Only days before the opening of an exhibit detailing Jewish ties to the land of Israel, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (unesco) postponed the event. The sudden cancellation, and the pathetic reason for it, highlights some deeply entrenched biases within the organization.

The exhibit, which was set up and ready to open at unesco’s Paris headquarters, was designed to portray 3,500 years of Jewish history. Because of the controversial nature of the subject, particularly in UN organizations, the organizers from co-host Simon Wiesenthal Center had to jump through numerous hoops just to get the exhibit approved.

For one, unesco considered the name of the exhibit far too controversial. The original title, “People, Book, Land: The 3,500-Year Relationship of the Jewish People With the Land of Israel,” eventually saw the phrase “Land of Israel” exchanged for “Holy Land.”

Even after the exhibit was tweaked and changed by unesco, it drew the immediate ire of the Arabic community.

Just one day after the invitations to the exhibit were sent out, unesco received a letter from the 22 nations of the Arab Group. The group’s president, Abdullah Elmealmi, wrote, “The Arab group is deeply disturbed by the exhibition, which it condemns. … The media campaign accompanying the exhibition will inevitably damage the peace talks, the incessant efforts of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and unesco’s neutrality.”

The foot-dragging tactics unesco had displayed when organizing the event were absent in the brief moment it took for Director-general Irina Bokova to announce on January 15 that the exhibit’s opening would be canceled indefinitely. In a letter to the Wiesenthal Center, Bokova wrote that “unesco is deeply committed to the successful outcome of the peace process in order to achieve stability in the region and we have a responsibility in ensuring that current efforts in this regard are not endangered.”

unesco can hide behind its peace process excuse, but the truth is that the decision is a typical UN display of anti-Semitism.

To say that the reason to cancel was for the sake of the peace process is in itself laughable. For one, there is certainly no peace, and secondly, there is no process. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is frantically running back and forth across the Middle East attempting to put together a peace deal, but that doesn’t mean their is much hope for one.

Israel has already released a number of statements regarding Kerry’s efforts to force a peace deal. Israeli Defense Minster Moshe Ya’alon said, “All that can save us is for John Kerry to win a Nobel Prize and leave us in peace.” Israel has apologized for the remarks, but undoubtedly remains skeptical of the peace deal. There has been similar anti-U.S. sentiment from other M.K.s that are weary of Kerry’s efforts to bring about peace. And the Palestinians are not even willing to accept Israel’s right to exist.

Palestinian and Israeli authorities are not engaging in open dialogue. The peace process is no further along than it was five or 10 years ago.

Even if unesco is genuinely concerned with the state of the peace process, why would it cancel the exhibit, angering Israel, and thereby jeopardizing the peace process further? Why stonewall the project for so long, then allow it, only to postpone it indefinitely?

The only answer is because the UN has a history of pandering to the Arabs while ostracizing the nation of Israel. According to UN Watch, the UN Human Rights Council has “criticized Israel on 27 separate occasions, in resolutions that grant effective impunity to Hamas, Hezbollah and their state sponsors.”

In the council’s first year, it condemned no other nation in the world but Israel. It doesn’t take much to look at the world around us and see human rights violations far worse than any in Israel. But the UN has its stern gaze set solely on the small Jewish nation.

Events such as the closure of the exhibit should serve as a warning to all of us. As Israel is further ostracized, the Islamic world is gaining more and more clout. Completely surrounded by enemies, and quickly running out of friends on the world scene, Israel is facing a real and present danger.

But the UN’s anti-Semitic bias, and the isolation and decline of Israel, are not just issues that the people in Israel have to worry about. Bible prophecy shows us the worldwide implications of such trends.

Ancient Israel’s descendants today, as we have proven before, are primarily the American, British and Jewish peoples. These three nations are also identified as Manasseh, Ephraim and Judah respectively. (If you haven’t already, request a free copy of The United States and Britain in Prophecy. This book will give you a thorough and detailed understanding of how these nations can be identified.)

With that in mind, consider Hosea 5:5: “And the pride of Israel [America] doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim [Britain] fall in their iniquity; Judah [the Jewish state today] also shall fall with them.” The Bible assures us that America, Britain and Judah will all fall together!

That is why the current isolation of Israel should concern all of us. If Israel is being isolated, and is becoming vulnerable—and threatened—so are both the U.S. and Britain! That is why we all need to pay attention! Keep watching closely, because the fate of Israel is directly tied to the fate of the U.S. and Britain.

Request your free copy of The United States and Britain in Prophecy for more insight into the biblical significance of these nations, and the earthshaking events they will soon be involved in.