Member of Knesset Miri Regev to New Head of UNESCO: UNESCO Must Stop Attacking the Jewish People

"Dear Mrs. Azoulay,...

In recent years we have been watching in sorrow as this important organization has been losing its professional prestige whilst becoming a tool for political attacks against the state of Israel and against the entire Jewish People. The organization, which has championed the value of imparting historical heritage, is losing its way when it comes to Israel and our important historical sites.

The organization's resolutions have become professionally and historically baseless, serving as a propaganda tool for rewriting history.

This trend has culminated in the recent distorted decisions regarding the declaration of the Temple Mount and of the Tomb of the Patriarchs as Palestinian Heritage sites, completely ignoring the deep connection of the Jewish People to these sites, treating them as a foreign occupier...

I hope that your statement from last week will not remain mere declarations, but will lead to the cancellations of these problematic decisions, and the restoration of relations between those who seek justice and truth throughout the world, and UNESCO..."