United Nations Watch, a Geneva-based watchdog organization, has expressed concern that UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific body, may fuel anti-Jewish incitement and violence as it is set to adopt an Arab-sponsored draft resolution that denies Jewish ties to Jerusalem’s Western Wall and Temple Mount.

The Jordanian-Palestinian draft text on the Old City of Jerusalem was submitted to the 21-member UNESCO World Heritage Committee which will meet over the next 10 days in Istanbul.

“This inflammatory resolution risks encouraging the past year’s wave of Palestinian stabbing and shooting attacks in Jerusalem and other parts of Israel, which began with false claims that Israel was planning to damage holy Muslim shrines,” said Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch.

Under the battle cry of “Al-Aqsa mosque is in danger,” incitement in September by Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad sparked a wave of terror attacks across Israel which began on the Temple Mount and eastern Jerusalem. At least 40 people have been killed and more than 500 wounded. The Palestinian attacks include 155 stabbings, 96 shootings, 45 car ramming attacks, and one bus bombing.

The draft text to be submitted to UNESCO ten times refers to Al-Haram Al-Sharif, exclusively using the Islamic term for Temple Mount, without any mention that it is the holiest site in Judaism.

According to Neuer, the move is part of a larger campaign at the UN, and particularly in UNESCO, to Islamize sites historically belonging to other faiths.

When UNESCO’s 58-member Executive Board met in Paris in April it adopted a resolution whose language ignored Jewish ties to the Temple Mount, even though it is considered holy by all three religions; Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

This year’s proposed draft three times uses the Islamic term Buraq Plaza while placing the parallel name “Western Wall Plaza” in scare quotes, implying skepticism or disbelief concerning what is the most hallowed site for Jewish worshippers over two millennia, due to the ancient wall’s connection to the Holy Jewish Temple destroyed in 70 CE.

Last year’s resolution also sought to diminish the Jewish connection by putting the name Western Wall in parentheses after the Islamic term.

Jerusalem’s light rail, which is used daily by thousands of Arab residents among others, is accused of having a “damaging effect” on the “visual integrity” and “authentic character” of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem—even though the track passes through an existing highway and only facilitates transportation for visitors of all faiths.

In an official statement, the Israeli Foreign Ministry struck back at UNESCO over its resolution, describing the document presented to the agency as yet another “malicious and dishonest attempt to harm Israel’s affinity with its capital.”

“This is a tendentious text and we hope that it is does not receive support from the member states,” the Israeli foreign ministry said. “Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the nation of Israel and of Israel’s alone.”

Numerous Israeli politicians have expressed outrage over UNESCO’s repeated bias against Israel. In a letter to French President Francois Hollande following UNESCO’s first resolution in April, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote that he was “astounded” by France’s support for the transparently biased motion.

“The organization trusted with the safekeeping of world history has degraded itself to rewriting a basic and indisputable part of human history,” Netanyahu wrote.

Hollande later clarified that France’s support of the resolution was due to “a misunderstanding.”