The United States has announced it has left UNESCO, saying the UN cultural and education agency, best known for establishing world heritage sites, is biased against Israel.
The United States announced Tuesday it will again pull out of the UN's educational, scientific and cultural agency (UNESCO) because of what Washington perceives as its anti-Israel bias.
US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the withdrawal was linked to UNESCO's perceived agenda to "advance divisive social and cultural causes."
Bruce said in a statement that UNESCO's decision "to admit the 'State of Palestine' as a Member State is highly problematic, contrary to US policy, and contributed to the proliferation of anti-Israel rhetoric within the organization."
The UN agency "supports woke, divisive cultural and social causes that are totally out-of-step with the commonsense policies that Americans voted for in November," said Anna Kelly, White House assistant press secretary.
UNESCO's director general Audrey Azoulay said the decision from Washington is "deeply" regrettable but the cultural organization "has prepared for it."
She also denied accusations of anti-Israel bias, saying the claims "contradict the reality of UNESCO's efforts, particularly in the field of Holocaust education and the fight against antisemitism."
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