Good riddance to UNESCO — a hate-America shouting gallery

President Donald Trump is pulling America out of UNESCO for the third time. Maybe this time it’ll be for good.

Once lauded for its work in preserving important cultural sites, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations became a platform for miseducation by every tinpot tyrant trying to score points by defaming America and its allies. 

It also adopted a full-on woke agenda, backing divisive DEI and social-justice causes that, as a Team Trump aide explained, conflicted with American values.

“Continued involvement in UNESCO is not in the national interest of the United States,” the State Department declared.

The agency’s focus on the UN’s “Sustainable Development Goals,” for example, follows the Paris Climate Accords program of deindustrializing the developed world, while paying the Third World to help it catch up. 

It admitted the “State of Palestine” as a full member, though the United States does not recognize such a state, believing the Palestinian issue should be decided by Israel and Palestinian Arabs, not the striped-pants brigade from third-party nations.

UNESCO has also politicized Jewish holy sites, calling Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem a “mosque,” which it never was. 

And it’s been China’s running dog, promoting Beijing’s domination of Tibetan and Uyghur culture — arguably genocidal — as perfectly fine.  

UNESCO’s odious record goes back decades. Washington first withdrew from the group in 1984, under Ronald Reagan, when it sought to have US media companies submit to the control of a “New World Information Order.” 

Trump’s withdrawal from UNESCO follows his exit from the UN’s equally vile Human Rights Council, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s sanctioning of its “special rapporteur” on Palestinian issues, Francesca Albanese, who was obsessed with falsely depicting Israel as a perpetrator of genocide.

Those moves were well deserved. Call it a Turtle Bay trifecta.