In an ongoing effort to erase true history and invent a fake new narrative, Muslim terrorists are laying claim to around a dozen sites on Israeli land, which UNESCO agrees should belong to the so-called Palestinians.
Samaria, Hebron, Bethlehem, Jericho, Jerusalem — all names straight out of the Hebrew Bible, where the tombs of Jewish patriarchs, the Temples and palaces of Jewish kings, and the birthplaces of Jewish heroes are still in evidence, if only through ruins. But Muslims who want to claim all Israel—and Lebanon—for themselves submitted the names of multiple historical sites tied to these ancient Jewish enclaves to UNESCO for designation as Palestinian heritage sites, and UNESCO has already complied in multiple instances. It is particularly disgusting and irresponsible that UNESCO chose to make this decision about Sebastia (Samaria) and Mount Amel amidst a spike in Palestinian violence against Israelis in Samaria, at almost the same time terrorists murdered an innocent Israeli there (read more).
“The decision to submit a dozen tentative sites for UNESCO World Heritage status, including the ancient Jerusalem water system, the fortress of Herodium, and the Hasmonean Palaces, represents another Palestinian attempt to rewrite Jewish history in the Land of Israel. Try though… pic.twitter.com/DySQGvpXDI
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) July 24, 2026
For example, Hebron in Judea is the location of the Cave of the Patriarchs, where Jewish tradition says Adam, Eve, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob, and Leah are buried. Genesis 23 describes the death and burial of Sarah in Hebron, and 2 Samuel/Kings 5:1-5 describes how David reigned from Hebron. It most certainly belongs rightfully to Israel. I reported in May on the Palestinian principal in Hebron whose parents named him after Hitler and how Hebron is sometimes the site of Palestinian violence against Israelis. Last year, Israeli authorities arrested the Palestinian mayor of Hebron, a longtime Fatah jihadi who was vocally supporting Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Related: Palestinian Terrorism Is Endless and Bloody in Samaria
There was no such entity as a “Palestinian people” until the 1960s, and the Jews owned the land of Israel over a thousand years before the invention of Islam. These are incontrovertible historical facts. And that is precisely why the United Nations is trying to help the so-called Palestinians rewrite history, because they know the only way to convince the world that Israel is illegitimate is to erase millennia of Jewish history in Israel. In fact, the UN and the Palestinian Authority are currently trying to complete the work of the Quran, which rewrote the Bible to claim all Jewish and Christian figures for Islam. Talk about demonic.
A moment frozen in time from 2,600 years ago.
— Israel ישראל (@Israel) July 20, 2026
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority and Tel Aviv University have uncovered charred wooden beams in Jerusalem’s City of David, burned during the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE.
Discovered during… pic.twitter.com/jfMgEU5Qy4
Below, you can watch Israelis talking about the archaeology they have conducted in what was the ancient city of Samaria, the capital of the kingdom of Israel (1 Kings 16:24, 2 Kings 7). The Bible mentions Samaria dozens of times. In the videos, you will hear how Muslims have taken control of a vital Christian site connected to John the Baptist in the area and claimed it as their own. To call Samaria/Sebastia a “Palestinian town” is gross revisionism. Unfortunately, Palestinian terrorists also operate in Samaria, as I mentioned above.
Shomron (Samaria) was founded as the capital of the Kingdom of Israel some 3000 years ago. Later renamed Sebastia by Herod, the King of Judea, it is a site of Jewish legacy and cultural heritage.
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) July 20, 2026
UNESCO should know the Jewish history of Sebastia. A World Heritage designation… pic.twitter.com/qC6VXNRL1Z
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History feels different when you're standing where it happened. ✨
— Israel ישראל (@Israel) July 19, 2026
Welcome to Sebastia, a place that is more than just an archaeological site. First named Shomron, it was the capital of the Kingdom of Israel. Later it became a central city in Judea and according to Christian… pic.twitter.com/V2qAlZiLqG
And Bethlehem, of course, is quite literally the city of David (Luke 2:4, 1 Samuel/Kings 16:4ff), the birthplace both of the greatest king of Israel and of his descendant who fulfilled the Old Testament and launched the New. Solomon's Pools are named for the Jewish king of the Old Testament, not for anyone remotely connected with the "Palestinians." Since the Palestinian Authority came into control of Bethlehem, the Christian population has dropped like a rock. In contrast, Israel is the only nation in the Middle East where the Christian population has increased in the last 80 years. Claiming Bethlehem for Islam is just as ridiculous as claiming Jerusalem for Islam.
It is rather interesting to note, however, that 1 Chronicles 16 describes the Philistine occupation of Bethlehem and how David fought them. The modern Palestinians—though ethnically and culturally unrelated—adopted the name of these ancient enemies of Israel, and now the Palestinians occupy Bethlehem.
Despite the Biblical and archaeological evidence overwhelmingly associating Jerusalem with ancient Judaism, Palestinians are now claiming Jerusalem's ancient water system as theirs with UNESCO. The Bible mentions water systems (pictured above) which Israelis are now excavating including in 2 Kings 18:17, 2 Chronicles 32:30, and Isaiah 22:9. God miraculously delivered Jericho to the Jews (Joshua 6), and I have personally stood in the midst of the ruins of those collapsed walls and buildings. The spring the Jewish prophet Elisha cleansed (2 Kings 2:19-22) still flows in Jericho. The tree which Zacchaeus climbed to see Jesus arrive in Jericho (Luke 19:4) is still growing there, and that too I have seen. The Jewish and Christian heritage predates the Islamic presence there by many centuries.
King Herod of New Testament fame built the Herodium fortress, where there are also traces of an ancient Jewish synagogue. The Hasmonean palace ruins in Jericho come from the buildings of the dynasty that Jewish national heroes the Maccabees founded. Every place the Palestinian jihadis claim for themselves has a Jewish history predating Islam by a vast period of time.
Allegations today at UNESCO that the Beaufort site is endangered because it is “presently under direct Israeli military occupation” are outrageous.
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) July 24, 2026
It is the terrorist organization Hezbollah who is endangering Lebanon's historical sites, including the Beaufort. During more than… pic.twitter.com/HpHzK0WkL3
God promised Israel to the Jewish people as a “perpetual possession” (Genesis 17:8), so anyone trying to steal Israel from them is quite literally setting himself up against God. Then again, that is exactly what Islam has always done. Just as Muslims can only destroy or steal what is best from other economies and cultures, their sacred texts steal and warp the teachings, events, and heroes of Jewish and Christian sacred history. The sacrilegious Al-Aqsa mosque compound built over the ruins of the Jewish Temple is a perfect illustration of how Islam claims the heritage of other peoples by trying to hide the evidence of its lies.
