UN Israel lobby group created fake Francesca Albanese video

The fake video a number of European governments are using to demand the resignation of Palestinian rights champion Francesca Albanese was created by a UN-accredited Israel lobby group.

The Orwellian-named ‘UN Watch’ claims to exist to hold the UN to its charter. In fact, it is an outright Israel lobby group – but one with access to the corridors of the UN in Geneva. It has unequivocal anti-Albanese form – it tried and failed in 2025 to prevent her re-accreditation as UN special rapporteur for occupied Palestine.

Having failed via the open route to oust Albanese, it is now accused – with evidence – of trying to do it by creating a fake video of her. The video supposedly showed Albanese describing Israel as the ‘common enemy of the world’. This would have been accurate, but was not actually what she had said in her speech.

As former UN human rights commissioner Craig Mokhiber observed, the “despicable” UN Watch has decades of form and has no place anywhere near the UN, but is also invited by US politicians to address them. Mokhiber demanded the withdrawal of its UN credentials:

Notorious Israel regime proxy group, “UN Watch”, set up in the 1990s by former Israel lobbyist and US ambassador Morris Abrams to harass and smear UN human rights defenders on behalf of the regime, is reported (below) to be behind the fabricated video used to attack UN Rapporteur… https://t.co/sFVADfatdI

— Craig Mokhiber (@CraigMokhiber) February 14, 2026

Notorious Israel regime proxy group, “UN Watch”, set up in the 1990s by former Israel lobbyist and US ambassador Morris Abrams to harass and smear UN human rights defenders on behalf of the regime, is reported (below) to be behind the fabricated video used to attack UN Rapporteur
@FranceskAlbs.

This despicable group has carried out such dirty tricks at the UN on behalf of the regime for decades with absolute impunity. It perfidiously poses variously as a “watch dog” or human rights group, spreads lies, and smears all critics of the Israeli regime as “antisemites.” And still the UN grants it “ECOSOC consultative status” credentials that allow it UN access to harass and smear UN personnel and disrupt UN proceedings. Like the regime itself, the impunity of this harassment cell has been secured through the active support of the US government (missions) in Geneva and New York.

And Israel lobby-corrupted members of Congress periodically allow them to brief US congressional committees where they regularly slander UN personnel and processes. Its UN credentials must be withdrawn and its impunity must end now. Defenders of colonialism, apartheid, and genocide and serial harassers of UN personnel have no place in the corridors of the UN.

And the evidence appears strong that the lobby group is the origin of the fake video. As policy expert Martin Konečný pointed out, the first appearance of the video online appears to have been in a post by UN Watch director and Israel propagandist Hillel Neuer:

Time to ask who is the original source of the manipulated video of @FranceskAlbs that several European governments jumped on to demand her resignation?

It appears to come from pro-Israel propagandist @HillelNeuer, executive director of @UNWatch. (Says also Grok.👇) https://t.co/fOPgeCoeO9 pic.twitter.com/4LpeqeMS0T

— Martin Konečný (@MartinKonecny) February 14, 2026

To their shame, a number of Western governments have continued to target Francesca Albanese as if the video wasn’t fake, despite knowing it was. Their removal is as essential as that of friends-of-genocide group ‘UN Watch’.

Featured image via the Canary