Exclusive | World Bank faces calls to fire Israel-bashing top economist who sued Trump over sanctions against his wife

The World Bank is facing calls to fire an Israel-bashing top economist who sued President Trump over US sanctions that were slapped on his wife, a UN human rights lawyer, for alleged antisemitism and support of terrorism, The Post has learned.Two US officials want the World Bank to boot Massimiliano Cali, who works in the bank’s Middle East and North Africa unit, after he filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday on behalf of his wife Francesca Albanese — the UN special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories whose inflammatory statements drew sanctions last year.Cali himself has made anti-Israel comments that have caused concern inside the bank and may violate its code of conduct on social media use, according to sources inside the international lender.The Italian, who declined to comment, made waves internally for a string of now-deleted posts in which he labeled Israel, a World Bank member, as a “colonial and apartheid project” that is “perpetrating a genocide in Gaza.”“If the Bank is truly committed to enforcing its own guidelines for employee conduct, this staffer seems to be in willful, blatant violation of those rules.It is obvious that they should be dismissed,” a US official told The Post.“It seems clear to me that they violated the bank’s policy by creating ‘real or perceived conflicts of interest,’ not just through their antisemitic social media postings but also by suing the President of the United States,” the person briefed on the matter added.Cali, who has a cushy role at the World Bank — where “senior economists” can earn up to $353,800 a year — once argued that Europe should have taken “a vastly larger share” of refugees from the Middle East.A former Palestinian Authority advisor, he also once made the bizarre suggestion in a World Bank paper that Israel dismantle West Bank security checkpoints as a means to boost economic growth.“It is totally pathetic that an avowed globalist institution like the World Bank, w...