Amb. Linda Thomas-Greenfield responds to UN Special Rapporteur's anti-Semitic statement

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3. The attacks against Albanese

have been going on for years now and follow a pattern where anybody who the Israeli/US partnership finds is being critical of their political/military conduct and they perceive as a threat to the status quo is labeled as "anti-Semitic" for their criticisms. From the very time of the creation of the office mentioned the US has failed to support it's work. That office that is tasked by the UN with reporting on conditions in the Occupied Territories has routinely been denied entry to the area for it's investigators and Israel routinely denies requests for information.

Despite the behind the scenes efforts of the US and open interference by Israel reports have been issued that are supported as factual by the large bulk of the international rights organizations. In fact she has been defended in 2022 by those who study anti-Semitism.

But I find it "interesting" to say the least about the statement by our UN Representative. No sense of our own immoral conduct in the recent past vis a vis Iraq? Full scale invasion and destruction of a country on a completely fabricated basis, the deaths of hundreds of thousands, forcing over 2 million to flee the country and leaving a war torn legacy that continues on to this day. The trillion dollar war all based on BS. Absolutely zero for any accountability for having done this. Clean your own doorstep Greenfield.

Albanese has been on record several times condemning the actions of Hamas and Israel both and I have no idea of what she has or has not said about the meaning/legitimacy behind the social media post people are referencing. I am aware of the statement beneath some pictures and she appears to make the comparison. It is certainly not appropriate but at the same time it does not mean that the work she has done in the position is not true and correct and I would remind people that it is not an office of one person but rather many people who have long distinguished careers in international law and human rights.

Even if she is removed it will not change what is factual that the UN office has reported. It also will not change the international "circus" that is created in supposedly having an international body for member nations to subscribe to and abide by international norms of conduct and yet we have the most powerful member openly refuse to comport itself to those norms whenever it pleases but yet insist on adherence by most others. It also is folly for a member nation to desire the benefits of membership and acceptance in the international community while at nearly every turn in it's history refusing to cooperate, refusing to accept responsibility and holding out for itself the right to go into any other member nation at any time solely on it's own authority and carry out military actions and kill people.

Hitting the "anti-Semitic" label on people is an old tactic that is well known. People who are genuinely anti-Semitic are of course reprehensible. But it seems that Greenfield and others in the international community have suddenly lost their tongues when it comes to their own conduct in arming death squads in Latin America, supporting dictators and abetting human rights abuses. Sometimes with a tinge of some reprehensible "anti" of their own. But Greenfield et al and ones before her would like us to focus on their whistling as they stroll past the graveyard. But some of us have eyes and minds and can criticize wrong without being "anti- Semitic". Perhaps Albanese isn't the only one who isn't fit for the job. Should she go? Maybe so but don't think the pot isn't calling the kettle black.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-maintains-warm-ties-with-myanmar-downplaying-a-human-rights-controversy/