EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said that freedom of expression in the EU is applicable to the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Disinvestment, Sanctions) movement.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) accused the UNESCO World Heritage Committee of “manufacturing history” after it adopted last week a new resolution seeking to erase the Jewish connection to Jerusalem and the holy sites.
During its annual gathering, the 21-member UNESCO World Heritage Committee adopted a new resolution that again ignores Jewish ties to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
European Parliament adopts report on post-nuclear deal strategy with Iran but corrects initial text which failed to condemn Tehran's Holocaust denial and threats against Israel
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 Czech parliament sharply denounced the vote of an Arab countries-proposed UNESCO resolution on Jerusalem which ignores the Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and the Wailing Wall.
‘’We support @btselem to maintain human rights of vulnerable Palestinian communities in Area C,’’ the EU delegation in Israel tweeted as a public message of support to the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem which angered Israel when its director criticized Israel’s settlement policy during a session of the United Nations Security Council in New York.
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova said that the UN body will work ''to fight intolerance and contemporary forms of anti-Semitism, including those which seek to delegitimize the State of Israel,'' in resonse to a letter from former Israeli Foreign Minister and leader of the Hatnuah Party Leader, Tzipi Livni.
