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UNESCO exhibit about Jews in Israel opens in Buenos Aires

20 March 2017, 7:21 pm
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A UNESCO exhibition about the Jewish presence in the land of Israel that sparked controversy is going on display for the first time translated into Spanish.

“People, Book, Land: The 3,500 Year Relationship of the Jewish People with the Holy Land,” which was co-created by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, is on display at the government Centro Cultural Kirchner in Buenos Aires through March 31.

The 24 panels of pictures and texts that document the Jewish presence in the Holy Land were preceded by two controversies.

Its original opening at UNESCO headquarters in Paris in January 2014 was delayed after complaints by 22 Arab countries.

UNESCO also drew last year for a resolution denying a Jewish connection to the Old City of Jerusalem.

— JTA

UNESCO's Director General Irina Bokova poses with the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Rabbi Marvin Hier and a poster for the exhibit on the Jewish people's 3,500 connection to the land of Israel which she subsequently cancelled. (photo credit: Courtesy Simon Wiesenthal Center)
UNESCO’s Director General Irina Bokova poses with the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Rabbi Marvin Hier and a poster for the exhibit on the Jewish people’s 3,500 connection to the land of Israel which she subsequently cancelled. (photo credit: Courtesy Simon Wiesenthal Center)

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