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Thank you for having me.

Are you an anti-samite?

I have to be honest.

I will answer your question.

Fine.

But I'm really bothered because with all what's happening

and with all the effort that it takes to stay sane

in the middle of this madness,

as a human being, as a mother, as a lawyer,

this is not the way I would like to start an interview with you.

But I will.

So first of all, yes, this is one of the accusations

that has been leveled against me.

I guess my mandate and my persona.

But I would like to go with you through who is accusing me,

what I'm accused of and why.

So the state of Israel has accused this mandate

of supporting terrorism, justifying terrorism,

and crimes against Israelis and anti-Semitism for decades.

It started with Richard Falk, who's an American Jew himself.

And he was accused to be a self-hating Jew.

The council culture that is promoted by Israel,

its psychophants and the squads of minions and barking dogs

everywhere there is a network that protects Israel.

I'm assessing Israel's performance

under international law.

And I'm commenting and condemning Israeli record,

human rights record.

So I conclude what I conclude.

And my conclusions wouldn't change if Israel was ruled by Buddhist,

Muslim, Christians wouldn't change.

And this is a deflection tactic that, in order

to move the attention away from the violations that Israel commits.

And by the way, many Jewish scholars, also Holocaust scholars,

have studied, and Jewish organizations have studied my defense

and pushed back on this.

I'm done.

Let's get into the details of the criticism, Ms. Albanese.

The last summary endorsed a tweet comparing Benjamin Netanyahu to Hitler.

Why did you do that?

No, no, no, no.

The Twitter was about something else.

The tweet was a picture of Hitler with a picture of Netanyahu.

And you wrote under that tweet.

This is exactly what I was thinking.

I compared the cheering crowd, the cheering crowd

that received Netanyahu.

At the time, they were already an investigation

for crimes, international crimes against him.

The ICC prosecutor had requested an arrest warrant against him.

He was received by a standing ovation by the US Congress.

OK, so just to be clear, you didn't condone the comparison between Netanyahu and Hitler.

And just the fact that he received a warm welcome in the US Congress?

No, because the tweet was about the cheering crowd.

Craig Mohib, who was a former...

I was going to be clear on this point.

Absolutely.

OK, so...

OK, we'll lay that dead.

And now, often, the moment we get out of this,

because I would really like to talk about the situation in the occupied policy.

Of course, we're getting to that. We're coming to that.