Head of UNESCO receives death threats following Jerusalem resolution
Head of UNESCO receives death threats following Jerusalem resolution
Irina Bokova expressed opposition to [Arab] resolutions aimed at weakening Jewish connection to Temple Mount
By Jerusalem Post Staff, Jerusalem Post, October 18, 2016
The Western Wall of The Temple of David, Jerusalem
Irina Bokova, chief of UNESCO, has been receiving “death threats” since she voiced opposition to Arabbacked resolutions ignoring Jewish ties to Jerusalem’s holy sites on Thursday, Agence France-Presse has reported.
The Israeli ambassador to UNESCO, Carmel Shama Cohen, said “the director general has received death threats and her protection has had to be reinforced.”
Cohen also said that Bokova’s criticism of two resolutions that were adopted last week ahead of the final vote led to the threats.
Bokova said following the drafted resolutions, “Nowhere more than in Jerusalem do Jewish, Christian and Muslim heritage and traditions share space. To deny, conceal or erase any of the Jewish, Christian or Muslim traditions undermines the integrity of the site, and runs counter to the reasons that justified its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage list [in 1981].”
The draft decision by UNESCO lists the item as "Occupied Palestine" and was submitted by seven Muslim nations.
The draft affirms the importance of the Old City of Jerusalem “for the three monotheistic religions,” but uses the Arabic terming Al-Aksa Mosque and Al-haram Al-Sharif while omitting the Hebrew terms for the Western Wall and the Temple Mount.
Israel’s Education Ministry decided on Friday to suspend cooperation with UNESCO stating that both the resolutions ignore “thousands of years of Jewish ties to Jerusalem.”
Education Minister Naftali Bennett, the head of Israel’s National Commission to UNESCO said that Bokova’s statement was not enough and added that votes such as the one taken on Thursday only encourage Palestinian terrorism against Israel.
Tovah Lazaroff contributed to this article.
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The Arab nations, determining that they are unable to "wipe Israel off the face of the map" militarily, are now trying to wipe it off the face of the map historically. As you see in the article, attempting to prevent them from doing so leads to the threat of death. It is no wonder so many countries abstained in the vote, rather than attempting to defend actual history. Death threats are the Arab method of coercion, and unfortunately the threats have led many times to actual murder.
It is hard for me to believe how many cowardly nations abstained - perhaps it is just a way to hide their inherent anti-Semitism that is so pervasive world wide.
“The reason behind this sort of behavior on the part of Western countries is fear, whether from conflict with their own Muslim communities or from conflict with the Muslim countries that buy tens of millions of dollars of their products. The monumental failure belongs exclusively to Western countries.” ( By Dr Ephraim Harrera, ISRAEL HAYOM )
As I said, the Western countries that abstained on that resolution are fucking cowards, shaking in their boots that the big bogeyman Islamists are going to come and cut their heads off.
“Voting in favor were: Algeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Chad, China, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Mauritius, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan and Vietnam.
Voting against were: Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States.
Abstaining were: Albania, Argentina, Cameroon, El Salvador, France, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Haiti, India, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan , Kenya, Nepal, Paraguay, Saint Vincent and Nevis, Slovenia, South Korea , Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden , Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda and Ukraine.
Absent were: Serbia and Turkmenistan.”
Next thing we are going to see is that the United Nations will rename Jerusalem, and give it an Arabic name, and the resolution will probably pass. Then the UN will probably give Dearbourne, Michigan an Arabic name.