UN Watch was quoted in media outlets around the world in July 2025 on numerous topics, including our campaign against Francesca Albanese which directly led to U.S. sanctions against her.
Appeared on Fox Business, July 11, 2025:
Key Quote:
Francesca Albanese is someone who is a racist demagogue. She’s been condemned by France, Germany, and Canada for antisemitism and Holocaust inversion. She blamed the CIA and the Mossad for the ISIS terrorist attack in Paris. So, she’s really a dangerous nutcase. She’s an enemy of America. I want to commend Secretary Rubio for taking the bold and historic step to sanction her.
Appeared on i24 News, July 15, 2025:
Key Quote:
Never before in the history of the United Nations did an entire commission of inquiry resign. This seems to be the ripple effect from Secretary Rubio’s announcement of sanctions against Hamas terrorism supporter Francesca Albanese. The dominoes are falling.
Appeared on the FDD Morning Brief, July 18, 2025:
Key Quote:
Albanese issued a call to sanction U.S. companies such as Google, Amazon, BlackRock—just all kinds of U.S. companies that have any connection with the State of Israel. And Secretary Rubio said: “That’s it. You’re sanctioned.” And I think it was extraordinary poetic justice that days after she called to sanction the U.S., now she’s sanctioned.
Appeared on ILTV Israel News, July 17, 2025:
Key Quote:
The Secretary of State Marco Rubio from the United States, imposed historic, bold and vital sanctions, which sends a message that if the United Nations decides to abuse and undermine their own founding principles of human rights and international law by naming overt supporters of terrorism, notorious antisemites like Francesca Albanese, the United States will be the adult in the room and will say no.
Appeared on i24 News in French, July 15, 2025:
Featured in the New York Sun, “Fearing American Sanctions, an Anti-Israel UN Official Resigns, Leading Two Colleagues To Step Down as Well,” July 15, 2025:
“It’s unprecedented to have the entire commission of inquiry resign,” the director of UN Watch, Hillel Neuer, an international lawyer who often addresses and berates the Geneva-based Human Rights Council, tells the Sun. “It’s never happened before, and this seems to be all a ripple effect from the sanctions. The dominoes are falling.”
Featured in Fox News, “UN expert repeats Israel ‘genocide’ claims after US calls for her removal,” July 3, 2025:
U.N. Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer was one of the only dissenting voices against the report. In his response to Albanese, Neuer pointed out that in the report “Israel is accused of genocide 68 times.”
“Israel has been fighting a just war against a terrorist army, which cynically embeds itself among civilians. Ms. Albanese, war is not genocide, but in your report there’s no war at all, it’s only about Israel,” Neuer said.
Highlighted in the Wall Street Journal, “Accountability for the U.N.,” July 9, 2025:
UN Watch and other groups have closely tracked Ms. Albanese’s history of anti-Israel and antisemitic remarks. In 2014 she wrote that the U.S. is “subjugated by the Jewish lobby.” At a pro-Palestine conference in November 2022 that included members of Hamas, she told the audience they had a “right to resist” the Israeli “occupation.”
Featured in Jewish Insider, “U.S. sanctions U.N. special rapporteur Francesca Albanese,” July 9, 2025:
Hillel Neuer, the executive director of UN Watch, which has scrutinized Albanese’s activity and history, called Rubio’s decision “bold and courageous.”
“No U.N. official has ever been sanctioned before in history,” Neuer told JI. “She will never again spread her poison on American campuses or enter the country. Justice is served. Good triumphs over evil.”
Featured in the Daily Wire, “‘We’ll Break Your Legs’: U.N. Accused Of ‘Mafia-Type’ Response To U.S.-Led Gaza Relief Efforts,” July 1, 2025:
Asked about reports that the U.N. is pressuring agencies to cut ties with the GHF, U.N. Watch’s Hillel Neuer stated, “It’s not surprising because we’ve seen this attitude consistently from the leadership at the UN; Guterres over a year ago instructed all UN agencies, basically forbade them from dealing with any other effort that would replace UNRWA in any way. In my opinion, it’s kind of like a Mafia-type approach; if you dare cooperate with this entity, we’ll break your legs.”
Featured in the Dutch De Telegraaf, “How far can United Nations ‘anti-Israel envoy’ Francesca Albanese go?” July 12, 2025:
The U.S. imposing sanctions against Francesca Albanese is a “courageous and historic step,” says Hillel Neuer, international lawyer and head of UN Watch, a human rights NGO. “She’s been condemned by France, Germany, Canada and the U.S. for antisemitism and Holocaust inversion.”
Featured in Italy’s Panorama, “Washington accuses UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese,” July 2, 2025:
The human rights organization UN Watch harshly criticized the last report presented by Francesca Albanese, calling it a “massive defamation” against Israel. According to UN Watch, the document criminalizes the Jewish state, completely ignoring both Hamas terrorism and the Palestinian refusal to negotiate. The Geneva-based organization published an in-depth evaluation of the report, which it said was drafted with the aim of “isolating Israel, excluding it from the international community and undermining its very existence.”
Quoted in the Times of Israel, “All three members of UN commission investigating Israel resign amid Trump crackdown,” July 15, 2025:
“First, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the historic decision to sanction Francesca Albanese,” said Hillel Neuer, the head of UN Watch. “Now the architects of the UN’s anti-Israel inquisition are fleeing the ship. The tide is turning.”
Featured in the Jewish Chronicle, “The UN’s anti-Israel inquisition is falling apart – finally,” July 17, 2025:
According to Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch and indefatigable scourge of anti-Israel bias at the institution, they were “fleeing the ship” after the UN special rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, was sanctioned by the United States.
“This week, the dominoes are falling,” he said. “First, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the historic decision to sanction Francesca Albanese, the UN’s pro-Hamas rapporteur, in the wake of a massive campaign led by UN Watch.”
Quoted in Jewish News Syndicate, “Entire UN commission resigns, long seen as anti-Israel,” July 15, 2025:
“Now the dominoes are falling. Frightened of also being sanctioned, architects of the U.N.’s anti-Israel inquisition are fleeing the ship,” stated Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, which first brought the resignations to light. “The tide is turning.”
Featured in Israel’s ynet, “U.N. resignations response to sanctions, says UN Watch director,” July 17, 2025:
It has never happened in the history of the United Nations that an entire commission of inquiry resigned—and the timing says everything, according to Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. “The Secretary of State [Marco] Rubio from the United States, imposed historic, bold and vital sanctions, which sends a message.”
Featured in Israel’s Makor Rishon, “Fearing US sanctions: Members of the UN Special Investigation Committee against Israel resign,” July 15, 2025:
Neuer added in a conversation with Makor Rishon that “this trio—Navi Pillay, Milon Kothari and Chris Sidoti—should not have been appointed at all.” According to him, “their legacy is a legacy of distortion, demonization and disrespect. Their departure is not reform, but damage control. Thanks to Secretary Marco Rubio and the United States, the behavior of UN officials as if they were immune from any reaction is starting to crack.”
