UNESCO joins Palestinians in rewriting Jewish history in Judea and Samaria - opinion
This year, the PA submitted a long list of obviously and undeniably Jewish historical sites to the World Heritage List at UNESCO, rebranding the sites as “Palestinian” or “Islamic” heritage locations
UNESCO has joined the Palestinian Authority in rebranding Jewish historical sites in Judea and Samaria, erasing any connection to Jewish heritage. This effort, reminiscent of ISIS's destruction of cultural landmarks, is seen as part of a systematic campaign to erase Jewish identity. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has been complicit in this erasure, even going so far as to declare Jerusalem as an exclusively Muslim city in 2018, a move that took place on Hanukkah, a Jewish holiday.
Sites such as the Temple Mount, Hebron's Cave of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs, and Tel Jericho have been labeled as Palestinian heritage, despite their historical and cultural ties to Judaism. Recently, UNESCO proposed the designation of 22 additional sites in Judea and Samaria as Palestinian cultural assets, including Qumran, Herodian, Mount Gerizim, and the Hasmonean aqueducts.
This blatant disregard for historical facts and the Palestinian narrative echoes the cultural genocide seen in the destruction of other world heritage sites like Mosul and Nimrud.
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