Harvard To Host UN Official Who Was Just Banned From Israel For Justifying Oct 7 Terrorist Attack - Francesca Albanese was banned from Israel for her comments

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Harvard University is set to host a United Nations official today who
was just banned by Israel for her comments justifying Hamas’ October 7
slaughter of more than 1,000 civilians as a “response to Israel’s
oppression.”

Francesca Albanese, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian
territories, was officially banned from Israel on Monday for stating
days earlier that the Hamas attack had nothing to do with anti-
Semitism, according to The Times of Israel. She is still scheduled,
however, to be a featured speaker for Harvard’s Carr Center for Human
Rights Policy on Monday afternoon to discuss Israel’s war in Gaza.

“Join us for a virtual conversation with UN Special Rapporteur,
Francesca Albanese, as she discusses her perspective on the current
situation in the Gaza area as well as her experiences working on the
protection of Palestinian refugees and migrants,” the event’s website
states.

Albanese on Saturday has made her position on Israel’s offensive
against Hamas quite clear, most recently pushing back against French
President Emmanuel Macron for calling the October 7 attack an “anti-
Semitic massacre.”

“The ‘greatest anti-Semitic massacre of our century’? No, Mr.
@EmmanuelMacron,” UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories
Francesca Albanese tweeted in response to France’s president honoring
the victims on Saturday. “The victims of 10/7 were not killed because
of their Judaism, but in response to Israel’s oppression.”

Harvard’s decision to host her on the same day she was banned by Israel
comes as the Ivy League institution grapples with rampant anti-Semitism
on campus. The Cambridge-based Ivy League is currently facing a lawsuit
filed by Jewish students that accuses the school of avoiding protecting
Jewish students from harassment and enabling antisemitism.

Harvard University did not immediately respond to a request for
comment. The event, entitled, “A Conversation with Francesca Albanese,”
will be hosted at 4:00 p.m., and will include the center’s Faculty
Director Mathias Risse.

Israeli officials said Albanese should be fired permanently by the
United Nations, The Times of Israel reported on Monday.

“The era of Jews being silent is over,” Foreign Minister Israel Katz
and Interior Minister Moshe Arbel said in a joint statement. “If the UN
wants to return to being a relevant body, its leaders must publicly
disavow the anti-Semitic words of the ‘Special Envoy’ – and fire her
permanently. Preventing her from entering Israel might remind her of
the real reason why Hamas slaughtered babies, women and adults.”

Last year, a bipartisan group of members of Congress called on the
United Nations to remove Albanese for her bias against Israel.

“Ms. Albanese has repeatedly refused to condemn terrorist attacks
against Israelis while continuing her condemnations of Israel,” the
group wrote. “For an official tasked with serving as an independent,
neutral, and expert voice on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, her
inexcusable silence against terrorism targeting Israelis and her
outrageous and prejudicial remarks clearly reflect the irredeemable
bias of her mandate.”

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Earlier this month The Daily Wire first reported on the Harvard Kennedy
School’s Middle East Initiative’s plan to host a Palestinian professor
who called Hamas’ massacre of Israeli civilians a “normal struggle for
freedom,” and said she would never forgive Israel’s government for
“making us take their children and elderly as hostages.”

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The school distanced itself from the event, putting the blame on the
Middle East Initiative’s director, Professor Tarek E. Masoud. “Dean
Douglas Elmendorf personally finds abhorrent the comments by Dalal Saeb
Iriqat quoted in the press that justify and normalize the horrific
terrorist attack by Hamas,” it said in a statement. “An invitation to
speak at the Kennedy School never implies an endorsement of a speaker’s
views by the Kennedy School or members of the Kennedy School
community.”

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