‘Vile hatemonger’ Francesca Albanese accused of ‘hijacking’ words of Primo Levi to condemn Israel

"Israel’s has accused UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese of being a ‘vile hatemonger’ and ‘hijacking’ the words of Primo Levi as part of a campaign to ‘spread hatred’ against the Jewish State.

Albanese, one of Israel’s most outspoken critics at the UN, posted Holocaust survivor Levi’s ‘If This is a Man’ poem through her X account on Sunday.

Responding to an Al Jazeera video about the conditions after heavy rain in Gaza, Albanese posted the poem and wrote: ‘The images of kids submerged in freezing floodwater, in flimsy tents that won’t survive another winter, make me SICK.

‘I think of Primo Levi’s words that every European learns by heart at school – only to forget when entering politics or diplomacy. The shame of our time.’

Replying to the post, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said: ‘Francesca Albanese is a vile hatemonger who deliberately desecrates Holocaust memory to spread hatred against Israel.

‘Hijacking Primo Levi’s words about Auschwitz for an antisemitic propaganda campaign is absolutely nefarious.

‘[Francesca Albanese] must go!!’..."