Yvette Cooper is facing calls from peers to demand the resignation of a senior UN official who is said to have called Israel “the common enemy of humanity”. More than 40 peers have written to the Foreign Secretary over the comments made by Francesca Albanese, the UN’s Special Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories. She criticised what she described as the international community’s complicity in Israel’s war in Gaza and referred to a “common enemy of humanity”. “And this is a challenge – the fact that instead of stopping Israel, most of the world has armed, given Israel political excuses, political...