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January 22, 2014

UNESCO says it will reconsider Jews & Israel exhibit if it can further censor its content

Irina Bokova, UNESCO Director-General
UNESCO, the United Nations' cultural agency now says it might put the exhibit 'People, Book, Land - The 3,500 Year Relationship of the Jewish People to the Holy Land,' back up, after tearing it down last week and refusing to open it to the public. UNESCO folded to last-minute pressure from Arab states after the exhibition took two years to mount. The exhibit will only see the light of day under UNESCO auspices, however, if the authors agree to new UNESCO censorship demands. The UN agency explained it only cared about "peace." It "needed extra time to revise 'unresolved issues relating to potentially contestable textual and visual historical points' that member states could perceive as 'endangering the peace process'"...
Date
January 22, 2014
Title
UNESCO Delays Jewish Exhibit Until June, Arutz Sheva
Author(s)
Elad Benari
Original Source
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/176579#.Ut-FiRA1iM8
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