(JTA/JUF News) – A United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization resolution, adopted April 15 in Paris, does not recognize a Jewish connection to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount and calls Israel an “occupying power.”

Six months after the organization decided not to classify the Western Wall as a solely Muslim site, the measure refers to the Western Wall as Al-Buraq Plaza and to the Temple Mount as the Al-Aksa Mosque/Al-Haram Al Sharif.

It also criticizes Israel for its decision to build an egalitarian prayer area in the Western Wall Plaza and for “illegal measures against the freedom of worship” at the “Muslim holy site of worship.”

The resolution refers to the cities of Hebron and Bethlehem as solely Muslim, and raps Israeli control over the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Rachel’s Tomb, both in Hebron.

In a statement, David T. Brown, chair of JUF’s Jewish Community Relations Council, and JUF Assistant Vice President Steven Dishler said that the passage of the resolution, which ” … rewrites history and denies the Jewish People’s ancient connection to its most holy sites is an affront not just to Jews everywhere, but to all who cling to any semblance of historical reality.”

Read the full JCRC statement here .

France, Spain, Sweden, Russia and Slovenia were some of the UNESCO state members that supported the resolution; only six states voted against it — Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.