Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for Palestinians, wrote the post in response to an antisemitic publication.
Code Pink, which regularly accuses the Jewish state of “genocide,” was denounced widely for comparing California wildfires and Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Francesca Albanese, a U.N. adviser who has a long history of antisemitic remarks, appeared to say the same thing over the weekend.
In response to a post from Mondoweiss, which stated that “the fires burning in Palestine and Los Angeles today are symptoms of the same disease: a system that values conquest over conservation, profit over people and expansion over existence,” Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, wrote that “on our small planet, all injustices are connected.”
CAMERA calls Mondoweiss a “notoriously antisemitic website,” and the Anti-Defamation League says that it is a “vociferously anti-Israel news website.” HonestReporting writes that it has an “extreme ideological bent and biased reporting,” and a Washington Post article dubs it “basically one-stop shopping for anti-Israel news.”