UN should consider suspending Israel over ‘genocide’ against Palestinians, says special rapporteur
UN should consider suspending Israel over ‘genocide’ against Palestinians, says special rapporteur
Francesca Albanese, who was stopped from appearing at US Congress this week, said Israel defied UN resolutions
The UN should consider suspending Israel as a member state due to its continuing “genocide” against the Palestinians, the divisive special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories has said.
She said no other country had defied so many UN resolutions for so long.
In her report, Albanese claimed: “Israel has pursued a pattern of conduct ‘deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction’.”
She is a divisive UN rapporteur, and was prevented from holding a briefing at the US Congress this week. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the UN, described her in a tweet as unfit for office, adding: “The United Nations should not tolerate antisemitism from a UN-affiliated official hired to promote human rights.”
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the list keeps growing, but 'nothing' is all that keeps happening.
Putting the word genocide in quotes like that seems dismissive of the plight of Palestinians.
I think it's because they're quoting her use of the word. But I agree it's almost indistinguishable from scare quotes when used around a single word like that.
Everybody is talking about doing something about that but nobody is doing anything
The UN cannot do anything about Israel while the US has the power and desire to veto any motion brought forth.
Per the article, "divisive" here just means that the US, sponsored of the aforementioned genocide, does its usual complaining about its critics.