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A United Nations study targeting Israel and companies that run wrong nan state entitled "Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide" is sparking backlash and concern.
The study was authored and presented by U.N. Special Rapporteur connected nan Occupied Palestinian Territories Francesca Albanese, a arguable fig who has been condemned by aggregate nations for making allegedly antisemitic remarks. In her latest report, she calls for sanctions against "entities and individuals progressive successful activities that whitethorn endanger nan Palestinians."

UN Special Rapporteur for nan Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese gives a property convention astatine nan UN City successful Copenhagen, Denmark February 5, 2025. (Ritzau Scanpix/Ida Marie Odgaard via REUTERS )
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NGO Monitor Legal Advisor Anne Herzberg said that while it’s not astonishing that Albanese would rumor a scathing study connected Israel, arsenic she has done truthful galore times successful nan past, this latest study was unique.
"I deliberation that nan quality now is that this study explicitly endorses adopting BDS — boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel — successful a very overt way," Herzberg told Fox News Digital. She added that moreover though Albanese is an independent investigator, nan study could beryllium interpreted arsenic nan U.N. supporting nan BDS activity against Israel.
In consequence to a Fox News Digital petition for comment, nan Office of nan U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said "special procedures experts," for illustration Albanese "work connected a voluntary basis," do not person a net and are not U.N. staff.
"While nan U.N. Human Rights agency acts arsenic nan secretariat for typical procedures, nan experts service successful their individual capacity and are independent from any authorities aliases organization, including OHCHR and nan U.N.," OHCHR’s media squad told Fox News Digital. "Any views aliases opinions presented are solely those of nan writer and do not needfully correspond those of nan U.N. aliases OHCHR."

Human Rights Council astatine nan United Nations successful Geneva, Switzerland, connected Feb. 26, 2025. (REUTERS/Denis Balibouse)
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Herzog told Fox News Digital that not only did Albanese overstep nan boundaries of her role, but truthful did nan U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC), arsenic it does not person nan authority to rumor sanctions, thing nan study recommends.
"The U.N. Human Rights Council, which is wherever she presented her report, and that's nether whose auspices she is working, does not person nan powerfulness nether nan U.N. charter to rumor sanctions," Herzog said. "And truthful not only has she overstepped her instruction arsenic a rapporteur, nan U.N. Human Rights Council by endorsing this, not endorsing nan report, but by allowing this study to beryllium published."
Herzog said she saw "threatening and harassing" letters that Albanese sent to companies and NGOs "basically threatening them pinch being included connected her boycott database and claiming that they were complicit successful world crimes for illustration genocide, apartheid, blocking self-determination aliases Palestinians."

Special Rapporteur connected nan business of quality authorities successful nan occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, speaks during a property convention astatine nan European office of nan UN successful Geneva, Switzerland, connected Dec. 11, 2024. (REUTERS/Pierre Albouy)
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The United Nations Guiding Principles connected Business and Human Rights is simply a voluntary codification that companies tin motion connected to arsenic a promise to beryllium mindful of really their operations tally and their customers are treated. Herzog based on that Albanese "weaponizes this voluntary positive, pluralistic framework" and that she does truthful improperly, making it a "binding punitive framework."
"Not only is she distorting world law, she’s distorting this UNGP framework, and I fishy that if this type of activity of hers gains acquisition aliases different group commencement pursuing successful her footsteps, she’s going to beryllium responsible for fundamentally destroying nan full area of business and quality rights."
Albanese presented her study to nan UNHRC connected Thursday, conscionable 2 days aft nan U.S. called for her removal complete her "years-long pattern of antisemitism and anti-Israel bias."
In nan report, Albanese claims that corporations person aided Israel successful "its ongoing genocidal run successful Gaza." She repeated this declare astatine UNHRC connected Thursday, charging Israel pinch being "responsible for 1 of nan cruelest genocides successful modern history." She besides accused Israel of utilizing nan warfare successful Gaza arsenic a testing crushed for caller weapons "to exterminate a group without restraint."
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Israeli Ambassador to nan U.N. successful Geneva Daniel Meron, who was not coming astatine nan UNHRC meeting, told Fox News Digital that done her study Albanese is "willingly spearheading nan world efforts to beforehand coercion propaganda."
"This report, conscionable for illustration each others by this rapporteur, is riddled pinch inflammatory rhetoric and is legally baseless," Meron told Fox News Digital. "Her obsession pinch demonizing Israel is clear successful nan communicative she pushes."
Albanese did not respond to Fox News Digital’s questions aliases petition for remark successful clip for publication.
Rachel Wolf is simply a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital and FOX Business.