This corrupt agency, dominated by communists and anti-American extremists, is at the forefront of sexualizing and indoctrinating children around the world. Trump just ordered a review of U.S. involvement. It’s time to end all American support immediately.
UNESCO was ostensibly founded for advancing peace and development through “education,” science and culture. When 37 governments created UNESCO as a “human rights”-oriented organization in November 1945, it was essentially a western entity, dominated by western funding. All initial plans had to be reviewed with the increasing number of countries dominated by the Soviet Union joining UNESCO.
Thus, the original UNESCO alliance of Western States working on establishing a post-fascist, liberal order in Nazi-destroyed Europe, gradually lost its predominant influence when membership of Third World regimes surged amid “decolonization.” The U.S. found that it was losing money to an organization over which it had limited influence and which had little positive impact.
Appalled by its politicization, financial mismanagement and unfair treatment of Israel, the American government twice ended its membership. The administration of President Ronald Reagan formally announced on December 30, 1983 its intention to withdraw from the UN Agency. Twenty years later, the United States rejoined the organization in October 2003. The announcement by President George W. Bush came around the one-year anniversary of 9/11, and was part of Washington’s efforts to rally the international community around its global war on terrorism.
It was the Obama administration that paved the way for President Trump’s decision to withdraw for the second time. Bound by U.S. law, Obama froze U.S. contributions to UNESCO in 2011 after the UNESCO General Conference voted to admit Palestine as a member state of the organization, with the support of Bulgarian Director-General Irina Bokova, a proud communist finger-puppet product of the KGB University in Moscow. […]
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