"Citing 'the need for fundamental reform in the organization, and continuing anti-Israel bias at UNESCO,' the US State Department notified UNESCO director-general Irina Bokova on October 12 of the Trump administration's decision to withdraw from the organization, effective December 31, 2018.
This decision stemmed from repeated Israel-bashing by UNESCO, notably since 2011, when the Palestinian Authority sought and won admission to UNESCO as a full member-state, despite the fact that there exists no sovereign Palestinian state. The State Department saw this as 'regrettable, premature' and harmful to 'our shared goal to a comprehensive, just and lasting peace.'
Indeed, Washington cut off US funding for UNESCO under a law that prohibits the US government from funding any UN agency that admits a non-state as a member. American funding, once accounting for more than one-fifth of UNESCO's budget, hasn't been restored since 2011.
By withdrawing from UNESCO, the US has sent an important message to the UN that America doesn't have infinite patience for international institutions that function as platforms for Jew-hatred...
The UN has committed to channel no less than $1.3 billion into various UN agency signatories to the framework, in order to assist the Palestinian leadership in advancing its diplomatic warfare against Israel...
Logic would assume that the US, Israel and the major European powers should now take decisive action to halt this deterioration.
First and foremost, they should each dock $1.3b. from their membership fees as a demonstration of their disgust at the UN's official policy of Israel-bashing. What is good for UNESCO should be all the more relevant to the UN itself."