Human Rights Council blocks watchdog chief from criticizing UN official accused of antisemitism

The United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) league successful Geneva connected Wednesday was marked by the interruption and scolding of pro-Israel speakers.

Meanwhile, those speaking against the Jewish authorities were allowed to lob insults and accusations of "genocide."

U.N. Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer was interrupted doubly portion speaking retired against United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, whose word is up for renewal. He was interrupted and yet blocked from delivering his afloat remarks.

The Permanent Observer Representative of the State of Palestine to the U.N. Ibrahim Khraishi archetypal interrupted Neuer with a "point of order." Khraishi started his remarks by saying Neuer was retired of bid and accused the U.N. watchdog main of being "affiliated with the Mossad." This assertion went unchallenged by the officials moving the session, who complained repeatedly astir "disrespectful language."

Human Rights Council astatine the United Nations successful Geneva connected Feb. 26, 2025. (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse)

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Neuer called the incidental "censorship successful its rawest form" and said it was "a time of shame for the United Nations" successful a connection to Fox News Digital.

"They fto the PLO spew slander but unopen down my microphone erstwhile I cited the words of France, Germany, Canada, and the United States. What is much ‘disrespectful’—reporting the information that democracies person condemned Francesca Albanese for antisemitism, oregon allowing a U.N.-accredited delegate to impeach a quality rights defender of being a Mossad operative?"

After the archetypal interruption, Neuer cited precedent for bringing a ailment against a U.N. authoritative successful the assembly session. However, Khraishi erstwhile again objected and, astatine that point, the U.N. authoritative moving the league moved to proceed to the adjacent talker alternatively than fto Neuer conclude.

"I was silenced today, but the information volition not be. France, Germany, Canada, the U.S., and the Netherlands person each spoken. They’ve condemned Francesca Albanese’s antisemitism. They’ve called her unfit. It’s clip for each ideology to find its voice. Silence is complicity," Neuer told Fox News Digital.

U.N. Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Neuer was not the lone pro-Israel talker who was reprimanded for their language. Touro Institute connected Human Rights and the Holocaust Director Anne Bayefsky was besides scolded. After her video was played successful the session, she was condemned for what the U.N. officials moving the league deemed to beryllium "disrespectful" and extracurricular of "acceptable limits."

"They don’t specify terrorism. They don’t sanction Hamas. Albanese and [Navi] Pillay are immune from condemnation for their atrocities. There is nary U.N. accountability. And for that the caller American medication indispensable clasp them to account," Bayefsky told Fox News Digital.

Albanese, who was appointed peculiar rapporteur successful 2022, has been condemned by the governments of aggregate countries and faced accusations of antisemitism. According to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Albanese responded to a Hamas-organized league successful Gaza by saying "you person the close to defy this occupation." That was conscionable a fewer months aft her assignment to the U.N. position.

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On Wednesday, Neuer sent an authoritative missive to Human Rights Council President Jürg Lauber urging him not to reappoint Albanese. In the letter, Neuer accuses Albanese of "routinely" violating the Code of Conduct, characterizing her breaches arsenic "widespread, systematic and grave."

"Failure to code this contented would gravely undermine the credibility of the UNHRC and awesome an unacceptable tolerance for antisemitism wrong its ranks," Neuer warned successful the letter.

Albanese’s effect to French President Emmanuel Macron calling the Oct. 7 attacks "the largest antisemitic massacre of our century" sparked backlash from France, the U.S. and Germany.

In February 2024, Albanese said that those killed connected Oct. 7 were murdered "in effect to Israel’s oppression," and not due to the fact that they were Jewish.

U.N. Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese gives a property league astatine the UN City successful Copenhagen, Denmark, connected Feb. 5, 2025. (Ritzau Scanpix/Ida Marie Odgaard via REUTERS )

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The French Mission to the U.N. condemned Albanese’s effect successful a station connected X. According to the ADL’s translation, the station read: "The October 7 massacre is the largest antisemitic massacre of the 21st century. To contradict it is wrong. To look to warrant it, by bringing successful the sanction of the United Nations, is simply a shame." This was conscionable a fewer months aft the ngo condemned her "hate code and antisemitism."

The German Mission to the U.N. backed France’s condemnation. The bureau reposted France’s station and wrote, "To warrant the horrific panic attacks of 7/10 & contradict their antisemitic quality is appalling. Making specified statements successful a U.N. capableness is simply a disgrace and goes against everything the United Nations basal for."

Michèle Taylor, who was serving arsenic the U.S. ambassador to UNHRC astatine the time, condemned Albanese’s statements "justifying, dismissing and denying the antisemitic undertones of Hamas’ October 7 onslaught are successful and of themselves antisemitic."

Fox News Digital reached retired to the Palestinian Mission to the U.N. regarding Khraishi’s accusation against Neuer and has yet to get a response.