KINSELLA: Canada should ban UN's special rapporteur on Palestine

Francesca Albanese is a fetching Italian woman. She’s telegenic and elegant. She’s also an international lawyer, an academic, and she holds a PhD in International Refugee Law. She has many academic awards and distinctions.

She is also a bigot.

Albanese’s title, presently, is the United Nations’ “special rapporteur” on Palestine.

In reality, however, she is not just an advocate for Palestinians, she’s also an advocate against Jews and the Jewish state, and she devotes herself energetically to that unwritten part of her job description.

Notably, she is coming to Canada in the next few days. Albanese is conducting a “campus tour,” says Eventbrite, which is promoting her little jaunt.

One of the sponsors of her excursion to the colonies is Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). In a detailed lawsuit filed against SJP in Virginia’s District Court in May, survivors of the Oct. 7 Nova Music Festival massacre describe SJP as the “mouthpiece for [Hamas in] North America, dedicated to sanitizing Hamas’ atrocities and normalizing its terrorism.”

Francesca Albanese is a fetching Italian woman. She’s telegenic and elegant. She’s also an international lawyer, an academic, and she holds a PhD in International Refugee Law. She has many academic awards and distinctions.

She is also a bigot.

Albanese’s title, presently, is the United Nations’ “special rapporteur” on Palestine.

In reality, however, she is not just an advocate for Palestinians, she’s also an advocate against Jews and the Jewish state, and she devotes herself energetically to that unwritten part of her job description.

Notably, she is coming to Canada in the next few days. Albanese is conducting a “campus tour,” says Eventbrite, which is promoting her little jaunt.

One of the sponsors of her excursion to the colonies is Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). In a detailed lawsuit filed against SJP in Virginia’s District Court in May, survivors of the Oct. 7 Nova Music Festival massacre describe SJP as the “mouthpiece for [Hamas in] North America, dedicated to sanitizing Hamas’ atrocities and normalizing its terrorism.”

So, that is who is one of the sponsors of Albanese’s visit here – a group that oversaw multiple antisemitic campus occupations across Canada, and which itself has called the Oct. 7 attack,wherein 1,200 Israeli civilians were slaughtered, 250 were taken hostage, and more than 100 woman and girls raped, “a historic win for Palestinian........

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