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Short answer
Francesca Albanese, the UN’s “Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories,” is supposed to be impartial. Instead, she promotes UNRWA’s narrative — mirroring Hamas’s agenda of rejecting Israel’s right to exist and demanding a mass “return” to erase it demographically.
She has become a key legal and rhetorical asset for Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad — terror groups that openly seek Israel’s destruction and cite her work to claim their violence is “protected” under international law.
Her bias is so extreme that UN Watch has called her reports “one giant libel” against Israel. France, Germany, and Canada have condemned her for antisemitic rhetoric, Holocaust distortion, and historical revisionism.
Even the U.S. State Department sanctioned her for “unabashed antisemitism, support for terrorism, and open contempt for the United States, Israel, and the West” — imposing asset freezes, visa revocation, and travel bans, in a first against a sitting UN Special Rapporteur.
Long answer
Francesca Albanese, the “UN’s Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories”, holds a role meant to be impartial and evidence-based — yet her record shows the opposite, undermining her legitimacy.
From 2003 to 2010, she worked in UNRWA’s Department of Legal Affairs in Jerusalem — the same UNRWA repeatedly exposed as riddled with Hamas operatives, including dozens directly involved in the October 7 massacre.
She has openly lent legitimacy to Hamas and other terror groups. In November 2022, she participated in an official Hamas conference — despite Hamas being designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., European Union, Canada, Australia, and others. Addressing senior Hamas terrorists by video, she told them: “You have a right to resist this occupation.”
Worse still, she is fully aware that terrorist groups routinely use her reports and statements to justify attacks against Israelis and Jews. By branding Israeli defense as “war crimes” while excusing violent “resistance,” she has handed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad a ready-made legal shield. They openly cite her work to legitimize their attacks, while Iranian state media and Hezbollah-linked outlets amplify her reports to undermine Israel’s legitimacy.
All of this is done under the guise of “international law,” which she twists into a one-sided political weapon — ignoring terrorism, omitting critical facts, and applying terms like “genocide” and “apartheid” selectively, all while refusing to mention Hamas crimes or Israeli victims.
Independent watchdogs like UN Watch have called her reports “one giant libel” against Israel, noting that she called Israel “genocidal” 57 times in a single report — without once mentioning Hamas or the October 7 massacre. Her bias is so extreme that France, Germany, and Canada have publicly condemned her for distorting reality, promoting antisemitic rhetoric, and trivializing the Holocaust.
In 2025, the U.S. State Department sanctioned her for “unabashed antisemitism, support for terrorism, and open contempt for the United States, Israel, and the West” — imposing asset freezes, visa revocations, and travel bans, in a first against a sitting UN Special Rapporteur.
With a record of excusing Hamas terrorism and weaponizing her UN role against Israel, is it any wonder she is abusing the position she holds?
