Francesca Albanese

Francesca Albanese
Born	(1977-03-30) March 30, 1977 Ariano Irpino, Campania, Italy
Political orientation	Anti-Zionism

Francesca Paola Albanese (born 30 March 1977) is an Italian legal scholar and human rights expert who has served as the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories since May 2022. Albanese has been an unrelenting critic of Israel and its genocide against Palestine, and in March 2024 she released her report, Anatomy of a Genocide, to the UN, becoming the first person to provide the UN with a detailed evidence of the Palestinian genocide. Despite this the UN has done little about the genocide and this lack of ability to act on Albanese's report has shown clearly the UN's ineffectiveness as an international organization.

Although Albanese condemns Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa, she also correctly identifies that it was a reaction to Israel's genocide, war crimes and policy of apartheid. She has also accused western leaders such as Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni, and western companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Amazon of being complicit in the genocide, as well as compared Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler. Her stances has resulted in a campaign by the western elite to silence her with intimidation, with the U.S. in particular targeting her with sanctions, preventing her from entering the U.S. and freezing financial assets as well as attempting to remove her from her UN position.