{"id":7057,"date":"2025-03-19T20:23:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T20:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=7057"},"modified":"2025-03-19T20:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T20:23:36","slug":"un-official-says-germany-tried-to-silence-her-over-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=7057","title":{"rendered":"UN official says Germany tried to silence her over Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese has accused Germany of trying to silence her for talking about Israel\u2019s \u201cgenocidal war\u201d in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>In a piece for Zeteo, she highlights that during her five-day trip to Germany, she was unable to deliver a series of lectures or attend debates about the ongoing conflict due to interference from pro-Israeli groups and Israeli and German officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I was aware of the challenges of discussing Palestine\/Israel in Germany, I was expecting it to be not unlike my last visit in May 2024, when I \u2026 met with dozens of think tanks and civil society representatives eager to discuss my work,\u201d Albanese wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut instead, my five-day visit descended into a chaotic trip full of harassment, cancellations, attacks on organisers, changing venues, and even threats of arrest over my comments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Albanese continued: \u201cWhat I witnessed was a harsh deviation from democratic values and a troubling shrinking landscape for freedom of expression and other fundamental rights.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese has accused Germany of trying to silence her for talking about Israel\u2019s \u201cgenocidal war\u201d in Gaza. In a piece for Zeteo, she highlights that during her five-day trip to Germany, she was unable to deliver a series of lectures or attend debates about the ongoing conflict due to interference from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7059,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057\/revisions\/7059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}