Francesca Albanese Defenders Decry Bid to Remove UN Expert Over Misrepresented
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The head of Amnesty International slammed the "reprehensible" attacks on
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The Increasing Attacks on Francesca Albanese Presage a New Dark Age
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The viscous and sustained campaign mounted against Francesca Albanese, the UN
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian
Territory occupied since 1967, by Israel and the U.S. now includes the German,
Italian, French, Austrian and Czech foreign ministers demanding her
resignation. This campaign is part of an effort by industrial nations to at
once sustain the genocide in Gaza — nearly 600 Palestinians have been killed in
Gaza since the sham ceasefire took effect — and silence all those who demand
the international community abide by the rule of law.
The latest assault on Francesca, part of a concerted effort to discredit
international bodies such as the U.N., is based on a deliberately truncated
video of a talk Francesca gave in Doha on February 7 that distorts and
misconstrues her words. But truth, of course, is irrelevant. The goal is to
silence her and all who stand up for Palestinian rights.
Francesca was placed by the Trump administration on the Office of Foreign
Assets Control list of the U.S. Treasury Department — normally used to sanction
those accused of money laundering or being involved with terrorist
organizations — six days after the release of her report, “From economy of
occupation to economy of genocide,” which documented the global corporations
that make billions of dollars from the genocide in Gaza and occupation of
Palestinians.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control list — weaponized by the Trump
administration to persecute Francesca and in violation of the diplomatic
immunity granted to U.N. officials — bans her from entering the U.S. It
prohibits any financial institution from having her as a client. A bank engages
in financial transactions with Francesca is banned from operating in dollars,
faces multimillion-dollar fines and is blocked from international payment
systems. This has cut her off from global banking, leaving her unable to use
credit cards or book a hotel in her name. Her assets in the U.S. are frozen. It
has seen her medical insurance refuse to reimburse her for medical expenses. It
has resulted in institutions, including U.S. universities, human rights groups
and NGOs that once collaborated with her severing ties, fearing onerous U.S.
penalties. The sanctions followed those imposed in February and June of last
year on The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor Karim Khan along with two
judges for issuing arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
By making Francesca, who receives frequent death threats, the lightening rod,
these governments seek to deflect attention from the ongoing slaughter and
humanitarian disaster in Gaza. They seek to mask Israel’s system of apartheid
and unlawful occupation of historic Palestine. They seek to hide, most of all,
their complicity with their continuing weapons shipments that fuel Israel’s
genocide.
The pace of the genocide has slowed, but it has not stopped. Israel has seized
60 percent of Gaza and blocks most humanitarian aid, including fuel, food and
medicine. At the same time, Israel is accelerating its seizure of the occupied
West Bank, where more than 1,100 Palestinians have been killed and tens of
thousands have been displaced from their homes since October 2023.
The campaign against Francesca presages a terrifying world where Western
industrial nations exploit and prey upon the weak, where the law is whatever
powerful nations say it is, where those who dare to speak the truth and stand
up for the rule of law are relentlessly persecuted, where genocide is another
tool in the arsenal to crush the aspirations and rights of the vulnerable. This
is a fight we must win. If we lose, if we let voices like Francesca’s be
silenced, we will usher in an age of blood and terror.
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