The smear campaign against UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese is the latest in a pattern of attacks aimed at silencing criticism of Israel and undermining the work of the United Nations.
Over 100 international organizations are calling for Montreal-based WSP Global Inc. to be added to the UN database of businesses operating in illegal Israeli settlements due to its role in the Jerusalem Light Rail system.
United Nation’s Special Rapporteur’s Francesca Albanese and Mary Lawlor condemn Israel’s attacks on Palestinian civil society organizations.
In a letter to UN Human Rights Council President Nazhat Khan, UN official Navi Pillay defends her colleague Miloon Kothari against accusations of antisemitism from pro-Israel groups, Israeli lawmakers, and U.S. officials following his interview with Mondoweiss, saying his comments “seem to have deliberately been taken out of context.”
The attacks on Kothari appear to be part of a concerted effort to undermine the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which the United States and Israel have opposed since it was created in 2021.
United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Miloon Kothari discusses the first report of the Pillay Commission into the “underlying root causes of recurrent tensions” in Palestine.
Michael Lynk reflects on his time as UN Special Rapporteur for the human rights situation in the Palestinian Territories.
A new UN Human Rights Council report is the latest in a series by international and Israeli groups accusing Israel of the crime of apartheid. “There are pitiless features of Israel’s ‘apartness’ rule in the occupied Palestinian territory that were not practiced in southern Africa, such as segregated highways, high walls and extensive checkpoints, a barricaded population, missile strikes and tank shelling of a civilian population, and the abandonment of the Palestinians’ social welfare to the international community,” Michael Lynk’s report said. “With the eyes of the international community wide open, Israel has imposed upon Palestine an apartheid reality in a post-apartheid world.”
On the sidelines of COP26, Israel’s Prime Minister met with Bill Gates to discuss forming working group to study potential cooperation around combating climate change. Gates’ obsession with ‘innovation’, however, might have blinded him from addressing other issues that Israel is also ‘known for’ – namely, being the world’s leading human rights violator and the destruction of the Palestinian environment.
When it rains, it pours—inside Zoher Alsayd’s living room, kitchen and bedroom to be exact. Like many Palestinians, the former house painter’s home was wrecked by airstrikes during the latest escalation between Israel and Hamas earlier this year in May. And this was not the first time his roof was destroyed. Alsayd belongs to a growing group of Palestinians whose homes were damaged to the point of becoming uninhabitable, not once, but multiple times over the course of these four conflicts with Israel over the last 13 years.
Francesca Albanese and Dr. Lex Takkenberg discuss the origins of the Palestinian refugee crisis, its role within international law, and whether Israel’s actions constitute apartheid.