About time - this organization is a haven for tyrants and sociopaths. One of the United Nations organizations that does no good work. From Yahoo/Associated press:
US, Israel to exit UNESCO over its alleged anti-Israel bias
The United States announced Thursday it is pulling out of the U.N.'s educational, scientific and cultural agency because of what Washington sees as its anti-Israel bias and a need for "fundamental reform" in the agency. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel plans to follow suit.
While the Trump administration had been preparing for a likely withdrawal from UNESCO for months, the timing of the State Department's statement was unexpected. The Paris-based agency's executive board is in the midst of choosing a new chief — with Qatar's Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kawari leading the heated election heading into Friday's final vote.
Outgoing Director-General Irina Bokova expressed "profound regret" at the U.S. decision and tried to defend UNESCO's reputation. The organization is best known for its World Heritage program to protect cultural sites and traditions, but also works to improve education for girls, promote understanding of the Holocaust's horrors, and to defend media freedom.
And a bit more:
The U.S. stopped funding UNESCO after it voted to include Palestine as a member state in 2011, but the State Department has maintained a UNESCO office and sought to weigh in on policy behind the scenes. The U.S. now owes about $550 million in back payments.
In a statement, the State Department said the decision will take effect Dec. 31, 2018, and that the U.S. will seek a "permanent observer" status instead. It cited U.S. belief in "the need for fundamental reform in the organization."
We cut their funding for six years and that still was not enough to get them to reform. We are now giving them a nice long lead time (14 months) to come into compliance so they could turn this around if they were motivated enough. UNESCO was the organization that gave away the Temple Mount to the Hashamite Jordanians palestinians. The organization is profoundly corrupt. As for protecting cultural sites - do they mean like this or this or this. Shit like this happens, what does UNESCO do? Mutter a Tut Tut and draft a strong memmorandum of condemnation.
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