UNESCO Fiasco

"One might be excused in thinking that UNESCO stands for the United Nations Effort to Spread Communal Ostracism, rather than the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. With regard to Israel, UNESCO began a campaign to reclassify Judaism's holiest site as an exclusively Muslim religious area back in October.

The organization had intended to vote this week on a resolution to that effect, but due to international pressure the Jordanian and Palestinian co-sponsors could not gather enough votes to ensure approval, and so postponed a vote to a future date.

Nevertheless, the UN body has begun to put such a reclassification into practice by referring to the Temple Mount exclusively in Muslim terms, as if no Jewish history had taken place there.

When UNESCO's 58-member executive met in Paris in April it adopted a draft resolution that ignored the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, by extension severing the connection between Christianity and the site...

'Ever since the Palestinians were accepted to UNESCO in 2011, things have changed,' Dr. Shimon Samuels, director of international relations of the Wiesenthal Center, told The Jerusalem Post.

'It used to be a favorable arena for us, especially at the World Heritage Committee. But the Palestinians have launched a theft of the Jewish narrative. The Palestinians are trying to deny the Jewish narrative, because the validation of the Palestinian narrative depends on deleting the Jewish-Israeli one. It's a replacement ideology.'..."