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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by akashshah87 on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @10:50AM (#44647653)
“The U.S. began defunding UNESCO under Obama after it admitted Palestine as a full member—and then withdrew entirely during Trump’s first term.” — [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/world/europe/us-withdraw-...)

This isn’t just a blip, but part of a long-term downward trajectory in U.S. and UNESCO relations.

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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by aprilthird2021 on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:08AM (#44647965)
It was stupid then and it's stupid now. We aren't Israel and we shouldn't have to be citizens of Israel
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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by rc_mob on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:15AM (#44648062)
What is with you people forgetting that Trump was president in 2018 and not Obama.

Why are you attributing Trumps actions to Obama. Stop it. Your comment is wholly dishonest.

Obama did not want to leave UNESCO. Period. Full stop.

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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by hersko on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:23AM (#44648240)
"The U.S. began defunding UNESCO under Obama..." what part about this is wrong?
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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by robotnixon on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:32AM (#44648410)
It's misleading. Obama tried to maintain funding UNESCO:

"In 2011, the United States stopped funding Unesco because of what was then a forgotten, 15-year-old amendment mandating a complete cutoff of American financing to any United Nations agency that accepts Palestine as a full member. Various efforts by President Barack Obama to overturn the legal restriction narrowly failed in Congress, and the United States lost its vote at the organization after two years of nonpayment, in 2013."

https://web.archive.org/web/20220503183152/https://www.nytim...

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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by TheBlight on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @10:57AM (#44647766)
You're interrupting the daily hate screeching session with historical context and nuance.
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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by kennywinker on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:39AM (#44648530)
Some of the hate in the comments is directed at the current thief-in-chief - but mostly it looks to me like it’s directed at the longstanding US-israel relationship where the US gov does things that the US people don’t want because the israeli gov does want it.

The hypocrisy of saying “america first” while bending over backwards to support israel is just a new twist to an old pattern.

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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by pkilgore on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:36AM (#44648474)
Like the fact that Obama was following laws passed by congress?

https://web.archive.org/web/20141224180231/https://foreignpo...

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Re:The United States withdraws from UNESCO by wredcoll on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @11:47AM (#44648663)
Why do you think this action is worth defending? Do you personally agree with it? Do you have an actual position here?
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