Trump leaves UNESCO in defense of Israel

In a forceful decision against biased international organizations, the President of the United States, Donald Trump announced his country's withdrawal from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The White House justified the measure due to the organization's growing anti-American and anti-Israeli bias.

The decision was made after a 90-day review that Trump ordered in February, focused especially on investigating "manifestations of antisemitism and hostility toward Israel within the organization".

"UNESCO has ceased to be a neutral forum for cultural and educational exchange, and has become a megaphone for radical causes that attack Judeo-Christian values and our closest allies", denounced White House Deputy Spokesperson Anna Kelly. "They support woke and divisive agendas that have nothing to do with the common sense Americans voted for in November."

Among the most offensive elements for the Trump administration are recent decisions by UNESCO's Executive Board that designate Jewish holy sites as "Palestinian heritage," refer to Israel as an occupying force, and condemn its defensive actions against the terrorist group Hamas, while remaining silent about the atrocities committed by the terrorist regime in Gaza.

For Israel, the measure represents an unequivocal gesture of support at a time when many international institutions adopt pro-Palestinian narratives without balance or historical context.

The distortion of archaeological facts, the denial of the millennia-old bond of the Jewish people with Jerusalem and Hebron, and the silence in the face of Islamist terrorism, have turned UNESCO into another actor in the campaign to delegitimize the Jewish State.

The Trump administration had already demonstrated in its first term that it wasn't willing to fund organizations hostile to the principles of freedom and security. It then withdrew from WHO, from the UN Human Rights Council, and from treaties that limited American sovereignty in the face of threats such as Iran.

The current withdrawal from UNESCO reiterates that firm stance. This isn't just a diplomatic action: it's a declaration of principles. The United States won't be part of institutions that lend themselves to historical revisionism, moral relativism, and antisemitism disguised as multilateral diplomacy.