UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has once again been targeted, this time by French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot, for her speech at the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha on Saturday, in which she denounced the entire complicit system that supported Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The term “common enemy”, which Albanese used to describe how involved the international community has been in furthering genocide in Gaza, was taken out of context and framed as a direct targeting of Israel.

“France unreservedly condemns the outrageous and reprehensible remarks made by 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,” Barrot stated. France is calling for Albanese’s resignation from her position as UN Special Rapporteur. 

It did not take long for France to find a common goal with the US. 

Nothing in Albanese’s speech singled out Israel as the common enemy of humanity. At this........

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