Francesca Albanese
René Cassin’s legacy is “distorted” by the use of his name to honor Francesca Albanese, long accused of antisemitism, the Jewish groups said.
“It is very clear that journalists should never come under any violence,” Stéphane Dujarric said, after the special rapporteur said that an attack on an Italian paper should be a “warning.”
“You have tried to curse Israel with lies and hatred, but your poison has failed,” Danny Danon told Francesca Albanese.
The U.N. adviser, with a long history of Jew-hatred, rebuked the mayor of an Italian city during an event.
A lawsuit in the United States accuses the rapporteur of smearing ministries as war criminals by claiming they enabled Israeli “genocide.”
“Calling yourself a political party does not provide you refuge from being a murderer,” Ambassador to the U.S. Yechiel Leiter said.
The Trump administration accused the U.N. adviser, who has a history of anti-Israel remarks, of “political and economic warfare” against the U.S. and Israel.
JNS repeatedly sought comment from the magazine about why it removed the quote from the U.N. adviser, who has a long history of Jew-hatred.
The United Nations has repeatedly told JNS that Albanese is an “independent expert,” whose speech and actions it cannot direct.
Francesca Albanese calls the measures “scary,” warning they threaten free speech and international engagement on Palestinian rights.
Marco Rubio, the U.S. secretary of state, said that the U.N. special rapporteur’s “campaign of political and economic warfare against the United States and Israel will no longer be tolerated.”
The businessman son of Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union cites a report accusing the company of profiting off “genocide” in Gaza, calling the global body “transparently antisemitic.”
