{"id":103573,"date":"2023-04-14T17:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=103573"},"modified":"2023-04-14T14:22:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T12:22:40","slug":"21-00-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=103573","title":{"rendered":"Lawyer group calls for UN to fire \u2018special rapporteur\u2019 Francesca Albanese"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Lawyer group calls for UN to fire \u2018special rapporteur\u2019 Francesca Albanese<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

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The U.N. official who has previously compared Israelis to Nazis tweeted the opposite of condolences for three Israeli Jewish women and an Italian murdered days apart by terrorists<\/span>.<\/strong>
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\nA press briefing by Francesca Albanese, U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City on Oct. 27, 2022. Credit: Lev Radin\/Shutterstock.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

(April 11, 2023 \/ JNS)<\/span> Israel suffered a spate of deadly terror attacks at the end of last week: Two young Jewish sisters, and their mother, were shot on April 7, the second day of Passover, and an Italian tourist<\/a> was hit by a car in Tel Aviv. While many worldwide mourned in response, Francesca Albanese\u2014herself Italian\u2014took to Twitter to politicize the deadly events.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe loss of life in the occupied Palestinian territory and Israel is devastating, especially at a time that should be of peace for all, Christians, Jews, Muslims,\u201d Albanese, U.N. special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, tweeted<\/a> on April 8.<\/span><\/p>\n

She added that \u201cIsrael has a right to defend itself, but can\u2019t claim it when it comes to the people it oppresses,\u201d whose \u201clands it colonizes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Albanese has a reputation for such comments. In January, a bipartisan group of nearly a dozen members of Congress called for her to be fired<\/a>. The unrepentant U.N. official has compared Israelis to Nazis and said, during an event attended by senior members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad\u2014both terrorist groups according to the United States and the European Union\u2014\u201cYou have a right to resist this occupation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

On April 11, the International Legal Forum and Italian lawyer Barbara Pontecorvo sent a letter to Ant\u00f3nio Guterres and Volker T\u00fcrk\u2014U.N. secretary-general and high commissioner for human rights, respectively\u2014calling for Albanese to be fired.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFurthermore, we called to abolish her entire mandate altogether and suggested the U.N. would be far better served by replacing it with a special rapporteur for combating antisemitism instead,\u201d Arsen Ostrovsky, CEO of the International Legal Forum, told JNS.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ostrovsky and Pontecorvo cited the U.N. code of conduct for special rapporteurs, which directs them to be guided by \u201cimpartiality and objectivity.\u201d With Albanese, who displays \u201cpersistent, ongoing and blind bias and hostility,\u201d there \u201cis not even the pretext of these values,\u201d the two wrote. \u201cHow much longer can the United Nations tolerate this?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnt\u00f3nio Guterres and the U.N. leadership repeatedly claim that combating all forms of racial hatred and intolerance are sacrosanct goals of the U.N., yet Jew-hatred at the Human Rights Council is the one type of hatred that continues unabated,\u201d Ostrovsky told JNS.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs long as the U.N. allows Albanese to continue in this role and her irredeemably one-sided mandate to continue, they are legitimizing antisemitism and endorsing violence against Jews,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Albanese is evidently aware of the press coverage her remarks have received. She took to Twitter<\/a> again to say that she is \u201cdisheartened\u201d to see her words misrepresented and decontextualized.<\/span><\/p>\n

She then used language that questions the elasticity of \u201cimpartiality and objectivity,\u201d again referring to Israeli \u201cmilitary occupation\u201d and \u201cdenying Palestinians their rights for 56 years,\u201d in addition to Israeli actions serving to \u201cstoke the flames of violence, perpetuating a cycle of needless suffering for both sides.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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