Opinion: Who's afraid of Francesca Albanese?

In his latest column for Middle East Eye, academic Hamid Dabashi argues that Israel's supporters are rushing to discredit the UN special rapporteur on Palestine, after she published a damning report on the "anatomy of genocide".

Dabashi writes: "Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, is a legal scholar, the first woman to hold this pivotal position, and an all-round pain in the neck for genocidal Zionists from Tel Aviv to London to New York.

Today, she is the voice of the global conscience speaking truth to the vulgar warmongers committing atrocities in Gaza.

The bold, brilliant and thoroughly researched report Albanese recently issued, aptly titled 'Anatomy of a Genocide', has inspired much admiration around the globe for her tireless work - but also horror and fury among Zionists who do not want Israel’s genocide in Palestine to have such an eloquent, precise and detailed account."

You can read the full opinion piece below.