The United Nations’ dogged pursuit of a Palestinian state, despite the ongoing aftermath of the brutal October 7th Hamas massacre and kidnappings of Israelis, has left no doubt about the anti-Israel sentiments of the world body.
More evidence is seen in the efforts of UN officials, both past and present, who work against Israel behind the scenes. One recent case involves an attempt to disrupt the support and friendship offered by evangelical organizations to the state of Israel.
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Eugene Kontorovich from the Heritage Foundation specializes in constitutional and international law, particularly when it comes to anti-Israel moves at the United Nations. He spoke with CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell about one unique effort to push back against the anti-Israel agenda.
MITCHELL: Eugene Kontorovich, thanks for joining us. You’re a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. You’re involved in a lawsuit that’s really unique. Tell us about it.
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KONTOROVICH: Francesca Albanese is a woman who worked for the United Nations. She had a position as one of the United Nations kind of professional Israel bashers, the special rapporteur for Palestine. And she has been essentially a Hamas supporter, justifying Hamas’ attacks and making vicious blood libels against the Jewish state. But now she’s gone further and she started defaming American companies and American NGOs, American organizations, accusing them of genocide for merely being involved with the state of Israel. Now that’s legally baseless, but it’s also defamatory.
Our clients are two Christian charities who have a faith-based mission of helping the Jewish people in the Holy Land. For that work, she accused them of being accessories to genocide, threatened them with a whole bunch of scary consequences, including criminal prosecutions. And that is defamation. And for that, you can be sued in the United States. And we are helping them, in fact, sue her.
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Now, she is not actually a United Nations official anymore because she was reappointed to her position in a manner that has been deemed improper. And the United States, this is the most amazing part, sanctioned her a few weeks ago for working with the International Criminal Court against Israel. So she has been sanctioned by the United States. Her property is frozen in the United States. She can’t travel to the United States. But at the same time, our clients want justice and want restitution for the harm they’ve suffered from her.
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