The United States has announced it will once again leave UNESCO, the UN’s educational, scientific and cultural agency, only two years after rejoining.
State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce linked the withdrawal to what Washington sees as UNESCO’s push to “advance divisive social and cultural causes.” She added that the decision to admit the “State of Palestine” as a Member State is “highly problematic, contrary to U.S. policy, and contributed to the proliferation of anti-Israel rhetoric within the organization.”
