We are again withdrawing from the United Nations cultural institution UNESCO – again – country

The United States announced Tuesday that it will once again withdraw from the UN’s educational, scientific and cultural institutions due to what Washington believes is anti-Israel bias.

“President Trump has decided to withdraw from the United States from UNESCO, which supports awakening, divisive cultural and social causes, which is completely indifferent to the common sense policy Americans voted in November,” White House Deputy spokesman Anna Kelly told the New York Post. UNESCO and the White House did not immediately confirm the U.S. move.

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This will be the third time the United States has left UNESCO in Paris and the second time that the Trump administration has. President Donald Trump has withdrawn during his first term, returning to the United States five years after the Biden administration applied to rejoin the organization.

The decision will come into effect at the end of December 2026.

The decision is not surprising for UNESCO officials, who are expected to take such a move after a specific review ordered by the Trump administration earlier this year. They also hope that the return of the United States since 2023 will be facilitated by political rival Joe Biden, and Trump will withdraw again.

The Trump administration announced in 2017 that the United States would withdraw from UNESCO on the grounds of anti-Israel bias. A year later, the decision took effect. The United States and Israel stopped UNESCO’s financing after a vote in 2011 to vote Palestine as a member.

The United States previously withdrew from UNESCO under the leadership of the Reagan administration in 1984 because it saw the institution as corrupt, corrupt and used to promote the interests of the Soviet Union. It rejoined in 2003 during George W. Bush’s presidency.