“The usually fractious Israelis agree on one thing: They are in no mood to be lectured by or dictated to by The #UnitedNations, including its diplomatically powerful and morally bankrupt Security Council”

Shortly after last week’s vote at UNESCO engineered by Arab and Muslim nations erasing Jerusalem’s Western Wall from Jewish history, I spoke to UNESCO’s embattled Director General Irina Bokova. Mrs. Bokova had opposed the libelous resolution and knew that its passage would make a mockery of UNESCO’s main mandate—protecting World Heritage Sites. She put it bluntly: “To deny, conceal or erase any of the Jewish, Christian or Muslim traditions undermines the integrity of the site,” Bokova stated. Her forthrightness was quickly rewarded with death threats for the crime of uttering the truth. READ MORE