\u2022 Media reports confirm Francesca Albanese never called Israel \u2018common enemy of humanity\u2019
\n\u2022 Amnesty chief brands European ministers\u2019 refusal to retract \u2018political cowardice\u2019
\n\u2022 French lawyers file criminal complaint against Barrot over false statements
\n\u2022 Ruffalo, Bardem among over 100 celebrities rallying behind UN expert
\n\u2022 OIC warns fabricated claims risk undermining credibility of UN Human Rights Council<\/p>\n
TOP European government officials who led a smear campaign against United Nations special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, have failed to apologise or withdraw their calls for her resignation, even after multiple reports confirmed the allegations were based on a fabricated quote.<\/p>\n
France 24 and Reuters verified that Albanese did not describe Israel as the \u201ccommon enemy of humanity\u201d during a forum in Qatar earlier this month, an allegation levelled by Israeli officials and echoed by European ministers.<\/p>\n
Transcripts of the event show she was referring to a global system of finance and weaponry. Yet diplomats from France, Germany and other nations have so far declined to correct the record.<\/p>\n
Amnesty International has demanded that European states immediately withdraw their accusations. Its secretary general, Agn\u00e8s Callamard, said ministers in Austria, Czechia, France, Germany and Italy had attacked Albanese on the basis of a \u201cdeliberately truncated video\u201d that gravely misrepresented her remarks.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ministers that have spread disinformation must act beyond merely deleting their comments on social media \u2014 as some have done,\u201d Callamard said. \u201cThey must publicly apologise and retract any calls for Francesca Albanese\u2019s resignation.\u201d<\/p>\n
She described the refusal to issue corrections as political cowardice, pointing to the stark contrast between the speed with which governments condemned a UN expert and their reluctance to hold Israel accountable for actions Amnesty has characterised as genocide and apartheid.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation added its voice to the chorus of condemnations. In a statement, the bloc said the allegations were \u201cbased on misrepresented and fabricated claims\u201d regarding remarks the rapporteur neither made nor endorsed. The OIC warned that distorting the statements of UN mandate holders risked undermining the integrity of the Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n
Albanese also responded to the diplomatic fallout directly. Addressing the controversy, she clarified that her speech in Doha had identified the \u201ccommon enemy\u201d as the system enabling violence, specifically \u201cfinancial capital\u201d, \u201calgorithms\u201d and \u201cweapons\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lie was exposed. Instead of retracting it, the SYSTEM that enabled the genocide, attacks the messenger,\u201d Alban\u00adese wrote on X. \u201cFrance knows it stepped in something foul, but pride forbids correction.\u201d<\/p>\n
She noted that three European governments had accused her with a \u201cvirulence\u201d they never applied to the perpetrators of violence in Gaza, where the death toll has reportedly surpassed 72,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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