After US , Now Israel to withdraw from UN cultural body UNESCO

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Fri, Oct 13, 2017, 12:44 AM

After US , Now Israel to withdraw from UN cultural body UNESCO

After US declaring that it will withdraw from UNESCO due to its anti-Israel bias, now Israel too said that it is going to withdraw from UNESCO along with US and accused UNESCO of bias against the Jewish state.

“The prime minister instructed the foreign ministry to prepare Israel’s withdrawal from the organisation alongside the United States,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.

Netanyahu “welcomes the decision by President (Donald) Trump to withdraw from UNESCO. This is a courageous and moral decision because UNESCO has become the theatre of the absurd and because instead of preserving history it distorts it.”

Netanyahu’s decision came hours after the US State Department said the United States would pull out from the UN body, in part due to “continuing anti-Israel bias”.