President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from UNESCO once again In a statement Tuesday that drew mixed reactions from Jewish groups.

The Trump administration plans to pull out of the U.N. cultural agency, putting UNESCO back at the center of geopolitical rivalry.

State Department says it will leave the UN cultural agency on 31 December 2026 over the inclusion of Palestine as a member state

President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday announced its decision to withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The post Trump Admin Pulls Out of UNESCO — Cites ‘Highly Problematic’ Inclusion of Palestine as Member State first appeared on Mediaite.

The Trump administration in 2017 announced that the U.S. would withdraw from UNESCO, citing anti-Israel bias. That decision took effect a year later. The U.S. and Israel stopped financing UNESCO after it voted to include Palestine as a member state in 2011.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The United States (US) announced its third withdrawal from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ), effective December 31, 2026, on Tuesday.

Trump ordered a 90-day review of America’s presence in UNESCO back in February, with special emphasis on probing “anti-Semitism or anti-Israel sentiment.”

UNESCO runs the influential World Heritage Sites program. There are 26 UNESCO World Heritage sites in the United States

With the withdrawal from the Unesco, President Donald Trump has abandoned yet another multilateral institution, making his disdain for multilateralism clear. Here we explore other institutions and treaties that he has quit — and how these withdrawals empowered US adversaries.