UN secretary-general won’t condemn official accused of antisemitism; US said to grant visa for visit
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Despite accusations of pushing antisemitism through official U.N. reports and unofficial statements, Francesca Albanese will address the world body and give talks at several campuses during U.S visit.
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Albanese’s report, now widely circulated among member state representatives, shows "the masks are off," according to Anne Bayefsky, president of Human Rights Voices and director of the Touro University Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust.
"Albanese's target is the destruction of the Jewish state, period," Bayefsky said, claiming Albanese’s report is "a new, unhinged rant — translated, reproduced and spread across the world by the United Nations — utterly ignorant of regional and religious history.
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