UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese sparked a new backlash after publishing a Facebook post attacking Germany over its Holocaust memory and support for Israel, in remarks critics described as highly antisemitic.

Albanese, the UN rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, wrote that Germany’s postwar sense of responsibility for the Holocaust should no longer be described as “historical guilt.” Instead, she called it “a historical superiority syndrome that was never properly diagnosed, never treated, never healed.”

She then linked Germany’s postwar identity to its treatment of Jews and Israel. Albanese wrote that the West accepted Germany because Germans proved they could tolerate certain members of a group once considered “undesirable,” adding that they accepted “the Jews, but not all of them.”

The most inflammatory passage referred directly to Jewish identity and Israel. “No longer a fragile minority. No longer a people in exile. No longer the people of the book. But the chosen people. ‘Chosen to rule?’ one might wonder when looking at what Israel has become,” she wrote.

Albanese also claimed that “Israel does not represent all Jews,” and therefore “Germany does not honor all Jews,” pointing to Germany’s treatment of anti-Zionist Jews. She ended by saying Germans are “called to free themselves” and that “this is their opportunity.”

The post adds to mounting controversy around Albanese, who has repeatedly faced accusations of antisemitism over her comments on Israel. Earlier this year, several European governments called for her removal after she described Israel as “the common enemy of humanity” during an Al Jazeera forum in Qatar. The United States has also sanctioned Albanese, though a federal judge recently blocked those sanctions while the case continues.