Exiting UNESCO was the right thing to do

"In withdrawing US membership from UNESCO, President Trump sent a clear sign that the world body's flagrant anti-Israel bias will be met with punitive action, not just rhetorical broadsides.

It's a shame, given Washington's role in creating the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization after World War II. But even by the UN's notoriously corrupt standards, UNESCO's recent behavior has been especially hateful.

The agency has become part and parcel of the Palestinian campaign to erase Jewish connections to the historic land of Israel. UNESCO has even designated such sites as the Western Wall solely by their Muslim names.

As UN Ambassador Nikki Haley rightly said, such 'extreme politicization' (especially to rewrite history, rather than preserve it) 'has become a chronic embarrassment.'...

Just as outrageous as its efforts to eradicate Israel from world culture, UNESCO has retained Syria's government on its human rights committee - even after documented evidence that Bashar al-Assad's regime has committed genocidal war crimes against his own people...

Now Trump has taken strong action. We suspect it won't be the last while the UN continues to violate its own principles."