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The Owen Jones Podcast

Israel Seeks Palestine's "ERASURE": UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This is a devastating interview with Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

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0:00.0

Now it's been over 10 months of Israel's genocidal onslaught against Gaza.

0:04.4

We don't know how many have been slaughtered. We know based on looking at previous

0:10.8

mass violence that in these situations it's indirect deaths which end up killing

0:16.0

the most but we know that this is one of the great kinds of our age and one of the

0:21.2

voices of clarity, moral clarity, but also just the facts about what's actually happening, what's been committed perpetrated against the Palestine people has been Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur

0:34.1

on the Occupy Palestinian Territories.

0:36.2

And, you know, I have to say,

0:39.4

and it is important to say this, I think,

0:41.4

and obviously, you know, there a board of context of the Palestinian journalist being slaughtered and the biggest sort of journalists in modern in any recorded conflict. But I just want to say that Francesca has taken a huge amount of attack on sort from the

0:59.6

pro-Israeli lobby, from the United States government even.

1:04.0

I mean a really vicious onslaught.

1:07.0

But you've never stopped doing your job, you've never stopped speaking out,

1:12.0

your research has been invaluable for all of us.

1:14.7

So Francesca, it's a big honor to have you and I hope you're doing as okay as as possible in the horror

1:21.2

that we've seen in the last few months.

1:23.8

Thank you so much for having me.

1:25.2

Always a pleasure to come back.

1:27.9

What I'm going to do, actually, is I'm going to start by quoting

1:30.4

Omarov, who is an Israeli-American professor of genocide studies.

1:35.8

He's a specialist in the history of genocide.

1:38.7

Now it is quite interesting.

1:40.3

He wrote this on the Guardian and he said that his view changed because he quotes himself back in November last year

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