UNESCO Head Nixes "Offensive" Palestine Poster Collection for World Heritage List

(Times of Israel) Raphael Ahren - The head of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has vetoed the inclusion of the "Liberation Graphics Collection of Palestine Posters" in the agency's Memory of the World program, arguing that the posters fuel hatred and anti-Semitism. Many of the posters feature machine guns and hand grenades, extolling armed resistance and terrorism, and glorifying Palestinian suicide attacks.


2015-02-06 00:00:00

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