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occupying, it cannot claim the right to self
defence.
Albanese denies that Israel and Jews
have the same rights that all other states
and peoples have under international and
humanitarian law. She is saying here that
Jews have no right to defend themselves
from those who seek to murder them. This
is both grotesque and an extreme double
standard.
She often repeats the libels of
“genocide”, “ethnic cleansing”, and uses
other flagrant language to demonise Israel.
She also lied about being a lawyer. She used
to claim that she was a lawyer, despite not
passing the bar exam, until she was called
out for it. Now she describes herself as
an “international law expert”. However, it
seems her only real credentials are being a
serial liar and an antisemite.
Michael Fakhri (Special Rapporteur on
the Right to Food): Fakhri accused Israel of
“weaponizing starvation”. In a report he said
starvation was “being used as a weapon of
displacement, threatening the existence of
Palestinians to further Israel’s annexation
goals.”
In reality, Fakhri was weaponizing blood
libels as a tool to harm Israel’s reputation.
Israel has done more to feed its enemy
than any other country in history. Not
only is Israel NOT weaponizing aid, Israel
is stopping Hamas from weaponizing it
against its own people.
Reem Alsalem (Special Rapporteur
on Violence Against Women): Alsalem
alleged that Israel was systematically
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targeting Palestinian women and babies in
a “genocide strategy.” The Jordanian falsely
claimed there was “the use of reproductive
violence in the unfolding genocide in Gaza,
which is unparalleled in other conflicts.”
This blood libel is particularly egregious.
Israel does not want to wipe out the
Palestinian bloodline or stop Palestinians
from having babies. To even suggest that is
absurd, but to then claim it is “unparalleled”,
as if Israel is committing far worse atrocities
than anyone else has ever done, is beyond
the pale.
Does she not recall how mothers and
babies were sent to the gas chambers
in Auschwitz as a strategy of systematic
slaughter during the Holocaust? That was
a real attempt to wipe out the Jewish
bloodline.
Does she not realise that even Hamas
leaders themselves proclaim that Gaza’s
population hasn’t dropped, because even
during the conflict, Palestinian women have
given birth to over 50,000 children? At the
time of writing this article, this is more than
the number who have died in the conflict.
Palestinian women have one of the
highest birth rates in the world, something
that has not diminished because of the
war. Hamas has said that one of their
main strategies is to keep having babies,
and there are no signs that Israel is doing
anything to stop that. Why? Because Israel
is not intending to wipe out Palestinians,
Israel wants to defeat Hamas and is doing
everything it can to preserve Palestinian
lives.