Israel/Palestine

US Congress members call on UN leadership to remove antisemitic official

18 House representatives urge firing of Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, citing recent refusal to condemn terror, and call to end Commission of Inquiry into Israel

A bipartisan group of US Congress members has urged United Nations leadership to remove a Palestinian rights investigator from her position, due to her antisemitism and anti-Israel bias.

The lawmakers said UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s past comments and recent refusal to condemn Palestinian terror attacks “patently demonstrate her strong bias against Israel.” “Her biased behaviors should have no place at the United Nations, and clearly demonstrate the lack of impartiality,” the 18 House representatives said.

Albanese said during a 2014 conflict between Israel and Gaza terror groups that the “Jewish lobby” was in control of the United States.

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.