{"id":5256,"date":"2020-12-07T17:48:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T04:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=5256"},"modified":"2020-12-07T18:40:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T05:40:38","slug":"new-unesco-chair-is-an-anti-israel-terror-affiliate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2020\/12\/new-unesco-chair-is-an-anti-israel-terror-affiliate\/","title":{"rendered":"New UNESCO Chair is an anti-Israel terror affiliate"},"content":{"rendered":"
UNESCO has established the world’s first Chair on Dance and Social Inclusion<\/a>. However, their choice of co-chair is someone who has publicly affiliated with a terror group<\/a>.<\/p>\n University of Auckland Associate Professor Nicholas Rowe is married to a Palestinian woman and said the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is “the tribe my family belongs to<\/a>” at a 2017 conference.<\/p>\n The PFLP is a revolutionary socialist organisation that takes a hard line on Palestinian national aspirations. It is known for pioneering armed aircraft-hijackings<\/a> in the late 1960s and early 1970s and is designated as a Foreign Terrorist organisation by the US Department of State<\/a>, European Union<\/a>, Canada<\/a>, and Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n Professor Rowe is also a promoter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel that the German government, with bipartisan support, compared to the Nazi boycott of Jews<\/a>.<\/p>\n