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Israel bans entry of UN expert for saying October 7 attack wasn’t antisemitic

Henry Ortiz Published February 13, 2024
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On Monday, Israel announced a visa ban on the United Nations special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories over recent comments denying Hamas’ October 7 attack was “antisemitic.”

The UN-appointed independent expert, Francesca Albanese, last week said she disagreed with French President Emmanuel Macron’s description of the attack, which triggered a full-blown war, as “the biggest antisemitic massacre of our century.”

“No,” Albanese wrote in French on social media platform X. “The victims of 7/10 were not killed because of their Jewishness but in response to Israeli oppression.”

Le 'plus grand massacre antisémite de notre siècle'? Non, M. @EmmanuelMacron. Les victimes du 7/10 n'ont pas été tuées à cause de leur judaïsme, mais en réaction de l'oppression d'Israël. La France & la communauté int'le n'ont rien fait pour l'empêcher. Mes respects aux victimes. https://t.co/uiXOkD7HV4

— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) February 10, 2024

Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz and Interior Minister Moshe Arbel called her online remark “outrageous” and said in a statement she was now “denied entry to the State of Israel.”

The immigration authorities had been instructed not to issue Albanese a visa, they added, also calling for her dismissal.

Israel’s ties with several UN bodies and representatives have soured since the start of its war with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.

The time for Jewish silence is past. For the @UN to regain its credibility, its leadership @antonioguterres must unequivocally renounce the anti-Semitic statements made by their "Special Envoy" @FranceskAlbs and remove her from her position immediately. Barring her entry to… https://t.co/WrPG1O9AoX

— ישראל כ”ץ Israel Katz (@Israel_katz) February 12, 2024

The ministers said in their statement that “if the UN wants to return to being a relevant body, its leaders must publicly disavow the antisemitic words of the ‘special envoy’ — and fire her immediately.”

Contacted by AFP, Albanese did not comment on the Israeli decision, which would effectively also bar her entry into the occupied West Bank.

But on her X account, she said: “I refuse to be intimidated by those complicit in the perpetuation of the Nakba,” the mass displacement of Palestinians around the time of Israel’s creation in 1948.

Albanese has previously said she was “disappointed” that the response to Macron’s comments had been interpreted as her “justifying” the Hamas attack, pointing out that she had condemned it several times.

Thank you Craig. The present is painfully revealing. I refuse to be intimidated by those complicit in the perpetuation of the #Nakba –forced displacement, killing & grave harm aimed at preventing return.Denial won't erase the tragedy,as history repeats with even greater ferocity. https://t.co/A9MqqJm8O5

— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) February 12, 2024

“Explaining these crimes as antisemitism obscures their true cause,” she has said, calling antisemitism a “global threat.”

UN special rapporteurs are unpaid, independent experts mandated by the Human Rights Council.

They do not speak for the United Nations but report their findings to the council’s fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms.

Israel has previously criticized Albanese after she and other UN-mandated rights experts said in November that Palestinians in war-battered Gaza were “at grave risk of genocide.”

Independent human rights experts:

“We remain convinced that the Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide.

The time for action is now.

Israel’s allies also bear responsibility and must act now to prevent its disastrous course of action.”https://t.co/rbxzSG8MQ9 pic.twitter.com/E0vqXg7WkS

— United Nations Geneva (@UNGeneva) November 2, 2023

She has also criticized the decision by several donor countries to suspend funding of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, over Israeli allegations that 12 staff members were involved in the October 7 attack.

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