ACT NOW! - UNESCO Executive Board Erases Jewish Ties To Temple Mount

UNESCO, whose mandate is to protect the world’s cultural and historic sites, just caved to anti-Jewish fanaticism. In a recent vote, its Executive Board ignored historicJewish links to Judaism’s holiest site, the Temple Mount, and has recast the Western Wall (Kotel), as the Islamic Al-Buraq Plaza.

The vote is, not only a lie, but left in place, it will further incite future attacks against Jewish worshippers at the Kotel and at sites central to Jewish history,faith and values.

Please join the Center’spetition in urging US Congress not to consider any future funding for UNESCO until this vote is voided. Your petition will be delivered to UNESCO and to Congressionalleaders by Center officials on your behalf.

Even a publication (pictured - click to enlarge) from the Supreme Muslim Council, which was pu blished annually from 1924 to 1953, and was the official tour guide for visitors to Jerusalem, refersto the Dome of the Rock and the Temple Mount, as “The site is one of the oldest in the world. Its sanctity dates from the earliest (perhaps from pre-historic)times. Its identity with the site of Solomon’s Temple is beyond dispute.”

Therefore, if this vote represents the future course of UNESCO, then US Congress should withhold any future funding of the UN’s caretaker of civilization’s historicsites.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a long-standing NGO at UNESCO, overcame objections from the Arab League over the Center’s exhibition, People, Book, Land: The 3,500 YearRelationship of the Jewish People with the Holy Land, which was co-sponsored by UNESCO, and has been exhibited at UN Headquarters, on Capitol Hill, at the Vaticanand in Israel’s Knesset.