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The issue goes back to 2011, when UNESCO inducted Palestine as a member. Both US and Israel stopped paying their dues and later in 2019, they exited the UN agency.
To Counter Chinese Influence, US To Rejoin UNESCO
Beijing said it had no objection to the US joining
The US had officially quit UNESCO from 1 January 2019 after President Donald Trump's government denounced the agency for having an "anti-Israel" bias.
UNESCO announced Monday that the United States plans to rejoin the United Nations cultural and scientific agency — and pay more than $600 million in back dues — after a decadelong dispute sparked by the organization’s move to include Palestine as a member.