26 November, 2023. In recent weeks, there has been an alarmingly small number of official voices calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
One exception has been Francesca Albanese – the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian territories. She joins us for an interview on terminology, context and the blindspots of mainstream media.
Francesca P. Albanese is an Italian 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.
A strong opponent of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, Albanese recommended in her first report that UN member states develop “a plan to end the Israeli settler-colonial occupation and apartheid regime”. Albanese has been criticized for a comment made in 2014 in which she described the United States as “subjugated by the Jewish lobby” and Europe by a “sense of guilt about the Holocaust“, arguing that both “condemn the oppressed“ in the conflict.
During the 2023 Israel-Hamas War, Albanese called for an immediate ceasefire, warning that “Palestinians are in grave danger of a mass ethnic cleansing.” She further stated that the international community must “prevent and protect populations from atrocity crimes”, and that “accountability for international crimes committed by Israeli occupation forces and Hamas must also be immediately pursued.”
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