What the U.N. ignores on Francesca Albanese

"During a press conference at Parliament Hill in the Canadian capital of Ottawa on Nov. 5, Francesca Albanese—the U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories—once again accused Israel of the usual. That means genocide in Gaza, apartheid, atrocities, tortures, occupation, mass arrests and even the execution of Palestinian children...

Appointed in May 2022 as the special rapporteur, Albanese has used antisemitic stereotypes and legitimized support for terrorism in her criticism of Israel. In addition to regularly portraying Israelis as Nazis and reiterating that ‘Hamas has the right to resist,’ since the terror group’s assault in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, she has systematically downplayed the atrocities committed by Palestinian terrorists by denying that the attack on Jews was a pogrom believing rather that it was a consequence of Israel’s aggressions...

In a speech to the National Press Club of Australia in November 2023, Albanese said Israel cannot claim the right of ‘self-defense’ under international law because Gaza is a territory that it occupies. The statement caused an immediate reaction from the director of the Touro Institute of Human Rights and the Holocaust, Anne Bayefsky, who slammed Albanese’s comments, saying they go ‘hand-in-hand with all her other legally indefensible claims’ regarding the conflict.

This past August, Albanese once again denied Israel’s right to self-defense, citing the West Bank’s ‘occupation’ and ‘unlawful use of force’ in one of her tweets. On another occasion, she admitted that her personal views on the Palestinian issue could compromise her objectivity.

Albanese also omitted the fact that her husband, Massimiliano Calì, worked as an economic advisor for the Palestinian Authority and authored a report entitled ‘The economic costs of Israeli occupation for the Palestinian occupied territories.’

Why didn’t the UNHRC properly scrutinize her background before hiring her?...

One cannot help but wonder how the situation got to this point with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) working as a front for Hamas in Gaza; U.N. head Guterres lamenting the elimination of Hamas terrorist and Nukhba commander Mohammad Abu Itiwi as a ‘UNRWA colleague‘; the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon-Hezbollah scandal; and, last but not least, Albanese’s appointment as special rapporteur regardless of her pro-Palestinian propaganda and networking and activity. This is indeed the darkest time for the United Nations since its formation in the wake of World War II."