UN Official Who Blamed Israel for Oct. 7 Attack Set to Deliver ‘Anatomy of a Genocide’ Speech at Brown

Anti-Israel United Nations official Francesca Albanese, who blamed the Jewish state for Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, is scheduled to speak at Brown University, just weeks after six hostages, including an American, were executed in Gaza. In response, members of the Brown community have circulated a letter urging the college to cancel the speech, citing Albanese’s anti-Semitic history.

Albanese, the U.N.’s special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza Strip, has long disparaged Israel. She has claimed the Jewish state doesn’t have a right to defend itself against Hamas, liked posts on X endorsing the anti-Semitic trope of the "Jewish billionaire class," and hours after the Oct. 7 attack, said the "violence must be put into context."

Beshara Doumani and Fulvio Domini—Brown professors who signed letters supporting a ceasefire and students’ anti-Semitic boycott, divest, and sanctions movement—will host Albanese for the Sept. 16 event, "Anatomy of a Genocide: A Failure of the International System?" Members of Brown’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter also suggested asking Doumani to review its statement blaming the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, according to internal documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

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Lexi Boccuzzi is a policy analyst at the Manhattan Institute.

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