UPDATE: While Israeli news site NRG reported this morning that the Palestinians canceled today’s UNESCO vote on a draft resolution denying Jewish and Christian history in Jerusalem, in fact the vote may just be postponed. NRG had reported that “Minutes before the scheduled debate this morning on the Palestinian-Jordanian draft resolution, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization canceled the vote, apparently because the Palestinians feared they would lose.” However, in fact the vote may take place later today. UNESCO’s 21-member World Heritage Committee includes Angola, Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Croatia, Cuba, Finland, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Tunisia, Turkey, Tanzania, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. Video commentary on i24 News by Hillel Neuer last night: The Palestinian-Jordanian draft was highly controversial. UN Watch, a Geneva-based watchdog organization, had expressed concern this week that UNESCO would fuel anti-Jewish incitement and violence, and the increasing Palestinian denial of Jewish religious and cultural rights, by adopting the Arab-sponsored draft resolution that denies Jewish ties to Jerusalem’s Western Wall and Temple Mount. The Jordanian-Palestinian draft text on the Old City of Jerusalem was submitted to the World Heritage Committee’s 40th annual session, which meets in Istanbul from July 10-20. “This inflammatory resolution risks encouraging the past year’s wave of Palestinian stabbing and shooting attacks in Jerusalem and other parts of Israel, which began with false claims that Israel was planning to damage holy Muslim shrines,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. Under the battle cry of “Al-Aqsa mosque is in danger,” incitement in September by Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad sparked a wave of terror attacks across Israel which began on the Temple Mount and …
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