Francesca Albanese is a fetching Italian woman. She’s telegenic and elegant. She’s also an international lawyer, an academic, and she holds a PhD in International Refugee Law. She has many academic awards and distinctions.
She is also a bigot.
Albanese’s title, presently, is the United Nations’ “special rapporteur” on Palestine.
In reality, however, she is not just an advocate for Palestinians, she’s also an advocate against Jews and the Jewish state, and she devotes herself energetically to that unwritten part of her job description.
Notably, she is coming to Canada in the next few days. Albanese is conducting a “campus tour,” says Eventbrite, which is promoting her little jaunt.
One of the sponsors of her excursion to the colonies is Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). In a detailed lawsuit filed against SJP in Virginia’s District Court in May, survivors of the Oct. 7 Nova Music Festival massacre describe SJP as the “mouthpiece for [Hamas in] North America, dedicated to sanitizing Hamas’ atrocities and normalizing its terrorism.”
So, that is who is one of the sponsors of Albanese’s visit here – a group that oversaw multiple antisemitic campus occupations across Canada, and which itself has called the Oct. 7 attack,wherein 1,200 Israeli civilians were slaughtered, 250 were taken hostage, and more than 100 woman and girls raped, “a historic win for Palestinian resistance.”
That’s who Francesca Albanese is hanging out with when she gets to Canada.
In the coming days, you will be hearing lots of debate about the Special Rapporteur for Judeophobia being welcomed at our places of higher learning. Fair-minded people, Jewish and non-Jewish, will attempt to stop her campus tour. But they will likely fail, because the parlour room bigots who run many of our universities will invoke “free speech” as a defence.
So, let’s look at that, shall we? How has Francesca Albanese exercised her free speech?
Hillel Neuer, the brilliant leader of U.N. Watch (and a Canadian), recently issued a compendious report on Albanese and her statements about Jews and the Jewish state.
Here’s just a sampling:
– “America is subjugated by the Jewish lobby.” Just seven words, there, but that sentence packs an impressive antisemitic punch, doesn’t it? Jews depicted as a cunning and manipulative foreign force: check. Jews dismissed as a grubby lobby group, and not human beings: check. Jews exercising limitless invisible powers – Jewish laser beams come to mind – over hapless North Americans: check. It’s all there. Albanese says what she means, and means what she says.
– The victims of Oct. 7 were “not killed because of their Judaism,” Albanese tut-tutted French President Emmanuel Macron in February, but because of Hamas’ “reaction to Israel’s oppression.” In that one, Albanese not only disrespected a G7 leader who helps to pay her fat six-figure salary (with big benefits, natch), she also clearly justified Hamas’ genocidal attack on Jewish and non-Jewish civilians. That sounds a lot like an indictable offence in Canada – section 318 of the Criminal Code, to wit, advocating or promoting genocide. If a Canadian said that, they’d get prosecuted. Albanese, however, is getting the red carpet.
– Albanese has called Gaza “the largest and most shameful concentration camp of the 21st Century.” In that one, Albanese did two things. One, she committed Holocaust inversion – she accused Jews, who are the literal victims of Naziism, of being Nazi-like themselves. Two, she lied. The U.S. Population Research Bureau has said this: “The Palestinian population growth rate is among the highest in the world.” Life expectancy there, says the Bureau, is “high.” Meanwhile, Palestine’s population growth outstrips Israel’s by 35%. If that’s a genocidal Nazi-like concentration camp, Francesca, it’s not a very effective one.
– Albanese actually participated in an official conference of Hamas, which is a listed terrorist entity in Canada. Yes, she did that, by video in November 2022. She told the assembled mass-murderers: “You have the right to resist this occupation.” She went on: “An occupation requires violence and generates violence.
There’s more – lots more – but you get the drift.
Francesca Albanese is a bigot who openly justifies violence and acts of terror. That’s offensive, and an offence. Canadian immigration law permits us to bar people who are likely to come here to commit an offence – we’ve successfully done so against neo-Nazis in the past.
We should do so likewise with Francesca Albanese. She is coming here to legitimize hatred against Jews and the Jewish state.
Kick her out.
Here’s just a sampling:
– “America is subjugated by the Jewish lobby.” Just seven words, there, but that sentence packs an impressive antisemitic punch, doesn’t it? Jews depicted as a cunning and manipulative foreign force: check. Jews dismissed as a grubby lobby group, and not human beings: check. Jews exercising limitless invisible powers – Jewish laser beams come to mind – over hapless North Americans: check. It’s all there. Albanese says what she means, and means what she says.
– The victims of Oct. 7 were “not killed because of their Judaism,” Albanese tut-tutted French President Emmanuel Macron in February, but because of Hamas’ “reaction to Israel’s oppression.” In that one, Albanese not only disrespected a G7 leader who helps to pay her fat six-figure salary (with big benefits, natch), she also clearly justified Hamas’ genocidal attack on Jewish and non-Jewish civilians. That sounds a lot like an indictable offence in Canada – section 318 of the Criminal Code, to wit, advocating or promoting genocide. If a Canadian said that, they’d get prosecuted. Albanese, however, is getting the red carpet.
– Albanese has called Gaza “the largest and most shameful concentration camp of the 21st Century.” In that one, Albanese did two things. One, she committed Holocaust inversion – she accused Jews, who are the literal victims of Naziism, of being Nazi-like themselves. Two, she lied. The U.S. Population Research Bureau has said this: “The Palestinian population growth rate is among the highest in the world.” Life expectancy there, says the Bureau, is “high.” Meanwhile, Palestine’s population growth outstrips Israel’s by 35%. If that’s a genocidal Nazi-like concentration camp, Francesca, it’s not a very effective one.
– Albanese actually participated in an official conference of Hamas, which is a listed terrorist entity in Canada. Yes, she did that, by video in November 2022. She told the assembled mass-murderers: “You have the right to resist this occupation.” She went on: “An occupation requires violence and generates violence.
There’s more – lots more – but you get the drift.
Francesca Albanese is a bigot who openly justifies violence and acts of terror. That’s offensive, and an offence. Canadian immigration law permits us to bar people who are likely to come here to commit an offence – we’ve successfully done so against neo-Nazis in the past.
We should do so likewise with Francesca Albanese. She is coming here to legitimize hatred against Jews and the Jewish state.
Kick her out.
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