US withdraws from UNESCO

Stuff reports:

The United States plans to withdraw from UNESCO, citing financial reasons, as well as what it said was an anti-Israel bias at the UN’s educational, cultural and science organisation.

The decision to withdraw from UNESCO, which the United States helped found, was announced on Thursday morning (Friday NZ Time) by the State Department, which said the United States would remain involved as a nonmember observer. It will take effect at the end of 2018.

Some UN bodies do a good job. UNESCO is not one of them. The US has pulled out before in 1984 and the UK in 1985.

UNESCO has been captured by anti-Israel countries and passes resolutions so extreme that its own Director-General and the UN Secretary-General have condemned them.