Francesca Albanese

Georgetown University severs ties with UN’s Francesca Albanese over antisemitic remarks

Georgetown University has removed Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur, following her antisemitic remarks, including justifying the October 7 attacks, after a campaign by UN Watch.

|BySHOSHANA BAKER
United Nations Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, attends a press conference at the European headquarters of the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, September 15, 2025.
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg (L), Italian United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, and Brazilian activist Thiago Avila chant slogans as they arrive on a boat during a anti-Israel demonstration against Italy's government, in Genoa on November 28, 2025 

Greta Thunberg, Francesca Albanese attend transport-disrupting Israel protests in Italy

Over 70 flights were cancelled due to the protest, and urban public transportation in multiple Italian cities experienced major disruptions.

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FRANCESCA ALBANESE, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, speaks at the UN in Geneva in September. Her antisemitic record and support for terrorists led to condemnation and sanctioning by the US, the writer notes.

UN's Broken Chair: How Geneva became ground zero for global antisemitism - opinion

The fight against antisemitism will not be won through appeasement or compromise but by directly confronting the institutions that lend it credibility and the totalitarian partners who sustain them.

|ByDANIEL Y. RADOMSKI
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, and British Israeli architect Eyal Weizman co-chair a conference titled, "Cartography of a Genocide", on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Italy, October 6,2025.

Francesca Albanese is motivated by hatred of Israel, not peace and human rights - opinion

Francesca Albanese targets Israel for everything from “apartheid” to “genocide,” while downplaying Hamas terrorists as "resistance fighters."

|ByDANNY DANON

Albanese 'unfit' to serve at UN, US Amb. Greenfield states after Netanyahu-Hitler comparison

"It is clear [Francesca Albanese] is not fit for this or any position at the UN," American UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield wrote

JULY 27, 2024BySAM HALPERN
United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Rights Situation in the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, delivers her rapport during a session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva, on March 26, 2024.

'186,000 Gazans dead’: Lancet magazine publishes new blood libel

The Lancet published a controversial letter with "purely illustrative' estimations of casualties in Gaza, sparking widespread misinterpretation despite author retractions and journal's clarifications

JULY 9, 2024ByOHAD MERLIN
Mourners react next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at Abu Yossef Al-Najar hospital, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip December 12, 2023.

UN's Albanese under scrutiny for alleged payments for speaking events

The UN Watch head called for investigation into Albanese for "illegally requesting payments for work done in her official UN capacity."

JULY 2, 2024ByMICHAEL STARR
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, attends a press conference following a meeting with Egyptian delegations to discuss the situation in the Palestinian territories, amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Cairo. April 25, 2024.

Human shields? UN, you’re blaming the wrong side - editorial

Hamas has used the human shield tactic at least since 2007.

JUNE 23, 2024ByJPOST EDITORIAL
IDF soldiers clear a tunnel in the Gaza Strip

Francesca Albanese accuses IDF of using human shield, flouting international law

The events captured in the video reportedly occurred in the West Bank Palestinian city of Jenin.

JUNE 22, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, attends a side event during the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 26, 2024.

When it comes to Israel, brains go out the window - opinion

Borrell and Albanese are promoting the reality that if Israel comes under fire while rescuing its people, it should not shoot back and instead let its soldiers die...

JUNE 14, 2024ByYAAKOV KATZ
OFFICIALS LIKE Josep Borrell, the EU’s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, are emboldening Hamas, the writer argues.

Francesca Albanese runs int'l network targeting Israel, UN Watch charges

The report found that the network's members include some 100 people and NGOs, such as UN, UNRWA, Palestinian, and PLO officials, along with pro-Palestinian academics and activists.

JUNE 13, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, attends a side event during the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 26, 2024.

UN Rapporteur Albanese criticizes hostage rescue, shares conspiracy theories

Albanese appeared to reference rumors spread by Palestinian and anti-Israel sources that US special forces had aided in the operation. 

JUNE 9, 2024ByMICHAEL STARR
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, attends a side event during the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 26, 2024.

'Israel won't stop until we make it': Francesca Albanese calls for sanctions on Israel

UN envoy Francesca Albanese asserted that the only way Israel would cease its campaign to uproot Hamas from Rafah is if it were forced to stop.

MAY 26, 2024BySAM HALPERN
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, attends a side event during the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, March 26, 2024.