Francesca Albanese

The UN’s anti-Israel inquisition is falling apart – finally

All three commissioners of the UNHRC’s “permanent inquiry” into Israel have abruptly quit after their colleague Albanese was hit with UN sanctions. If it was so easy to get rid of them, why wasn’t action taken sooner?

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July 17, 2025 12:52

Navi Pillay, former chair of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory in Geneva, on June 18, 2025. (Image: Getty)

Trump administration sanctions Francesca Albanese for ‘unabashed antisemitism’

Albanese authored a report, released last week, accusing companies and organisations of being complicit in Israel’s so-called “genocide” in Gaza

By JC Reporter

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July 10, 2025 08:52

Francesca Albanese, the UN's top advisor on Palestine, has seemingly suggested that the LA wildfires and Gaza War are 'connected' (Picture: Getty)

Google co-founder claims UN is ‘transparently antisemitic’ following report on tech firms’ role in Gaza War

Sergey Brin hit back at the global body’s claim that his company had profited from “genocide”

By Jacob Jaffa

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July 9, 2025 13:49

Google co-founder Sergey Brin claimed that the UN is 'transparently antisemitic' on an internal staff forum (Image: Getty)

Francesca Albanese reappointment ‘invalid’, NGO says

The anti-Israel adviser “holds no UN mandate, no immunity and can be sanctioned and denied entry,” according to Hillel Neuer of UN Watch

By JC Reporter

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May 2, 2025 16:10

Fury as UN investigator Francesca Albanese keeps role

The Special Rapporteur for the Palestinians previously made comments about a ‘Jewish lobby’ controlling America

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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April 6, 2025 10:51

Francesca Albanese has admitted that the UN 'displays some bias' against Israel (Image: Getty)

Labour MP: No place for Albanese’s ‘abhorrent’ comments on the world stage

David Taylor told the JC that the prospective renewal of her term as Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories ‘goes against everything the UN stands for’

By Lorin Bell-Cross

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April 1, 2025 10:59

By Stephen Pollard

The silence of the so-called pro-Palestinian crowd

To many activists marching every weekend in London, it appears the deaths of Gazans killed by Hamas are an irrelevance

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March 31, 2025 14:54

Protesters gather for a "Stop The War Coalition" demonstration against Israeli strikes on Gaza and Lebanon on October 5, 2024 in London, United Kingdom.

By Jake Wallis Simons

The unbearable lightness of Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell

Albanese was granted the soft treatment that her hosts would want if they were confronted with their involvement in the Iraq War

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March 25, 2025 16:19

Francesca Albanese claimed that allegation of antisemitism against her have been 'weaponised' to stifle her criticism of Israel (Image: The Rest is Politics)

‘I’m accused of being an antisemite because I criticise Israel’ claims Francesca Albanese in Rest is Politics appearance

The UN's Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian Territories has previously drawn comparisons between Benjamin Netanyahu and Adolf Hitler

By Imogen Garfinkel

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March 24, 2025 15:22