The State Department cites political concerns, but UNESCO vows to keep its global doors open to all travelers.

The decision to pull U.S. funding and participation from UNESCO will deal a blow to its work preserving cultural heritage around the world.

The United States will withdraw from UNESCO by the end of 2026, Washington said on Tuesday, just two years after rejoining the United Nations' cultural agency. "Today, the United States informed Director-General Audrey Azoulay of the United States' decision to withdraw from UNESCO,

President Donald Trump has once again withdrawn the United States from UNESCO, accusing the U.N.’s science and cultural and organization of an anti-Israel bias and a “globalist” agenda. In a statement Tuesday that drew mixed reactions from Jewish groups,

The United States has announced its decision to withdraw from UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) for the third time in history. With a December 2026 departure date,

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.

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.”