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“Party against Israel” | Donald Trump will again remove the United States from UNESCO

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(Paris) The United States announced Tuesday their withdrawal from UNESCO, believing that the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization is biased against Israel and promotes “divisive” causes.


Posted at 7:56 a.m.

Updated at 9:42 a.m.

Celia Lebur and Simon Valmary

Agency France-Presse

This is the second time that Donald Trump has decided to leave this institution after 2018, already invoking “anti-Israeli” biases. The United States had reinstated her in 2023, under the administration of the Republican Joe Biden.

The director of UNESCO, the Frenchwoman Audrey Azoulay, said “deeply regret” this decision, even if she was “expected”.

UNESCO had “prepared” there, and “is better protected on the budgetary plan” than other UN agencies, she said, stressing that the American contribution of $ 75 million annually represents only 8 % of the total organization’s budget.

This decision by Washington, which will be effective at the end of 2026, followed the request of Donald Trump in February to review the American commitments within several instances of the UN.

For Washington, “the continuation of the United States’s participation in UNESCO is not in the national interest,” said state-department of the State Department, Tammy Bruce in a statement.

“UNESCO is working to promote cleavage social and cultural causes” and defends “an ideological and globalist roadmap for international development, in contradiction with our” America First “foreign policy (America first),” she explained.

She also judged that UNESCO’s decision to admit “Palestine State” as a Member State in 2011 “is highly problematic, contrary to the policy of the United States, and has contributed to the proliferation of discourse hostile to Israel within the organization”.

“These arguments contradict the reality of the efforts carried out by UNESCO, especially for the teaching of the Shoah and the fight against anti -Semitism,” replied Mme Azoulay.

Three departures in 40 years

This is the third time that Washington has left UNESCO in the space of 40 years.

In October 2017, during his first mandate, Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of his country by denouncing the “persistent anti-Israeli biases” of the institution. This withdrawal, which had been followed by that of Israel, had become effective in December 2018.

UNESCO had notably caused Israeli fury in July 2017 by scoring the old town of Hebron on the World Heritage List in danger and characterizing Hebron, in an occupied West Bank, of Islamic City, while the Jews, of which a few hundred live there today entrenched in the middle of 200,000 Palestinians, claim a 4,000 -year presence.

Having become one of UNESCO Director General in November 2017, Audrey Azoulay had obtained from the Biden administration-who succeeded Trump in 2021-a return from the United States, who had also committed to fully repaying their payment arrears since 2011, in the amount of $ 619 million.

After the admission of Palestine to UNESCO that year, Washington had ceased any funding, under an American law prohibiting funding an organization whose Palestinian State is a member.

In 1984, Ronald Reagan had also withdrawn American participation by invoking the supposed uselessness and the budget overflows of the organization. Washington reintegrated it in October 2003.

Reduced financial weight

If they leave the UNESCO framework organization, the United States will remain a member of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, which votes to designate the sites protected by the organization, said a source close to the UNESCO file.

Accustomed to the reversals of Washington, UNESCO has worked in recent years to reduce its dependence on American funding, in particular by increasing the share of voluntary contributions, which have doubled under Audrey Azoulay.

“This decision will nevertheless affect our activities in the years to come, or forced us to seek other sources of funding,” adds the source close to the file.

UNESCO is best known for its educational programs and its world heritage rankings of cultural goods and remarkable natural sites, sometimes threatened. The organization has also seized in recent years from the question of the ethical use of artificial intelligence.

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