Here are some of her latest outrages from the month of August:

1. Albanese Openly Defends Hamas, Whitewashes Terror Group as a “Political Force” (August 8, 2025)

In the shocking footage exposed by UN Watch—viewed nearly 5 million times—Albanese said at event in Sicily: “People continue to say, ‘But Hamas, Hamas, Hamas…’ I don’t think people have any idea what Hamas is. Hamas is a political force that won the 2005 elections—whether we like it or not. Hamas built schools, public facilities, hospitals. It was simply the authority, the de facto authority.”

Albanese continued her defense of the Palestinian terror group: “It is critical that you understand, that when you think of Hamas, you should not necessarily think of cut-throats, people armed to the teeth, or fighters. It’s not like that.”

U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee responded on social media: “Most stunningly offensive comment heard in a generation. ‘Hamas built schools…’. That’s as stupid as saying ‘Hannibal Lecter made creative culinary dishes.’ Citing UN Watch, the Jerusalem Post Editorial Board called for Albanese to be removed.

2. Albanese Claims Israel is Worse than Hamas, “Occupies” the Terror Group (August 23, 2025)

After Italian Senator Ivan Scalfarotto called out Albanese for refusing to call Hamas a terrorist organization, Albanese doubled down by not only comparing Israel to Hamas, but implying that the Jewish state is even worst than the terror group. She responds: “The UN rapporteurs follow the UN rules that do not designate Hamas as a terrorist organization. Nor do they call Israel a terrorist, which has killed many more civilians. The UN condemns the crimes of both. The difference is that one has been the occupier for over half a century, the other the occupied.”

Nothing to see here: UN's so-called human rights expert thinks Hamas is “the occupied” victim https://t.co/H8braQoHLJ pic.twitter.com/HZpQ1XPDXo

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) August 23, 2025

3. Albanese Compares Israeli Actions to Hitler’s “Final Solution,” Says Concerns from Jewish Communities “Should be Ignored” (August 11, 2025)

While speaking in Italy, Albanese outrageously claims that plans to “reoccupy Gaza” are equivalent to Hitler’s “Final Solution” which was orchestrated to destroy the Jewish People. She adds that this time, “Israel, led by Netanyahu—but not only Netanyahu—is trying to annihilate as many Palestinians as possible.”

During the same event, Albanese also blamed “Jewish communities” for issuing “threats” to “silence” debate. She then asks “what remains of democracy when debate is silenced in the name of fighting antisemitism, ” adding that these Jewish communities should be “ignored by the institutions” about their concerns over antisemitism.

4. Albanese Attacks Holocaust Survivor and Italian Senator Liliana Segre (August 3, 2025)

Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre holds one of the highest honors in all of Italy, currently serving as one of five members of the Italian Senate who are appointed as “senators for life.” Nonetheless, this did not stop Albanese from attacking Segre for raising awareness about antisemitism and for objecting to the abuse of the word “genocide” in reference to Gaza.

In May of this year, Segre gave an interview stating that the actions of the Israeli government are being blamed on the entire Jewish people, causing a rise in antisemitism. In response, Albanese called it “indecent” for Segre to be “instrumentalizing the fight against antisemitism” while “the most criminal government Israel has ever had… expels, kills, starves, and tortures members of a people.”

Adding to the saga, this month Segre gave another interview in which she opposed the use of the term “genocide” when referring to Gaza, adding that “people with antisemitic feelings” have been manipulating the term. That same day, Albanese shared Segre’s interview while adding that “the word genocide is not loaded with hate.” A day later Albanese jabbed at Segre even further, posting a photo in front of her mural while adding the caption: “#GazaGenocide‌. Day 665.”

5. Albanese Again Denies Rape and Sexual Violence by Hamas on October 7th (August 25, 2025)

Since Hamas’s barbaric attacks on October 7th, the Albanese has repeatedly denied and downplayed the evidence of rape occurring by Hamas against Israeli civilians. This comes as a new UN report on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence for 2024 added Hamas to its blacklist for patterns of sexual violence. The report from the UN Secretary-General confirmed that they “found clear and convincing information that some hostages taken to Gaza were subjected to various forms of conflict-related sexual violence during their time in captivity” and that they “found reasonable grounds to believe that sexual violence occurred during the attacks of 7 October 2023 in multiple locations, including rape and gang rape.”

However, despite this new report, this month during a webinar in Italian, Albanese again claimed that “there isn’t a shred of proof that rapes were committed, let alone mass rapes… There is no proof of rape, especially there is no proof of children hanged, tortured. There is none.” In contrast, Albanese maintained that “Muslims” in Israeli prisons have been “raped by people and by animals.” See other instances of Albanese’s denial of Hamas’s crimes of sexual violence in the video below:

6. Albanese Defends Hamas Fighter Killed While Pointing RPG Towards IDF Tank (August 20, 2025)

On social media, Albanese shared a video of an IDF tank running over an armed Hamas terrorist who appears to be pointing an RPG directly towards the tank. However, instead of praising this elimination by the IDF, Albanese called it a “horrid crime scene” and part of Israel’s purported “genocide.”

7. Albanese Tells Tehran-Controlled Media that Israel an “Ethnocracy,” Democracy Distinction is a “Fake Label” (August 8, 2025)

Ironically, in an interview with Iranian state-controlled media, Albanese states that “it’s impossible not to think of Israel as an apartheid state, Israel as an ethnocracy. I mean, people understand instinctively that ‘the only democracy of the Middle East’ is just a fake label that won’t stick anywhere else other than to the lies of some failed politician.”

In reality, Israel is a democratic nation with free and competitive elections, an independent judiciary, a vibrant press, and full political participation for all citizens. Of course, this includes the 2 million Arabs Israelis who not only vote but also serve in parliament, the judiciary, the military, and at the highest levels of government. For Albanese to spew these falsehoods on Iranian Press TV, an organ of the world’s most repressive theocracy, is as offensive to the victims of the Islamic regime as it is ironic.

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Contrary to the rules of the World Bank, Mr. Cali routinely makes public pronouncements to promote his radical, anti-Western and anti-Israel political agenda. Despite being paid by the U.S.-funded World Bank, he attacks what he calls “Amerika.” Massimiliano Cali also promotes antisemitism and incites jihadi terrorism on Facebook. See below for some of his inflammatory posts.

Cali’s Wife Albanese Lied to the UN, Failed to Disclose Conflict of Interest With Abbas’s PA Regime

Cali previously worked as an economic advisor to Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority regime, but the potential conflict of interest was not disclosed by his wife when she applied for her UN post.

On her application for the position of UN expert on the Palestinian territories, Albanese certified that she had no personal conflicts of interest. This was a lie. Albanese deliberately omitted the fact that her husband, Massimiliano Calì—who together with Albanese compares Palestinians to Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto resisting the Nazis—formerly worked for Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, where he authored a report on Israel’s “exploitative” policies.

“Prior to joining the [World] Bank,” according to Calì’s official biography, “he served as an economic advisor to the Palestinian Ministry of National Economy.” Calì continues to see himself as a de facto surrogate for the Palestinian government, parroting their line in public social media posts. For this conflict of interest alone, and for lying about it on her application, Albanese should be removed from her UN position.

Calì Promoted Antisemitic Blood Libels and Jihadi Terrorism

As a senior economist with the World Bank in Tunisia, employed there since at least since 2014, Calì has systematically committed serious breaches of his neutrality obligations. For at least the past decade, he publicly promoted antisemitism on his social media. His posts clearly meet the criteria that define antisemitism, according to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance: Calì repeatedly claims that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor, and draws comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

Calì regularly posts incitement to antisemitism and jihadi terrorism on Facebook, including comparing Israelis to Nazis, promoting boycott and sanctions against Israel, accusing the Jewish state of genocide and apartheid, and justifying Palestinian terrorism.

And yet the World Bank has taken no action to ensure compliance. The World Bank Staff Rules Directives and Code of Conduct require staff in Article 4 to “act responsibly in making public statements” as these statements are understood to “reflect WBG official positions.” Article 11 expressly states that “staff are perceived as representing the World Bank Group even when expressing views in a personal capacity.” Moreover, as of 2021, the World Bank Group clarified for its employees that “public comments made by staff (including on personal social media accounts) could compromise WBG neutrality and lead to unwanted reputational risks.”

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U.S. Funds His Salary, But Massimiliano Cali Attacks “Amerika”

Though the United States funds his salary by virtue of being the largest donor to the World Bank, he calls it “Amerika.” (August 10, 2014)

Funded by Western Countries, Cali Says “Western Countries Support Genocide”

Cali claimed that Israel is “perpetrating a genocide,” and that Western countries “directly supported” genocide. He did so while sharing an absurdly biased UN report by his wife Francesca Albanese accusing Israel of “perpetrating a genocide in Gaza” while completely ignoring the October 7 Hamas atrocities and Israel’s rights to security and self-defense. (March 25, 2024).

Says Italy’s Democratic Party is “one of the greatest obstacles to human and political progress of Italy” 

Cali promoted a panel with his wife Francesca Albanese titled “Colonialism and Apartheid in Palestine.” The text of the post accuses Israel of  “committing extermination in Palestine.” He said that Italy’s Democratic Party is “one of the greatest obstacles to human and political progress of Italy.”   (January 30, 2024).

Cali: “West is Sinking Into the Abyss”

Cali shared a flyer about another anti-Israel panel with his wife Francesca Albanese. The text of the post criticizes “the West” for its defense of Israel, asserting that it is “sinking into the abyss.” (January 29, 2024).

Attacks U.S., German, Italian Lawmakers for “Anti-Palestinian Racism” and “Islamophobia” 

Cali attacked the West for defending Israel and fighting antisemitism, while blaming Israel for the rise in antisemitism. Cali claimed that if Western politicians “really cared about antisemitism (or humanity for that matter), these politicians would do everything they could to stop Israel’s indiscriminate massacre of Palestinians.” He added that Western politicians’ defense of Israel shows that “their anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia are stronger than their desire to protect Jews and humanity.” (December 6, 2023).

Cali Promotes Albanese’s Inversion of Antisemitism, Attacks “Defenders of Colonialism” in Italy

Cali promoted his wife Francesca Albanese’s antisemitic book “J’Accuse” which accuses Israel of “apartheid and neocolonial occupation.” The book’s title, “J’Accuse,” deliberately inverts the historic title of Emile Zola’s manifesto denouncing antisemitism in Dreyfus affair and turns it against Israel as the Jewish State.  (November 28, 2023).

Cali: Opponents of His Wife’s Claims are “Flat-Earthers”

Cali shared his wife Francesca Albanese’s RAI News 24 interview in which she talks about the “Israeli colonial and apartheid project.” He called opponents of  his wife’s claims “Flat-Earthers” (May 16, 2022).

Cali Shares Petition Demanding ICC Charge Israel with War Crimes

Describing it as an “important petition” Cali used his platform to call for the International Criminal Court to charge Israeli Prime Minister “Benjamin Netanyahu & Israel for War Crimes.” (July 31, 2014).

Cali Cheers End of Palestinian-Israeli Cooperation on Security

Cali celebrated the end of Palestinian Authority security cooperation with Israel – “at long last the Palestinian Authority is gonna stop beating and jailing its own people on behalf of Israeli occupation forces.” (July 26, 2019).

Cali Promotes Roger Waters GoFundMe Campaign Attacking Israel 

Cali accuses Israel of “terrorist killings” and “massacres” in its summer 2014 war against Hamas in Gaza in the context of sharing a GoFundMe campaign sponsored by antisemite Roger Waters to support a lawsuit against Israeli officials in a Dutch court. (February 10, 2019).

Cali: Palestinian Knife Stabbings Are “Phantom Attacks,” Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini “On the Side of the Killers”

Minimizes deadly Palestinian terrorism as “phantom attacks of Palestinian kamikaze armed with kitchen knives” which “Israelis sometimes invent” to “justify the carnage” against Palestinians. (February 6, 2019).

Cali:

Accuses Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini of always being “on the wrong side of history,” and at home “in fascist Israel.” (December 13, 2018).

Cali Praised Indonesia’s Government for Rejecting Trade Deal With Australia Over Israel Ties

Cali advocated economic boycotts against “all countries that are supporting Israel.” (November 15, 2018).

Cali Accuses BBC of Bias:  “Shame, Shame, Shame”

Cali made light of Palestinian terrorism when he called out the BBC for referring to Palestinian youth — killed while planting bombs — as “terrorists.” saying that instead they should be describes as “3 Palestinian children in the outdoor prison of Gaza.” (October 30, 2018).

Cali Praises Lana Del Ray Boycott of Israel

“Another brick in the wall against the last settler-colonial enterprise” — Cali praised the successful campaign by the anti-Israel Boycott Divestment & Sanctions movement pressuring singer Lana Del Ray to cancel her  performance in Israel.  (September 1, 2018).

Cali Condemns “Ever-More Shameful BBC” For Hamas Headline, Urges Complaints 

Attacks “pro-Israel BBC” for abetting Israel’s “collective punishment” of the Palestinians through its “partisan,” i.e., pro-Israel, reporting. (July 15, 2018).

Cali: Israel is “The Most Terrorist State on Earth,” Says “Sanctions Are the Only Way”

Calls for sanctions against Israel – “the most terrorist state on earth.” (May 29, 2018).

Cali: “Not One Fuxxxing So Called Western Leader” Condemned Israel,  “the West’s Last Settler-Colonial Project”

Dismisses Palestinian violence against Israel that was part of the Hamas “March of Return” border riots — the prelude to October 7th — and lashes out at the media for failing to “condemn yet another massacre by the Israeli occupation forces.” (March 31, 2018).

Cali Encouraged Hamas Border Riots That Prepared October 7th Massacre

Cali encouraged the Hamas border riots that were used to prepare for October 7th massacre, praising the “March of Return” participants because they “have the guts to complain about the cramped outdoor prison that Israel forces them to live in.” (March 30, 2018).

Cali False Accuses Israel of Kidnapping Children

Shares article by anti-Israel +972 Magazine that falsely accused Israel of targeting “7 year old Palestinian children by kidnapping them.” (December 14, 2017).

Cali Promotes Boycott Movement Campaigns, Calls to Cancel Italy’s Bike Race in Israel

Shares a BDS post calling for Giro d’Italia bicycle race to “steer clear of apartheid” and not to hold race in Israel. (September 21, 2017).

Cali: “UN Chief Whitewashing Israeli Apartheid” 

Cali Accuses UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of whitewashing Israeli “apartheid” by refusing to back controversial UN report accusing Israel of apartheid. (March 20. 2017). In 2024, Guterres apparently called Cali’s wife “a horrible person.”

Cali: Israel’s 2014 War With Hamas Was “Massacre”

Cali accused Israel of “carpet bombing the Gaza Strip” in its summer 2014 war against Hamas and perpetrating a “massacre.” (July 12, 2016).

Cali Defended Palestinian Teen Terrorist

Cali defended a Palestinian teen terrorist who stabbed Israeli soldier as “another Palestinian girl shot in cold blood by the Israeli army.” (October 27, 2015).

Cali: Israel Acts Like “Terrorist Dictatorship”

Cali compares Israel to a “terrorist dictatorship,” attacking Western governments for their alleged complicity.  (October 11, 2015).

Cali Attacks U.S. Court, Falsely Equates Palestinian Suicide Bombings With Israel Fighting Hamas Terrorism

Cali falsely equates Palestinian suicide attacks targeting Israeli civilians with Israel’s summer 2014 war against Hamas in Gaza – “my guess is that killing while wearing an Israeli military uniform spares you the hassle of a New York (or any other) court.” (February 25, 2015).

Enraged Cali Compares Israelis to Nazis, “Blows Up” at Italian Newspaper

In a post tagging his wife Albanese, an enraged Cali justifies Hamas indoctrination of Palestinian children to terrorism. He equates a “Jewish minor from the Warsaw Ghetto” to young Palestinian boy “dressed as a military man, clumsily holding a (presumably) fake rifle.” Cali describes his fury and rage—”blowing up”—that the newspaper showed a photo of how Hamas dressed up children as terrorists. In a comment endorsing the post in which she is tagged, Albanese shares his rage, encouraging people to complain to the newspaper. (January 30, 2015).

Albanese also shared the post:

Cali Accuses Israel of “Massacre” and “Terror” for Responding to Hamas Rockets in 2014

Cali accused Israel of a “massacre in Gaza” in its summer 2014 wear against Hamas, citing unverified and inaccurate statistics from PCHR Gaza, a politicized pro-Palestinian NGO that denies Palestinian terrorism. (August 5, 2014).

Cali Promotes Anti-Israel Campaign During Hamas War on Israel

Using the hashtag #StopIsrael, Cali promoted an anti-Israel campaign that falsely characterized Israel’s response to Hamas’s war — in which Hamas attacked Israeli towns with 4,700 missiles, rockets and mortars — as “brutal attacks on Gaza.” (August 1, 2014).

Cali Accuses U.S. of Arming Israel “To Kill More Palestinian Children”

Cali attacks the U.S., falsely characterizing Israel’s response to Hamas firing of 4,7000 missiles, rockets and mortars,  as a scheme to “kill more Palestinian children.” (July 31, 2014).

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Here are some of her latest outrages from the month of July:

1. Albanese Shares Post Downplaying Targeting of Jews for Wearing Kippah, Calls the Jewish State “the Fourth Reich” (July 30, 2025)

On Facebook, Albanese shared a post that downplayed extreme antisemitism after a Jewish father and his six-year-old son were targeted by a group in Italy chanting “Free Palestine” and “murderers.”

Reportedly, the incident began when a cashier shouted “Free Palestine,” upon noticing that he and his son were wearing kippahs. The post Albanese shared claimed that the two were attacked for being Zionists, not because they wore kippahs, and that this is a distraction by the press from “talking about the kidnapping and abduction of Italian citizens in international waters by the Fourth Reich.”

The post adds, “the lying Zionist device sets off right here: passing a political charge for ethnic or religious prejudice” and that “Zionists can only make big things on social media, where there’s no physical presence, and they take advantage of their lobbies.” To conclude, the post writes that “the Resistance is not celebrated in memorials today, but it is done everywhere the Fourth Reich extends its criminal hand or its death propaganda.”

2. Albanese Again Minimizes Rape and Sexual Violence by Hamas on October 7th (July 7, 2025)

Since Hamas’s barbaric attacks on October 7th, the UN’s Francesca Albanese has repeatedly denied and downplayed the evidence of rape occurring by Hamas against Israeli civilians, going so far as to egregiously claim that “there is no evidence of rape.”

This month, Albanese appeared on Sky News to minimize evidence of rape on October 7th presented in a new report by the Dinah Project. Despite supposedly being a UN “expert,” Albanese claimed that she hasn’t heard of the report, instead sharing that she’s “read other reports written by Israeli, including Israeli sources, Physicians for Human Rights, who have backtracked from what they said in the beginning. So I, of course, I cannot pronounce myself on violence that I don’t know of.”

3. Albanese Compares Corporate Investment in Israel to that of Nazi Germany (July 3, 2025)

This month, Albanese presented a biased and one-sided report at the UN Human Rights Council which systematically criminalized the Jewish state while completely ignoring Palestinian terrorism and rejectionism. Additionally, the report issued a call to sanction U.S. companies such as Google, Amazon, Blackrock for their so-called complicity in Israeli “crimes of apartheid and genocide.”

While presenting the report, Albanese claimed that companies investing in Israel today shares parallels with “corporate complicity in apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany.”

The report itself also added that “the post-Holocaust industrialists’ trials, such as the I.G. Farben trial, laid the groundwork for recognizing the international criminal responsibility of corporate executives for participation in international crimes,” suggesting that executives of companies working with Israel can and should be charged with international crimes like those who supported the Nazis. For reference, I.G. Farben was the private German chemicals company allied with the Nazis that manufactured the Zyklon B gas used to exterminate Jews and other innocent civilians in the Holocaust.

4. Albanese Again Denies Antisemitic Nature of October 7th (July 24, 2025)

While sitting for an interview with Slovenia’s president, Albanese doubles down on her claim that Hamas’s heinous attacks on October 7th were not driven by antisemitism. She says that acknowledging the antisemitic nature “is so false” as “the motives were not antisemitic” because the attack was “against Israel and Israelis” who “are occupiers.”

Albanese was previously condemned for antisemitism by the French Government and German Government for denying the antisemitic nature of October 7th. France called it “scandalous” to deny that “the October 7 massacre is the largest anti-Semitic massacre of the 21st century.” Germany added that Albanese’s previous remarks were “appalling” and “a disgrace.”

5. Albanese Refers to Israeli Prime Minister by Polish Name in Now-Deleted Tweet (July 9, 2025)

In a quickly deleted tweet (screenshotted below), Albanese refers to the Israeli Prime Minister as “Benjamin (Mileikowsky) Netanyahu,” referencing the surname his father used while living in Poland to attack his ethnicity. By doing so, she implies that the leader of Israel—and by extension, millions of Israeli Jews whose families were once forced into diaspora—are colonizers with no connection to the land.

6. Albanese Bashes the West for Not Stopping “Another Holocaust,” Blames “Neoliberal Tyranny” (July 29, 2025)

Albanese took to social media to condemn the “absolute incapacity of Western leaders to enforce intl law when it comes to Israel.” She then added that “Doing NOTHING, diverting attention, sanctioning individual ministers IS NOT enforcing the intl law that was developed after the Holocaust and WWII to prevent another Holocaust and WWII.” This adds to the long list of statements made by Albanese which invoke the Holocaust for political purposes and attack the West.

Earlier this month, Albanese also spoke in front of The Hague Group, which includes oppressive regimes such as Cuba, to call for solidarity with those standing up against “neoliberal tyranny.”

7. Albanese Uses Sick Child to Spread Propaganda (July 24, 2025)

On social media, Albanese posted a photo of Osama al-Raqab, portraying him as a victim of the “planned famine” being conducted by Israel as “a technique of genocide.” However, in reality, al-Raqab is a very sick child who suffers from cystic fibrosis. In June of this year, Israel facilitated his medical transfer from Gaza to Italy to receive treatment for his condition. Albanese is yet to apologize for again spreading misinformation to peddle Hamas propaganda.

Everything in your post is a lie. The child here is Osama al-Raqab. He has CYSTIC FIBROSIS. He's been treated in Italy since June, his medical transfer enabled by Israel. That your “starvation” case requires photos of kids with serious genetic illnesses shows you have no case. https://t.co/uqh4pcjQaS pic.twitter.com/b5lp8BKoAE

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 30, 2025

8. Albanese Targets Jewish Conductor Daniel Oren, Smearing Him as “Pro-Genocide” (July 24, 2025)

While amplifying a post smearing Jewish conductor Daniel Oren as a “friend of Netanyahu” and sharing a photo designed to portray him as a demagogue, Albanese goes after Oren, smearing him as “pro-genocide.” This is despite the fact that Oren has no public record of any friendship or connection with Prime Minister Netanyahu. Furthermore, Oren has not made any personal political views public.

Despite all this, Albanese still blasted Oren to her following of nearly 500,000, calling for his performances to “find empty rooms awaiting them, if not adorned with the shrouds that symbolically remind us of the ongoing genocide.”

Francesca Albanese targets conductor Daniel Oren only because he's Jewish. She calls him “pro-genocide”—he's not. She boosts a post calling him a “friend of Netanyahu”—he's not. She shows photo designed to portray him as a demagogue—he's just conducting. Only because he's a Jew. https://t.co/fYhEWwd0kj pic.twitter.com/jkU0V0bEUi

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 24, 2025

9. Albanese Says There is No “Good Israel,” Jerusalem Light Rail a “War Crime” (July 3, 2025)

In a press conference at the UN Human Rights Council, Albanese claims that the Israeli system must be “dismantled” and that “it’s a fiction that there is a line separating the good Israel within Israel and the bad Israel in the occupied territory. No, the economy is one.”

Later during the address to journalists, Albanese called the Jerusalem Light Rail—which is used by both Jewish and Arab citizens—“a war crime.” She then attacked a private company involved in the expansion of the rail system, saying that “the lines that CAF is involved in building include part of their tracks in the West Bank. And these lines connect colonies, colonies with Jerusalem. The colonies are connected through transportation lines with Israel. And as I said, this is illegal. It shouldn’t happen.”

10. Albanese Dangerously Compares Video of Gazan Restaurants to Nazi-era Propaganda (July 24, 2025)

In response to a video showcasing lavish restaurants currently operating in Gaza, Albanese tweets that “nearly one century ago concentration camps were presented as fancy residential areas by criminals and useful idiots believed and even repeated it.” In other words, Albanese is dangerously comparing Nazi propaganda films with social media posts filmed and uploaded by Gazans themselves.

In a separate post two days earlier, Albanese again compares the situation in Gaza to that of the Holocaust, writing that “if the WWII comparison stings, Israel & Co. should consider changing the script, and start respecting the post-WWII laws written to ensure ‘never again’ actually meant something.”

VICTORY: U.S. Sanctions UN’s Francesca Albanese in Unprecedented Move After UN Watch Campaign (July 9, 2025)

In an historic and unprecedented step, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced earlier this month that the U.S. government is sanctioning Francesca Albanese in wake of a massive global campaign by UN Watch.

In sanctioning Albanese under Executive Order 14203, Rubio cited her “illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt International Criminal Court action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies, and executives.”Any assets that Albanese has in the U.S. are frozen, Americans are banned from doing business with her, and she is barred from entering the country.

UN Watch thanks the more than 120,000 supporters who joined its campaign and calls on the United Nations to formally terminate Albanese’s mandate and ensure that future appointees meet the standards of impartiality, integrity, and respect for human rights.

U.N.-PRECEDENTED: 🇺🇸 Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces U.S. is imposing sanctions on the UN's pro-Hamas rapporteur Francesca Albanese.

Thank you to the 100,000+ supporters of our campaign: https://t.co/XV9yn4EOly

BOOM. You're going down, @FranceskAlbs. pic.twitter.com/D9YXQh44gB

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 9, 2025

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A/HRC/59/NGO/331: Objections to the Reappointment of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967

Excerpt: In April 2025, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, shared on her social media a post claiming that the “UN human rights council voted to keep her in the position as UN rapporteur for the Palestinian territories till 2028!.” In fact, however, no such vote ever took place. At best, Ms. Albanese could possibly claim that several stakeholders consider that her reappointment took place tacitly, in the absence of any vote or debate about her record of non-compliance.

Yet even this claim is not substantiated by the law or the facts. The law is clear. Only one resolution deals specifically with this matter, entitled “Terms of office of special procedure mandate-holders,” which was adopted by consensus in 2008 as UNHRC Presidential Statement 8/PRST/2. This text stipulates: “The President of the Human Rights Council will convey to the Council information brought to his or her attention… concerning cases of persistent non-compliance by a mandate-holder,” and this requirement applies “particularly in advance of reappointments.” The Council is then mandated to “consider such information and act upon it as appropriate.” Only “[i]n the absence of the above-mentioned information,” are the terms in office of the mandate-holders “extended for a second three-year term.” The above constitute clear and binding obligations on the Council and the President and are duly reaffirmed in the Manual of Operations of the Special Procedures.

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The Geneva-based human rights organization released a comprehensive critique of today’s new report by Albanese, which UN Watch says is designed to “isolate the State of Israel, cause it to be shunned by the international community, and bring about its demise” by labeling Israel a “genocidal machine” and calling for wide-ranging boycott, divestment, and sanctions which would curtail its ability to function in the international community.

The term “genocide” in different forms appears 57 times in the 38-page report, while the words “Hamas” and “terrorism” appear zero times.

UN Watch’s analysis identifies twelve major deficiencies in Albanese’s report, including the omission of key facts, the criminalization of Israeli innovation, and blatant falsehoods about Israeli policies.

The report ignores the existence of ongoing armed conflict between Israel and Hamas and the current war, initiated by Hamas on October 7, 2023, which Hamas refuses to end by surrendering and returning all the hostages.

Furthermore, the critique highlights how Albanese’s report fails to acknowledge Hamas’s human shield strategy and Iran’s role in supplying weapons and training to terrorist groups. 

UN Watch also notes how the report demonizes Israeli technological innovations, including life-saving military precision targeting systems and the Jerusalem Light Rail, which serves both Jewish and Arab communities equally. 

The analysis reveals factual errors in Albanese’s claims about Israeli control of Palestinian resources, noting that Israel never imposed a “complete siege” on Gaza and has worked with the international community to ensure humanitarian aid delivery. UN Watch documents how Hamas’s own rocket attacks on October 7, 2023, destroyed nine of ten power lines from Israel to Gaza. 

Even Norway’s government, typically critical of Israel, rejected many of Albanese’s demands for divestment, with the Finance Minister explaining the importance of basing decisions on “accurate facts” rather than unsubstantiated allegations.

UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer:

“Francesca Albanese is the first UN expert in history to have been condemned by the United States, France, Germany, and Canada. With this new report, Albanese is escalating her crusade against the world’s only Jewish state, using the imprimatur of the United Nations.”

“Her report uses the word genocide 57 times but cannot bring itself to mention Hamas, terrorism, or the October 7th attacks even once,” said Neuer. “This tells you everything you need to know about her agenda — to demonize Israel while giving a free pass to the terrorists who started this war.”  

UN Watch is urging all UN member states to reject Albanese’s report, and to support the U.S. government’s new call on the UN to remove her.

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By Dina Rovner, Legal Advisor at UN Watch

The main purpose of this report by the UN’s antisemitic rapporteur Francesca Albanese is to isolate the State of Israel, cause it to be shunned by the international community, and bring about its demise. From beginning to end, this report constitutes one giant libel, deliberately painting Israel—the world’s only Jewish state—as uniquely criminal. Albanese characterizes the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a “joint criminal enterprise” and a “genocidal machine” (Para 91). Notably, from 1948 to 1967, while these territories were governed by Jordan, which had annexed the West Bank in violation of international law, and Egypt, there was no global outcry on behalf of the Palestinians accusing those countries of denying the Palestinians their right to self-determination and a state.

Even Israel’s achievements and contributions are demonized and recast as crimes. Thus, in Albanese’s view, Israel is deserving of wide-ranging boycotts, divestment, and sanctions which will block it from the international economy, exclude it from the academic and intellectual community, and drastically impair its ability to defend itself, ultimately threatening its existence. While the title of the report suggests it is focused on companies supporting the “occupation,” a close reading of the report makes it clear that Albanese is targeting companies doing business with Israel as a whole. “Any investment” in Israel “sustains a system of serious international crimes,” declares Albanese (Para 92).

The report is patently one-sided, ahistorical, and lacking any discussion of context. It places 100% of the blame on Israel for “denial of self-determination” to the Palestinians and proceeds to accuse Israel of “a long list of ancillary crimes and human rights violations, from discrimination, wanton destruction, forced displacement and pillage to extrajudicial killing and starvation” (Para 2). The term genocide—in its different forms—appears some 57 times in the 38-page report, while the words Hamas, terrorism, and attacks appear zero times in the report (excluding citations in footnotes).

The report’s numerous deficiencies include the following:

1. Omits Key Facts

The report omits the following key facts:

• Does not mention Palestinian rejectionism over a period of more than 100 years, including of the 1947 UN Partition Plan and other two-state solution offers such as in 2000 by Ehud Barak in 2009 by Ehud Olmert, which is the main reason the Palestinians do not have a state today.

• Completely erases deadly Palestinian terrorism and its underlying genocidal ideology.

• Ignores the existence of ongoing armed conflict between Israel and Hamas and the current war, initiated by Hamas on October 7, 2023, which Hamas refuses to end by surrendering and returning all the hostages.

• Disregards the historical and indigenous rights of the Jewish people to the territory spanning thousands of years, instead falsely casting Israel as a “colonial” enterprise.

• Rails against physical destruction in Gaza, but ignores Hamas responsibility for that through its human shield strategy of operating from civilian infrastructure.

2. Criminalizes Israel’s Creation

In the very first paragraph, Albanese makes clear that she views Israel’s creation as illegitimate when she characterizes that event as “Israel’s colonization of Palestinian lands” (Para 1), completely ignoring the historical and indigenous rights of the Jewish people. Moreover, Albanese maligns Israel as a state “created” through “militarized violence” (Para 29) and accuses Israel of “denying Palestinian self-determination for decades” (Para 1), ignoring the fact that it was the Arab states who rejected the 1947 UN Partition Plan and responded to Israel’s Declaration of Independence with a war of annihilation by five invading Arab countries. Throughout the report, Albanese deliberately employs terms that demonize and delegitimize the very idea of the State of Israel, referring to it as a “settler-colonial project” (Para 29), “regime of settler-colonial apartheid” (Para 1, 45), and a “genocidal machine” (Para 92).

3. Denies Israel’s Right To Self-Defense

By attacking Israel’s defense sector, including its innovative life-saving technology and its partnerships with international companies, Albanese aims to undermine Israel’s ability to defend itself. The call for widespread arms embargoes, if implemented, would enable Hamas and set the stage for the next October 7th against which Israel and its citizens would be defenseless.

4. Ignores Iranian supply of weapons and training to Hamas and PIJ

While Albanese maligns the Israeli defense system and attacks Israel for investing in its own military, she completely disregards the role of Iran in fueling deadly conflicts throughout the region, including in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. In the Palestinian arena alone, the Islamic Republic has provided tens of millions of dollars to Hamas, PIJ, and Hezbollah for weapons and training. Albanese deliberately misleads her audience by ignoring this Iranian military support and instead characterizing Palestinians as “a virtually defenceless civilian population” (Para 89). Iran’s support of Palestinian terrorist groups has directly contributed to the prolongation of the conflict and loss of life on both sides.

5. Disparages Israel Through Selective Morality

Albanese dismisses as “paternalistic” arguments that corporate activity across the green line helps Palestinians (Para 48). Yet, her own approach to the Palestinians is the pinnacle of paternalism. Albanese completely denies Palestinians any agency by refusing to hold them accountable for their own decisions and actions over more than 100 years—rejecting all offers for statehood, including the UN Partition plan, choosing to flee the territory in 1948, and repeatedly opting for terrorism over peace—directly leading to their lack of statehood today.

6. Criminalizes Israeli Ingenuity

The report criminalizes Israeli ingenuity in the following areas:

• Military Technology – The report is highly critical of Israel’s advanced military technology, accusing Israel of “testing” it in the “ the occupied Palestinian territory” (Para 36). The reality is quite different. Faced with the ongoing threat from Palestinian terror groups like Hamas and Hezbollah which routinely operate from civilian areas in violation of the laws of war, Israeli defense companies have developed technologies for precision targeting that save civilian lives. At the same time, Israeli air-defense systems like Iron Dome and David’s Sling provide essential protection to Israelis against indiscriminate terrorist rockets.

• Jerusalem Light Rail – The report attacks companies involved in the maintenance and expansion of the Jerusalem Light Rail as being complicit in “segregating Palestinians.” Albanese’s criticism is due to the fact that the Light Rail now includes “27 kilometres of new tracks and 50 new stations in the West Bank [i.e., East Jerusalem]” and connects “colonies,” referring to Israeli neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, “with West Jerusalem” (Para 51). In fact, the Jerusalem Light Rail completely disproves the “Israel apartheid” narrative promoted by Albanese because it shows how Israel provides equal services and access to Jerusalem’s Jewish and Arab residents. Any company involved in this project should be proud of its contribution to promoting integration and peace among Jerusalem’s Jews and Arabs.

• Agribusiness – The Report demonizes Israeli agribusinesses for “producing goods and technologies serving Israeli settler-colonial interests.” Notably, Israeli companies are responsible for groundbreaking innovations like drip irrigation, biological pest control, and foodtech (e.g., developing alternative proteins and milk substitutes). Albanese accuses dairy and foodtech innovator Tnuva of building “market dominance” by “exploit[ing]” the “captive Palestinian market” while charging drip irrigation leader Netafim with branding “itself as a sustainable innovator, while perpetrating age-old techniques of colonial exploitation.” (Para 61-64). At the same time, Albanese ignores the growing Palestinian food sector, as well as Israeli-Palestinian cooperation in many industries ranging from fish farms to sustainable agriculture. She also denies Palestinian agency by failing to hold them accountable for their own economic failures. For example, the Palestinians in Gaza responded to Israel’s 2005 withdrawal from the territory by looting and destroying thousands of hi-tech greenhouses, which had been left fully intact for the benefit of the Gazan economy. Furthermore, in its November 2023 Concluding Observations on the PA, the UN’s own Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, expressed concern about government corruption, monopolies, and insufficient protection for workers, all of which contributes to the failure of the Palestinians to develop their own agriculture sector. 

7. Misrepresents Statements By CEOs

Albanese smears Israeli corporations and their foreign partners to encourage divestment by mischaracterizing statements by CEOs. For example:

• Albanese wrongly frames statements by the CEO of AI-tech firm Palantir supporting Israel and in defending his company’s AI technology killing “mostly terrorists,” as “indicative of executive-level knowledge and purpose vis-à-vis the unlawful use of force by Israel.” (Para 42).

• She also misrepresents a statement by Tnuva chairman about the importance of dairy farming to Jewish settlement in Israel (Para 62). The term “settlement enterprise” as used by the chairman—does not refer to Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria as Albanese suggests—but rather to Israeli agricultural communities, i.e., kibbutzim, implementing the Zionist ethos of cultivating the land.

8. Blatant Falsehoods

To support her “genocide” charge, Albanese cites to Israel’s “systematic control” over Palestinian natural resources, falsely claiming that Israel “engineered” Palestinian “dependency” on Israeli infrastructure which it then “operationalized for genocide” after October 7th (Para 54). Albanese conveniently omits that control and distribution of these resources is governed by the Oslo Accords, the negotiated agreement between the parties. Indeed, earlier in the report, Albanese had already rejected the Oslo Accords which she said “entrenched” Israel’s “exploitation” of, and “institutionaliz[ed]” Israel’s “monopoly” over, Palestinian natural resources (Para 24).

Albanese quotes Yoav Gallant’s October 9, 2023 declaration of a “complete siege” on Gaza to support her false charge that this resulted in Israel “instantly cutting off water, electricity and fuel” to Gaza (Para 54). In reality, Israel never imposed a “complete siege” and since October 21, 2023, Israel has worked in coordination with the international community to ensure sufficient aid entered Gaza at all times. Even during the few months that aid was halted from March 2 to May 19, 2025, there were sufficient provisions already in Gaza due to the high volume of aid that went in during the immediately preceding ceasefire from January 19 to March 2, 2025.

Moreover, Albanese’s accusations give Hamas a free pass for its own violations which damaged Gaza’s infrastructure:

• Electricity – Prior to October 7, 2023, Israel had supplied only 50% of Gaza’s electricity through ten power lines, often forgoing payment. The rest of the electricity was produced locally through generators, solar panels, and a power plant. Rocket attacks on October 7th by Hamas and PIJ destroyed nine of the ten power lines from Israel, while the tenth was damaged early in the war. Nevertheless, Albanese falsely asserts that “since October 2023, Israel has cut energy to most of Gaza” (Para 56). It’s not that Israel “cut” the supply, but that Hamas destroyed it. Moreover, Israel has facilitated fuel deliveries to fulfill essential electricity needs.

• Water – Prior to October 7, 2023, 90% of Gaza’s water was produced locally. Israel supplied only 10% of the water via three water lines all of which were damaged early in the war. Absurdly, Albanese accuses Israel of “actively aiding the transformation of water into a tool of genocide” (Para 55) because these three lines, damaged by Hamas, were not fully functional in the months after October 7th. She omits that despite the safety risks, Israel endeavored to repair these water lines under fire and, as of May 2024, all three were fully functional. There are also two active water lines from Egypt, as well as a UNICEF desalination plant in Deir Al-Balah, which together with the Israeli lines are sufficient to serve most or all of the Gaza population’s water needs. Additionally, over 60,000 tons of water entered Gaza from October 2023 to May 2025.

9. Downplays Antisemitism

Albanese dismisses antisemitism within pro-Palestinian university protests arguing that “global crackdowns on campus protesters” were not motivated by “fighting alleged antisemitism” but by “shielding Israel and protecting institutional financial interests,” referring to lucrative partnerships between the universities where protests took place and Israeli institutions (Para 86). 

10. Misrepresents UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

It is widely accepted that corporations have no obligations under international human rights law, as confirmed by the UN’s Guiding Principles which refers throughout to State “obligations” and “duties” vs. corporate “responsibilities.” Furthermore, this is a non-binding instrument which makes clear in its introduction that it should not be read as “creating new international law obligations” on States, much less on corporations. Yet, the Annex to Albanese’s report relies on the Guiding Principles as “the normative framework” for regulating “corporate conduct with respect to human rights.” 

11. Overbroad Legal Application

Albanese advocates an overly broad application of the concept of corporate responsibility. Her recommendations call for broad arms embargoes, cancellation of trade agreements, and cessation of business activities with Israel—effectively a call for BDS against the entire Israeli economy—seeking to punish Israel for the existence of a conflict with the Palestinians. It is unprecedented for a UN human rights expert to blacklist the economy of an entire country due to its involvement in a territorial dispute. Furthermore, these Guiding Principles do not mandate a company to terminate business in conflict areas, and indeed companies routinely operate in such territories. Instead, the Guiding Principles counsel businesses to conduct human rights due diligence, including to consider the possible adverse human rights consequences of terminating their activity. Notably, many of the activities assessed by Albanese as contributing to human rights violations against Palestinians function to protect the human rights of Israelis and / or benefit both Palestinians and Israelis on a daily basis.

12. Even Norway Says Albanese’s BDS Demands Go Too Far

Even the government of Norway, which is not friendly to Israel on these issues, considered Albanese’s BDS call overly broad. In a detailed response for her demand for the Norway state pension fund to divest from a number of companies, the Norwegian Minister of Finance explained the importance of making decisions based on “as accurate facts as possible, avoiding ‘naming and shaming’ based on allegations,” adding that excluding companies from the fund “on the wrong grounds” is “profoundly serious” and could “lead to the possibility of a lawsuit.” The Finance Minister further emphasized that “under international law, the basic needs of civilians must be met, including the civilian population of the occupying power [i.e., Israelis].” He dismissed many of Albanese’s claims regarding specific companies on grounds that “activities were of too little importance to the maintenance of the occupation.”

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Here are some of her latest outrages from the month of June:

1. Albanese Reaffirms Support for Terror-Supporting Organization (June 11, 2025)

Albanese complains about being called a terror supporter, but after the U.S. Government declared Addameer an affiliate of the PFLP—the pioneers of armed aircraft-hijackings—Albanese reaffirmed her “full solidarity” with the group.

2. Albanese Claims Hitler’s Ideology Remains “in the DNA of the Western system” (June 23 , 2025)

During an interview with Spain’s Público, Albanese outrageously claims that “the idea of a pure race didn’t die with Hitler. It mutated. It still exists—it still lingers in this system, in the DNA of the Western system” (see 23:00 minute mark).

Earlier in the interview Albanese also attacked the United States, arguing that “no one is safe with a state that respects no agreements, that respects none of international law. The United States, together with Israel, is taking us back to a time before the last 60 years, when we had a system of rules—of international law—that limited the exercise of public power. But these states still act as empires. There are no rules, no limits. No one is safe in this system” (see 5:00 minute mark).

3. Albanese Repeatedly Denies Israel’s Right to Defend Itself Against Iranian Missile Barrages (June 14, 2025)

At the beginning of the war, after Israel delivered a series of precision strikes successfully targeting top Iranian military commanders, nuclear scientists, and illicit nuclear sites, Albanese immediately condemned Israel.

80 “people”?

In the most precise operation in military history, Israel just eliminated the Islamic Regime in Iran’s top commanders, top nuclear scientists, and nuclear sites. The regime that openly declared their goals: “Death to America! Death to Israel!”

Sorry for your loss. https://t.co/2B4ARIpnio

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 14, 2025

That same day, when European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen reaffirmed “Israel’s right to defend itself” after Iran launched hundreds of missiles at civilians, Albanese called the statement “beyond dystopia.”

A week later, after von der Leyen tweeted that “Iran must never acquire the bomb,” Albanese responded that “the harm caused by the policies she has championed—whether for ideology or otherwise—demands scrutiny: they may have contributed to make Europe complicit in int’l crimes.”

4. Albanese Defends Hamas’s So-called “Gaza Health Ministry” (June 11, 2025)

After Sky News rightly noted that Gaza’s so-called Health Ministry is run by Hamas, Albanese compared the barbaric terror group to the leader of a democratic nation.

In fact, Albanese has a history of providing cover to the Hamas-run entity.

U.N.-REAL: Francesca Albanese, whose UN term and immunity legally ended on April 30th, is now pressuring the media to hide the fact that a Hamas-run entity is supplying their statistics on Gaza. pic.twitter.com/gOtDMpuean

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 4, 2025

5. Albanese Strangely Claims Countries Condemning Her Antisemitism Are “Inciting Violence” Against Her (June 10, 2025)

In a recent interview, Francesa Albanese claimed that she faces “threats” from UN member states who have created “a violent environment” against her—which she claims amounts to “incitement to violence” against her.

The notorious pro-Hamas UN official also lashed out at UN Watch for its campaign broadcasting her own words, and those of democracies who have condemned her for promoting terrorism and antisemitism, on major buildings in New York.

“I have arrived to the United States and for days there were billboards in Times Square and other places with my face and I was accused of being an antisemite or a pro-terrorist. And again, it’s very heavy,” said Albanese.

Francesca Albanese Claims Countries “Inciting Violence” Against Her: “The threats coming from member states who create a violent environment against me because they really point at me like an evil person, and this is incitement to violence against me. I've arrived to the United… pic.twitter.com/62s1eoJA4S

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 23, 2025

6. Albanese Defends the Failed “Flotilla,” Absurdly Calls it an Israeli “Act of Aggression” Against the United Kingdom (June 9, 2025)

After Greta Thunberg’s Gaza yacht stunt was exposed as a propaganda ploy designed to provoke confrontation, Albanese repeatedly defended the “flotilla,” appearing on Piers Morgan Uncensored to call the stunt “a lawful humanitarian effort” which acted as “a glimpse of hope.” Albanese even went so far as to state that “there should be more flotilla.”

Then, in a surreal twist, Albanese called Israel the aggressor—claiming the Gaza flotilla stunt was somehow an attack on the U.K. of all countries. She then accused the West of being “performative.” This is all from a self-proclaimed “international law expert.” 

VICTORY: Swiss University Vetoes Amnesty International Event With Albanese (June 29, 2025)

In the wake of UN Watch’s latest exposé, a major event by Amnesty International featuring pro-Hamas UN official Francesca Albanese has just been vetoed by a Swiss university.

In a statement to the public, the University of Bern, situated in the capital of Switzerland, said that it withdrew its permit for the Amnesty International panel because “the balance of the event could not be guaranteed.”

Francesca Albanese’s major event with Amnesty International got vetoed in the Swiss capital. Last month,🇨🇭 banned Hamas. Now the UN’s Hamas apologist got shut down. This is a victory for truth, for decency, and for everyone who refuses to stay silent as the UN covers for terror. pic.twitter.com/AV8QyRQda6

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) June 29, 2025

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Background: On March 26, 2025, UN Watch invoked UN procedure 8/PRST/2, noting that “Ms. Albanese’s breaches of the Code of Conduct are widespread, systematic and grave. She repeated makes inflammatory and antisemitic statements that violate the fundamental principles of impartiality and integrity required of special procedure mandate-holders.” In response, numerous countries joined UN Watch’s demand for Albanese’s position as a UN official to be terminated.

The following is a partial compilation of statements by government officials and international organizations calling out antisemitism by UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese. See also UN Watch’s 60-page report on Albanese from October 2024, Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing.

As shown below, France has rightly called on the UN Human Rights Council to “draw all consequences” from her “failure to respect the minimum rules of ethics and professional conduct of the United Nations system,” and yet the UN has failed to remove her.

LATEST FROM 2026:

BREAKING: 🇬🇧 Britain comes out against UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese, joining France, Germany, Italy, and others. “The UK has asked that the comments of the Special Rapporteur be urgently investigated against the Code of Conduct for her post, and for action to be taken…” 🧵 pic.twitter.com/uKkDRzt4aA

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) March 5, 2026

French Prime Minister Calls for Resignation of UN's Francesca Albanese. “Today, there is a semantic strategy of turning the accusation around, depriving Jews of their history, turning them from victims into perpetrators. Talking about ‘genocide’ in Gaza to strip them of their… pic.twitter.com/AT11PL24R3

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 22, 2026

Latvia strongly supports the UN’s human rights pillar, including the independence and integrity of the UN Special Procedures system.

At the same time, several positions taken by Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese raise serious concern.

We call to avoid rhetoric that…

— Latvian MFA 🇱🇻 | #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 (@Latvian_MFA) February 25, 2026

Estonia strongly supports the UN’s human rights pillar, including the independence and integrity of the UN Special Procedures system.

At the same time, several positions taken by Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese raise serious concern.

We call to avoid rhetoric that…

— Estonian MFA 🇪🇪 | 🌻 #StandWithUkraine (@MFAestonia) February 25, 2026

BREAKING: France to call for resignation of Francesca Albanese at high-level opening of UNHRC on Feb. 23.

🇫🇷 Foreign Minister Barrot: “She presents herself as a UN independent expert, yet she is neither an expert nor independent — she is a political activist who stirs up hate.” pic.twitter.com/obNd4wLWT0

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 11, 2026

🇩🇪 German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul: “I respect the UN system of independent rapporteurs. However, Ms. Albanese has made numerous inappropriate remarks in the past. I condemn her recent statements about Israel. She is untenable in her position.” https://t.co/Ez7mEE5LJQ pic.twitter.com/47ftz3YxqY

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 12, 2026

BREAKING: Italy joins France, Germany, Austria, in growing European rejection of antisemitic UN official. 🇮🇹 Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani: “The positions taken by Francesca Albanese in her role as UN Special Rapporteur do not reflect those of the Italian government. Her… pic.twitter.com/daGmAoL0oR

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 12, 2026

BREAKING: Czech Republic calls on Francesca Albanese to resign, joins France, Germany, Italy, Austria.

🇨🇿 Foreign Minister Petr Macinka: “Patience has its limits. UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese should resign from her position. Her latest statements, in which she… pic.twitter.com/2ko9oIk8g3

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 13, 2026

BREAKING: U.N. chief António Guterres distances himself from Francesca Albanese. This follows her rejection now by foreign ministers of France, Germany, Austria, and Italy. 🇺🇳 Spokesman: “We don't agree with much of what she says.” pic.twitter.com/WwTCWruugQ

— UN Watch (@UNWatch) February 12, 2026

BREAKING: 🇬🇧 Britain slams “antisemitic and inflammatory comments” by UN special rapporteurs—after calling for urgent investigation of Francesca Albanese for violating UN Code of Conduct. “This behavior undermines the objectivity and impartiality expected by all mandate holders.” https://t.co/n05znzJNFS pic.twitter.com/L9UUcN9HIs

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) April 1, 2026

BREAKING: 40 British House of Lords members from all parties urge Foreign Secretary to demand resignation of UN's Francesca Albanese. Yvette Cooper is asked to join France’s foreign minister when he calls for Albanese to stand down at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Feb. 23. pic.twitter.com/wTChyyWpHz

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) February 13, 2026

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United States

• The U.S. Government (July 9, 2025): “[The U.S. Government is] imposing sanctions on Francesca Paola Albanese. Albanese has spewed unabashed antisemitism, expressed support for terrorism, and open contempt for the United States, Israel, and the West.”

• The U.S. Permanent Mission to the UN (July 1, 2025): “The United States reiterates our request that the Secretary-General directly condemn Ms. Albanese‘s activities and call for her removal as Special Rapporteur.”

• The U.S. Government (June 20, 2025): “Ms. Albanese has engaged in years of virulent antisemitism and support for terrorism, conduct which renders her unfit to serve as Special Rapporteur and must be condemned. The United States strongly opposed the renewal of Ms. Albanese’s appointment, warning that it would demonstrate a disregard for the code of conduct for Special Rapporteurs and bring further disgrace to the United Nations.”

• U.S. Congress, Bipartisan Letter of 11 Representatives (June 10, 2025): “Special Rapporteur Albanese has a vile and extensive history of outlandish antisemitic statements and an extreme bias against Israel. Ms. Albanese, as reported by UN Watch and The Jerusalem Post, has received and accepted around $20,000 in payment from pro-Hamas groups to fund her trips to Australia and New Zealand in late 2023.”

• U.S. Justice Department (May 19, 2025): “[Albanese’s] silence and selective outrage send a chilling message that Jewish lives are worth less, that violence against Jews is excusable, and that terrorism can be rationalized when the victims are Israeli… [Albanese’s] conduct has discredited [her] position and disgraced the institution [she] represent[s].”

• U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Jim Risch (April 4, 2025): “Francesca Albanese has shown the world and the @UN that her main goal is to continue to spread her disgusting hatred against the Jewish people and the U.S. should not subsidize this scourge.”

• The U.S. Government (April 3, 2025): “We condemn [Ms. Albanese’s] virulent antisemitism, which demonizes Israel and supports Hamas. She has clearly violated the UN’s code of conduct and is unfit for her role. Her reappointment would show the @UN tolerates antisemitic hatred and support for terrorism.”

• U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee (March 31, 2025): “Ms. Albanese unapologetically uses her position as a UN Special Rapporteur to purvey and attempt to legitimize antisemitic tropes, while serving as a Hamas apologist.”

• U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield (July 26, 2024): “There is no place for antisemitism from UN-affiliated officials tasked with promoting human rights. While the United States has never supported Francesca Albanese’s mandate, it is clear she is not fit for this or any position at the UN.”

• U.S. Ambassador to the UNHRC Michèle Taylor (July 26, 2024): “UN Special Rapporteur @FranceskAlbs’s comparison of Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler is reprehensible and antisemitic​. There should be no place for such dehumanizing rhetoric. Special rapporteurs should be striving to improve human rights challenges, not inflame them.”

• U.S. Congress, Bipartisan Letter of 11 Representatives (January 23, 2023): “We write to you today to express our opposition to Ms. Francesca Albanese continuing to serve as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories […] You have stated that ‘there is no room for antisemitism in the UN,’ but it seems you do have room for Special Rapporteur Albanese and others who have repeatedly made statements that are antisemitic. Failure to take meaningful action on repeated instances of antisemitism by UN officials undermines the UN’s credibility. We urge you to demonstrate that the UN is capable of genuinely addressing antisemitism by removing Ms. Albanese from her post.”

• U.S. House Representative Kathy Manning (December 16, 2022): “[Albanese’s rhetoric has been] completely unacceptable and frankly shocking. […] She made statements that were not true in her application which I think calls her fitness for that position into question. […] There’s also a code of conduct for mandate holders and I think she has violated that code of conduct.”

• U.S. Public Delegate to UNGA Andrew Weinstein (December 16, 2022): “This report about UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese is appalling. Antisemitism should have no home at the United Nations.”

• U.S. Ambassador to the UNHRC Michèle Taylor (December 14, 2022): “We are appalled by recently uncovered antisemitic remarks on social media made by a UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur before taking on the role. References to the ‘Jewish Lobby’ are an age-old trope; this is outrageous, inappropriate, corrosive, & degrades the value of the UN.”

• U.S. Special Envoy on Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt (December 14, 2022): “Such blatant antisemitic rhetoric–particularly when it’s an established pattern–is simply unacceptable. It severely undermines the credibility of the UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur to deal with the issue of human rights in the context of Israel & the Palestinian territories”

Canada

• Canada’s Special Envoy on Combating Antisemitism Deborah Lyons (October 30, 2024): “As a former UN official, as the Special Envoy for Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, and as a Canadian, I am horrified to see a United Nations Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, engage in Holocaust distortion and inversion.”

• And March 2024: “The horrific bias and cruelty in this statement [by Albanese] taints the work of the UN. I encourage our leaders to make clear that we find this unacceptable and intolerable. All UN member nations must confront and push back on global institutionalized discrimination, including antisemitism.”

• Canadian Minister Ya’ara Saks (October 24, 2024): “Antisemitism has no place anywhere, especially not in the UN by someone with a duty to uphold human rights. The comments made by Francesca Albanese are abhorrent and not fitting of a Special Rapporteur.”

• Canada’s Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva (October 24, 2024): “The recent remarks by Francesca Albanese are unacceptable and incompatible with her duty of impartiality, probity and good faith as an independent Special Rapporteur. Antisemitism has no place anywhere.”

• Canadian Parliament Member and Special Advisor on Antisemitism Anthony Housefather (October 17, 2024): “Francesca Albanese has a long history of using antisemitic tropes. It is absolutely baffling to me that the United Nations condones her behaviour and does not remove her from her position.”

The horrific bias and cruelty in this statement taints the work of the @un. I encourage our leaders to make clear that we find this unacceptable and intolerable. All UN member nations must confront and push back on global institutionalized discrimination, including antisemitism.… pic.twitter.com/x9jl8W9WvL

— Deborah Lyons (@DeborahLyonsSE) March 11, 2024

Germany

• German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephu (February 12, 2026): “I respect the UN system of independent rapporteurs. However, Ms. Albanese has made numerous inappropriate remarks in the past. I condemn her recent statements about Israel. She is untenable in her position.”

• German Member of Parliament Daniela Ludwig (April  1, 2025): “Anyone who downplays the Islamist terror by Hamas and wants to legitimize the thousand-fold murder of Jews as democratic resistance is no longer bearable.”

• German Member of Parliament Jürgen Hardt (April 1, 2025): “Under Francesca Albanese, her office became an obstacle to the peace process. This failure must not burden Israel and the Palestinians for another term of office.”

• German Parliament Member Gitta Connemann (July 25, 2024): “Francesca Albanese again. Her comparison of the Israeli Prime Minister with Adolf Hitler is disgusting. Her anti-Semitic phrases are a disgrace for the UN. She must go…”

• German Parliament Member Frank Müller-Rosentritt (July 25, 2024): “Francesca Albanese is a disgrace to the UN. I call on the German government to work with other countries to achieve her immediate removal.”

• German Parliament Member Frank Müller-Rosentritt (June 9, 2024): “A disgusting commentary on the successful release of the hostages. Francesca Albanese must finally be removed from her position as UN Special Reporter! Germany must not support this blatant one-sidedness, demonization and delegitimization of Israel.”

• German Foreign Ministry (February 11, 2024):“Full support to @francediplo. To justify the horrific terror attacks of 7/10 & deny their antisemitic nature is appalling. Making such statements in a UN capacity is a disgrace and goes against everything the United Nations stand for.”

France

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu (February 20, 2026):  “Today, there is a semantic strategy of turning the accusation around, depriving Jews of their history, turning them from victims into perpetrators. Talking about ‘genocide’ in Gaza to strip them of their memory of the Holocaust. To relativize. To invert.”

“When the UN Special Representative makes statements in the company of representatives of Hamas or Iran, it undermines the credibility of the international community. France therefore draws all the necessary conclusions and calls for her resignation.

“Let us also remember one simple fact: 20% of the Israeli population is Palestinian Arab. Two million citizens. 150,000 in 1948. One million in 2000. Two million today. Using the word “genocide” is not neutral: it is a political weapon. It is not a legal diagnosis established by an international court. The war of words paves the way for war against people. It designates targets. It legitimizes hostility towards all “Zionists,” and therefore towards all Jews.”

Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot (February 11, 2026): “She presents herself as a UN independent expert, yet she is neither an expert nor independent — she is a political activist who stirs up hate.”

French Government:

• • “The massacre of October 7 is the largest anti-Semitic massacre of the 21st century. To dispute this is wrong. To appear to justify it, by invoking the name of the United Nations, is shameful.These remarks are all the more scandalous given that the fight against anti-Semitism and all forms of racism is at the heart of the UN’s founding principles.” (February 11, 2024)
• • “We reiterate that Ms. Albanese does not speak on behalf of the United Nations system. In the past, we have been concerned by some of her problematic public positions and her rejection of the anti-Semitic nature of the October 7th terrorist attacks.” (March 26, 2024)
• • “The United Nations must be a forum for fighting hate speech and antisemitism, which have no place anywhere. Words matter. The Human Rights Council must draw all the consequences of this failure to respect the minimum rules of ethics and professional conduct of the United Nations system.” (October 18, 2024)
• • “France has condemned, and will continue to condemn, any statement by the Special Rapporteur that it deems unacceptable. The fight against antisemitism and all forms of racism is essential for France, which remains uncompromising on this issue. France has asked the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Presidency of the Human Rights Council (HRC) for reforms to ensure the impartiality of the special procedures, particularly in terms of public communication. Her mandate was renewed for three years at the end of the 58th session of the HRC, which concluded on April 4, 2025. Renewal at the end of a first three-year mandate is automatic, at the request of the mandate holder, and does not involve consultation of States. Only the finding, on the basis of complaints, of a violation of the code of conduct of the special procedures, by the dedicated coordination committee of the HRC, can allow the President of the HRC to submit to the Council the possibility of not renewing the mandate. That was not the case, and we regret it. We call on the President and the Bureau of the HRC to do everything possible to ensure that mandate holders demonstrate restraint, moderation and discretion so as not to compromise the integrity of their mandates, the public recognition of their independence, or the preservation of the environment necessary for the calm exercise of their functions.” (April 8, 2025)

• Actions Avocats, an Association of 200+ French Attorneys (April 2, 2025): “Ms. Albanese has repeatedly made public statements, taken positions, and engaged in ac9ons that can be regarded as fundamentally contrary to the principles of universality, impartiality, objectivity, and non-selectivity that should guide the consideration of any renewal of her mandate…” (Original in French)

• 42 French Parliamentarians (March 28, 2025): Ms. Albanese’s reappointment “would send a regrettable signal to victims, human rights defenders, and states committed to credible multilateralism.”

United Kingdom

• UK’s Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva (March 31, 2026): “We wish to express particular concern regarding instances of antisemitic, inflammatory and adversarial comments in relation to existing mandate holders as well as individuals who have sought appointment at the current session of the Council. This behavior undermines the objectivity and impartiality expected by these mandate holders. We call on all special procedures Mandate holders to act fully in line with the Code of Conduct established by Human Rights Council resolution 5/2. Adherence to this framework is essential to maintaining confidence in this important system. The UK will remain vigilant and will continue to challenge any behavior which is antisemitic or contravenes the Code of Conduct within the mechanisms of this Council.”

• The Government of the United Kingdom (March 4, 2026): “Along with several other countries, we have raised concerns about a series of comments made by the Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Ministers have raised these concerns directly with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the UK has asked that the comments of the Special Rapporteur be urgently investigated against the Code of Conduct for her post, and for action to be taken to restore the confidence of the international community in the independence and objectivity of this important role.”

• 40 British House of Lords Members From All Parties (February 13, 2026): “Special Rapporteurs must uphold strict impartiality. Ms Albanese’s record shows repeated breaches of these standards including Holocaust comparisons, describing Gaza as a concentration camp, promoting claims of disproportionate Jewish influence and calling for Israel’s removal from the UN. Continued support for a mandate holder whose conduct raises credible concerns of bias risks weakening these principles at a critical moment.”

• British Member of Parliament David Taylor (April 1, 2025): “Albanese’s response to the largest antisemitic massacre of the 21st century…in a UN capacity is abhorrent and does so much damage to communities already torn apart by horrific violence, going against everything the United Nations stands for.”

The Netherlands 

• Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp (March 26, 2025):

“Various statements made by Special Rapporteur Albanese on social media are at odds with the Code of Conduct. The Netherlands disapproves of these statements and has repeatedly addressed Special Rapporteur Albanese on this issue, most recently in February 2025… Special Rapporteurs have a large public reach and thus an important responsibility not to express personal political opinions in their public utterances from their position… The Cabinet does not support Albanese’s possible reappointment.”

Italy

• The Italian Permanent Mission to the UN (October 28, 2025): “The report presented today by Special Rapporteur Albanese is entirely devoid of credibility and impartiality. As Italy, we are not surprised… There is ample evidence on-line and in her interviews that, as Special Rapporteur, Ms. Albanese cannot be considered impartial.”

• Italy’s former Deputy Foreign Minister Guglielmo Picchi (March 31, 2025): “I call on the Italian Government to ask UNHCR president Jurg Lauber to stop the planned reappointment as special rapporteur on human rights in Palestinian territories of Francesca Albanese this Friday, April 4th.”

European Union

• 10 European Parliament lawmakers formally oppose reappointment of Francesca Albanese for promoting terrorism and antisemitism.

• European Parliament Member Miriam M. Lexmann (December 15, 2022): “Appalling Antisemitic rhetoric from the UN Special Rapporteur. Ms Albanese must resign and apologise. A sad reflection on today’s state of the UN system that a Special Rapporteur was on human rights engages in such blatant Antisemitism.”

Latvia

• The Government of Latvia (February 25, 2026): “Several positions taken by Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese raise serious concern. We call to avoid rhetoric that undermines the constructive and balanced engagement that is essential to the credibility of the UN human rights framework. Failing this, the mandate cannot be carried out.”

Estonia

• The Government of Estonia (February 25, 2026): “Several positions taken by Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese raise serious concern. We call to avoid rhetoric that undermines the constructive and balanced engagement that is essential to the credibility of the UN human rights framework. Failing this, the mandate cannot be carried out.”

Hungary

• Hungary’s Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva (February 25, 2026): “Hungary notes with concern the biased and polarizing statements of the Special Rapporteur on the OPT undermine the credibility of her mandate. For this reason, we share the view that her position has become untenable.”

• The Government of Hungary (April 1, 2025): “…the extension of Special Rapporteur Albanese’s tenure would send a regrettable message to victims, human rights defenders and those committed to credible multilateralism.”

Argentina

• The Government of Argentina (March 28, 2025): “Argentina supports [the State of Israel’s] concerns… and underlines the importance of the Special Rapporteurs adhering to the provisions of the Code of Conduct…”

Czech Republic

• Czech Foreign Minister Petr Macinka (February 13, 2026): “Patience has its limits. UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese should resign from her position. Her latest statements, in which she described Israel as a ‘common enemy of humanity,’ are unacceptable and indefensible. Such rhetoric does not contribute to de-escalation; on the contrary, it deepens tensions and undermines confidence in the impartiality of the UN system. We expect responsibility, professionalism, and impartiality from representatives of the United Nations.”

Serbia

• The Government of Serbia (March 17, 2026): “We consider the statements made by the United Nations Special Rapporteur, Mrs. Albanese, to be unbalanced and activist in nature, and as such inappropriate to the mandate she holds… Serbia remains open to cooperation with the United Nations—on whose behalf Mrs. Albanese clearly does not speak…”

Israel

• The Government of Israel (March 24, 2025): “Francesca Albanese continuously engages in blatant antisemitic behavior and discourse, pedaling narratives that are dangerous for the Jewish people and detrimental to the fabric of societies as a whole.”

• Israel’s Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva (December 14, 2022): “Antisemitism is a persistent malice that has infected the United Nations Human Rights Council for far too long. Comments made by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese that surfaced today are yet another stain on the credibility of this body and yet another example of the impunity that exists today regarding antisemitism and antisemitic comments made by UN officials.”

Albania

• Albania’s former Deputy Prime Minister Genc Pollo (April 1, 2025): “An antisemitic & pro Hamas rapporteur would discredit (further) the UN Human Rights Council. I call on [the Albanian] Government to act accordingly.”

Institutions and Organizations

• American Jewish Committee (March 31, 2025): “The continued appointment of Ms. Albanese sends a deeply troubling signal to Jewish communities worldwide, to the victims of antisemitic violence, and to all states and civil society actors who believe in a multilateralism rooted in integrity and universality.”

• World Jewish Congress (March 27, 2025): “The World Jewish Congress strongly calls upon the Human Rights Council to reject the renewal of Ms. Albanese’s mandate. We urge the Council to immediately appoint a new Special Rapporteur whose embodies fairness, objectivity, and a genuine commitment to peace, justice, and the equal dignity of all peoples.”

• Anti-Defamation League (March 28, 2025): “ADL has documented numerous instances where Ms. Albanese has made inflammatory and antisemitic statements, undermining the principles of impartiality and integrity required of her role as set out by UNHRC resolution 5/2. ”

Other major organizations have also made statements condemning Albanese, including: NGO Monitor, Stand With Us, the Adam & Gila Milstein Family Foundation, Acción y Comunicación sobre Oriente Medio – ACOM, B’nai B’rith International, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and FDD.

On July 30th, 2024, seven major Jewish organizations from Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the Untied States also issued a joint statement opposing Albanese. These organizations included: Delegación de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas (DAIA), Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ), Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France (CRIF), Central Council of Jews in Germany, Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

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Ironically, Albanese accuses democracies like France, Germany, Canada, and the U.S. of threatening and inciting violence against her simply for quoting her own antisemitic statements.

Anti-American Statements

• Albanese called the United States “a nation founded upon genocide.” (April 25, 2025). She spoke during Italy’s anti-fascist rally on Liberation Day, which commemorates the end of the country’s Nazi occupation.

• Albanese spread a conspiracy theory blaming the CIA and the Mossad for the 2015 Paris terrorist attack by ISIS that massacred Charlie Hebdo journalists. Immediately following the murders, Albanese posted an article from Iranian state-owned media PressTV with the title “CIA and Mossad carried out the Paris attack” (January 11, 2015).

• Albanese fundraised for her former employer UNRWA by posting that America is “subjugated by the Jewish lobby” (July 31, 2014).

• After the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Addameer for having been “long supported and is affiliated with the PFLP,” a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, Albanese affirmed her “full solidarity to @Addameer” (June 11, 2025).

• After President Trump signed an executive order authorising sanctions on the International Criminal Court, Albanese co-authored a letter condemning the move, calling it an “attack on global rule of law” (February 10, 2025). A month earlier, Albanese co-authored a letter opposing a passed U.S. House bill which imposed sanctions and cut funding to the ICC. The letter called it “shocking to see a country that considers itself a champion of the rule of law trying to stymie the actions of an independent and impartial tribunal set up by the international community, to thwart accountability” (January 10, 2025).

• In an written interview with the Irish Times, Albanese said that the second Trump administration is “wildly and fastly contributing to the dismantlement of the world order that was established after World War II, in the sense it is acting manifestly above and against the law.” She then called on “all the other members of the United Nations stand united against this. It’s really the united people of the world against the government of the United States of America” (May 17, 2025).

• Albanese retweets that “Trump like Churchill is the new white supremacist” (March 30, 2025).

• After the United States struck Iran’s nuclear facilities, Albanese wrote that “it is still not too late for the 191 other UN Member States to act” and “stand FIRM against rapacious lawlessness” (June 22, 2025).

• In a press conference, Albanese called “the U.S. politics under the current administration is terrible in many ways” although “when it comes to Palestine, the worsening is in the margins, if there is worsening at all, because the U.S. has always been that lawlessness driven.” Albanese then went on to accuse U.S. foreign policy as being controlled by Israel, stating that people “tend to refer to Trump’s plan to forcibly displace the Palestinians. No! This is the Israeli plan to displace the Palestinians, and President Trump, as its persona, is just saying that out loud” (December 11, 2024).

• Albanese invoked the Sandy Hook massacre, comparing it to Israel’s military operation in Gaza: “To U.S. audiences: in 5 months Israel has killed as many children as 675 Sandy Hook massacres combined. That is more than 4 Sandy Hook a day for Palestinian children. For 150 days. With US-manifactured [sic] weapons” (March 14, 2024).

• After being sanctioned by the U.S., Albanese says: “I mean, being accused from the U.S., look at what they’re doing to their own citizens—transgender. Look what they’re doing to their residents, to students. By the way, a country which was birthed from a genocide.”

• After President Trump’s vision to turn Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East,” Albanese condemned Trump’s “aggression” and called for “the 191 members of the UN who still have an interest in protecting themselves from this madness” to “recover from their paralysis and stand united against this imperialist lawlessness” (February 5, 2025).

• Shortly after President Trump’s second term began, Albanese co-authored a letter pleading that “the new US administration must recommit to human rights at home and abroad.” The letter continued that they “are alarmed by the United States’ escalating attacks on the international architecture of human rights, the rule of law, multilateralism, the principles of sovereign equality and self-determination, and vital international agreements on peace and security, climate change, global justice, and international cooperation” (February 27, 2025).

• Albanese told Spain’s Público that “many are used to being close to or within the U.S. sphere—for fear or for convenience. But no one is safe with a state that respects no agreements, that respects none of international law. The United States, together with Israel, is taking us back to a time before the last 60 years, when we had a system of rules—of international law—that limited the exercise of public power. But these states still act as empires. There are no rules, no limits. No one is safe in this system” (June 23, 2025, see 5:00 minute mark).

• Albanese called the U.S.-Israel humanitarian aid distribution venture a “concentration camp” representing the “worst humanity is capable of from the bastions of Power” (May 28, 2025).

• Albanese wrote that “it is about time that Israel and the U.S.—and those who enabled and armed the genocidal assault against the Palestinians—make plans to offer REPARATIONS to the Palestinian people to rebuild Gaza.” She added that the “Riviera plan does not count as reparation; rather as a rapacious attempt to continue to commit crimes in Palestine” (February 16, 2025).

• After Mahmoud Khalil was arrested for his anti-American and anti-Israel activism, Albanese co-authored a letter which called for his immediate release, while adding that “the arrest, detention, and pending deportation of Mr. Mahmoud Khalil marks a dangerous escalation in the U.S. Government’s crackdown on student activism and censorship of pro-Palestinian voices” (March 20, 2025). On Twitter, Albanese further called Khalil’s arrest a form of “apartheid” (March 11, 2025).

• After a poster referred to the U.S. plan to deliver humanitarian aid in Gaza via a floating pier as “truly the humanitarianism of idiots,” Albanese added that it is the “U.S. at its best” (May 26, 2024).

Anti-Western Statements

• Albanese said that “the idea of a pure race didn’t die with Hitler. It mutated. It still exists—it still lingers in this system, in the DNA of the Western system” (Spain’s Público, June 23, 2025, see 23:00 minute mark).

• Albanese writes that “500yrs of colonialism have left an imprint in the DNA of the West” (December 25, 2023).

• Albanese stated that “The absolute incapacity of Western leaders to enforce intl law when it comes to Israel is EPIC. Ministers, Prime Ministers, Presidents of Republic: Doing NOTHING, diverting attention, sanctioning individual ministers IS NOT enforcing the intl law that was developed after the Holocaust and WWII to prevent another Holocaust and WWII” (July 29, 2025).

• After European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted that “Iran must never acquire the bomb,” Albanese responds that “the harm caused by the policies she has championed—whether for ideology or otherwise—demands scrutiny: they may have contributed to make Europe complicit in int’l crimes” (June 23, 2025).

• When then Vice-President of the European Commission Josep Borrell stated that “Europe is in danger and must learn to speak the language of power,” Albanese responded that “Europe must learn to speak the language of Respect and Integrity, which manifests, for example, by complying with international law without discrimination and double standards. Power, without Respect and Integrity, represents a threat, including for European citizens” (November 30, 2025).

• After Iran’s missile barrages targeting Israeli civilians, Albanese retweets that “the level of Orwellian confusion in Europe over Israel’s attack on Iran is staggering. It’s so sad to see the total inability of European leaders to think with their own heads (rather than act as derivatives of the US) in the Middle East” (June 15, 2025).

• After The Times U.K. publishes an article by Former Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, Albanese sarcastically tweets that this is “The West, at its best” (June 21, 2025).

• With regards to the EU-Israel Association Agreement—the legal framework for the EU’s trade relations with Israel—Albanese says that “what prevents the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement is just the moral bankruptcy of far too many European leaders.”

• In reference to an interview on Norwegian television in which Albanese was asked if she was an antisemite, Albanese states that “in fairness, this is how some crooks in our world (spoiler: there’s a high concentration in ‘the West’), think” (February 13, 2025).

• Albanese shares the quote that the “mainstream liberal West is still enamored with its own illusions and deceptions about what it is and what it represents to the rest of the world” (December 20, 2024).

• After Kenneth Roth claims that “Germany’s suppression of Palestinian activism is a ‘misunderstanding of the proper lessons of the Holocaust,’” Albanese adds that “It is part of the racism that Germany and other European countries seem to be unable to uproot” (March 5, 2025).

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Here are some of her latest outrages:

1. Albanese Calls Jews Who Support Israel “the Jewish Brigade,” Says They’re Worse than “Genocide Deniers” in a Now-deleted Tweet (May 6, 2025)

In a now-deleted tweet archived by UN Watch, Albanese hijacks the legacy of the real Jewish Brigade which fought the Nazis in World War II to vilify Jewish supporters of Israel. This adds to the list of Albanese’s history of Holocaust inversion which has sparked condemnation against her.

For example, last year Albanese was rebuked by Deborah Lyons, Canada’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism: “As a former UN official… I am horrified to see a United Nations Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, engage in Holocaust distortion and inversion.”

Francesca Albanese just deleted her tweet of 5 days ago saying there is a “Jewish brigade and its cronies” who are genocide deniers. This underscores how she is incapable of restraining her urge to spread inflammatory libels, the very opposite of how a UN rapporteur must act. https://t.co/4LXTgyyh40

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 11, 2025

2. Albanese Pressures the Media to Hide the Fact that a Hamas-run Entity Supplies their Statistics on Gaza (May 3, 2025)

In a tweet, Albanese defends the Hamas-run so-called Ministry of Health and says that it’s “high time that the MEDIA stops referring to the source of the death count as Hamas-run Ministry of Health. The title must be ‘Israel killed 43 Palestinian today’ rather than ‘43 people killed in Gaza according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health.’’ Throughout her term, Albanese has used her UN position to whitewash Hamas.

U.N.-REAL: Francesca Albanese, whose UN term and immunity legally ended on April 30th, is now pressuring the media to hide the fact that a Hamas-run entity is supplying their statistics on Gaza. pic.twitter.com/gOtDMpuean

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 4, 2025

3. Albanese Accuses Israel of Using Dogs to “Torture” and “Rape” Palestinians (May 10, 2025)

In a tweet, Albanese asks “How did we get here? How did we let an army announce to the world the destruction of a people, and then level every home, seize every field, shatter every possession they had—even with laughter. How did we let them kidnap, torture, and rape—even with dogs. And now, starve them—even the children.”

Unsurprisingly, Albanese has a history of using her mandate to spread dangerous misinformation against the Jewish state. For this, the UN Spokesperson previously condemned Albanese for sharing false claims: “Ms. Albanese are independent experts—but we want to make sure that everyone associated with the UN also takes special care not to pass along any disinformation.”

You’re lying again, with new grotesque accusations unsupported by any evidence. A UN rapporteur must seek “objective, reliable, duly cross-checked information from credible sources.” You just regurgitate Hamas' latest libel. But we're going to sue, sanction and prosecute you. https://t.co/PrTnalBH4V

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) May 11, 2025

4. Albanese Doubles Down on Antisemitic Comment that America is “Subjugated by the Jewish Lobby” (May 4, 2025)

In July 2014, Albanese fundraised for her former employer UNRWA by posting the antisemitic claim that America is “subjugated by the Jewish lobby.” Almost 11 years later, Al Jazeera asked her in an interview to address this statement, where instead of apologizing, she chose to double down: “I was referring to the influence of the AIPAC and in fact what I know today is that the pressure groups are very active in the U.S.…”

For far too long, Albanese has abused her UN mandate to spread antisemitism. As a result, she has been condemned for by France, Germany, Canada, the U.S., and various organizations.

5. Albanese Downplays and Delegitimizes Antisemitism While Rebuking Israel (May 3, 2025)

In a tweet written in Italian, Albanese says that “Israel ranks 112th out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index, and not just because of attacks on journalists, but because disinformation and repressive laws are multiplying and pressure on journalists is growing. I imagine that after the Pope, the UN and millions of people around the world, even the World Press Freedom Index will be accused of antisemitism.”

By jabbing that the World Press Freedom Index will soon be accused of antisemitism for their index ranking of Israel, Albanese is downplaying real instances of antisemitism. It is also unsurprising that Albanese dismisses antisemitism coming from the UN as she is most frequent perpetrator of such. This is well documented in UN Watch’s report, “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing.”

6. Albanese Defends Palestinians Who Refuse to Condemn Hamas (May 16, 2025)

In response to a tweet by journalist Piers Morgan which says, “When someone refuses to condemn Hamas after October 7, then I don’t take anything else they say seriously,” Albanese responds: “When someone feels entitled to ask any Palestinian to condemn the horrors and crimes of October 7—after decades of brutal occupation, dispossession, massacres after massacres, torture and humiliation—I stop taking them seriously.”

In her response, Albanese adds that “some questions should not be asked.” With a history of serving as the worst pro-Hamas apologist at the UN, this is likely a question Albanese would not like to hear directed towards herself.

7. Albanese Again Condemns Ireland for Adopting Leading Definition of Antisemitism (May 9, 2025)

Commenting on a March video of Albanese storming out of an Irish radio interview after the American Jewish Committee was mentioned, Albanese states that “As Israel continues its genocidal assault against Palestinians, was adopting the controversial definition of antisemitism that silences calls for justice, Ireland’s priority?”

For reference, Albanese is referring to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism which is the leading definition used by the Jewish community and has been formally adopted by 46 countries including 26 out of 27 EU member states, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Israel, the Philippines, Panama, South Korea, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay.

Also in March, Albanese went on a rant condemning Ireland for adopting the IHRA definition, calling it “the prime instrument of repression of Palestine solidarity.” In a separate article, Albanese called Ireland’s adoption of the definition as “not wise” and also “so un-Irish.”

8. Albanese Embraces Claim that “Zionists are Staging Antisemitic Incidents” (May 30, 2025)

As violent antisemitic attacks across the world continue, Albanese comments on an article claiming that “Zionists are staging antisemitic incidents in the United States.” In apparent agreement with the flawed article, Albanese adds: “Pathetic. How far an ideology can go.”

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