Sir Jack Lyons has resigned from the British UNESCO Commission after issuing a public statement protesting against the anti-Israel resolutions adopted by the UN body. Sir Jack, a prominent industrialist and a famous patron of the arts, had presided over the Shakespeare Quarter Centenary Committee which organized the 400th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. Sir Jack is Jewish. The other member of the Commission, Misha Black, the architect, remains on it.
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