UN secretary-general won’t condemn official accused of antisemitism; US said to grant visa for visit

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is erstwhile again nether occurrence for not speaking retired against Francesca Albanese, the arguable U.N. peculiar rapporteur connected the occupied Palestinian territories, who has been condemned for being antisemitic.

Albanese is traveling to the U.S. to contiguous her latest report, "Genocide arsenic assemblage erasure," earlier the Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly, which oversees social, humanitarian and taste issues. 

Albanese’s report, present wide circulated among subordinate authorities representatives, shows "the masks are off," according to Anne Bayefsky, president of Human Rights Voices and manager of the Touro University Institute connected Human Rights and the Holocaust.

"Albanese's people is the demolition of the Jewish state, period," Bayefsky said, claiming Albanese’s study is "a new, unhinged rant — translated, reproduced and dispersed crossed the satellite by the United Nations — utterly ignorant of determination and spiritual history.

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Francesca Albanese, United Nations peculiar rapporteur connected the rights concern successful the Palestinian territories, astatine a property league during a league of the U.N. Human Rights Council successful Geneva March 27, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images)

"[Albanese] claims the Jewish radical are colonists successful Israel and person been engaged successful a genocidal sidesplitting spree arsenic portion of ‘a century-long project.’ It would beryllium laughable, if her hate-mongering and incitement to unit were not truthful deadly."

Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the U.N., told Fox News Digital Albanese "failed successful her relation arsenic peculiar rapporteur for the U.N. She has nary involvement successful the payment of Israelis oregon mean Gazans but has alternatively shown to favour spreading hate. Time and again, she has succeeded successful continuing to peddle unsafe antisemitic tropes and openly supporting the Hamas terrorists occupying Gaza." 

He besides had a informing to U.S. colleges, saying Albanese’s "latest reports amusement however heavy her antisemitism runs," adding she "should not beryllium allowed adjacent immoderate acquisition institutions wherever she tin dispersed her vicious antisemitism nether the emblem of the U.N." 

On Oct. 17, Albanese retweeted a diatribe that accused the Jewish authorities of "blood lust," calling it a "must-read for the ages." 

Accompanying the nonfiction was a cartoon featuring a idiosyncratic successful a respirator and hazmat suit bearing the Israeli emblem and an American emblem lapel pin with bloodied hands giving 2 thumbs up. Bayefsky said the representation is "classic antisemitism." 

In this representation made from UNTV video, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres speaks during a U.N. Security Council gathering connected COVID-19 betterment Feb. 17, 2021, astatine U.N. office successful New York.  (AP)

Fox News Digital asked Farhan Haq, lawman spokesperson for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, whether the secretary-general could censure Albanese for her antisemitic commentary and whether Guterres believes Albanese is acting successful accordance with the U.N. Code of Conduct. 

Haq said "on principle" Guterres does not "comment connected rapporteurs" and has nary authorization to terminate Albanese oregon trim her salary. 

Asked astir her antisemitic remarks, Haq said the U.N. Chief "is firmly opposed to antisemitism, from anyone."

Albanese’s critics accidental she is not abiding by the U.N. Code of Conduct for peculiar procedures mandate holders of the Human Rights Councils, which states that "all quality rights indispensable beryllium treated successful a just and adjacent manner," and that mandate holders indispensable "uphold the highest standards of … probity, impartiality, equity, honesty and bully faith."

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Anti-Israel protesters rally astatine Moore Square successful Raleigh, N.C., Oct. 5, 2024. (The Image Direct for Fox News Digital)

Pascal Sim, U.N. Human Rights Council spokesperson, was asked by Fox News Digital whether the assembly mightiness censure Albanese for her behaviour and antisemitism oregon relieve her of her position. 

Sim said "the positions of the Human Rights Council are expressed successful the decisions, resolutions and statesmanlike statements its 47 subordinate states follow astatine the extremity of each of its sessions." He further explained that "as of now, I person nary accusation astir what the assembly whitethorn oregon whitethorn not bash regarding immoderate peculiar procedures mandate holders beyond what was precocious decided astatine the conscionable concluded 57th session."

Bayefsky said the nonaccomplishment to code Albanese’s behaviour is infuriating. 

"In 1 much scandal, U.N. Secretary-General Guterres is bending implicit backwards to support Albanese alternatively than her victims," Bayefsky said.

Bayefsky said "absolutely thing would forestall him from denouncing her antisemitic behavior, calling for her dismissal and submitting the lawsuit of her flagrant usurpation of U.N. codes of behaviour to his ain U.N. bureau of ineligible affairs for adjacent steps."

An anti-Israel motion astatine a protestation adjacent Tulane University successful New Orleans.  (Ryan Zamos)

Albanese did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for remark astir allegations of antisemitism. 

Albanese tweeted Oct. 24 that she was "disappointed" by "spurious, recycled allegations against me," and she claimed to beryllium "profoundly committed to quality rights for each people." 

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Destroyed cars and idiosyncratic effects are inactive scattered astir the Supernova Music Festival site, wherever hundreds were killed and dozens taken by Hamas terrorists adjacent the borderline with Gaza Oct. 13, 2023, successful Kibbutz Re'im, Israel.  (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Hillel Neuer, enforcement manager of United Nations Watch, replied to her connected X, claiming, "When we brought to the U.N. victims from Iran, China, Russia, Syria, & North Korea, you ne'er said a connection for them."

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Asked whether Albanese’s antisemitic statements are a interest arsenic she prepares to circuit U.S. colleges, a State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital "the U.S. firmly concludes that [Albanese] is unfit for her relation oregon immoderate relation successful the United Nations. Our committedness to upholding quality rights for each is unwavering, and we volition proceed to basal against antisemitism."  

The spokesperson besides described however U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Council Michèle Taylor and U.S. Special Envoy connected Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt person precocious expressed "strong disapproval" of Albanese.

Statements posted connected X by some U.S. ambassadors condemned Albanese's antisemitism. Thomas-Greenfield wrote successful portion connected X that, "There is nary spot for antisemitism from U.N. affiliated officials tasked with quality rights," portion the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Council, Michèle Taylor, called the U.N. official's words erstwhile comparing Israel's premier curate to Hitler as, "Reprehensible and antisemitic."

Fox News Digital besides asked whether the State Department intended to artifact Albanese’s question oregon restrict her movements to the contiguous vicinity astir the U.N., an enactment it has antecedently taken with unfriendly overseas diplomats traveling connected United Nations business. 

A State Department spokesperson said the section could not remark fixed that "visa records are confidential nether U.S. law."

Francesca Albanese, the U.N.'s peculiar rapporteur connected the Palestinian territories, attends a forum successful Tunis, Tunisia, May 11, 2024. (Mohamed Mdalla/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Bayefsky condemned the State Department’s refusal to bounds Albanese’s travel, fixed that she "is successful the concern of promoting, spreading and inciting convulsive antisemitism. The State Department is expected to beryllium successful the concern of protecting Jewish Americans from the inflammatory hatred of an planetary visitor. 

"The United States is surely nether nary obligation, arsenic the U.N. big country, to facilitate her question extracurricular the U.N. arsenic portion of her treacherous effort to scope American campuses. If the State Department refuses to bash its occupation and bounds her visa accordingly, past they are aiding and abetting the dispersed of antisemitism crossed America."

The Anti-Defamation League reported that Albanese’s assemblage circuit would see visits to Georgetown University, Barnard College and Princeton. She is besides reportedly owed to talk astatine John Jay College successful New York City during her U.S. visit.