UNESCO's Use of Moral Relativism to Foster Anti-Israel Bias

"Israel has been an active and compliant member of UNESCO since 1999. It now has nine World Heritage Sites and eighteen tentative sites awaiting approval. Yet UNESCO has continually attacked Israel. The accusations by the agency not only concern what it falsely calls Israeli threats to cultural landmarks, but also question Jewish claims to heritage in Israel...

UNESCO also employed harsh standards in its condemnation of Israel, released in July 2015. It claimed that Israel was damaging the Temple Mount with 'illegal excavations.' It also called the Western Wall Plaza the 'Buraq Plaza'. The truth is that the Waqf, the Muslim authority in charge of the Temple Mount, has been damaging this site for decades with poorly-planned archaeological explorations and attempts to remove any evidence of Jewish heritage from the site. There has been no UNESCO condemnation of this ongoing destruction of antiquities.

The same UNESCO statement claimed that the construction of the Jerusalem light rail was destroying the 'visual integrity of the Old City.' This was nonsense as the light rail does not run in the Old City...

UNESCO has consistently heeded the claims of the Arab world. It operates in contradiction to its founding principles of moral and intellectual solidarity and of collaboration among nations. It does not support the protection of non-Muslim cultural heritage within Israel, even though the country is the Middle East's only democracy and UNESCO's willing partner. Instead, the agency uses Israel as a pawn to appease the Arab world.

UNESCO does not only apply double standards toward Israel, it makes the conscious choice of giving precedence to terrorists and denies the inalienable rights of the Jewish people to its homeland."