Israel accuses UN expert of spreading anti-Semitism
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has accused UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese of using the UN “as a shield to spread antisemitism,” after she commented on a picture drawing a parallel between Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
A post circulating on social media juxtaposed a 1933 picture of Hitler being cheered by supporters of his Nazi Party in the Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin with that of Netanyahu being greeted by members of the US Congress after his address on Wednesday.
Albanese responded to the post on X saying: “This is precisely what I was thinking today.”
Israeli Ambassador Amir Weissbrod called on the UN to fire Albanese. “Keeping her in her job will show that the UN encourages antisemitism and doesn’t stand with the basic principles it pretends to represent: impartiality and neutrality,” he said on X.
It's what I was thinking as well.
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/02/20/695941323/when-nazis-took-manhattan
An enormous portrait of George Washington hangs alongside swastika banners and American flags at New York's Madison Square Garden in 1939 during the German American Bund's Pro American Rally.
That was a lot bigger than a speech before congress, yet the parallels are there. Except now it's against Muslims, Palestinians in particular.
EU’s Borrell says labelling UNRWA as ‘terrorist’ is ‘nonsense’
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has slammed Israel’s advance of laws labelling UNRWA as a ‘terrorist’ organisation, amid a push to discredit the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
“Outlawing UNRWA – and labelling it as terrorist, which it is not – amounts to targeting regional stability and human dignity of all those benefiting from the UN agency work,” Borrell said on X.
“We join many partners in urging the Israeli Government to halt this nonsense.”
