Israel lobby groups have spread doctored quotes by UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Francesca Albanese to defame her. Their desperate campaign is a testament to her work and the threat she poses by holding Israel accountable for genocide.

On February 13, Agnes Callamard, the Secretary General of Amnesty International, issued a public statement condemning the five European foreign ministers who had called for Albanese’s head based on “a deliberately truncated video to misrepresent and gravely misconstrue her messages.” Callamard then contrasted the vehemence of these ministers’ attacks on Albanese with their sotto voce approach to the Israeli genocide in Gaza:

“If only these minsters had been as loud and forceful in confronting a state committing genocide, unlawful occupation and apartheid as they have in attacking a UN expert. Their cowardice and refusal to hold Israel accountable stand in stark contrast to the Special Rapporteur’s unwavering commitment to speaking truth to power.”

  • fuwa@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    In all honestly, she could use a bit more thinking before speaking (strategic thinking).

    Not that what she says isn’t true (BTW what has been attributed to her - ie. that Israel * is an enemy of humanity - is also true), or that the way she is being persecuted (by people who make a banner of “freedom of speech”) is anything but fascist…

    The point is, if our goal is to obtain any tangible results, we need persuasion more than confrontation, and diplomats more than martyrs.

    Public opinion was slowly moving in the right direction before the current (so-called) truce… we should go back to talking about the miserable living (and dying!) conditions of the Gazawis (BTW: we should talk more about the West Bank, too).

    We need to keep the focus on the victims, not on the assassins.

    We need to make people see what their governments are supporting, and what they themselves are allowing to happen.

    We need the massacre to stop.

    Justice will come afterwards (and it will be far too late anyway, so who the fuck cares?).

    * the current Israeli government, not the people or the nation of course. That I even feel obligated to clarify this says a lot about the current state of the public debate.

    • mrdown@lemmy.world
      21·
      1 month ago

      What the hell is that bullshit. Don’t dictate how anti occupation and anti genocide people talk and no the problem is not the current israeli governement, all their governments since the terrorist state creation is definitely the nation and the majority of israeli who always voted for occupation despite fair elections

    • fuwa@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      What I’m trying to say is that, as much as that may make us feel superior, we don’t need to win arguments and, let alone having fascists recognize we are right, we don’t even need to be right in the first place.

      I’ll give you a (surreal, thought-experiment-like) example:

      Would a blanket amnesty for all of Netanyahu’s crimes be “right”? Should we support it, if it meant stopping the massacre?

      • mrdown@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 month ago

        Netenyahu should rot in hell but all former israeli prime ministers alive. Making it only about Netenyahu is so disrespectful to all those palestinians murdered during other prime ministers of israel. All countries should abondon Israel before someone worse than Netenyahu got in power