Marco Rubio’s sanctions on a key UN antisemite may already be paying dividends

The sanctions Secretary of State Marco Rubio slapped on leading UN antisemite Francesca Albanese this month already may be paying handsome dividends.

Just a week later, all three members of a UN Commission of Inquiry set up specifically to clobber Israel — Chairwoman Navi Pillay, Miloon Kothari and Chris Sidoti — quit.

That makes the horrific stink at Turtle Bay a bit less awful.

Albanese certainly deserves Rubio’s sanctions. As the UN’s Human Rights Council special rapporteur, her job is specifically to slap Israel for its supposed wrongdoing in the Palestinian territories — and she’s done that with zest. (Even when the wrongdoing is fake, which is essentially all the time.)

She’s smeared the Jewish state as a perpetrator of “genocide,” called Gaza a “concentration camp” and compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler.

She’s spread antisemitic tropes, belittled the Holocaust and pushed to unseat Israel from the United Nations itself.

She blasts the “Jewish lobby” for ginning up support for Israel — a clear sign of her intolerance for democracy.

Indeed, her hatred of Israel runs so deep that she’s even vilified American businesses, such as Microsoft and Amazon, that dare to partner with Israel. 

And accused US tech companies of profiting from Israel’s “genocide,” demanding the International Criminal Court pursue prosecute them and their bosses.

The three members of the bash-Israel commission were no better.

Pillay, a former UN high commissioner of Human Rights, has called Israel an “apartheid” state and demanded sanctions on it.

Kothari worked on a report meant to whitewash Palestinian terrorism as “resistance” and falsely accuses Jerusalem of “massacring” and “ethnically cleansing” Palestinians.

Alas, their departure won’t spell the end of the commission or its antisemitic raison d’être.

Nor will it put much of a dent in the UN’s pervasive, monomaniacal bias against Israel, from Secretary-General António Guterres on down.

But if Rubio’s sanctions mean that at least some of the world body’s antisemites are beginning to pay a price, they’re well worth it.