Deputy FM says UNESCO disgraced itself with Temple Mount vote

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely adds her voice to Israeli condemnation of the UNESCO vote on the Temple Mount and Western Wall, saying the cultural body has “disgraced” itself by backing a “shameful resolution” based on a Palestinian lie that denies Jewish and Christian ties to Jerusalem.

“The Executive Board of UNESCO has disgraced its international mandate in this politicized and distorted resolution,” she says in a statement. “The fact that more states abstained than supported the resolution underscores the deep reservations of many states with regard to this shameful resolution.

“The countries that supported this resolution have lent their voice to the lie propagated by the Palestinians that the Temple Mount is an exclusively Islamic site. This falsification of history is an affront to the ancient Jewish and Christian connections to Jerusalem.”