Tag: UNESCO
Despite COVID-19 and the Global Economic Disaster, UNESCO Executive Board Still Slams Israel –...
This week, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee (WHC) was to have convened in Fuzhou, China. The Wiesenthal Centre, as the only Jewish organization accredited to that body, each year lobbies against Palestinian theft of...
UNESCO removes Belgium carnival with anti-Semitic float from heritage list
UNESCO withdrew on Friday an annual carnival in the Belgian city of Aalst from the organization’s List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity over repeated charges of anti-Semitism.
UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding...
EU Jewish leader calls on UNESCO to act against anti-Semitic caricatures at festival
A European Jewish leader is calling on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, to act against organizers of the Carnival of Aalst in Belgium for its plan to use anti-Semitic caricatures...
European Union to scrutinize Palestinian textbooks for signs of hatred, incitement
The European Union will investigate whether E.U. funds are going towards Palestinian textbooks teaching incitement to hatred and violence, its High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, announced on Wednesday.
The investigation...
Thank heaven we’re done with UNESCO
Thank God, it’s over. When 2018 ended, Israel’s withdrawal from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization took effect.
Don’t feel bad. Under existing conditions, there was no reason to keep our place at the table...
Israel announces that it is officially leaving UNESCO
Israel will officially no longer be a member of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, on Tuesday.
“Israel will not be part of a body that continually rewrites history, including by erasing the Jewish...
![Uffizi Gallery [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/800px-Germans_transporting_art_to_St._Leonardo-324x235.jpg "The return of looted cultural objects to Israel")
The return of looted cultural objects to Israel
The German Culture Minister has agreed to bring to Israel the Gurlitt collection of some 1,500 art works looted by the Nazis and discovered in 2012. These art works are to be displayed for...
Bashing Israel, UNESCO also calls tombs part of ‘Occupied Palestinian territory’
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) PX Commission of the Executive Board voted on Wednesday to adopt a pair of “decisions” titled “Occupied Palestine,” which call the ancient Cave of the...
Netanyahu slams UNESCO as being anti-Semitic, boycotts conference in New York
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Wednesday that Israel will indeed be withdrawing from the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), skipping an event sponsored by the organization on the topic of...
New Jersey affirms Jewish connection to Jerusalem
The New Jersey Legislature on Thursday voted unanimously on a measure which affirms the historical connection of the Jewish people to Jerusalem and condemns efforts by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)...