Watchdog org calls for sanctions against UN appointee accused of antisemitism

EXCLUSIVE — A United Nations watchdog enactment is calling connected Secretary of State Marco Rubio to instrumentality enactment against an appointee of the planetary assemblage whose 2nd word is acceptable to statesman connected May 1.

In a missive to Rubio, U.N. Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer argues that the U.S. authorities should authorisation and contradict introduction and visas to Francesca Albanese, the U.N. Special Rapporteur connected the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Additionally, helium called for Albanese to beryllium stripped of diplomatic immunity.

Neuer describes Albanese successful his missive arsenic being "pro-Hamas" and says her reappointment was done "illegally."

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

UN OFFICIAL REAPPOINTED DESPITE ACCUSATIONS OF ANTISEMITISM

"Her purported reappointment this period was illegally carried retired successful usurpation of explicit U.N. rules requiring probe of her misconduct, rendering her word renewal null and void," Neuer wrote.

When speaking with Fox News Digital, Neuer pointed to the DOJ’s caller determination to let lawsuits against the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine) arsenic grounds that Rubio has the quality to enactment against Albanese.

Neuer argued that the U.S. should enactment utilizing a akin rule to the 1 utilized successful cases against anti-Israel agitators, specified arsenic Mahmoud Khalil. He besides wrote that "Albanese’s maltreatment of a planetary level to dispersed hatred and legitimize coercion demands an unequivocal response."

"Legally, it's precise wide to maine — I utilized to beryllium an lawyer successful Manhattan for 1 of the large instrumentality firms successful the United States — it's wide to beryllium successful immoderate due tribunal of instrumentality this benignant of procedural malpractice fraud would effect successful her not being a U.N. appointee," Neuer told Fox News Digital.

UN's Special Rapporteur connected the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, attends Maghreb-Mashreq Social Forum successful Tunis, Tunisia connected May 11, 2024. (Mohamed Mdalla/Anadolu via Getty Images)

LAWYERS FOR COLUMBIA ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVIST MAHMOUD KHALIL BLAST RUBIO EVIDENCE LETTER: 'TWO PAGES, THAT'S IT'

When asked astir U.N. Watch’s letter, Pascal Sim, Spokesperson, UN Human Rights Council, told Fox News Digital that, "Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur connected the concern of quality rights successful the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (a state mandate), was appointed by the Human Rights Council connected 1 April 2022, which was the past time of the 49th league of the Human Rights Council. She took up her relation connected 1 May 2022. Therefore, according to the "no longer than six years" principle, she tin service arsenic Special Rapporteur until 30 April 2028."

Sim besides asserted that "at nary clip has the Human Rights Council, successful immoderate ceremonial oregon informal way, been called to 'reappoint' oregon 'renew' immoderate Special Procedures mandate-holder. Whenever the Human Rights Council nominates immoderate Special Procedures mandate-holder, it does truthful with the cognition that the mandate-holder whitethorn service up to six years successful this function."

Special Rapporteur connected the concern of quality rights successful the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, speaks during a property league astatine the European office of the UN successful Geneva, Switzerland, connected Dec. 11, 2024. (REUTERS/Pierre Albouy)

Earlier this month, erstwhile the U.N. was acceptable to see Albanese’s reappointment, House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) Chair Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., urged the U.N. not to let it to spell through. 

Mast argued successful a missive to U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) President Jürg Lauber that Albanese "unapologetically" utilized her relation successful the planetary assemblage to "attempt to legitimize antisemitic tropes, portion serving arsenic a Hamas apologist."

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP

In the past, aggregate countries, including the U.S., person condemned Albanese for her remarks. In fact, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has compiled a database of antisemitic and anti-Israel statements made by Albanese passim the years. 

In October 2024, portion serving arsenic a U.N. appointee, she shared a station connected X, calling it a "must-read for the ages." In the post, writer Chris Hedges asserted that the "Israel lobby has bought and paid for Congress and the 2 ruling parties," making run donations by Zionists "a formidable obstruction to peace."

Albanese besides compared Israel’s warfare successful Gaza to the Holocaust and, successful August 2024, called the Gaza Strip a "concentration campy of the 21st century."

Fox News Digital reached retired to Francesca Albanese and the State Department for remark connected this study but did not person a effect successful clip for publication.