UNESCO decision about Rachel's Tomb
Please read the below email and if you are so inclined, click the link at the bottom to add your name to the petition to halt the re-naming (and historical erasing) of two of Judaism's most important historical and religious sites into two Muslim sites. Then, if you are further moved, please send this email far and wide to ensure more people have the opportunity to be counted.
Thank you.
The United Nations has once again reared its anti-semitic head.
The Executive Board of UNESCO has declared 2 of Judaism's holiest sites (Tomb of the Patriarchs and Tomb of Rachel) to be mosques and demand that Israel remove the sites from its National Heritage list.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office decried the ludicrous nature of the UNESCO decision:
The attempt to detach the Nation of Israel from its heritage is absurd. If the nearly 4,000-year-old burial sites of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of the Jewish Nation - Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah - are not part of its culture and tradition, then what is a national cultural site?
In cooperating with Arab efforts to erase Jewish historical ties to Israel, UNESCO is aiding and abetting those who hope to and obfuscate Israel’s Jewish past and undermine Israel’s Jewish future.
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http://www.petitiononline.com/rabbiv/petition.html
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