A notoriously anti-Israel United Nations official, Francesca Albanese, was tricked into agreeing to speak at an anti-Israel event at Columbia University by a satirical account posing as the “Chief Rabbi of Gaza.” The account, “Rabbi Linda Goldstein,” is known for mocking progressive anti-Israel talking points.
The Daily Wire, which published the hilarious idiocy of Albanese, revealed that “Goldstein” – who is actually a male lawyer whose name isn’t public – emailed Albanese, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, inviting her to deliver a keynote address on the “Morality of Intifada” to thousands of students gathered at the Gaza solidarity encampment. Albanese’s research assistant, Eleonora De Martin, responded, asking for more details on the topic and length.
Despite being told the speech would defend “intifada,” De Martin maintained interest and asked about an honorarium. Goldstein offered a small honorarium, which De Martin requested be transferred to the “fellowship of her volunteer” due to official capacity restrictions.
However, after Goldstein asked if the honorarium could be donated to UNRWA instead, De Martin stopped replying. Albanese’s team later claimed they realized Goldstein was not a reliable account and blocked her.
Goldstein mocked Albanese for chasing an honorarium and not caring about the Palestinian plight. Albanese has been an outspoken critic of Israel, and was barred from the country in February. She has spoken at Harvard University, stating Israel had no right to defend itself from Hamas terrorists.
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“Chief Rabbi of Gaza” is a title almost as absurd as “Gaza Ministry of Health” or “Gaza Minister of Information.”
I thought a NKer would be chief rabbi of Gaza
Pranking the Gestapo would have been a great story, but it isn’t very funny. Remember we are talking about someone who actively supports genociding us (I know it is under debate if genocide is a verb, thought we seem to the direct object, i.e. that what the verb is acting upon. The Palestinians are the subject of the sentence, that which is engaged in the action indicated by the verb).
BTW, there as a Chief Rabbi of Gaza (prior to World War II), and one of them wrote an excellent restatement/translation of some gemaras into modern Hebrew, and ended up in Haifa. Gaza only became Judenrein in the period leading up to the Arab-Israeli wars.
And why would a Gaza “ministry” of anything sound strange – Gaza was self-governing, held an election which Hamas won, and had a government; instead of building up the country, it devoted most of its resources (furnished by the United Nations and “donor” states) towards their goal of killing every Jew could find and conquering Eretz Yisrael but it was a functional elected government, albeit a not especially smart one).
No, Akuperma, Gaza was never self-governing, and never held any election. The last election held there was a PA election. Hamas lost that election, but it got a majority of the vote from the Gaza strip, and thereafter it seized control of the strip by force and murdered all the PA officials.