Albanese has blamed the Jewish state for Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and comparedNetanyahu to Hitler.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese was a terrible human being, according to outgoing Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt, the Jewish Insider reports.

Guterres made the remarks to Lipstadt during a Munich Security Conference, saying twice that Albanese was a “horrible person.”

A spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General neither confirmed nor denied that he made the comment, and the Forward emphasized that the UN chief has no authority over special rapporteurs.

Albanese has frequently made remarks that were heavily critical of Israel and antisemitic.

Even before Hamas’s massacre on Oct. 7, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Director of Research and Special Projects Liz Berney, Esq. wrote letters calling on the UN to remove Albanese from her position due to her vicious anti-Israel bias and refusals to condemn deadly Palestinian Arab terror attacks against innocent Israelis.

She has compared Israelis to Nazis and claimed that the US was “subjugated to the Jewish Lobby.”

Albanese has blamed the Jewish state for Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler.

Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for Judea, Samaria, and Gaza, has argued that the Jewish state does not have a right to defend itself against Hamas, and she “liked” posts on X endorsing the antisemitic trope of the “Jewish billionaire class.”

She likened Netanyahu to Hitler in a July X post, and hours after the Oct. 7 attack, she said the “violence must be put into context.”

Albanese also said that the victims of Oct. 7 “were not killed because of their Judaism but in response to Israel’s oppression.”

She also accused Israel of committing genocide and advancing a “settler-colonial project in Palestine.”

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The March for Israel is scheduled for 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 14 between 4th and 12th streets in Washington, D.C.

By Andrew Bernard, JNS

Tens of thousands are expected to rally in support of Israel on the National Mall in Washington on Nov. 14 in what is predicted to be the largest U.S. demonstration in support of the Jewish state since the years of the Second Intifada from 2000-05.

Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, told JNS that the need to identify with Israel is as strong today as it was when he helped organize the National Rally in Solidarity with Israel in the wake of Passover suicide bombing by Hamas in 2002.

“People at that time were truly motivated. They felt it was a personal assault, and felt the need to identify with Israel and Israelis as they do now,” he said. “It shows that the Jewish community can come together at a time of distress and challenge.”

The Conference of Presidents is one of many Jewish organizations that is organizing Tuesday’s March for Israel.

Jewish and non-Jewish politicians, civil society leaders, and celebrities are expected to speak at the rally, including actress Debra Messing; political commentator Van Jones; human-rights activist Natan Sharansky; and a bipartisan group of congressional leaders.

Family members of American hostages whom Hamas terrorists kidnapped during the Oct. 7 attacks are also slated to speak.

Hoenlein said that event organizers are trying to display the full breadth of U.S. support for Israel across the political spectrum.

“It’s very important that this is seen as Jewish manifestation but also an American manifestation—not only in support for Israel and the release of the hostages, and against antisemitism, but also an understanding that the world changed after Oct. 7,” he said. “The unity in our community is almost unprecedented.”

A White House official told JNS on Monday that Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, will speak at the rally, representing the Biden administration.

The March for Israel is working closely with federal and local law enforcement to ensure that Tuesday’s rally is safe. Hoenlein told JNS there will be four miles of fencing erected, and hundreds of security guards will be on hand.

“There’s probably the most expensive security preparations,” he said. “We are going to take precautions given the tenor of the times.”

The March for Israel is scheduled for 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 14 between 4th and 12th streets in Washington, D.C.

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