The United States will withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) by the end of December 2026, citing what the Trump administration calls the organization’s persistent anti-Israel bias and its support for progressive social initiatives.

US President Donald Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), citing its anti-American and anti-Israeli sentiment,

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The State Department announced on Tuesday that the United States is withdrawing from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, citing the international body’s anti-Israel bias in its recognition of Palestinian statehood.

The Trump administration in 2017 announced that the U.S. would withdraw from UNESCO, citing anti-Israel bias. That decision took effect a year later. The U.S. and Israel stopped financing UNESCO after it voted to include Palestine as a member state in 2011.

Washington’s State Department spokeswoman and the head of UNESCO confirmed reports from earlier today that US President Donald Trump will withdraw the US from the agency. “Con