The controversial UN rapporteur faces backlash targeting anti-Israel reporting companies
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a united nations Reports targeting Israel and the domestically operating companies entitled “The Economy of the Genocide of the Occupational Economy” have sparked backlash and concern.
The report was written and presented by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Francesca Albanese, an occupied Palestinian territory. In her latest reportshe calls for sanctions against “entities and individuals involved in activities that could put Palestinians at risk.”
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Occupy Palestine Territories, will hold a press conference on February 5, 2025 in the city of United Nations in Copenhagen, Denmark. (via Ritzau Scanpix/Ida Marie Odgaard
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Anne Hertzberg, legal counsel for NGO Monitor, said that while it is not surprising that Albanese will publish a poignant report on Israel, as he has done many times in the past, the latest report was unique.
“I think the difference now is that this report explicitly recommends boycotting, selling and adopting sanctions against Israel in a very obvious way,” Hertzberg told Fox News Digital. She added that despite Albanese being an independent investigator, the report could be interpreted as a UN in favour of the BDS movement. For Israel.
In response to a digital request for comments from Fox News, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said it was working independently, like “special procedure experts,” Albanese.
“The UN Human Rights Office serves as the secretariat for special procedures, but experts serve individual capabilities and are independent of governments or organizations, including the OHCHR and the United Nations,” the OHCHR media team told Fox News Digital. “The views and opinions presented are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the United Nations or OHCHR.”
The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 26th, 2025. (Reuters/Dennis Balib House)
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Herzog told Fox News Digital that Albanese has crossed the boundaries of her role, and that the report is recommended because the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) does not have the authority to issue sanctions as well.
“It is the UN Human Rights Council where she presented the report, which is under the duties she works, but does not have power under the UN Charter, which issues sanctions,” Herzog said. “And she did not support the report, but by allowing it to be made public, not only overcoming her duties as the UN Human Rights Council, but also overcame the UN Human Rights Council.”
Herzog said he saw a letter of “blackmail and harassment” that Albanese sent to businesses and NGOs. They basically threatened to be on their boycott lists and claimed they were conspiring in international crimes such as genocide, apartheid, self-determination, and the Palestinian bloc.
Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the human rights situation in occupied Palestinian territory, will speak at a press conference at the United Nations European Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on December 11, 2024. (Reuters/Pierre Alboui)
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Leading UN Business and Human Rights Principles is a voluntary code that allows businesses to sign on as a pledge to be aware of how their operations are run and how their customers are treated. Herzog argued that Albanese “weaponizes this voluntary positive and pluralistic framework,” and that she inappropriately does it and makes it a “binding punitive framework.”
“Not only is she distorting international law, she distorts this UNGP framework. I think she’s basically responsible for destroying the whole business and human rights when this type of activity buys or others start to follow in the footsteps.”
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The report claims that Albanese has supported Israel in a “ongoing genocide campaign in Gaza.” She repeated the allegations at UNHRC on Thursday, accusing Israel of “being responsible for one of the most cruel massacres in modern history.” She also accused Israel of using the war in Gaza as a test site for new weapons to eradicate people without restrictions.
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Geneva Daniel Mellon, UN’s Israeli ambassador to Israel, who was not present at the UNHRC conference, told Fox News Digital through her report that Albanese is “happily leading global efforts to promote terrorism propaganda.”
“This report, like this report, suffers from inflammatory rhetoric and is legally unfounded,” Mellon told Fox News Digital. “Israel’s obsession with the devil is evident in the story she pushes.”
Albanese did not request comments in time for questions or publication of Fox News Digital.