When asked about U.N. Watch’s letter, Pascal Sim, Spokesperson, UN Human Rights Council, told Fox News Digital that, “Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (a country mandate), was appointed by the Human Rights Council on 1 April 2022, which was the last day of the 49th session of the Human Rights Council. She took up her function on 1 May 2022. Therefore, according to the “no longer than six years” principle, she can serve as Special Rapporteur until 30 April 2028.”

Sim also asserted that “at no time has the Human Rights Council, in any formal or informal way, been called to ‘reappoint’ or ‘renew’ any Special Procedures mandate-holder. Whenever the Human Rights Council nominates any Special Procedures mandate-holder, it does so with the knowledge that the mandate-holder may serve up to six years in this function.”

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, speaks during a press conference at the European headquarters of the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, on Dec. 11, 2024. (REUTERS/Pierre Albouy)

Earlier this month, when the U.N. was set to consider Albanese’s reappointment, House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) Chair Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., urged the U.N. not to allow it to go through. 

Mast argued in a letter to U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) President Jürg Lauber that Albanese “unapologetically” used her role in the international body to “attempt to legitimize antisemitic tropes, while serving as a Hamas apologist.”

In the past, multiple countries, including the U.S., have condemned Albanese for her remarks. In fact, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has compiled a list of antisemitic and anti-Israel statements made by Albanese throughout the years. 

In October 2024, while serving as a U.N. appointee, she shared a post on X, calling it a “must-read for the ages.” In the post, journalist Chris Hedges asserted that the “Israel lobby has bought and paid for Congress and the two ruling parties,” making campaign donations by Zionists “a formidable barrier to peace.”

Albanese also compared Israel’s war in Gaza to the Holocaust and, in August 2024, called the Gaza Strip a “concentration camp of the 21st century.”

Fox News Digital reached out to Francesca Albanese and the State Department for comment on this report but did not receive a response in time for publication.