US to withdraw from UNESCO over ‘anti-Israel rhetoric’

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Tuesday it will withdraw the United States from the United Nations’ educational, science and cultural organization, citing its inclusion of Palestine as a member state.  

“Continued involvement in UNESCO is not in the national interest of the United States,” State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said in a statement, describing the organization as having a “globalist, ideological agenda” at odds with the administration’s “America…