UNESCO endows a chair at the Islamic University of Gaza
UNESCO and the 'human rights council' (that should be the next post) are competing with each other to see who can be more outrageous. Israel's Foreign Ministry reacted furiously on Thursday to the announcement that UNESCO is endowing a chair at the Islamic University of Gaza. This is from the Foreign Ministry spokesman. The Foreign Ministry of the State of Israel today expressed its shock and consternation at the news that UNESCO is establishing a Chair at the Islamic University of Gaza.Actually, I think Hamas is a perfect bedfellow for UNESCO. UNESCO is Hamas' ideological and intellectual alter-ego.
The Islamic University of Gaza is a known greenhouse and breeding ground for Hamas terrorists. Only last month, the University's Dean of Koranic studies openly called for the Islamic conquest of the Vatican and of Spain
UNESCO's motto is that "It is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed," yet the Islamic University of Gaza is poisoning the minds of men for the cause of terror.
Scientists and Academics at the University double as Hamas technocrats. The Islamic University serves as an employment program and intellectual retreat for Hamas leaders. The University conducts lectures on Hamas' radical ideology and concentrates on hostility to Israel; Hamas uses Gaza University laboratories to develop and produce explosives and rockets and has even run a course on explosive making. The university is a warehouse for weapons and a venue for secret meetings of military leaders.
UNESCO continues to damage its reputation. After establishing the Obiang prize, UNESCO is now establishing a chair linked to a terror organization.
Hamas and the Islamic University believe in extremism, violence and terror - not Education, Science and Culture. That UNESCO should choose to establish a chair in such a University damages further UNESCO's reputation and it creates uncomfortable and inappropriate bedfellows.
AP adds (via the Seattle Times):
UNESCO said the chair is to promote astronomy, astrophysics and space sciences.It's very nice to 'dismiss the move,' but the United States is still providing 22% of UNESCO's budget. When is that going to stop?
Earlier this month, it approved Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity as an endangered site. The U.S. and Israel dismissed the move as cynical politicization of the cultural body.
UPDATE 8:31 AM
In the comments, Dan points out, correctly, that the US was forced to suspend its contribution to UNESCO by law when 'Palestine' became a member. But the Obama administration has been seeking ways to restore funding.
Labels: Gaza plenty, Hamas, Islamic indoctrination, UNESCO
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:07 AM
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"UNESCO said the chair is to promote astronomy, astrophysics and space sciences."
Gotta upgrade those ROCKET skills!
Actually, the US started withholding its contribution to the UNESCO budget last October, when UNESCO admitted "Palestine" as a member. This was a direct, automatic consequence of a federal law passed in 1990 that forbids US government funding for any international organization that recognizes a Palestinian state. The Obama administration is on record as supporting a restoration of funding, but my understanding is that they still have not been able to circumvent the 1990 law, and Congress has shown no interest in granting a waiver.
So....the first scholar will have a job in the Obama White House. Put money on it.
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