US and Israel Lose Voting Rights at UNESCO
Stopped paying dues because the body granted Palestine full membership
(Reuters)—UNESCO has suspended the voting rights of the United States and Israel, two years after both countries stopped paying dues to the U.N.'s cultural arm in protest over its granting full membership to the Palestinians.
The U.S. decision to cancel its funding in October 2011 was blamed on U.S. laws that prohibit funding to any U.N. agency that implies recognition of the Palestinians' demands for their own state.
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I had to look up what it is and what it supposedly does.
Good. Don’t give ’em a penny; it’s a feel-good bureaucracy that isn;t likely to accomplish anything worthwhile except by accident.
Couldn’t that be said of the United Nations more generally?