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The UNESCO claim seems to be false, too. There is no mention of al-Qarawiyyin in UNESCO's description of the Medina of Fez: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/170
In any case, UNESCO make it crystal clear that they only publish the nomination description, which is written by the state party (in this case the Government of Morocco). UNESCO understandably and explicitly disclaim the description documents, and only publish them for transparency.
I do wish we didn't have these reality-distorting memes everywhere. Leave them to the far right - they don't do Islam any favours, and they piss off real historians.
This is cited from 2012 according to Wikipedia. Archived versions can be accessed in the citations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_al-Qarawiyyin
This article from BBC in 2018 also makes the same mention:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20180318-the-worlds-oldest-centre-of-learning