Only a week after the Executive Board of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization, adopted a resolution which ignored Jewish and Christian ties to the Temple Mount, the organisation’s World Heritage Committee is to vote this week a similar text.

The new text, which will be proposed by several Arab countries Wednesday to the UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee’s and is titled, “Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls,” again refers to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem only by its Muslim names, “Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif,” and defines it only as “a Muslim holy site of worship.”

As the site of the Biblical temples, the Temple Mount is the holiest place in Judaism.

The World Heritrage Committee is made up of the following states: Angola, Azerbaijan, Burkina Faso, Croatia, Cuba, Finland, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Tunisia, Turkey, Tanzania, Vietnam and Zimbabwe.

Since 2015, the Palestinian Authority has pushed to change the language UNESCO uses to speaks of Jerusalem and the holy sites, so that they are referred to almost exclusively by their Arabic names. As part of that drive, the PA, or members of the UN’s Arab group, submits Jerusalem resolutions to UNESCO at every possible opportunity.

Last week’s resolution was was adopted with 24 “yes” votes, six “no” votes (inlcuding the US, Germany and the UK) and 26 abstentions (inlcuding France, Italy and Spain).

Israel condemned the vote as a ‘’denial of history that gives a boost to terrorism,” and announced the suspension of its cooperation with UNESCO, an organisation which is based in Paris.

In a letter to Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova wrote : ‘’Allow me to reassure you of my absolute commitment to continue all efforts in countering all forms of anti-Semitism, including those drawing on partial or distorted visions of culture and history, as well as those that seek to challenge the existence of Israel.’’

She added : “I am determined to continue working towards this objective and to redouble efforts to build trust on the basis of respect and mutual understanding, which are the guiding principle of the organization.”

Bokova noted that UNESCO decisions are taken by its member states rather than by the Director-General.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, whose country abstained in last week’s vote, said he would seek to influence other European countries to vote against these types of anti-Israel resolutions in the future. Speaking at an EU summit meeting in Brussels on Friday, Renzi has characterized Italy’s vote as a mistake and told an Italian radio that he would consider breaking EU unity in future votes of such a nature.

He said he has “specifically told the diplomats entrusted with these issues that this cannot continue: there is no denying reality.”

In a phone conversation, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked his Italian counterpart for his criticism of the UNESCO resolution.

Renzi told Netanyahu that denying Judaism’s history in Jerusalem was similar to stating that “the sun emits darkness.”