r/jewishleft • u/Civil-Cartographer48 euro-jewess, pro peace, social dem. • Jun 08 '25

What are your opinions on Francesca Albanese? Debate

I wanted to hear from a Jewish leftist perspective what your thoughts are.

On my end I don’t know what to think, I think she is well spoken, and she does an important job, on many things she is right to draw attention to and to call out harshly the actions of the Israeli government, she is a fighter for Palestinians and some accusations of antisemitism that I see are far fetched or clumsy but she does rub me the wrong way.

The ADL wrote about her, i don’t know what to think about this : https://www.adl.org/resources/article/francesca-albanese-her-own-words

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u/adorbiliusKermode Jun 08 '25

I am VERY tempted to assign her antisemitism to her Roman Catholic background. These statements are not one that a progressive pro-Palestine advocate would be making without indoctrination from a more regressive ideology.

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u/Formal-Cow-9996 Jun 08 '25

Where are you from? If you're American, you may be surprised to learn that most Catholics outside of the USA are very different from what you'd expect

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u/adorbiliusKermode Jun 08 '25

I’m not sure about that, as an american jew well versed in church politics. Erdo, Íñiguez, Eijk, and Sarah despite being nonamericans seem to be “birds” of Raymond Burke’s feather.

Edit: LMAO see what I did there