Afrasianet - Ziad Majid - The new campaign against the Italian international lawyer, who has emerged since the start of the genocidal war in Gaza, is based on a recorded intervention by her mission to the Al Jazeera Forum held recently in Doha.
She participated (via video) in a session titled "The Palestinian Question: Challenges and Opportunities for Achieving Accountability and the Rule of Law," alongside Fatou Bensouda, former ICC Prosecutor, and other human rights defenders.
In her intervention, Albanese spoke of a global system in which economic and political interests are intertwined at the expense of rights and the law, which has allowed and continues to perpetrate the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
As for the alteration, or political forgery, he went to cut out Elbanese's video, cut a few words from it, and rebroadcast it in a way that seems to be the direct target of the "enemy of humanity" is Israel.
Accordingly, the campaign against her was launched in France under the leadership of Caroline Yadan, a member of parliament from the 8th district of French expatriates, who is known for her extremism in support of Tel Aviv, to the point that some have called her Benjamin Netanyahu's representative in the French parliament.
Yadan posted the clipped video on social media and said it was enough to accuse Albanese of anti-Semitism and hatred against Israel. Yadan was accused by a number of right-wing MPs, and their falsification was promoted by journalists from various media, and then this position was adopted by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barro, with unprecedented lack of responsibility at this level, without consulting any of his staff members in the ministry to investigate the truth of the matter before talking about it.
The minister went so far as to call for Albanese's resignation or dismissal. What is worse is that despite the publication of media outlets and newspapers (starting with Le Parisien newspaper and France 24) that the "Information Verification Service" adopts a denial of the allegations attributed to Albanese, and then the French Foreign Ministry spokesperson admits to the alteration and mistake without apologizing or retracting it, the foreign ministers of Germany, Hungary and the Czech Republic joined the campaign against the UN rapporteur and human rights defender, and demanded her dismissal. The latter's mandate has been renewed by the UN Human Rights Council until 2028.
Punishing International Law and its Protectors
This is not the first time that Albanese has been subjected to campaigns and accusations by Israeli propagandists and their promoters in France and Europe in general. It has been repeatedly targeted after every report it has issued as UN rapporteur on the crime of genocide in Gaza.
Because it has succeeded in imposing itself in terms of human rights and media in most parts of the world, and has attracted the following of millions of people, especially among university students in Western countries, it has become vulnerable to two types of attacks. The first is launched directly by Israel, its allies and its agents to question everything it does and says and to discredit it.
The second is waged by Western politicians who are loyal to Israel, who are silent about its crimes or who are afraid of opposing it, who are stunned by an Italian woman's defense of international law and humanitarian principles that they want to kill when it comes to Palestinian victims, or who are afraid to say what she says and become more angry with her for exposing her cowardice and villainy Arrest for war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Israeli prime minister and his former defense minister.
The reason for Trump's sanctions in Albanese's case is mainly her report on the economic and utilitarian aspects associated with the genocide, and the contribution of global and American giants to finance or benefit from the murder in Gaza.
However, what these US sanctions, and the intentional or unintentional likeness of the campaign by some European officials against Albanese and the defenders of international law or seeking to enforce it, are the truest expression of the new equation prevailing in Washington today: Overthrow any international law or institution that can restrict the freedom to kill in any "conflict" in which the United States or its ally Israel is involved, and turn the United Nations system itself into a structure that lacks power, even moral, if its references and decisions are contrary to American tendencies and positions.
Epstein or the Morality of Capitalism and Masculinity
At the same time as the campaign against Albanese was underway, the world was following the episodes of the Jeffrey Epstein files that were allowed to be published, which show how much decadence brought together political officials, entrepreneurs, diplomats, businessmen and members of royal families from America and Europe with villains like them from other continents, who were complicit in financial and sexual crimes.
They evade taxes by smuggling money, rape underage girls or women promised a job and a future, and are sent to an island in the Caribbean by criminals and powerful criminals seeking more influence and position.
Some of them reach out to intelligence agents, diplomats, and influencers from the "club of the powerful," which is accustomed to impunity, and Epstein often links them to Israeli companies, personalities, or people close to Tel Aviv, for purposes in which politics is clearly intertwined with financial interests and globalized corruption.
If capitalism, which is free from any legal framework that controls its brutality, in its alliance with masculinity, a culture of rape, and impunity for abuse, bullying, and crime is the most important thing to draw from the Epstein scandal, the comparison of what happened on the American billionaire's island There is no law but the law of the strongest, and what happened in the war of extermination in Gaza is made possible.
Just as it becomes possible to compare the collusion with Epstein and his accomplices in crime by the world's powerful over the decades, and the recent collusion with Israeli crimes in Gaza over months and years.
All this, or the discussion about it and the morality of the world, which aims to marginalize its legal institutions, punish its human rights bodies, and prevent research into crimes and violations, did not interest the foreign ministers of France and Germany and their counterparts, just as they did not interest the killing of tens of thousands of children and women and the hunting of flour seekers in the past.
These victims were vulnerable at a time when the powerful did not care who was stronger, that is, who was more capable of breaking the laws than they were. A woman free from fear, defending the rights of the vulnerable in the face of the power of the fortified.
She acts confidently despite the sanctions against her. In her reporting, she challenges an integrated system of murder and abuse, similar to that of Epstein. Fueling the anger and awareness of a new generation in Europe (and in different parts of the world), advocates of Israel's absolute immunity do not want to have a voice or influence over a decision.
Those who are prejudiced against her do not care about the subject of her words and actions, i.e., international law and its respect in occupied Palestine, the implementation of UN resolutions, the recommendations of the International Court of Justice and the arrest warrants of the International Criminal Court.
It is as if we are facing a regime that allowed Epstein and his accomplices to commit their crimes, and allowed Israel to commit its genocide, and to prosecute a UN rapporteur because she did not enjoy silence like him or did not seek to cling to the club of the powerful. And its courage with regard to Palestine.
It is a support for the remaining rights and principles that refuse to obey the logic of oppression, extortion, forgery and organized crime, at a moment when someone like Donald Trump and other former friends of Epstein is leading the world...
