Genocide in Gaza: Francesca Albanese targeted by fake news for telling the truth
We must salute the exceptional courage of Francesca Albanesewho became the target of a coordinated political offensive for daring to name the crimes committed in Gaza and document, with legal rigor, violations of international law. His work is disturbing because it exposes the unspeakable and refuses alignment.
No, Francesca Albanese did not designate Israel as the common enemy of humanity.
While the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs calls for the resignation of the UN special rapporteur, we denounce an attack on the independence of her mandate.
— amnestyfrance (@amnestyfrance) February 12, 2026
Faced with it, supporters of the genocide chose diversion and manipulation, going so far as to fabricate a controversy based on truncated and misleading remarks, now formally denied by the complete transcriptions and journalistic verifications. This maneuver, intended to discredit the rapporteur, reached an unprecedented level when the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noel Barrotpublicly called for his resignation. That a political leader of a state claiming to be committed to human rights demands the head of a UN expert on the basis of a false accusation constitutes a serious precedent. It is no longer just a woman or a lawyer who is targeted, but any independent voice refusing to be silent in the face of the annihilation of a people.
These anti-Semitic remarks made in Qatar are unspeakable. This woman cannot continue to spread her hateful propaganda in the name of the UN whose mandate she still holds.
This charade has gone on long enough.
I officially ask the Minister of Foreign Affairs… pic.twitter.com/T22NyA30wW— Caroline Yadan (@CarolineYADAN) February 8, 2026
This manipulation was also dismantled by France 24which, in an analysis published in the section Info Intoxrecalls that Francesca Albanese has never qualified Israel as a “common enemy of humanity”, contrary to what she has been accused of. The channel relies on the full transcription of its intervention, confirming the non-existence of the incriminating remarks. The rapporteur denounces a deliberate manipulation of his words, while noting that, despite these established facts, Paris maintains its call for resignation by invoking “all of his past remarks”.
Supporting Francesca Albanese means refusing to allow lies to be used as a political weapon, and defending the independence of international law against those who want to silence any denunciation of crimes committed in Gaza.
