Brussels, Belgium\u2014The Palestinian institutions and associations in Europe express their strong condemnation of the hostile campaign launched by the U.S. administration against Ms. Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. This campaign represents a continuation of an escalating authoritarian approach targeting free voices that defend international law and denounce the war crimes and acts of genocide committed against the Palestinian people, particularly in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Department of State announced sanctions against Ms. Albanese, claiming that she seeks to \u201cillegally and outrageously incite the International Criminal Court to take action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies, and executives,\u201d according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These sanctions came in the wake of Ms. Albanese\u2019s bold report issued last June entitled: \u201cFrom the Economy of Occupation to the Economy of Genocide,\u201d<\/strong> which sparked widespread anger within American right-wing circles, particularly among tech experts from the Trump administration, for exposing the direct involvement of more than 69 international companies in financing and reinforcing the economy of occupation and genocide. The report named arms manufacturers and major tech companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, Booking Holdings, Caterpillar, and Airbnb, accusing them of economic participation in the machinery of violence against the Palestinian people by providing tools and technologies used in killing, destruction, and displacement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This American escalation against Ms. Albanese represents a blatant assault on the independence of the United Nations human rights system and an attempt to intimidate anyone who dares to hold major powers accountable for their crimes in the region, especially the United States and Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We affirm that Ms. Francesca Albanese has always been and continues to be one of the most prominent voices advocating for justice and the Palestinian people’s right to liberation, an end to occupation, and the establishment of their independent state. Since the beginning of the ongoing genocidal war against Gaza, Albanese has clearly condemned war crimes and ethnic cleansing, called for the activation of international accountability mechanisms, demanded a halt to arms exports to Israel, and urged the imposition of effective sanctions on the occupation system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this context, the undersigned Palestinian institutions and associations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We also appeal to all free forces in the world\u2014political parties, trade unions, civil society institutions, intellectuals, and academics\u2014to stand against this aggressive campaign and to support Francesca Albanese as a global symbol of freedom in the face of intimidation and enforced silence policies pursued by the U.S. administration in service of the Israeli occupation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The undersigned Palestinian institutions and associations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brussels, Belgium\u2014The Palestinian institutions and associations in Europe express their strong condemnation of the hostile campaign launched by the U.S. administration against Ms. Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories. This campaign represents a continuation of an escalating authoritarian approach targeting free voices that defend international law and denounce the war crimes and acts of genocide committed against the Palestinian people, particularly in the Gaza Strip. In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Department of State announced sanctions against Ms. Albanese, claiming that she seeks to \u201cillegally and outrageously incite the International Criminal Court to take action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies, and executives,\u201d according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. These sanctions came in the wake of Ms. Albanese\u2019s bold report issued last June entitled: \u201cFrom the Economy of Occupation to the Economy of Genocide,\u201d which sparked widespread anger within American right-wing circles, particularly among tech experts from the Trump administration, for exposing the direct involvement of more than 69 international companies in financing and reinforcing the economy of occupation and genocide. The report named arms manufacturers and major tech companies such as Microsoft, Amazon, Booking Holdings, Caterpillar, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,23],"tags":[48,40,49,39,45],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-solidarity-movement","category-solidarity-movement","tag-freepalestine","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-palestine","tag-standwithpalestine"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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