If you don't know the name Francesca Albanese by now, let me do a quick summary for you:
Francesca P. Albanese is an international lawyer and academic. On 1 May 2022, she was appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories for a three-year term.
Today, that imperial special rapporteur shared a post by one of X biggest misinformation, antisemite, paid (by, I'm guessing, I know who) account that's doxxing IDF soldiers (IOF, as he calls them will tell you everything you need to know)
But that is just the tip of the iceberg. 🧵
Based on @UNWatch @HillelNeuer, the amount of accusations against her is staggering: 1. It was revealed that UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese's trip to Australia and New Zealand cost an estimated $20,000. It was supposedly sponsored by pro-Palestinian lobby groups, who said they sponsored the trip. She then denied that they sponsored it.
This is a violation of UN rules for an external group to fund a UN expert. She denied that they are funding it.
She said the UN funded it. A look at the 2023 list of official trips to Australia will show you her trip not listed. So, according to the UN itself, this was not an official visit. 🧵 unwatch.org/uns-francesca-…
She practices issuing invoices for her lectures, for example, at Columbia University. Her assistant from her office said that Albanese told a person inviting her from Columbia University that in exchange for her lecture, there would have to be an honorarium, and they were going to issue an invoice. This is completely illegal, and the money wasn't going to go directly to Albanese. It was going to go indirectly to her office—equally illegal.
As of now, she hasn't disclosed all honoraria and payments that her office has received since her appointment in 2022. 🧵 jns.org/anti-israel-un…
Since 2021, Francesca Albanese has been running a so-called global network on the question of Palestine. This is a global network of anti-Israel activists, the most anti-Israel activists in the world. She has gathered 91 of them. They orchestrate global campaigns to target Israel, wage lawfare, and erode Israel's ability to defend itself. The members of her network include former PLO officials like Hanan Ashrawi and Diana Butu, the current Palestinian Deputy Ambassador to the UN.
She's supposed to be objective and impartial.
She's got former PLO people, sitting Palestinian Deputy Ambassador. She's got the former UN expert on Palestine, Richard Falk, who was condemned by Ban Ki-Moon for promoting the 9-11 conspiracy theory and for anti-Semitism. 🧵 jpost.com/israel-hamas-w…
As for the UNRWA situation:
One of her network members is Kjersti Berg, who works for a Scandinavian institute, the CMI, which was one of the leading groups running the so-called independent review of UNRWA, chaired by Catherine Colonna. A member of the audit, a member of the review group, which is supposed to be objectively reviewing UNRWA, was a member of Al-Banezi's network on Palestine, which was meeting to orchestrate campaigns to defend UNRWA against any criticism, to shield UNRWA from any criticism, to arrange for payments to be made from countries to UNRWA. 🧵 cmi.no/staff/kjersti-…
Their strategy included such cynical activities as they wrote, "Tell right-wing governments that if you don't give money to UNRWA, then millions of Palestinians, millions of Arabs are going to come to Europe and overwhelm you. 🧵 unwatch.org/exposed-france…
Albanese is proud of co-founding and running the “Global Network on the Question of Palestine” (GNQP). She runs it under the auspices of the Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD) in Amman, an organization she joined in November 2018 as a senior advisor.
No other co-founder is listed. However, the other leading figure behind the network appears to be Lex Takkenberg, UNRWA’s former legal counsel and chief ethics inspector.
Global Network co-leader Lex Takkenberg has boasted that their group was a key player in spreading the “genocide” libel against Israel. 🧵
November:
They tried to circumvent the US cuts when the US banned funding for UNRWA. Their strategy was to get European countries to defund the World Food Program and UNICEF, get America to send its funding to those agencies, and have Europe give more funds to UNRWA. 🧵 unwatch.org/exposed-france…
If all this is not enough, here are (as they say, "From the Horse's mouth") some of her statements lately:
Who is the Tamimi family? They are the "Lovely" parents of this one:
Here, she takes with face value the Hamas claim that the targeted attack on two Hamas officials (of course, not mentioned in the post) that triggered stored ammunition close to a refugee camp by Hamas was really an attack on civilians hiding in a refugee camp (the attack was targeted an not in the area they/she claimed):
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On the latest hostage rescue, she wrote:
While the hospitals in Gaza themselves claimed that there were less than 100 bodies that were brought after the rescue, she runs with Hamas numbers, and hours after the rescue, she can already count 600 dead/wounded.
The foreign soldiers' conspiracy was pushed by misinformation accounts and also pushed in her post (allegedly).
The debunked "aid trucks" conspiracy is also mentioned; why not? She calls it, without a shred of proof, "a humanitarian camouflage at another level."
Finally, she accuses Israel of "usage of hostages" (which is an oxymoron if I ever heard one) as the legitimization... What??? 🧵
There is an ongoing petition to fire her from her position, to expose the network she is running, and to show the UN and UNRWA hypocrisy, lies, antisemitism, and years of contributing to the situation in the area.
Sign it! actionnetwork.org/petitions/fire…
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After this historical event and the countless tears we shed after seeing 4 of our brothers and sisters back home, we must not forget the amount of propaganda that started the second the news broke and will ramp up in the following days!
1. We will see dead bodies paraded for PR and engagement. 2. We will see inflated numbers. 3. We will see the achievements not mentioned and only the "innocent civilians" deaths. 4. We will hear twisted realities and fake news.
DON'T LET THEM FOOL YOU!!! 🧵
I know that "facts" are highly unpopular today; the X and Tik-Tok facts are much more "acceptable and reliable." People swear by these "facts; they use them as education and are well-versed in the issue and the Middle East situation.
But, for me (call me old school), I still firmly believe in the actual live facts, the truth, not your subjective projection or your reverberating paid propagandists' posts.
1. All the hostages, released, dead, or still in captivity, were abducted for the sole blame of being Jews in Israel (some were not Jews). 🧵 oct7.treedis.com