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That loquacious woman at the UN, who in her comical moments seems to be a hybrid of John Bolton & Nikki Haley under a black halloween facemask, called the UN Rapporteur Albanese an anti-semite.
Where did we hear that one before?
UN should consider suspending Israel over ‘genocide’ against Palestinians, says special rapporteur
Francesca Albanese, who was stopped from appearing at US Congress this week, said Israel defied UN resolutions
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
Thu 31 Oct 2024 18.20 GMT
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The UN should consider suspending Israel as a member state due to its continuing “genocide” against the Palestinians, the divisive special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories has said.
Francesca Albanese was speaking to a UN committee on the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people in New York the day after she published her latest report alleging that Israel was not just committing war crimes or crimes against humanity in Gaza, but a genocide.
“It is time to consider suspending the credentials of Israel as a member state of the UN,” she said. “I understand the sensitivity because none of you have clean hands when it comes to human rights.”
She said no other country had defied so many UN resolutions for so long.
In her report, Albanese claimed: “Israel has pursued a pattern of conduct ‘deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction’.”
She is a divisive UN rapporteur, and was prevented from holding a briefing at the US Congress this week. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the UN, described her in a tweet as unfit for office, adding: “The United Nations should not tolerate antisemitism from a UN-affiliated official hired to promote human rights.”
Albanese said she was right to insist on the term “genocide”, adding: “Palestinians had experienced war crimes all their lives, but this was different. It is very important to understand why this is recognised as a genocide. In the same way as international community has failed to protect the victims of genocide in the case of the Jewish people in Europe and then Bosnians in former Yugoslavia and the Tutsi in Rwanda, in the same way we are failing the Palestinians.”
She accepted that determining a genocide is complex due to the need to prove intent, but she claimed Israel’s intent was the destruction of Palestinian life.
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Her report claimed: “The focus should be on whether all the acts – eg starvation, torture, killing, forced displacement, extermination – considered together in their totality form a pattern of conduct indicative of genocidal intent.”
In her report, Albanese argued: “Genocide is not a crime only of mass killing, as specified in the convention itself. The genocidal act of ‘forcibly transferring children of the group to another group’, for example, entails no killing at all.”
The term genocide has been routinely used by pro-Palestinian protesters, as well as by many Arab leaders. The international court of justice has said there is a plausible case that a genocide is being committed, but has not gone any further.
The leadership of the UK’s governing Labour party is facing a backlash from Britain’s pro-Palestinian Arab community over its refusal to describe the Israeli attacks in Gaza as a genocide.
At prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, Keir Starmer said: “I have never described what is going on in Gaza as genocide, but I do agree that all sides should comply with international law”. Earlier in the week the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, said he thought the use of the term was inappropriate, explaining genocides were normally associated with mass killings, such as in Rwanda.
A group of 300 UK Arab figures – including Sabah al-Mukhtar, the leader of the Arab Lawyers network, and Adnan Hmidan, the vice-president of the Palestinian Forum in the UK – in a joint statement accused Lammy of disregarding “international law standards which classify systematic targeting and destruction of civilians and the obstruction of humanitarian aid as clear indicators of genocidal intent”.
Separately, the SNP MP Chris Law said in a letter to Lammy: “Your suggestion that the way people use terms such as annihilation, extermination and genocide to describe what Israel is doing to the Palestinians ‘undermines their seriousness’ reveals blatant contempt for the fundamental rights and very lives of Palestinians. Over 42,000 people, of which 15,000 are children, have been killed by Israeli forces. It should not require 1 million Palestinians to be killed for claims of genocide to be taken seriously.”
He argued that the term genocide was not determined by the numbers killed but, as set out in the genocide convention, by the specific intent of those committing the acts.
He also pointed out that previously the UK had been willing to term the massacre of approximately 8,000 Muslims in Srebenica as a genocide, and had used the term in relation to the treatment of the Yazidi people.
“That loquacious woman at the UN, who in her comical moments seems to be a hybrid of John Bolton & Nikki Haley under a black halloween facemask, called the UN Rapporteur Albanese an anti-semite.
Where did we hear that one before?
UN should consider suspending Israel over ‘genocide’ against Palestinians, says special rapporteur
Francesca Albanese, who was stopped from appearing at US Congress this week, said Israel defied UN resolutions
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor
Thu 31 Oct 2024 18.20 GMT
Share
The UN should consider suspending Israel as a member state due to its continuing “genocide” against the Palestinians, the divisive special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories has said.
Francesca Albanese was speaking to a UN committee on the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people in New York the day after she published her latest report alleging that Israel was not just committing war crimes or crimes against humanity in Gaza, but a genocide.
“It is time to consider suspending the credentials of Israel as a member state of the UN,” she said. “I understand the sensitivity because none of you have clean hands when it comes to human rights.”
She said no other country had defied so many UN resolutions for so long.
In her report, Albanese claimed: “Israel has pursued a pattern of conduct ‘deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction’.”
She is a divisive UN rapporteur, and was prevented from holding a briefing at the US Congress this week. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the UN, described her in a tweet as unfit for office, adding: “The United Nations should not tolerate antisemitism from a UN-affiliated official hired to promote human rights.”
Albanese said she was right to insist on the term “genocide”, adding: “Palestinians had experienced war crimes all their lives, but this was different. It is very important to understand why this is recognised as a genocide. In the same way as international community has failed to protect the victims of genocide in the case of the Jewish people in Europe and then Bosnians in former Yugoslavia and the Tutsi in Rwanda, in the same way we are failing the Palestinians.”
She accepted that determining a genocide is complex due to the need to prove intent, but she claimed Israel’s intent was the destruction of Palestinian life.
US attempts to broker ceasefire as civilians killed in Lebanon and Israel
Read more
Her report claimed: “The focus should be on whether all the acts – eg starvation, torture, killing, forced displacement, extermination – considered together in their totality form a pattern of conduct indicative of genocidal intent.”
In her report, Albanese argued: “Genocide is not a crime only of mass killing, as specified in the convention itself. The genocidal act of ‘forcibly transferring children of the group to another group’, for example, entails no killing at all.”
The term genocide has been routinely used by pro-Palestinian protesters, as well as by many Arab leaders. The international court of justice has said there is a plausible case that a genocide is being committed, but has not gone any further.
The leadership of the UK’s governing Labour party is facing a backlash from Britain’s pro-Palestinian Arab community over its refusal to describe the Israeli attacks in Gaza as a genocide.
At prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, Keir Starmer said: “I have never described what is going on in Gaza as genocide, but I do agree that all sides should comply with international law”. Earlier in the week the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, said he thought the use of the term was inappropriate, explaining genocides were normally associated with mass killings, such as in Rwanda.
A group of 300 UK Arab figures – including Sabah al-Mukhtar, the leader of the Arab Lawyers network, and Adnan Hmidan, the vice-president of the Palestinian Forum in the UK – in a joint statement accused Lammy of disregarding “international law standards which classify systematic targeting and destruction of civilians and the obstruction of humanitarian aid as clear indicators of genocidal intent”.
Separately, the SNP MP Chris Law said in a letter to Lammy: “Your suggestion that the way people use terms such as annihilation, extermination and genocide to describe what Israel is doing to the Palestinians ‘undermines their seriousness’ reveals blatant contempt for the fundamental rights and very lives of Palestinians. Over 42,000 people, of which 15,000 are children, have been killed by Israeli forces. It should not require 1 million Palestinians to be killed for claims of genocide to be taken seriously.”
He argued that the term genocide was not determined by the numbers killed but, as set out in the genocide convention, by the specific intent of those committing the acts.
He also pointed out that previously the UK had been willing to term the massacre of approximately 8,000 Muslims in Srebenica as a genocide, and had used the term in relation to the treatment of the Yazidi people.
For far too long, Albanese has abused her UN mandate to spread Hamas propaganda. She is the first UN special rapporteur in history to be condemned by France, Germany and the U.S. for antisemitism.
On top of this, she refuses to disclose her expenses or payments illegally received by her office from non-UN actors.”
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Enough is enough. Francesca Albanese must be removed from her position immediately. For far too long, Francesca Albanese has abused her UN mandate to spread Hamas propaganda. The list of her disgraceful statements and actions that promote antisemitism and terrorism is vast: 1. Albanese...
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Every Rapporteur gets attacked by Israel.
Every single one.
She's great, its genocidal zionists who are the problem.
It is not surprising Israel condemns the anti-Israel statements by the UN . But the quote literally reads “condemned by France, Germany and the U.S.”
It doesn't need that qualifier at all.
This is a US/Israeli war on Arabs, we know that the US has funded 73% of the genocide.
France is turning on Israel and Germany has a long history supporting genocides.
Zionists are trying to argue that its antisemitic to be against genocide and aparthied.
There were only 14 countries that voted against the UN resolution demanding Israel end the occupation of Palestine within a year and pay restitution.
You need to admit that the world is against zionism and the occupation Palestine.
Mullahs’ call for “Death to Israel, and death to America” (and Canada) comes to mind lol.
You keep pushing the UN vote as the evidence “the world” spoke, although we know that the UN is a corrupt, irrelevant organization consisting mostly of dictatorships and third world countries, and every one there is simply pushing their political interests.
'Death to Arabs' comes to mind as well.
You keep backing Israel as if Netanyahu wasn't using genocide to stall his corruption trial.
The youth prob. been upset with the terrorists.
Note that in that video Israel security keeps the wild crowd at bay protecting the arabs.
Do you want me to post videos from the annual Flag March for the last few years next?
Zionists show exactly the same kind of racist hate you think justifies killing Palestinians.
The difference is that zionism is presently committing genocide with the US paying 73% of the bill.
We don’t know if the clip is real. The singing and lips movements do not seem to align well. I don’t have the capacity to analyze the coy and verily the translation. Prob. a patriotic response to the Oct 7 massacre.
Regardless, the Gaza war can stop tomorrow if hamas capitulates and releases the hostages. Direct your energy there.
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That's why the fact that Germany, France and the US are attacking her is significant. It's not just Israel.
This a war between Israel and Hamas.
Rapporteurs are supposed to be neutral. Three of the world's most powerful democracies say that she is not.
You think calling for genocide is patriotic?
Hostages?
The same reason they are attacking the ICC and ICJ, Shazi.
The same reason they kill journalists.
They can't win in court.
This is the US/Israeli war on Arabs.
Its a genocide on Palestinians, attacks on Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Iran.
Ya right keep feeding yourself with that BS.
Those imprisoned in Israel are jihadis and criminals. The likes of Sinwar.
You mean 'Palestinians' or 'Muslims', right?
