poisonous, fraudulent resolution is not only biased: it is 'negationist' eliminating all traces of Jewish presence in Jerusalem and Judea in ancient times

Phantom Nation

Phantom Nation - The Newest Erasure of Jewish History

By Israel News Talk Radio

Shai ben-Takoa laments France's need to order Jews around.

Israel / US / Politics / Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs / Religion

Pro-Israel Christian Leader Compares UNESCO Temple Mount Resolution to Holocaust Denial

By JNi.Media

"As the world remembers one of the most horrific events in modern history, Christians, Jews and people of conscience must commit to make a stand and say never again."

Jewish / Politics / Government / News Briefs / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / Religious & Secular in Israel

Temple Institute Blames Netanyahu Govt. for UNESCO Fiasco

By JNi.Media

"UNESCO’s heinous resolution was not born in a vacuum but is a direct result of Israel’s ambivalent, nebulous policy towards the Temple Mount."

Jewish / Politics / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Islamists / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / United Nations (UN) / Religion

UNESCO: Jews Have No Connection to the Temple Mount

By JNi.Media

France, Spain, Sweden, Russia and Slovenia were among the non-Arab nations who supported the resolution.

News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Judea & Samaria / Intifada

Palestinian Authority Terrorists Wound 4-Year-Old Girl with Firebomb

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The four-year-old girls suffered burns on 35 percent of her body. The terrorist escaped.

Israel / News Briefs / United Nations (UN)

UNESCO Decides Rachel's Tomb and Patriarchs' Cave Are - Muslim Sites!

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Rewriting history, UNESCO decided that the unquestionably Jewish sites are Muslim.

News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / Judaism / Intifada

Abbas Wants UNESCO to Declare Western Wall Part of Al Aqsa

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The Palestinian Authority has circulated a draft resolution to declare the Western Wall, Rachel's Tomb and the Patriachs Cave as "Palestinian."

Video of the Day

Beit Guvrin

By Video of the Day

Long before Hamas, there were caves and underground cities in Israel, which the Jews used to fight against the invading Romans. This is a video of Beit Guvrin, which was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Photo of the Day

Battir بتير - Ancient Jewish Heritage Site

By Jewish Press Staff

The Arabs in Battir acknowledge they are occupying the ancient Jewish town in Betar.

Israel / Middle East / Levant / Global / Antisemitism / News Briefs

UNESCO: Postponing 'Jewish Connection to Israel' Exhibit to June

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

You'd never know from UNESCO's "postponement" announcement that the exhibition was called off because of Arab pressure, rather than because the exhibition wasn't ready.

Fresno Zionism

'Highest Levels' of US Administration Deny Jewish History

By Vic Rosenthal

The U.S. government is tacitly agreeing that the historical truth about the Jews and Israel is inimical to “peace.”

Israel / News Briefs / Media / Anti-Israel NGOs / United Nations (UN)

UNESCO Cancels Israel Expo following Arab Pressure

By JTA

The decision arose out of UNESCO’s support for peace talks.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Religion / European Union

Council of Europe to Support of Ritual Circumcision

By JTA

Encouraged by Israeli diplomats, parliamentarians from the Council of Europe have submitted a motion opposing an earlier resolution condemning ritual circumcision of boys. The motion was submitted last week by 101 members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the council, according to Micaela Catalano, a spokeswoman for the assembly, which has 318 parliamentarians and whose resolutions […]

Israel / US / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / United Nations (UN)

UNESCO Suspends US, Israel Voting Rights over Palestinian Admission

By JTA

The United Nations’ cultural body suspended the voting rights of the United States and Israel two years after they stopped paying dues in protest over its granting full membership to the Palestinians. Both countries missed a Friday deadline to provide an official justification of non-payment and a plan to pay back the missed dues to […]

News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Religious & Secular in Israel / United Nations (UN) / Religion / Settlements / Judaism

PA Mourns Failure to Take over Rachel’s Tomb as Muslim Holy Site

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Jews visit Rachel’s Tomb Tuesday to pray that she cries for them. Today, the anniversary of her death, the Palestinian Authority has failed to turn it into a Muslim holy site. Chalk up one for the truth.

Middle East / Levant / Jewish / US / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Jerusalem / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion

Arab Incitement: Israel to Raze Al Aqsa Mosque, Build Holy Temple

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Here’s good reason for Israel’s saying that UNESCO has been hijacked by the PA agenda. ”Israel planning to raze Al-Aqsa to build ‘second temple,” Screams Saudi Gazette headline. PS: They can’t count.

Terrorism / Israel / Hamas / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Islamists / Archaeology

Hamas Bulldozes UN Heritage Site for Terrorist Training Grounds

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

After Israel threw out Jews from Gaza and gave greenhouses to the Palestinian Authority to prosper, the PA turned them into terror training camps. Now Hamas does the same at a World Heritage site.

Syria / US / News Briefs / United Nations (UN)

U.S. Envoy: Syria 'Not Fit to Sit' on UN Rights Committee

By Jewish Press Staff

"Indefensible for Syrian regime to stand as judge of other countries."

Politics / News Briefs

House Foreign Affairs Comm Chair: 'No Money, No Political Support for PA'

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

The Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), firmly denounced  the decision made the United Nations General Assembly to elevate the status of  “Palestine” (the Palestine Liberation Organization) to non-member observer state at the UN. In a statement issued on the day of the vote, Nov 29, Cong. Ros-Lehtinen said that […]

Israel / Politics / News Briefs / Europe / United Nations (UN) / Archaeology

Russia Scuttles Anti-Israel Resolutions at UNESCO

By Malkah Fleisher

In a rare instance of breaking step with the Arab world, Russia’s envoy to the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) caused the organization to defer condemning Israel in a series of votes on Wednesday.

Op-Eds

The Palestinians Reveal the Jewish Connection to Palestine

By Michael Curtis

The Palestinians have asked the World Heritage Committee (WHC) of UNESCO to recognize Battir, a village about 5 miles west of Bethlehem, as a World Heritage Site and add it to the 936 sites already maintained by UNESCO. The city's original name was Betar, the last fortress of Bar Kochba and the name of Jabotinsky's Zionist youth movement.

Editorial

When Rules Don’t Count, Anything Goes

By Editorial Board

UNESCO proved once again that UN rules mean nothing if they get in the way of furthering an anti-Israel agenda.

Israel / Global

Carmel Caves Voted a UNESCO World Heritage Site

By Jewish Press Staff

The announcement comes on the heels of UNESCO's decision last week to name the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem as "Palestine's" first World Heritage Site.

Israel / Eye on "Palestine" / United Nations (UN) / Archaeology

PA to UN: Make Church of Nativity World Heritage Site in State of Palestine

By Malkah Fleisher

The Palestinian Authority will attempt to register the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem as a world heritage site in the country of Palestine when the World Heritage Committee meets in Russia from June 24 to July 6.

Editorial

Say No To UNESCO Waiver

By Editorial Board

We were disappointed by the Obama administration’s announcement that it intended to ask Congress to waive a ban on funding UNESCO because of its recognition of Palestinian statehood.

US

Obama Seeks Continued Funding of UNESCO, Despite Recognition of 'Palestine'

By Ron Kampeas

"The Department of State intends to work with Congress to seek legislation that would provide authority to waive restrictions on paying the U.S. assessed contributions to UNESCO," says a footnote in the budget that the White House submitted to Congress this month.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter II

By Ruchama Feuerman

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