Francesca Albanese

Previewing the 2026 UN General Assembly

When Paris Celebrates the Bankruptcy of Human Rights

On Monday, July 27, at the United Nations Security Council, American diplomats stood up and walked out as the French ambassador began to speak. Ukraine was the item on the agenda that day. In Moscow and...

U.S. Must Oppose Outgoing UN Secretary General’s Efforts To Renew Human Rights Commissioner

Interviewed by the left-leaning Guardian newspaper shortly after his appointment as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2022, Volker Turk effusively praised the UN’s Universal Declaration...

10 Cases of UN Abuse, Waste, and Subversion of U.S. Interests

The United Nations is hurtling toward self-inflicted insolvency, and it has itself to blame. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres needs to secure $8.68 billion to keep the lights on for regular operations...

UN Watch Report: Watching the U.N. Rot

Court of Appeals Temporarily Reinstates Sanctions on Antisemitic UN Envoy Francesca Albanese

Reversing a lower court’s decision, a federal appeals court has temporarily reinstated U.S. sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the UN envoy who, according to the State Department, “has spewed unabashed...

Justice Department Appeals Federal Judge’s Ruling That First Amendment Protections Apply to Sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur

The sanctions imposed by the United States against Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for “human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967,” are the focus of a legal...

Former South African Foreign Minister’s U.S. Visa Revoked

“She led South Africa to sue Israel for genocide,” read a flyer for a recent appearance by Naledi Pandor in Houston. Don’t expect another U.S. speech in the near future from the former South African...

Fifty Years of Gaslighting Israel at the U.N.

Five decades after its creation, it's long past time for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People to be shut down.

Fifty years since the UN’s ‘Zionism is racism’ resolution

In adopting it, the world body became the main vehicle for the promotion of Jew-hatred, creating a bureaucratic apparatus designed to amplify the Arab and Palestinian campaign to eliminate Israel as a sovereign state.

50 Years of Anti-Zionist Propaganda: Why the UN’s ‘Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People’ Must Be Dismantled

Norway extends its Israel divestment campaign to the United States

Anti-Zionist ideology has crystallized as the dominant form of antisemitism in this century, with labor unions engaging it, and in some cases, propelling it.

The U.N.’s long war against Israel

For half a century, the most globalist of institutions has demonized the Jewish state

7 UN Organizations That Undermine Israel and the U.S.

The Trump administration announced on July 22 its departure from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) by the end of 2026. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce...

Media mischaracterized federal court decision on ICC sanctions

The contentious debate over President Donald Trump’s sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) took a new turn recently when a federal judge’s preliminary injunction (PI) blocked...

Marco Rubio Fights Lawfare with Sanctions — and Wins

A UN official is getting her due for persecuting Israel and the United States using a bogus international court system — and she won’t be the last. On July 9, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed sanctions...

Time To End UN’s Anti-Israel and Anti-American Commission of Inquiry

All three members of a notoriously anti-Israel and anti-American UN commission resigned in recent days.  While a welcome first step, the resignations only take effect after another three months. ...

Entire UN Panel Targeting Israel Resigns Following U.S. Sanctions Against Special Rapporteur for Palestinians

Commission Designed to Malign Israel, Panelists Resign: Navi Pillay, chair of an open-ended UN Commission of Inquiry to investigate Israel, has informed the UN Human Rights Council...

‘Open Contempt for the United States, Israel and the West’: U.S. Places Sanctions on UN Palestinian Rights Rapporteur Albanese

‘Action Against U.S. and Israeli Officials, Companies and Executives’: The United States sanctioned Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for the “Occupied Palestinian...

‘Unfit for Office’: U.S. Calls on UN to Fire Francesca Albanese in Light of Report Accusing Companies of Contributing to ‘Genocide’

‘Antisemitism and Support for Terrorism’: The Trump administration formally requested that the United Nations fire Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur for the “Occupied...