UN Educational, Scientific & Cultural Org. (UNESCO) hosts a "Bash Israel" conference

The United Nations is a Mafia organization. I fail to understand why the USA and Canada are still funding this corrupt body. Everything it does and everything it stands for now, is totally against the thinking and views of the majority of the citizens in our two countries ... so how come our politicians are still signing approvals to the various funding going to this organization? It's really mind-boggling.

From CNS News:
...U.S. taxpayers accounted for 22 percent of UNESCO’s funding until the government was mandated by law to cut the funds last fall, after it became the first U.N. agency to admit “Palestine” as a member....

.....“UNESCO is once again directly engaged in promoting Israel-bashing, this time by hosting and participating in this anti-Israel U.N. confab,” U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said Wednesday.

“This reminds us that UNESCO’s admission of ‘Palestine’ was not a fluke, and that UNESCO is reverting to anti-Israel bias and is unworthy of U.S. funding.”

Ros-Lehtinen said the choice for the administration was clear.

“Rather than trying to defend the indefensible, the Obama administration must stop spinning for UNESCO, condemn that body’s anti-Israel behavior, and withdraw its request for Congress to amend U.S. law to restore funding to UNESCO.”....

.....Engida then went on to “recall UNESCO’s long lasting commitment to support the Palestinian institutions thereby contributing to U.N.’s overall comprehensive effort for the nation building.”

He pointed among other things to the agency’s “long lasting engagement with the Department of Antiquities in Palestine for the mapping and the preservation of the rich Palestinian cultural heritage – intangible, cultural and natural heritage – [that] is an integral part of the nation-building process and important for fostering a greater appreciation by Palestinian young people of the wealth of their historical legacy.”

UNESCO’s work in that field has been seen as bolstering politically-explosive Palestinian claims to sites whose significance for Jews goes back thousands of years, including the traditional burial place in Hebron of biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.....


h/t: Irene