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...well as hundreds of other prominent Western intellectuals, was the blatantly discriminatory acts against Israel recently adopted by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, which for years has ranked among the most respected and useful of the U.N.'s agencies. With its 3,500-member staff, UNESCO, headquartered in Paris, annually sponsors 130 conferences on subjects ranging from freedom of the press to piracy of art treasures, coordinates international scientific programs and tries to improve educational programs in developing countries. Last month, however, at a meeting of its 135-member General Conference, a bloc of Arab...
More serious was a resolution denying Israel's request to join the European regional group of UNESCO, where it has been an "observer" nation. Israel is now the only UNESCO member without a regional identity, although it contributed $111,000 to UNESCO's 1974 budget of $61.7 million (a contribution, Israelis point out, that is many times larger than that of any oil-rich Middle Eastern state). The conference's action did not actually expel Israel from UNESCO, but it did prevent the Jerusalem government from voting in the regional meetings, where an increasing number of decisions...
...Israel is a state which belongs nowhere because it comes from nowhere," said Lebanese Delegate to UNESCO Halim Said Abu-Izzeddin. Explaining the conference's measures, UNESCO's new head, Amadou Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal, declared: "UNESCO is composed of almost the same member states as the U.N. It is natural that the problems which perturb the world today should find an echo there...
...participate, virtually as a state, in the U.N.'s debate on the Palestinian problem. Then came the legally questionable resolution to expel South Africa from this year's General Assembly. Anger next spread to the world intellectual community when the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris succumbed to Arab pressure in voting two blatantly political motions against Israel (TIME, Dec. 16). Last week the General Assembly rammed through a so-called Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States, overriding all objections from the industrial nations...
...UNESCO discrimination against Israel, however, was in excusable. Some U.N. officials fear that the fanatic anti-Israel campaign could spread from UNESCO to other U.N. bodies, such as the Geneva-based World Health Organization and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. It is the Third World that most needs the U.N. and its humanitarian agencies. To the extent that bloc politics hamper the working of these bod ies, it is the Third World that will pay the price of ideology...