The American Spectator, July 9:

It would seem that there is no limit to the hatred that the UN is willing to direct towards Israel and towards the Jewish people. While the mission of the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) is apolitical at face value, it has in practice been used as a tool for the systemic delegitimization of Israel as well as denial of Jewish and Christian claims to religious sites shared across all Abrahamic faiths. It has in the past ratified resolutions referring to Jerusalem, Israel’s capital, as an occupied city.

It has also referred to the Western Wall and Temple Mount solely by their Islamic names, and deliberately ignored the connection that Jewish and Christian people have to these sites. The Western Wall has for thousands of years been the holiest place that Jewish people have been able to pray, and the Temple Mount is, of
course, the holiest site in Judaism as well as the location where Jesus challenged Temple Authorities, likely the act which led to his crucifixion.

While UNESCO has been widely criticized for its perceived erasure of Jewish and Christian identities and holy sites, UNESCO has not been deterred from its crusade against Israel.   

UNESCO is meeting in Poland for its 41st session, which means it is time to go after Israel again with two new resolutions. The first, which passed on Tuesday, refers to Israel as an occupying power in Jerusalem and condemns the excavations and archeology projects which Israel has used to unearth Jewish artifacts from biblical times. The second, which passed on Friday, declares Hebron a Palestinian “world heritage site in danger.” Hebron is a biblical city, and home to the world’s oldest Jewish community, and
is now in the territory administered by the Palestinian Authority. Hebron also contains the Tomb of the Patriarchs, the place where Abraham is believed to have been buried.

That said, describing Tuesday’s vote on Jerusalem as a United Nations resolution could be a bit deceptive. While the United Nations is, in theory, a body for all nations, due to the anti-egalitarian and technocratic way that UN committees work, only 21 of the 193 member states participated in the UNESCO vote on Jerusalem. Only ten voted in favor of the resolution, with eight abstaining and three opposing. The nations in favor were Azerbaijan, Cuba, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Tunisia, Turkey, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. Together, these 10 nations have a population of around 503 million, or around 6.7% of the world’s population. Due to UN rules, a small biased group of mostly undemocratic nations constituting less than a majority of an already small panel, representing a fifteenth of the world’s population has the authority to deny recognition of religious sites to millions of Jews and billions of Christians. 

MY DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: I have the honor to notify you that the state of Israel has been proclaimed as an independent republic within frontiers approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its Resolution of November 29, 1947, and that a provisional government has been charged to assume the rights and duties of government for preserving law and order within the boundaries of Israel, for defending the state against external aggression, and for discharging the obligations of Israel to the other nations of the world in accordance with international law. The Act of Independence will become effective at one minute after six o'clock on the evening of 14 May 1948, Washington time.
With full knowledge of the deep bond of sympathy which has existed and has been strengthened over the past thirty years between the Government of the United States and the Jewish people of Palestine, I have been authorized by the provisional government of the new state to tender this message and to express the hope that your government will recognize and will welcome Israel into the community of nations.
Very respectfully yours,
ELIAHU EPSTEIN
Agent, Provisional Government of Israel

As a new member it appears that I cannot post links. The original correspondence can be sited at the online Truman Library

Important points to note The General assembly resolution of November 29 1947 refers to resolution 181 The UN partition Plan.  In this Resolution the City of Jerusalem was not within the borders of Israel.  As such Jerusalem was not claimed as part of the “Unilateral Declaration of Independence” made by Israel.

Under international Law a state cannot expand its territory through war and no distinction is made as to whether the war was defensive or otherwise.  Under this provision Iraqi forces were forced to withdraw from Kuwait.
Therefore Jerusalem is quite correctly and legally referred to as occupied territory