Where UNESCO and ISIS Converge

"Last month, UNESCO's director general Irina Bokova issued a statement congratulating Russian- backed Syrian forces for liberating the ancient city of Palmyra from Islamic State (ISIS)...

Bokova added, 'The deliberate destruction of heritage is a war crime, and UNESCO will do everything in its power to document the damage so that these crimes do not go unpunished. I wish to remind all parties present of the absolute necessity to preserve this unique heritage as an essential condition for peace and the future of the region.'

The problem is that UNESCO commits the very crimes for which it condemns ISIS...

Right after UNESCO's board unanimously passed its resolution on Palmyra, it also passed a resolution whose goal is to erase Jewish history in the land of Israel.

The resolution, titled merely 'Occupied Palestine,' (a country that doesn't even exist), defined the Temple Mount, Judaism's most sacred site, as an exclusively Muslim site. Jews who visit it were referred to derisively as 'right wing extremists.'

The Western Wall, Judaism's second holiest site, was similarly referred to as an exclusively Islamic site...

The resolution, like the one from last week, was also a war crime, where UNESCO acted with malice to destroy the historical record.

In another act of cultural aggression, whose goal is to destroy the historical record, in last week's resolution UNESCO falsely and maliciously referred to Jewish cemeteries as 'fake graves,' in 'Muslim cemeteries.'...

UNESCO's acts are not the ravings of lunatic extremists or genocidal imperialists shouting about caliphates, crucifying and enslaving innocents. The latest resolution was sponsored by supposedly moderate Islamic countries, two of which – Jordan and Egypt – have peace treaties with Israel...

The US sits on UNESCO's executive board despite its open anti-Semitism. By doing so, the US grants legitimacy to a body which is waging a culture war against Israel no less determined – and arguably no less criminal– than ISIS's war against all vestiges of non-jihadist culture in Syria, Iraq and throughout the world..."