France is calling for the resignation of the UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories over comments she made allegedly targeting Israel at a conference, the foreign minister says.
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France is calling for the resignation of the UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories over comments she made allegedly targeting Israel at a conference, the foreign minister says.
“France unreservedly condemns the outrageous and reprehensible remarks made by Ms. Francesca Albanese, which are directed not at the Israeli government, whose policies may be criticized, but at Israel as a people and as a nation, which is absolutely unacceptable,” Jean-Noel Barrot tells French lawmakers.
“She is a political activist who stirs up hate speech that does a disservice to the cause of the Palestinian people,” he says, responding to a question from Carole Yadan, a lawmaker from the presidential camp. Yadan was among 20 other deputies to warn Barrot in a letter yesterday that Albanese should be “stripped of any UN mandate with immediate effect” following her remarks.
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France is calling for the resignation of the UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories over comments she made allegedly targeting Israel at a conference, the foreign minister says.
“France unreservedly condemns the outrageous and reprehensible remarks made by Ms. Francesca Albanese, which are directed not at the Israeli government, whose policies may be criticized, but at Israel as a people and as a nation, which is absolutely unacceptable,” Jean-Noel Barrot tells French lawmakers.
“She is a political activist who stirs up hate speech that does a disservice to the cause of the Palestinian people,” he says, responding to a question from Carole Yadan, a lawmaker from the presidential camp. Yadan was among 20 other deputies to warn Barrot in a letter yesterday that Albanese should be “stripped of any UN mandate with immediate effect” following her remarks.
@serge finally officials are speaking up. This should have happened when her report was so massively one-sided and outright ignored the mass murders committed by Hamas that publishing was a stain on the name of the UN.
"we as a humanity have a common enemy" -- Francesca Albanese, inciting attacks on people.
Le monde reports, too:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/02/11/france-urges-removal-of-un-rapporteur-over-remarks-on-israel_6750392_4.html -
@serge finally officials are speaking up. This should have happened when her report was so massively one-sided and outright ignored the mass murders committed by Hamas that publishing was a stain on the name of the UN.
"we as a humanity have a common enemy" -- Francesca Albanese, inciting attacks on people.
Le monde reports, too:
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/02/11/france-urges-removal-of-un-rapporteur-over-remarks-on-israel_6750392_4.html@serge Aside: I just asked our public radio station deutschlandfunk to provide an overview and check the claims, because the only video I found was from UN Watch (nothing by al jazeera themselves) and there’s no context around that so I can’t check her defense claim that she talked about "the system".
I now actually found a full version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvsXRlzthk8And with context it’s worse.
EDIT: she may have meant 80 years UN (as of 2025). Founding Israel was done *by* the UN.
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@serge Aside: I just asked our public radio station deutschlandfunk to provide an overview and check the claims, because the only video I found was from UN Watch (nothing by al jazeera themselves) and there’s no context around that so I can’t check her defense claim that she talked about "the system".
I now actually found a full version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvsXRlzthk8And with context it’s worse.
EDIT: she may have meant 80 years UN (as of 2025). Founding Israel was done *by* the UN.
@serge Germany now calls for the resignation of Francesca Albanese, too:
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/deutschland-und-frankreich-fordern-ruecktritt-von-uno-berichterstatterin-albanese-100.html -
@serge Germany now calls for the resignation of Francesca Albanese, too:
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/deutschland-und-frankreich-fordern-ruecktritt-von-uno-berichterstatterin-albanese-100.html -
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