US, Israel and Canada's response to Palestine's UNESCO membership (Updated)
― When Palestine overwhelmingly got approved to be a member state in UNESCO, a long standing congressional trigger was activated which entirely defunds the US contribution to UNESCO (about a fifth of its total contributions). This comes on the back of freezing various aid money to Palestine as a punitive reaction to applying for statehood in the Security Council. ∙ The original bill that has been triggered here was done back in 1994, due to the domestic politics of the time, on the back of [...].
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