On July 7, 2025, the US Department of State sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese. In a statement published on the DOS website, Albanese was accused of spewing unabashed anti-Semitism, expressing support for terrorism, and open contempt with the United States, Israel, and the West.

Albanese is also accused of directly engaging with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute US and Israeli nationals, without the consent of those two countries, since neither the United States nor Israel signed the Rome Statute, making it an infringement on the sovereignty of both countries. Furthermore, the Special Rapporteur’s actions are described by Washington as “campaigns of political and economic warfare which threaten US national interests and sovereignty”.

Albanese, in her recent report entitled “From the Economy of Occupation to the Economy of Genocide” provided a one-sided version of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza without ever mentioning Hamas as a terrorist organization.

This is unlikely to be a coincidence, given that Albanese has consistently either refused to label Hamas as a terrorist organization, citing the absence of such a designation by the United Nations, or has sidestepped the…