UN’s Francesca Albanese Failed to Disclose Antisemitic Husband Worked for PLO Ministry

Massimiliano Cali has been employed by the World Bank Group since 2014 and is currently senior country economist for the World Bank in Tunisia. He is also the husband of UN Palestine Rapporteur Francesca Albanese who herself has been condemned for antisemitism by the U.S., France, and Germany. Cali routinely promotes antisemitism and incites jihadi terrorism on Facebook. Below is a non-exhaustive selection of his Facebook posts.

Massimiliano Cali Facebook Posts

Shares one-side UN report by his wife Francesca Albanese accusing Israel of “perpetrating a genocide in Gaza” while completely ignoring the October 7 Hamas atrocities and Israel’s rights to security and self-defense. (March 25, 2024).

Shares information about a panel with his wife Francesca Albanese titled Colonialism and Apartheid in Palestine. The text of the post accuse “committing extermination in Palestine.” (January 30, 2024).

Shares a flyer about another anti-Israel panel with his wife Francesca Albanese. The text of the post criticizes “the West” for its defense of Israel, asserting that it is “sinking into the abyss.” (January 29, 2024).

Attacks the West for defending Israel and fighting antisemitism, while blaming Israel for the rise in antisemitism. Cali claims that if Western politicians “really cared about antisemitism (or humanity for that matter), these politicians would do everything they could to stop Israel’s indiscriminate massacre of Palestinians.” He adds that Western politicians’ defense of Israel shows that “their anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia are stronger than their desire to protect Jews and humanity.” (December 6, 2023).

Promotes his wife Francesca Albanese’s antisemitic book J’Accuse which accuses Israel of “apartheid and neocolonial occupation.” The title, J’Accuse inverts the trademark term used to denounce antisemitism since the 1898 Dreyfus affair and turns it against Israel as the Jewish State.  (November 28, 2023).

Shares his wife Francesca Albanese’s RAI News 24 interview in which she talks about the “Israeli colonial and apartheid project.” (May 16, 2022).

Celebrates end of Palestinian Authority security cooperation with Israel – “at long last the Palestinian Authority is gonna stop beating and jailing its own people on behalf of Israeli occupation forces.” (July 26, 2019).

Accuses Israel of “terrorist killings” and “massacres” in its summer 2014 war against Hamas in Gaza in the context of sharing a GoFundMe campaign sponsored by antisemite Roger Waters to support a lawsuit against Israeli officials in a Dutch court. (February 10, 2019).

Minimizes deadly Palestinian terrorism as “phantom attacks of Palestinian kamikaze armed with kitchen knives” which “Israelis sometimes invent” to “justify the carnage” against Palestinians. (February 6, 2019).

Criticizes Italian far right politician Matteo Salvini based on his connections to “fascist Israel.” (December 13, 2018).

Advocates economic boycotts against “all countries that are supporting Israel.” (November 15, 2018).

Makes light of Palestinian terrorism when he criticizes BBC for referring to Palestinian youth killed while planting bomb as “terrorists” instead of “3 Palestinian children in the outdoor prison of Gaza.” (October 30, 2018).

Praises successful BDS campaign to get singer Lana Del Ray to cancel performance in Israel as “another brick in the wall against the last settler-colonial enterprise.” (September 1, 2018).

Attacks “pro-Israel BBC” for abetting Israel’s “collective punishment” of the Palestinians through its “partisan,” i.e., pro-Israel, reporting. (July 15, 2018).

Calls for sanctions against Israel – “the most terrorist state on earth.” (May 29, 2018).

Dismisses Palestinian violence against Israel as part of the “March of Return” border riots and lashes out at the media for failing to “condemn yet another massacre by the Israeli occupation forces.” (March 31, 2018).

Defends Palestinian “March of Return” participants because they “have the guts to complain about the cramped outdoor prison that israel forces them to live in.” (March 30, 2018).

Shares article by anti-Israel +972 Magazine falsely accusing Israel of targeting “7 year old Palestinian children by kidnapping them.” (December 14, 2017).

Shares a BDS post calling for Giro d’Italia bicycle race to “steer clear of apartheid” and not to hold race in Israel. (September 21, 2017).

Accuses UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of whitewashing Israeli “apartheid” by refusing to back controversial UN report accusing Israel of apartheid. (March 20. 2017).

Accuses Israel of “carpet bombing the Gaza Strip” in its summer 2014 war against Hamas and perpetrating a “massacre.” (July 12, 2016).

Defends Palestinian teen terrorist who stabbed Israeli soldier as “another Palestinian girl shot in cold blood by the Israeli army.” (October 27, 2015).

Refers to Israel as “terrorist dictatorships” and “colonizers.” (October 11, 2015).

Falsely equates Palestinian suicide attacks targeting Israeli civilians with Israel’s summer 2014 war against Hamas in Gaza – “my guess is that killing while wearing an Israeli military uniform spares you the hassle of a New York (or any other) court.” (February 25, 2015).

In a joint post with Albanese, Cali justifies Hamas indoctrination of Palestinian children to terrorism. He equates a “Jewish minor from the Warsaw Ghetto” to young Palestinian boy “dressed as a military man, clumsily holding a (presumably) fake rifle.” Cali describes his fury and rage—”blowing up”—that the newspaper showed a photo of how Hamas dressed up children as terrorists. In a comment on their joint post, Albanese shares his rage. (January 30, 2015).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accuses Israel of a “massacre in Gaza” in its summer 2014 wear against Hamas, citing unverified and inaccurate statistics from PCHR Gaza, a politicized pro-Palestinian NGO that denies Palestinian terrorism. (August 5, 2014).

Promotes anti-Israel campaign to end summer 2014 war against Hamas under the hashtag #StopIsrael denying any Hamas culpability. (August 1, 2014).

Decries U.S. weapons sales to Israel amidst summer 2014 war against Hamas in Gaza. (July 31, 2014).

 

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