It will be the third time that the United States has left UNESCO, which is based in Paris, and the second time during a Trump administration.

The United States will withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) by the end of December 2026, citing what the Trump administration calls the organization’s persistent anti-Israel bias and its support for progressive social initiatives.

The United States announced Tuesday it will again pull out of the U.N.’s educational, scientific and cultural agency because of what Washington sees as its anti-Israel bias, only two years after re-joining.

NEW YORK: The US will leave the United Nations’ culture and education agency Unesco as president Donald Trump continues to pull his country out of international institutions he has long criticised, the New York Post reported today, citing a White House official.

The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it will once again withdraw from the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, an expected move that has the U.S. further retreating from international organizations.

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.

The State Department announced on Tuesday that the United States is withdrawing from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, citing the international body’s anti-Israel bias in its recognition of Palestinian statehood.