Jewish groups are deploring passage of a U.N. agency resolution that highlights Muslim ties but ignores Jewish connections to the Temple Mount.
The resolution of the United Nations’ cultural arm passed Thursday (Oct. 13) 24-6 with 26 abstentions and condemns Israel’s “escalating aggressions” at the Temple Mount, the site of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam.
The resolution, put forward by Palestinian representatives to UNESCO, does not mention the significance to Jews of the Western Wall that flanks the mount. The Western Wall is regarded as the holiest site in Judaism.
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