Asking an Antisemite if They're Antisemitic: The Art of Deflection
No one does it better than Francesca Albanese!
Recently, our favorite UN rapporteur, whom I have already skewered in a previous article, sat down for an interview with Yama Wolasmal, a Norwegian reporter whose news program I won’t even brother attempting to pronounce the name of. I assume she thought she was being received in a “friendly” country to discuss all of her important UN work, which mostly involves demonizing Israel and mishandling UN funds for travel to Australia (for the good of occupied Palestine, obviously).
Wolasmal opens the interview with, “are you an antisemite?”
It’s a rather straightforward question and not a difficult one to answer, because it’s “yes” or “no.” Of course, she could have just answered, “no. Next question?” But since she’s not smart, our girl Francesca instead engaged in a full 8 minutes of deflection and excuse-making that just reinforces what we all already know about her.
How she answered does serve a useful purpose, however. We can call it a primer on HOW TO DENY AND DEFLECT YOUR ANTISEMITISM IN 10 EASY STEPS:
Roll your eyes, sigh, clear your throat, and fold your arms like a petulant teenager.
Say how offended you are to be asked such an question but will answer anyway...and then never actually answer it.
State that Israel and their “sycophants” are using their “cancel culture” to accuse you unfairly of being an antisemite when bashing Jews as your full-time job clearly shows you aren’t.
Rattle off a list of As a Jews who support you (aka the trusty “I have Jewish friends” method).
Assure your audience that your attitude towards the Jewish state would be exactly the same if it were instead ruled by Buddhists, Muslims, or Christians.
Bring up the Holocaust while simultaneously positing that comparing Israelis to Nazis is not antisemitic.
Complain how the question takes away from your ability to discuss “occupied Palestine.”
State how having 17 different UN resolutions condemning Israel out of 23 total for every country on Earth shows the world’s pro-Israel bias.
Blame Jews for controlling the content of the interview.
Blame Jews for the weather that day.
There you have it: a straight-forward guide courtesy of Francesca on how to deflect your antisemitism should you be asked to do so in the future. It may be the only thing she actually does well.
Just for fun, I’ve decided that I no longer recognize Francesca's home country of Italy as a state. From now on I will refer to it as Occupied Etruria, in recognition of the indigenous Etruscans who lived there peacefully until the Romans colonized them. It’s only fair.
I’ve seen enough of this cretin to fairly conclude she lacks a single redeeming human quality. That’s probably how she got the job.
Nice one, Jill. To be fair to her, though, she conducted herself much better in that interview than in the Piers Morgan one, which I doubt she will ever live down.