Francesca Albanese will make a difference

Francesca Albanese, the Italian human rights lawyer and the UN Human Rights Council special rapporteur for Palestine, is the woman of the hour, someone people all over the world can look to for hope and courage.

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She has laid out a legal framework to show that not just the government of Israel is guilty of acts of genocide and human rights violations in occupied Palestinian territories (oPt), but also all other entities including corporations, nonprofit and for-profit organizations are culpable and liable.

And she has outlined the evolution of international law in the matter. She has shown passion, courage and lawyerly meticulousness in arguing her point. She writes in her report, entitled “From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide”. She states her general theoretical thesis, her basic argument: “The role of corporate entities in sustaining Israel’s illegal occupation and ongoing genocidal campaign in Gaza is the subject of this investigation, which focuses on how corporate interests underpin Israeli settler-colonial the twofold logic of displacement and replacement aimed at dispossessing and erasing Palestinians from their land.”