Turkey to double UNESCO funding, due to US, Israel cuts
Turkey is becoming one of the most loyal backers of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, recently deciding to double its annual contribution, after donating an...
View ArticleLetter by Arab States to UNESCO Protesting Israel Exhibit
For the original and complete (French) text of the Arab group letter to UNESCO, sent by UAE ambassador Abdullah Alneaimi on January 14, 2014, protesting the planned UNESCO exhibition, curated with the...
View ArticleFull text: UNESCO letter nixing Israel exhibit due to Arab pressure
Letter from UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, dated January 15, 2014. Click here for PDF. To read UN Watch’s analysis, click here. Dear Rabbi Hier, Dear Rabbi Cooper,...
View ArticleUNESCO Snubs Israel's Jews: WSJ Live Interviews Hillel Neuer
Wall Street Journal Live interviews UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer on the U.N. cultural agency’s decision to postpone an exhibit on the history of Jews in Israel After UNESCO invoked Arab...
View ArticleU.S. urged to oppose Bokova’s bid to head UN post over pro-Hamas bias
GENEVA, July 18 – The independent Geneva-based monitoring group UN Watch today called on U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power to oppose the candidacy of UNESCO chief Irina Bokova to replace Ban Ki-moon as UN...
View ArticleUNESCO to question Jewish ties to Western Wall in Arab-sponsored draft...
GENEVA, July 10, 2016 — United Nations Watch, a Geneva-based watchdog organization, expressed concern today that UNESCO may fuel anti-Jewish incitement and violence, and the increasing Palestinian...
View ArticleUPDATE: UNESCO may vote today on resolution denying Jewish & Christian ties...
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...
View ArticleUNESCO & Jerusalem: Hillel Neuer on i24 News
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View ArticleUK, France, Germany Aid Israel in Opposing Palestinian UNESCO Bid to Deny...
Click here for video of UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer’s i24 interview on UNESCO GENEVA, July 12, 2016 — The UK, France and Germany are helping Israel to oppose a Palestinian-Jordanian...
View ArticlePalestinian rep: Abbas can’t mention “Temple Mount” at UNESCO for fear of ISIS
ENEVA, July 15, 2016 — Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is refusing to include any non-Islamic term for Jerusalem’s Temple Mount in a UNESCO resolution out of fear that he and Jordan’s King Abdullah...
View ArticleIssue 558: Genocidal Sudan & Iran Win UNESCO Leadership Roles
“Building peace in the minds of men and women” Though its ruler Omar al-Bashir is wanted for genocide by the International Criminal Court, the regime of Sudan was elected on Friday to the...
View ArticleApril 2016 UNESCO resolution negating Jewish ties to Temple Mount
In a highly controversial resolution, the executive board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) voted 33-6 to strongly condemn Israel for alleged violations...
View ArticleHistorical revisionism: UNESCO adopts PLO’s Islamist resolution denying...
Sudan’s delegate to the 200th UNESCO Executive Board session in Paris this week. Sudan co-sponsored the text and was one of only 24 out of 58 member states who supported it. GENEVA, Oct. 13, 2016 — UN...
View ArticlePalestinians suffer defeat at UNESCO, losing France, EU, India, Africa
Sudan’s delegate to the 200th UNESCO Executive Board session in Paris this week. Sudan co-sponsored the text and was one of only 24 out of 58 member states who supported it. By Hillel Neuer Despite the...
View ArticleUN chief distances himself from UNESCO resolution disregarding Jewish ties to...
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has distanced himself from UNESCO’s Arab-drafted resolution which disregards Jewish ties to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and Western Wall, as did UNESCO director-general Irina Bokova....
View ArticlePLO outraged as UNESCO chief Irina Bokova slams own agency’s Arab-drafted...
UNESCO chief Irina Bokova slammed her own agency’s Arab-drafted resolution on Jerusalem, provoking outrage from the Palestinian foreign minister Riyad Malki. (The full text of Bokova’s official...
View ArticleHero: Mexico’s UNESCO envoy walked out to protest Islamist resolution on...
By Hillel Neuer Andrés Roemer Slomianski, Mexico’s newly-arrived ambassador to UNESCO in Paris, is not only a diplomat, political analyst, attorney, economist, think tank founder, and author of 16...
View ArticleVideo: “It’s a victory for terrorism”– Hillel Neuer on UNESCO’s Jerusalem...
Interview: UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer on i24 The post Video: “It’s a victory for terrorism” – Hillel Neuer on UNESCO’s Jerusalem resolution appeared first on UN Watch.
View ArticleUNESCO: “Palestinians issue ultimatum” on Jerusalem resolution
GENEVA, Oct, 25 — The Palestinians and Jordanians issued an ultimatum today to 21 countries who will vote tomorrow at the World Heritage Committee: “confirm that you will give us unanimous support as...
View ArticleDanger of UNESCO heritage committee’s Jerusalem resolution
GENEVA, Oct. 25, 2015 — A UNESCO committee will vote tomorrow on a resolution concerning Jerusalem that refers more than ten times to “Al-Haram Al-Sharif”—the Islamic term for Temple Mount—without ever...
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