Profiting from Genocide: Why the U.S. Sanctioned a U.N. Truth-Teller
Francesca Albanese, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian 2, has been sanctioned by the Trump administration after exposing how dozens of corporations—including U.S. tech giants—profit from Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. Albanese’s report, From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide, accuses these companies of enabling the destruction of Palestinian lives through weapons, surveillance tech, and logistics services. The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, she notes, has soared while Gaza has been devastated.Secretary of State Marco Rubio called her work “economic warfare,” but human rights groups, including Amnesty International, condemned the sanctions as a shameful attack on international justice. Albanese, speaking from Slovenia, pointed out the hypocrisy: “I’m not starving. I chose to skip breakfast. Palestinians have no such choice.”
She calls on states to impose arms embargoes and cut trade and financial ties with Israel, a nation she argues should face consequences as a state—not just its settlements or individual actors. Inspired partly by anti-apartheid divestment campaigns, she urges people to hold all complicit corporations and governments accountable.
Norway’s largest pension fund and the Danish shipping giant Maersk have already divested from companies tied to Israeli war crimes. It’s time the U.S. followed suit, instead of punishing truth-tellers like Albanese. Rather than distract from the genocide in Gaza, U.S. leaders must confront their own role in enabling it.
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