{"id":394,"date":"2023-01-25T22:25:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T21:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlus.newweapons.org\/?p=394"},"modified":"2023-01-25T22:25:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T21:25:50","slug":"congress-members-urge-removal-of-un-official-for-antisemitism-exposed-by-toi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlus.newweapons.org\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Congress members urge removal of UN official for antisemitism exposed by ToI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>11 House representatives call on UN chief to oust Palestinian rights official Francesca Albanese for comments, saying her anti-Jewish bias \u2018undermines credibility<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/onlus.newweapons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Untitled-1-3-640x400-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlus.newweapons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Untitled-1-3-640x400-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/onlus.newweapons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Untitled-1-3-640x400.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UNITED NATIONS \u2014 US Congress members on Monday called for the removal of a UN Palestinian rights official over antisemitic comments exposed by The Times of Israel.<\/p>\n<p>UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, who is tasked with investigating Israeli activities in the Palestinian territories, has a history of antisemitism but has not faced any repercussions from the UN or issued a clear apology.<\/p>\n<p>Albanese said during a 2014 conflict between Israel and Gaza terror groups that the \u201cJewish lobby\u201d was in control of the United States.<br \/>\nIsrael\u2019s Judiciary: Reform or Ruin?<\/p>\n<p>She has also sympathized with terror organizations, dismissed Israeli security concerns, compared Israelis to Nazis, accused the Jewish state of potential war crimes, said Israel controlled the BBC, and claimed that the Jewish state started wars out of greed.<\/p>\n<p>Albanese attempted to distance herself from the comments in a statement to The Times of Israel, but since the report exposing the comments last month, has denied that the comments are antisemitic and brushed off criticism as \u201cyet another politically motivated attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>as NWRG Onlus we defend the rights and approach thriugh international law adopted by previousand specialtapporteur and bythe internal special commission of UNHR council on Israel Palestine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 House representatives call on UN chief to oust Palestinian rights official Francesca Albanese for comments, saying her anti-Jewish bias \u2018undermines credibility UNITED NATIONS \u2014 US Congress members on Monday called for the removal of a UN Palestinian rights official over antisemitic comments exposed by The Times of Israel. UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senza-categoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlus.newweapons.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlus.newweapons.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlus.newweapons.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlus.newweapons.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlus.newweapons.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlus.newweapons.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/onlus.newweapons.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlus.newweapons.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlus.newweapons.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlus.newweapons.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}