{"id":2174301,"date":"2024-02-12T15:07:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T20:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-to-host-un-official-who-was-just-banned-from-israel-for-justifying-oct-7-terrorist-attack\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T15:09:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T20:09:41","slug":"harvard-to-host-un-official-who-was-just-banned-from-israel-for-justifying-oct-7-terrorist-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-to-host-un-official-who-was-just-banned-from-israel-for-justifying-oct-7-terrorist-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard to host UN official banned from Israel for justifying Oct 7 attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharvard-to-host-un-official-who-was-just-banned-from-israel-for-justifying-oct-7-terrorist-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2174301&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Harvard University to Host Controversial UN Official Banned by Israel<\/h2>\n<p>Harvard University\u2063 is set to host a United Nations official today who was just \u2062banned by Israel \u200cfor her comments justifying Hamas\u2019\u2064 October 7 slaughter of more than 1,000 civilians as\u200b a \u201cresponse to Israel\u2019s oppression.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Francesca Albanese, the UN\u2019s Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories,\u2063 was officially \u2063banned \u200bfrom Israel on Monday for stating days earlier that the \u200bHamas attack\u200c had nothing \u200dto\u200c do with anti-Semitism, according \u2064to The Times of Israel. She is \u200bstill scheduled, however, to be a\u2064 featured speaker for Harvard\u2019s Carr Center for Human Rights \u200cPolicy on Monday afternoon to discuss Israel\u2019s war in\u200b Gaza.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cJoin us for a virtual\u2062 conversation with UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca \u200dAlbanese, as she discusses her perspective \u2062on the current situation in the Gaza area as well as\u2062 her experiences working on the protection of Palestinian refugees and migrants,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/harvard-events\/events-calendar\/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d172028913\">event\u2019s website states<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Albanese on Saturday has made her position\u200d on Israel\u2019s offensive against Hamas quite clear, \u2062most recently pushing back against French President Emmanuel Macron\u200b for calling the October \u200d7 \u200cattack an \u201canti-Semitic massacre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018greatest anti-Semitic massacre of our century\u2019? No, Mr. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmanuelMacron\">@EmmanuelMacron<\/a>,\u201d UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FranceskAlbs\/status\/1756351236909965591\">tweeted<\/a> in response to \u2062France\u2019s\u200b president honoring the victims on Saturday. \u201cThe victims of 10\/7 \u2064were not killed because of their Judaism, but\u2062 in response to Israel\u2019s oppression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harvard\u2019s decision to host\u2063 her on the same day she was banned by Israel comes as the\u200c Ivy League institution grapples with rampant anti-Semitism on campus. The Cambridge-based Ivy League is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/jewish-students-sue-harvard-for-failing-to-stop-anti-semitism-while-threatening-discipline-for-fatphobia\">facing a lawsuit<\/a> filed by Jewish students that accuses the school of avoiding protecting Jewish students from harassment and enabling antisemitism.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard University \u2063did not immediately respond to \u2062a request for comment. The event, entitled, \u201cA Conversation with Francesca Albanese,\u201d will be hosted at\u200b 2:00 p.m., and will\u200d include the \u2063center\u2019s Faculty Director Mathias \u200dRisse.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials said Albanese should be fired permanently by the United Nations, The Times of Israel\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/un-special-rapporteur-for-palestinians-banned-from-israel-after-appearing-to-justify-oct-7-massacre\/\">reported on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u200bera of Jews\u2063 being silent is over,\u201d\u200d Foreign Minister Israel Katz and Interior Minister Moshe Arbel said in a joint statement. \u201cIf the UN wants to \u2062return to being \u200ba relevant body, its leaders\u2062 must publicly disavow the anti-Semitic words of the \u2018Special Envoy\u2019 \u2013 \u2062and fire her permanently. Preventing her from entering Israel might\u200c remind her of the real reason why Hamas slaughtered babies, women \u2064and adults.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year,\u200d a bipartisan\u200d group of members of Congress called on the United \u200bNations to remove Albanese for her bias against Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Albanese\u200b has \u2062repeatedly refused to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-to-host-un-official-banned-from-israel-for-justifying-oct-7-terrorist-attack\/\" title=\"Harvard to host UN official barred from Israel over support for Oct 7 attack\">condemn terrorist attacks<\/a> against Israelis while\u2062 continuing her condemnations of Israel,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/schneider.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/schneider-wagner-lead-representatives-call-un-disband-commission-inquiry-and\">the group \u2063wrote<\/a>. \u201cFor an official\u2063 tasked with \u200cserving as an \u200dindependent, neutral, and expert voice on\u200b the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, her\u200d inexcusable silence against terrorism targeting Israelis and her outrageous and prejudicial remarks clearly reflect the irredeemable bias of her mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harvard-to-host-summer-program-at-palestinian-university-dominated-by-hamas\"><b>Harvard To \u200bHost Summer Program At Palestinian University Dominated By\u200b Hamas<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this\u200c month The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harvard-kennedy-school-to-host-radical-palestinian-professor-who-blamed-israel-for-hamas-terrorist-attack\">first reported<\/a> \u200b on the Harvard Kennedy School\u2019s Middle\u2063 East Initiative\u2019s plan \u2064to host a Palestinian professor who called Hamas\u2019 massacre of\u2063 Israeli civilians a \u201cnormal struggle for freedom,\u201d and said she would never forgive Israel\u2019s government for \u201cmaking us take their children and elderly as \u200chostages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>READ MORE: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/harvard-employee-harasses-jewish-student-suing-school-for-anti-semitism-asks-to-debate-9-11-conspiracies\"><b>Harvard Employee Harasses Jewish Student \u200cSuing School For Anti-Semitism,\u200d Asks To Debate 9\/11 Conspiracies<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The school distanced \u2064itself from the event, putting the\u200d blame on\u200c the Middle East Initiative\u2019s director, Professor Tarek E. \u200cMasoud. \u201cDean Douglas Elmendorf personally finds abhorrent the comments by Dalal\u200b Saeb\u200c Iriqat \u2062quoted in the press that justify and normalize\u2064 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-still-quiet-on-afghanistan-withdrawal-as-august-comes-to-a-close\/\" title=\"Biden remains silent on Afghanistan exit as August nears end.\">horrific\u2064 terrorist attack<\/a> by Hamas,\u201d it said in a statement. \u201cAn invitation to speak at the Kennedy School never implies an endorsement of a speaker\u2019s views by the Kennedy School or members of the Kennedy School community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How does the controversy surrounding Francesca Albanese&#8217;s invitation to speak at Harvard University \u2062reflect the ongoing debate\u200c about free speech, academic freedom, and the responsibility of universities in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stem-students-troll-woke-lgbt-survey-researchers-blame-rise-of-online-fascism\/\" title=\"STEM students mock woke LGBT survey, researchers attribute it to the growth of online fascism.\">addressing hate speech<\/a> and\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/final-straw-hollywood-reporter-sources-say-disney-wanted-to-fire-carano-in-november\/\" title=\"\u2018Final Straw\u2019: Hollywood Reporter Sources Say Disney Wanted To Fire Carano In November\">promoting inclusivity<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><span>  Harvard University is set \u200dto host a controversial United Nations official today, despite her recent ban by Israel for \u200bjustifying the Hamas attack on civilians. Francesca Albanese,\u2062 the \u200bUN\u2019s Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian \u2064territories, \u2062was officially banned from Israel on Monday for \u2064her comments stating that the Hamas attack had nothing to do with anti-Semitism. However, she is still scheduled to be a featured speaker at Harvard\u2019s Carr Center for Human Rights\u2064 Policy \u2062to discuss Israel\u2019s war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The event\u2019s website states, &#8220;Join us for a virtual conversation with UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, as she discusses her perspective on the \u200ccurrent situation in the Gaza area as well as her experiences \u200dworking on the protection of Palestinian refugees and migrants.&#8221; Albanese has been making her position\u2064 on Israel&#8217;s offensive\u200b against \u2064Hamas quite clear, even pushing back against French President Emmanuel\u2064 Macron for calling the October 7 attack \u2063an &#8220;anti-Semitic massacre.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harvard\u2019s decision to host\u2064 Albanese on the same day she was banned by Israel raises concerns, especially\u200d as the university\u2064 is currently facing\u2063 a lawsuit filed by Jewish students accusing \u2063the school of\u2062 enabling anti-Semitism and failing to protect Jewish students from harassment.<\/p>\n<p>While Harvard University has not yet responded to requests\u200c for comment, the event titled &#8220;A Conversation with Francesca Albanese&#8221;\u2063 is scheduled to take place at 2:00 p.m. and will include the center&#8217;s Faculty Director Mathias Risse.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials have called for Albanese to be\u2064 permanently fired by the United Nations. They argue that if \u2062the UN wants to regain relevance, its leaders must publicly disavow her\u200d anti-Semitic remarks and fire her permanently. However, last year, a bipartisan group of members of Congress also called \u200don the United Nations to \u200bremove Albanese for her bias against\u2062 Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 controversy surrounding Albanese&#8217;s invitation\u200c to\u200c speak at Harvard highlights the ongoing debate about free speech, academic freedom, and the responsibility universities have in \u200censuring that events and speakers do not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/metoo-puritans-remove-cleavage-from-elvira-doll\/\" title=\"#MeToo Puritans Remove Cleavage From Elvira Doll\">promote hate speech<\/a> or contribute to an already hostile environment. As Harvard aims to address accusations of anti-Semitism on its campus, hosting a\u2063 speaker who has been\u2064 banned by Israel for justifying a violent\u2064 attack raises\u200d questions about\u200c the university&#8217;s commitment to combating anti-Semitism and promoting inclusivity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard University will welcome a United Nations official today, despite her recent ban from Israel. Francesca Albanese, the UN&#8217;s Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, justified Hamas&#8217; killing of over 1,000 civilians as a response to Israel&#8217;s oppression. Israel officially banned her on Monday for making these comments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":597,"featured_media":2174302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/02\/Cover-images-5.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2174301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/02\/Cover-images-5.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2174301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2174301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2174302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2174301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2174301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2174301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}