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This seems to be a political back and forth (beginning with the admittance of palestine in the past)... (from wikipedia) U.S. (and Israel) left UNESCO in 2018, but the United States rejoined in 2023. I presume U.S. has left again now in 2025.

[edit: kind of surprised this hasn't been flagged, but sadly indicative of HN's bias.]

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This goes back further, the US had already withdrawn from 1984 (under Reagan) to 2003: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO#New_World_Information_a...

Israel left Unesco ? How cynical is Netanyahu...

https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/decade-action-against-ant...

Interesting context

Trump was president in 2018, if you’ve forgotten.

> The United States cut funding for UNESCO under the Obama administration after it voted to include Palestine as a full member, and then pulled out completely during President Trump’s first term. >But in 2023, the Biden administration reversed that decision and decided to rejoin. - NYT - U.S. Says It Will Withdraw From U.N. Cultural Organization, Again

To be fair it looks like funding was cut during the Obama admin over the admittance of Palestine

Yes, in 2011

Congress cut funding by passing laws[1][2].

In 2011, Obama was just following the law enacted by Congress not his wild ass opinions, which I know is crazy given the current administration.

[1] Public Law 101-246 (1990)

[2] Public Law 103-236 (1994)

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