https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/09/...ase-jewish-history-from-another-israeli-city/
UNESCO has rewritten history in the Land of Israel before. It has declared the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism — which it refers to only by its Arabic name, Al-Haram Al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary) — as an exclusively Muslim holy site. This has meant ignoring both the archeological evidence of the First and Second Temples that have been found on and near the Temple Mount, including the thousands of Jewish artifacts found in the hundreds of tons of earth that the Palestinians excavated from the surface of the Temple Mount, some 600 square yards, and then threw into a dump. Those hundreds of tons of earth contained thousands of Jewish artifacts from the time of the First and Second Temples, and horrified Israeli archeologists, when they got wind of what the Palestinians had done, rushed to collect the mounds of earth they had thrown away, and to sift carefully through the rescued rubble, finding all sorts of Jewish artifacts — oil lamps, knives, pottery, utensils, coins, menorahs — still intact, and many more artifacts that had been smashed to smithereens during the excavation carried out by the Palestinians. None of this physical evidence of the Jewish presence on the Mount, including that testifying to the existence of the First and Second Temples, has made an impression on UNESCO, that simply ignored that evidence in its insensate desire to declare the “Haram al-Sharif” an exclusively Muslim holy site.
UNESCO had to ignore not just the Jewish artifacts discovered, but also the descriptions of the First and Second Temples by Jewish, Greek, Roman, and even Muslim historians.
UNESCO has recognized “Palestine” as a full member state, but for the UN, it remains a state “only with observer status.”
UNESCO has rewritten history in the Land of Israel before. It has declared the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism — which it refers to only by its Arabic name, Al-Haram Al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary) — as an exclusively Muslim holy site. This has meant ignoring both the archeological evidence of the First and Second Temples that have been found on and near the Temple Mount, including the thousands of Jewish artifacts found in the hundreds of tons of earth that the Palestinians excavated from the surface of the Temple Mount, some 600 square yards, and then threw into a dump. Those hundreds of tons of earth contained thousands of Jewish artifacts from the time of the First and Second Temples, and horrified Israeli archeologists, when they got wind of what the Palestinians had done, rushed to collect the mounds of earth they had thrown away, and to sift carefully through the rescued rubble, finding all sorts of Jewish artifacts — oil lamps, knives, pottery, utensils, coins, menorahs — still intact, and many more artifacts that had been smashed to smithereens during the excavation carried out by the Palestinians. None of this physical evidence of the Jewish presence on the Mount, including that testifying to the existence of the First and Second Temples, has made an impression on UNESCO, that simply ignored that evidence in its insensate desire to declare the “Haram al-Sharif” an exclusively Muslim holy site.
UNESCO had to ignore not just the Jewish artifacts discovered, but also the descriptions of the First and Second Temples by Jewish, Greek, Roman, and even Muslim historians.
Hebron is the second holiest site in Judaism, because of the Cave of the Patriarchs. For Muslims, it is much less significant; it is believed by some, not all, Muslims, to have been the place where Muhammad stopped on his Night Journey (miraj) from Mecca to Jerusalem. But UNESCO ignored the deep Jewish attachment altogether (it might, after all, have declared the Cave of the Patriarchs holy to both Jews and Muslims), choosing, as it did with the Temple Mount, to declare it an exclusively Muslim site, and ignoring the thousands of years of Jewish attachment to the Cave and to Hebron, one of the four holy cities — along with Jerusalem, Safad, and Tiberias — of Judaism.
But why did the Bidenties rejoin UNESCO in June, and what’s more, promise to pay the organization $600 million in back dues? UNESCO hasn’t changed its designation of the Temple Mount, or of the Cave of the Patriarchs, as exclusively Muslim sites. Why did the Bidenites again submit to this farce and offer to provide UNESCO with $600 million? This should be made a campaign issue.
