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Report: UN backs Francesca Albanese’s reappointment

"The United Nations Human Rights Council has voted to extend Francesca Albanese’s mandate as Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories for another three years."

The decision comes in spite of a coordinated campaign to remove her from her post, particularly by the US.

palestinechronicle.com/un-exte

#FrancescaAlbanese #us #uspol #UN #Israel #fascism #FreePalestine @Palestine .

Palestine Chronicle · UN Extends Francesca Albanese’s Mandate despite Pro-Israel PushbackThe UN Human Rights Council has backed Francesca Albanese’s reappointment, resisting a coordinated campaign to remove her from her post.

Report: "US Moves to Block Francesca Albanese's Reappointment, Citing Antisemitism Allegations"

Albanese's position as UN Special Rapporteur is due for renewal this week, & the US has written to Secretary General Antonio Guterres to demand non-renewal.

"We condemn her virulent antisemitism, which demonizes Israel & supports Hamas. She has clearly violated the UN’s code of conduct & is unfit for her role."

palestinechronicle.com/us-move

#FrancescaAlbanese #un #uspol #trump #resistfascism .

Palestine Chronicle · US Moves to Block Albanese’s Reappointment, Citing “Antisemitism” AllegationsThe US Mission to the UN has opposed the renewal of Francesca Albanese as UN Special Rapporteur, accusing her of “virulent antisemitism.”

Report: "US Moves to Block Francesca Albanese's Reappointment, Citing Antisemitism Allegations"

Albanese's position as UN Special Rapporteur is due for renewal this week, & the US has written to Secretary General Antonio Guterres to demand non-renewal.

"We condemn her virulent antisemitism, which demonizes Israel & supports Hamas. She has clearly violated the UN’s code of conduct & is unfit for her role."

palestinechronicle.com/us-move

#FrancescaAlbanese #un #uspol #trump #resistfascism .

Palestine Chronicle · US Moves to Block Albanese’s Reappointment, Citing “Antisemitism” AllegationsThe US Mission to the UN has opposed the renewal of Francesca Albanese as UN Special Rapporteur, accusing her of “virulent antisemitism.”
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At this point I'm starting to believe the primary purpose of the sham ceasefire in Gaza, broken by Israel to continue a US-backed genocide of Palestinian people, was to allow US corporate media to catch its breath and reset to a position of trying very hard to ignore blatant war crimes against clearly innocent Palestinians. A United Nations investigation has revealed that the IDF executed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including a UN employee, in March 23rd; then tried to bury the evidence, including crushed ambulances, to hide this crime against humanity. Details of the murders make it clear that this activity was deliberate, and yet the portions of the mainstream western media that remain firmly pro-genocide have hardly registered any sort of outcry or calls for action.

1) theguardian.com/world/2025/mar

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN

“Seven days ago, civil defence and PRCS ambulances arrived at the scene,” the head of Ocha in Palestine, Jonathan Whittall, said in a video statement. “One by one, [the paramedics and civil defense workers] were hit, they were struck. Their bodies were gathered and buried in this mass grave.

“We’re digging them out in their uniforms, with their gloves on. They were here to save lives. Instead, they ended up in a mass grave,” Whittall said. “These ambulances have been buried in the sand. There’s a UN vehicle here, buried in the sand. A bulldozer – Israeli forces bulldozer – has buried them.”

Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, said that one of its employees was among the dead found in Rafah."

As an American, please let me once again remind you that none of these atrocities would be happening without US financial, material, and diplomatic support. We're subsidizing the Israeli government, we're shipping the IDF the bombs and weapons being used to exterminate Palestinians in Gaza, and it is by US diplomatic force that Western support for Israel even as it commits a genocide, remains strong, if somewhat less overt than it was at the start of this genocide. Trump (and Biden before him) could end this inhuman slaughter today if he wanted to; he just doesn't want to because killing brown people and taking their resources (beachfront property and natural gas, in this case) is a important business activity for the entire Pig Empire.

In an environment where the media is actively cultivating a numb complicity, and western states are either ignoring the massacres, or as in the Trump regime's case, openly celebrating them, it behooves all of us in the so-called West to reject these attempts to rewind time and protect the genocide. In the months leading up to the ceasefire, Western political leaders and media were on the backfoot as independent media, folks with Tik Tok accounts, protestors, and even everyday people refused to accept the complicity of silence and demanded action. This "reset" must not be allowed to continue while Palestinians in Gaza are murdered with impunity and the complicity of the larger Pig Empire; as noted by Ahmed Moor writing in the Guardian - which is sadly where I have to get my mainstream news about a US-enabled and supported genocide the Trump administration is happily paying for, because US media outlets are still trying to pretend none of this is real:

2) theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Israel executes unarmed Red Crescent paramedics with the west’s blessing

"Nor will global leaders intervene to end the mass murder which has been punctuated by this latest obscenity. Some of them – such as Emmanuel Macron, who called for a ceasefire, might appear to want to end the slaughter. After all, dead babies in incubators and paramedics in a mass grave are unpleasant garlands to wear. But 18 months in, they are too deeply implicated. Who can forget Ursula von der Leyen’s embrace of Netanyahu? Or Keir Starmer’s affirmation of Israel’s “right” to starve Palestinians in Gaza?

Today, those who are tasked with upholding international law have been co-opted by the Israeli leadership, whether they like it or not. The logic of gangland drug dealers and criminals – new members commit crimes to join, and are locked in – prevails.

So far from being complicit, US and European leaders are the authors of this latest atrocity by their Israeli colleagues in Gaza."

The Guardian · Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UNBy Lorenzo Tondo
#Gaza#Genocide#Israel

Last week in Georgia, Mar 27th, rundown:

(1) In Georgia, Shalva Papuashvili, the chair of the Kotsebi parliament, criticized opposition parties' plans to boycott the October municipal elections

Picture Credit: [ france24.com jam-news.net undp.org georgiatoday.ge ]

#parliament #elections #humanrights #lithuania #un #equality #music #openair
#GeorgiaNews #ExpatsInGeorgia #ემიგრაციასაქართვე #ბათუმი #georgia

Oh! I know the group. 😮

Whiskey-Drinking Rocker Transforms Into #WestAfrica’s Most Dangerous al Qaeda Leader

Ag Ghali’s journey from World Music promoter to Islamist warlord followed as unlikely a trajectory as his friends’ rise to the global stage
This account of his transformation draws on interviews w former friends, #Tuareg rebels, #Tinariwen band members & managers & government officials, #UN reports, U.S diplomatic communications & photos.
#news #mali #music
wsj.com/world/africa/iyad-ag-g

#Israel killed 15 #Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says #UN

Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern #Gaza, says humanitarian office

Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem, Malak A Tantesh in Gaza, and Julian Borger
Mon 31 Mar 2025 10.24 EDT

"According to the UN humanitarian affairs office (Ocha), the Palestinian Red Crescent (PRCS) and civil defence workers were on a mission to rescue colleagues who had been shot at earlier in the day, when their clearly marked vehicles came under heavy Israeli fire in Rafah city’s Tel al-Sultan district. A Red Crescent official in Gaza said that there was evidence of at least one person being detained and killed, as the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied."

theguardian.com/world/2025/mar

#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#news #press @palestine

The Guardian · Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UNBy Lorenzo Tondo
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