Once again a United Nations affiliated organization seeks to rewrite history by referring to Har Habayis as “Al-Aqsa Mosque”, thereby accepting the PA (Palestinian Authority) propaganda position that the Jews do not have historical roots to Har Habayis.
The decision was made during the UNESCO Steering Committee’s semiannual conference in a 33 to 6 vote with 17 abstentions. Russia, Sweden, France and Spain were among those voting in support of the decision.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded, stating, “This is yet another absurd UN decision. UNESCO ignores the unique historic connection of Judaism to Har Habayis, where the two Temples stood for a thousand years and to which every Jew in the world has prayed for thousands of years. The UN is rewriting a basic part of human history and has again proven that there is no low to which it will not stoop.”
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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6 Responses
Can anyone supply the entire voting record, which countries voted for, against and abstained?
(searched all over, couldn’t find it)
The UN is nothing but a stage for the whiney, spoiled schoolyard bully expressions of anti-Semitism for its member states.
Middah-k’neged-Middah. The secular Zionists rewrote history, tossing out Torah m’Sinai and Nach; and now, the goyim are doing the same, but against us!
Interesting concept! Next they’ll vote on there not being any Jews in Egypt under Pharoh’s rule…Maybe UNESCO will make a news resolution to rewrite the Bible pro-Muslim??!!!
To #3:
Actually, the Zioninsts never gave up tanach and gave their lives to enable us to go to the kossel.
I agree, though, that there’s Middah-k’neged-Middah here.
Note today’s Israeli Yated editorial, calling for the government to ban Jews from going up to Har HaBayis during Pesach. (Note: Calling upon them to ban only Jews, not Moslems. So why shouldn’t the UN agree?)
So, there you have your midda k’negged midda.
Shlomo 2: Perhaps the religious Zionists didn’t give up Tanach, but the secular ones did.
Further, Jews on Har HaBayis are committing serious aveiros, including ones involving kareis. In that sense, they are no better, and possibly worse, than the Women of the Wall. Both are making up “do-your-own-thing” versions that have nothing to do with Judaism.