Francesca Albanese
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So I tell the Israelis, the Israeli governments or the allies, Germany, Italy or France in Europe, challenge the facts, challenge the facts.
They don't have arguments to challenge the facts.
So they accuse me.
And they think that they're going to, I mean, of course, they are harming me.
Of course, of course, it's exhausting.
And of course, it takes a psychological toll.
But look, if we were in 1938, people like me would endure the same, would be not heard or ridiculed or accused or vilified.
But I would say,
Today, everyone is morally clear that they would have defended the Jewish people 100 years ago.
But 100 years ago, defending the Jewish people was not popular at all because the Jewish people were considered an unwanted population, an unwanted encumbrance.
This is what like the Palestinians today.
So I don't mind taking the brand.
And again, it's just a minority of people who stands against what I'm saying or what Amnesty International, the Commission of Inquiry on Israel-Palestine, the Special Committee on Israeli Practices, Israeli historians, Israeli human rights organizations.
We are all partials.
The only one in partials are the Israelis, the Italian government, the German government, the U.S.
government and France.
First of all, the question of the Jewish lobby being subjugating the US, I was referring to AIPAC.
AIPAC is one of the largest lobbying groups who's on record for influencing US policy.
Now, the thing is that I know now, like over a decade later, first of all, I never said anything like that in my capacity as a special rapporteur.