Gohmert Assails UNESCO Decision on Palestinian Membership

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) released the following statement Monday regarding the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s decision to grant the Palestinian bid for full membership:

“Today’s vote made by UNESCO to grant the Palestinian bid for full membership to the United Nations is not only outrageous, it’s utterly offensive. This vote will bolster the fraudulent Palestinian bid for recognition as a state by the United Nations without requiring it to recognize a nation in being and disclaim the goal of Israel’s destruction. It offers further evidence of the United Nations’ embrace of a radical political agenda.

“I applaud the U.S. State Department for its necessary action made today – to halt a $60 million transfer due in November to the UN cultural agency. The United States should not fund a United Nations bent on bestowing statehood to a Palestinian government run by Hamas, an Islamist terror group devoted to annihilating our strong ally, Israel. Desiring peace in the Middle East is noble, but granting statehood to Hamas, the Palestinian arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, is foolhardy and does not advance the cause of peace in the region.”