“UNESCO and the Jews: Shame” – Bernard-Henri Lévy – Huffington Post
It is the scandal of the week.
And, strangely, no one seems to be talking about it.
UNESCO has long had on its schedule an exhibit titled “People, Book, Land: The 3,500-Year Relationship of the Jewish People with the Holy Land.”
The exhibit was jointly organized by UNESCO and the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles and sponsored by several nations, Canada among them. …
The content of the exhibit had been approved by archaeological experts and met all pertinent scientific criteria.
But less than a week from its opening the exhibit was suddenly put on hold (if not cancelled altogether) by UNESCO’s director-general, bending to the wishes of 22 Arab states “concerned” (sic) by the “possible negative impact” of the event on “the peace process and ongoing negotiations in the Middle East.”
Never mind the insult delivered to the prestigious Simon Wiesenthal Center, here depicted as a den of troublemakers and saboteurs of peace.
Never mind the grotesque reasoning by which a scholarly exhibition put together by experts from around the world becomes, since Israel is involved, an obstacle to “negotiation” and “peace.”
Nor will we dwell on the blindness of an Arab League that, confronted with the Iranian nuclear threat, the little-discussed glaciation of the Egyptian revolution, the far-from-peaceful crushing of democratic impulses in Bahrain and the Emirates, and, not least, the massacre of 130,000 Syrians by good old Bashar al-Assad, sees only one threat looming over the region: Israel, always Israel, little Israel, as soon as it presumes to reflect, as every people does, on its history, its founding narratives, and the length of its presence in the land where it has become a nation. … http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernardhenri-levy/unesco-and-the-jews-shame_b_4640070.html
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“C’est le scandale de la semaine.”
Et, étrangement, personne n’en parle.
L’UNESCO avait programmé, à Paris, de longue date, une exposition intitulée « Les gens, le Livre, la Terre : la relation de 3 500 ans du peuple juif avec la Terre sainte ». … http://www.bernard-henri-levy.com/l%E2%80%99unesco-et-les-juifs-ignominie-le-point-le-23-janvier-2014-42668.html
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