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April 14, 2022

New U.N. human rights "expert" posted support for Palestinian terror icon

Francesca Albanese (Photo courtesy Twitter)
"Disturbing anti-Israel posts by the new UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine raise further questions about her suitability for the role following the controversy over her appointment last week.

Israel has already objected 'in the strongest terms' to Italian legal expert Francesca Albanese being chosen for what is at least nominally a politically neutral role.

She has described Israel’s 'occupation' as a 'colonial project that has turned into apartheid'.

Now online investigators GnasherJew have uncovered further material that seems to make absurd any notion of Ms Albanese maintaining neutrality.

In one post in 2015, she celebrated terrorist Leila Khaled, a leader in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Alongside a news story on Electronic Intifada, which revealed 'Palestinian resistance icon Leila Khaled' was to tour South Africa, Ms Albanese wrote: 'Go Leila go!'

The same year, she shared a story about a border official in Latin America who drew a picture of a penis on the passport of an Israeli citizen and wrote 'Viva Palestinia'.

She also shared a post likening Israelis to the Nazis. It featured two pictures of soldiers. The accompanying text read: 'In the first pic, a Nazi soldier, a dog, a man on the ground – who is a Jew. In the second pic, an Israeli soldier, a dog, a man on the ground – who is a Palestinian.'...”
Date
April 14, 2022
Title
U.N. rapporteur posted support for terror ‘icon’, The Jewish Chronicle
Author(s)
Kirsty Buchanan
Original Source
https://www.thejc.com/news/world/un-rapporteur-posted-support-for-terror-icon-5wOpJTbNWvECfZ2YWwQHwH
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