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This seems to be a political back and forth (beginning with the admittance of palestine in the past)... (from wikipedia) U.S. (and Israel) left UNESCO in 2018,

by throw7 1y ago

This seems to be a political back and forth (beginning with the admittance of palestine in the past)... (from wikipedia) U.S. (and Israel) left UNESCO in 2018, but the United States rejoined in 2023. I presume U.S. has left again now in 2025. [edit: kind of surprised this hasn't been flagged, but sadly indicative of HN's bias.]

Oarch 1y ago
Interesting context
skywhopper 1y ago
Trump was president in 2018, if you’ve forgotten.
- garamond23 1y ago
  > The United States cut funding for UNESCO under the Obama administration after it voted to include Palestine as a full member, and then pulled out completely during President Trump’s first term. >But in 2023, the Biden administration reversed that decision and decided to rejoin. - NYT - U.S. Says It Will Withdraw From U.N. Cultural Organization, Again To be fair it looks like funding was cut during the Obama admin over the admittance of Palestine
  - CGMthrowaway 1y ago
    Yes, in 2011
  - pkilgore 1y ago
    Congress cut funding by passing laws[1][2]. In 2011, Obama was just following the law enacted by Congress not his wild ass opinions, which I know is crazy given the current administration. [1] Public Law 101-246 (1990) [2] Public Law 103-236 (1994) See also: https://web.archive.org/web/20141224180231/https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/10/25/will-congresss-defunding-of-the-u-n-over-palestine-hurt-u-s-goals-around-the-world/ https://web.archive.org/web/20141224180231/https://foreignpo...
wiz21c 1y ago
Israel left Unesco ? How cynical is Netanyahu... https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/decade-action-against-antisemitism https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/decade-action-against-ant...
layer8 1y ago
This goes back further, the US had already withdrawn from 1984 (under Reagan) to 2003: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO#New_World_Information_and_Communication_Order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO#New_World_Information_a...

by throw7 1y ago

Oarch 1y ago

Interesting context

skywhopper 1y ago

Trump was president in 2018, if you’ve forgotten.

garamond23 1y ago
> The United States cut funding for UNESCO under the Obama administration after it voted to include Palestine as a full member, and then pulled out completely during President Trump’s first term. >But in 2023, the Biden administration reversed that decision and decided to rejoin. - NYT - U.S. Says It Will Withdraw From U.N. Cultural Organization, Again To be fair it looks like funding was cut during the Obama admin over the admittance of Palestine
- CGMthrowaway 1y ago
  Yes, in 2011
- pkilgore 1y ago
  Congress cut funding by passing laws[1][2]. In 2011, Obama was just following the law enacted by Congress not his wild ass opinions, which I know is crazy given the current administration. [1] Public Law 101-246 (1990) [2] Public Law 103-236 (1994) See also: https://web.archive.org/web/20141224180231/https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/10/25/will-congresss-defunding-of-the-u-n-over-palestine-hurt-u-s-goals-around-the-world/ https://web.archive.org/web/20141224180231/https://foreignpo...

wiz21c 1y ago

Israel left Unesco ? How cynical is Netanyahu... https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/decade-action-against-antisemitism https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/decade-action-against-ant...

layer8 1y ago

This goes back further, the US had already withdrawn from 1984 (under Reagan) to 2003: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO#New_World_Information_and_Communication_Order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO#New_World_Information_a...