Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, didn’t name Francesca Albanese in response to a question from JNS about the special rapporteur’s comment that appeared to partly justify an attack on journalists. But he rejected her statement in strong terms.

Albanese, whom the global body considers an independent “expert” and who has denounced Israel frequently in ways that U.S., Israeli and other diplomats have called Jew-hatred, drew criticism from across the Italian political spectrum, including the left, when she responded to an anti-Israel attack on the offices of Italian paper La Stampa on Nov. 28.

After the attack, Albanese, an Italian native, reportedly said that “we must not commit acts of violence against anyone, but at the same time this sh

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