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UN for Palestine
2023-11-23 (#149)
Australian media ‘duped’ by UN Rapporteur for Palestine claiming to be ‘impartial’ Sky News host Sharri Markson says the Australian media has been “duped” by UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese, who claimed to be “impartial”. Ms Markson says the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine travelled to Australia on a trip “funded by the Palestinian lobby”. “Where she only had angry words to say about Israel,” she said. “Albanese's trip to Australia was sponsored by Palestinian lobby groups, the Australian Friends of Palestine Association and the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, as well as the Free Palestine Melbourne and Palestinian Christians in Australia groups.” Ms Markson was joined by commentator Jason Morrison and former speaker of the house Bronwyn Bishop to discuss this. Take a stand, share this, the world should know the truth 🙏 #rejectfake #standwithisrael #hamasisisis #TikvaInternational #FreeGazaFromHamas #foryo #fyp Join Tikva International on all platforms, help us spread the word🌎 Social -- https://linktr.ee/TikvaInternational @TikvaInternational
Video Transcription:
Well, the Australian media have been duped by a
woman who claimed to be an impartial United Nations
rapporteur, but in actual fact was here on a
trip funded by the Palestinian lobby.
You'll remember the publicity sweep that Francesca Albanese
did on Australian television, where she only had
angry words to say about Israel?
Israel cannot claim the right of self defense against
a threat that emanate from the territory it occupies.
The thing is that there shouldn't have been a blockade for
16 years, enabling Hamas to rule over Gaza as it has
done against the will of the people 56 years ago.
And 40 years ago, Hamas was not
there, and Israel was building settlement.
And they are illegal both in the
West Bank and in occupied East Jerusalem.
Is Hamas using this hospital as a command center?
You need to ask Israel to provide proof that
it is using it, because, look, we have gone
through five major wars before this one, and Israel
has attacked hospitals and ambulances, claiming that they were
being used by Hamas for military purposes.
And most of these cases, the allegations proved false.
Just saying president.
All propaganda.
And when she was on Sky News, pete Stepanovic did a
tough interview with her and put her through her paces.
But Francesca Albanese's bias was then further exposed when
the project host, Walid Ali, asked her this very
important question what would be the right response from
Israel to the terror attacks on October 7?
Were her answer zero.
Response from Israel? Nothing.
Have a look.
In your view, what would the
correct response have looked like?
The response was to be given in
terms of law enforcement because Gaza is
occupied and it's under Belligerent occupation.
So Israel has powers to enforce the law and
to pursue all security measures that are deemed necessary.
Considering that this is occupied territory, it could
have relied on the United Nations to demilitarize
Hamas if this was the target.
So, no, Israel shouldn't have responded to the
worst terror attacks, the worst loss of life
for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.
I'll just send in the UN to take weapons off Hamas.
What a farcical response.
The Red Cross haven't even been
able to visit the Israeli hostages.
As if the UN could have taken weapons off Hamas.
Now, if that interview with the project and
all of her public commentary didn't expose her
claims of independence as fraudulent, well, what I'm
about to tell you certainly does.
Well, first, the executive director of United Nations
watch Hillel Nua, came on this program on
Tuesday evening, and he showed us how Francesca
pretends to be neutral, but actually has a
long history of dangerous remarks against Israel.
Neither her position nor her own background
have anything to do with impartiality.
Her mandate is only to investigate Israel, and the reason
they picked her is because she is extremely biased.
This is someone who, in 2014, wrote on Facebook
that, quote, america is subjugated by the Jewish Lobby.
This is someone who a year ago, in November
2022, spoke to a Hamas conference of terrorists and
she said, quote you have a right to resist.
This is someone who has regularly compared the
situation of Palestinians to the Nazi Holocaust.
So she is the last thing that
has anything to do with impartiality, neutrality,
objectivity, and she should be exposed.
Well, hillel nua, as I said from united
nations watch, he's now revealed that Albanese's trip
to Australia was sponsored by Palestinian lobby groups.
And these groups, the Australian Friends of
Palestine Association, the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network,
as well as the Free Palestine, Melbourne
and Palestinian Christians in Australia groups.
This is in breach of the United Nations
own Code of Conduct that bars experts from
taking any gift, favor or remuneration.
Article Three of the Code of Conduct states that UN
figures should be, and I quote, free from any kind
of extraneous influence, either direct or indirect, and they may
not seek or accept any favor, gift or remuneration from
any non governmental source for activities carried out in pursuit
of his or her mandate.
Well, United Nations Watch has now filed papers
with the UN chief calling for Francesca Albanese's
removal from her position as UN special Rapporteur.
And she should immediately be removed.
And she should have made it clear in every single
one of those media appearances on the ABC's Q A
at the National Press Club on the project that her
trip was sponsored by Palestinian lobby groups.
Jewish groups had sent a letter to the ABC
demanding that Francesca Albanese not be given a platform
on Q A because of all of the disgraceful
and anti Semitic views she's expressed in the past.
Well, the ABC ignored the demand and
had her on the show anyway.
Now it seems the public broadcaster owes Australian
viewers and the Jewish community an apology.
They presented someone as independent, when in fact she
was here being paid to be in Australia, to
sprout hateful views against Israel and Jews to discuss.
Joining me now, commentator Jason Morrison and
former speaker of the House Bronwyn Bishop.
Welcome to you both.
Bronwyn, what's your reaction to this?
It looks like a fraud, if
not a clear conflict of interest.
I'm not surprised I bothered to take a look.
Since the inception of the United Nations Human Rights
Council, there have been 45 motions condemning Israel.
The United Nations clearly just is against Israel again
and again and again, and she's part of that.
But it does make you ask this question the sheer
brutality of what was done on the 7 October which
people wouldn't publish because of how it would affront.
I think people need to know that brutality,
because what it was designed to do perhaps
was to make Israel retaliate with force and
say we're going to get rid of Hamas.
In the meantime, there's been work right across the
Palestinian support groups to drum up anti semitism or
due hatred right across the world, plus the United
Nations send her out here to try and give
it a bit of respectability and don't identify her
as being part of that Palestinian pan movement.
And when I see those children in the streets,
yes, today in Melbourne, I just go back to
the tactics that socialists around the world always use.
And it's in their DNA.
They all have a youth movement and the
reason is that they're easier to persuade.
There's little resistance because the
knowledge base isn't there.
And so it's not surprising to me that those people who
are activists within the education system and in places of power
can use it to drum up those kids to be sprouting
things, many of which, I would think some of them didn't
even know the meaning, mean a lot of what they were
saying today at those school protests in Melbourne.
And Jason.
There were hundreds of school students there.
They're meant to be in class.
Instead, they're being indoctrinated to hate Israel
and Jews and they'll be back tomorrow.
There's one organised in Sydney, and the
propaganda, I'll call it that, that's been
passed around on social media.
It's vile stuff and it's kids saying it.
I mean, these aren't university idiots.
Your classic dickheads from university out saying it.
These are children in high schools that are
now repeating this, you know, back a little.
Step on this albanese.
Doesn't it say so much about the Australian media?
Did anyone for a moment stop and think, hang on,
there's a crisis in the Middle East right now, and
she's out here doing the press club in Australia, right
in the middle of all of this.
That she thought, this where she
should be right now, is here.
And no one stopped to say, hey, who's paying for you?
Or did anyone for a minute and this is
an insight into, I guess, the Australian media, you
put the letters UN in front of anyone's name
or professor in front of someone's name.
There's sort of this sort of suggestion, particularly in
the ABC, that, oh, they're beautifully white and not
they're not affected by bias or prejudice. That's her.
It was a giveaway from the moment she
opened a trap, that she was out here
on a propaganda tour and nobody stopped.
And how many times she popped up in the
ABC and your little montage, I think twice.
Then there's ABC Radio, that would have had
a few cracks at her and she would
have been reported repeatedly in the news.
And no one all these journalists that are apparently there
to look into the depth of all of these things,
no one stopped for a second to ask the question.
And those organizations that sponsored her, don't forget
that many of those organizations are directly or
indirectly supported by government agencies given funding through
multicultural grants, either directly or, you know, the
taxpayer is kicking in on all of this.
It is disgraceful and good on you and UN.
Watch for calling it out.
And to the Australian media, that kind of
missed know I don't know where you're looking.
Yeah, no Hillel nuer does an absolutely
brilliant job over there in Geneva.
We have him on the show often.
Look, to go to a
different topic, this immigration scandal.
The Daily Telegraph, a big exclusive today, reports
that the Labour government actually doesn't know how
many detainees are wearing ankle bracelets.
They're unable to confirm and bronwyn.
This has, in a way,
really shocked the labor government.
They didn't expect this was going to blow up
into a scandal after the High Court decision.
And it did take kind of a few days
for the opposition, hammering them with questions, first for
them to introduce legislation that meant the criminals could
have ankle bracelets, but now no one seems to
be monitoring who's wearing them and who's not.
Look, I've never seen such a mess as
a government and I've seen quite a few.
This one takes the cake.
It's got ministers who are not
on top of their portfolios.
It's got a mantra that says, it's
not our fault, it's all their fault.
They have not taken responsibility for anything.
Even the Minister herself, when she was asked
claire O'Neill claire O'Neill, when she was asked
about this question of the braces, oh, well,
that's almost a child's fault.
It's his responsibility.
She has not been responsible
to take responsibility for anything.
So it's time she resigned or was sacked, one or
the other, and put in someone with some knowledge.
There was a warning back in June when Justice
Gleason, who's the daughter of the former Chief Justice
Gleason, who was one of the people who voted
20 years ago that it was unconstitutional, gave a
warning and said, this isn't looking good.
At that moment, they should have tweaked.
From that moment, there should have been a whole
series of alternatives put in place so that when
that judgment came down, if it was adverse, then
they immediately had a strategy and legislation ready to
go to protect the community.
But none of that's done because there
is no structure to the government.
It was all the voice, and once he got the
voice up, the next thing was, oh, it worked.
We could put up a proposition, didn't give him many
facts, so we whizzed it through, next we'll do the
Republic, and then my job's done, I'm terrific in history.
Well, that blew up. Didn't know.
You watch this and you think it's
actually too ridiculous to be accidental.
The incompetence is too ridiculous to be accidental.
The number one reason federal government exists
is for the protection of the people,
and on this they have failed.
And you look and you say, well, the Minister mean.
She's just bunny in the headlights on Mean.
Remember when she was with Donald Trump Jr? Yeah.
She's quick on Twitter saying childish things. Exactly.
She still thinks she's playing a game.
I'm sorry, madam, this is the real game.
This is the real deal here.
And you're letting Australians down and you're leaving
people who should be protected by the government.
That's your job.
You're leaving them exposed.
Jason, just very quickly, this is the biggest issue
that's probably cut through to the Australian public.
What do you think?
Well, it just says they don't care and I keep going.
This their number one reason we have Commonwealth Government, because
we've got so many other levels of government in this
country, the number one reason we have is protects of
the people and they fail on that front and that's
an indicator that they don't give a rats.
And if that's how you're going to be judged for
your time in government, you can have all the selfies
you want all around the world with every leader, but
if you can't guarantee the Australian people that when it
comes to the crunch that you'll be there to protect
them, you've failed and they are failing.
Well, the words in the constitution are that
they should govern with the peace, welfare and
good government for the people of Australia.
That's what they're required to do.
And the constitution is very clear on that.
Doesn't need interpretation at all.
BrianWood Bishop, Jason Morrison, thank you both
so much for your time today.
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