On Wednesday at the United Nations, UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer blasted the anti-Israel UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, for her vicious attack on Israel in which she called Israel’s attack on Hamas in Gaza a “genocide” and compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
Albanese intoned to the UN, “Following nearly six months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied Gaza, it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of and to present my finding: ‘The Anatomy Of A Genocide.’ The colonial amnesia of the West has condoned Israel’s colonial settler project from the violent history of the very birth of the State of Israel.”
Albanese then tried to turn the Palestinian slogan that calls for the eradication of Israel into a demand for equal rights, saying, “People around the world are taking to the streets, gathering, protesting, and demanding equal rights of all ‘from the river to the sea.’”
She then likened Israel’s defense of the state and its attack on the terrorist group Hamas that perpetrated the horrific October 7 massacre of more than 1200 people on Israeli soil to the Holocaust in which the Nazis murdered six million Jews in an attempt to wipe the Jewish people from history.
“The Israeli project is not only apartheid but aims at a final solution,” she claimed.
Neuer then fired back:
Ms. Albanese, your report accuses Israel of genocide. Now, at page 2, you say your report does not examine the Hamas crimes of October 7, because they are “Beyond the geographic scope of my mandate.” Now, you went on a recent official trip to Australia, all expenses paid by the U.N. Could you explain how Australia is within the geography of your mandate but not the mass murder, rape, torture committed by Hamas terrorists on October 7, invading Israel from Gaza, kidnapping hundreds of hostages including babies and Holocaust survivors? If you ignore the Hamas massacre that started the war, the 14,000 rockets fired against Israeli towns, 130 hostages now being tortured in Gaza, how can you possibly understand the war?
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He continued:
Now, although you say it’s not in your mandate, you have commented. On February 10, you mocked the statement of President Macron that October 7 constituted the greatest anti-Semitic massacre of our century. You said the victims were “not killed because of their Judaism,” but rather “in reaction to Israel’s oppression.”
In response, for the first time in history, both France and Germany condemned a U.N. rapporteur for anti-Semitism. France replied to you that “The October 7 massacre is the biggest anti-Semitic massacre of the 21st Century,” and “to deny it is wrong.” France said it was, “scandalous” and a “disgrace” for you to “appear to justify it” by “dragging in the name of the United Nations.” Germany, Madame Rapporteur, said it was “appalling” for you to “justify the horrific terror attacks” and to “deny their anti-Semitic nature.” Germany said, Madame Rapporteur, your remarks were as “disgrace.”
“We agree,” he concluded.
Never before in the history of the United Nations did France or Gemany condemn a rapporteur for antisemitism. Francesca Albanese is now the first. She says “the Jewish lobby” controls America, Israel commits genocide, and cries out “From the River to the Sea.” I took the floor: pic.twitter.com/P4H53c4EFa
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 27, 2024
