“In most countries, the only space where teachers receive any training, support or guidance on teaching about antisemitism is in history education, and in particular through Holocaust education,” UNESCO told JNS.

One US official intimated that Hamas “decommissioning” its heavy weapons rather than demilitarization could be option.

“He didn’t want to talk at all and almost canceled the meeting,” Moran Stella Yanai said of a 2024 sitdown with UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

The renewal comes as U.S. President Donald Trump said that Washington and Jerusalem “have an understanding regarding Syria.”

“We recall our clear opposition to any form of annexation and to the expansion of settlement policies,” said 14 mainly European countries, led by France.

“That says more about the UN than it does about Israel,” the Israeli ambassador to the global body in New York told JNS.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the longtime UN agency as a “subsidiary of Hamas.”

The delegation aims “to listen and learn, and to evaluate the leadership, especially in Syria,” Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon told JNS.

The Authority’s “weakness” means not only that it can’t disarm Hamas but that “Israel is left to dismantle the terror networks they refuse to confront” in Judea and Samaria, the Israeli envoy said.

“This legislation is unhelpful virtue-signaling,” a US State Department spokesperson told JNS. “It does not serve the cause of peace in the Middle East.”