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Israel lobby groups have spread doctored quotes by UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Francesca Albanese to defame her. Their desperate campaign is a testament to her work and the threat she poses by holding Israel accountable for genocide.

In a symbolic joining of older and contemporary struggles against apartheid, Francesca Albanese delivered the Nelson Mandela lecture this autumn. Did her address manage to bury the fiction of the ‘liberal world order’ once and for all?

The Government Media Office of Hamas, which technically rules Gaza, said today 77 per cent of the Strip’s territory was now under direct Israeli occupation, and called on the UN to act to stop “continued genocide, ethnic cleansing, colonialism, aggression” and what it termed the “final solution” Israel is trying to impose on Gaza by force.

Ms. Albanese has been under relentless attack from politically motivated organizations like ‘UN Watch’, which have been waging toxic smear campaigns to silence her and to harm her human rights mandate.

UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese speaks to Tribune about Israel’s genocide as a form of ‘colonial erasure’—and why the Palestinian cause is a symbol of resistance against all forms of exploitation.