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and Germany smeared her work as “hate Even right-wing media did their best to

speech,” and U.S. officials accused her of portray her as ideologically motivated.
antisemitism, first under Joe Biden, and Albanese didn’t budge though stating that
then, more aggressively, under Donald her job is not to please governments but

Trump. to uphold international law.
October 2023 would bring her into the In October 2024, she doubled down. Her
global spotlight and onward, the backlash second report titled Genocide as Colonial
against her has intensified to unprecedented Erasure went even further, arguing that
levels for a UN expert. Israel’s military campaign was not merely

Her first major confrontation with global a disproportionate use of force, but part
powers came in March 2024, when she of a broader settler-colonial strategy
submitted a report to the UN Human aimed at erasing the Palestinian people

Rights Council titled Anatomy of a from Gaza. She further warns that Israel’s
Genocide where she argued that there were systematic denial of access to
reasonable grounds to believe that Israel’s international investigators, despite
military campaign in Gaza, launched in binding orders from the International
response to the October 7 Hamas attacks is Court of Justice, may constitute

in fact a genocide. She outlined clear obstruction of justice, underscoring a
genocidal intent, citing statements from dangerous precedent for international
Israeli political and military officials and accountability.

the deliberate targeting of Gaza’s civilian The political backlash reached its climax
infrastructure. It also emphasized how following her report, presented to the UN
decades of dehumanization and blockade Human Rights Council in July 2025 titled
laid the groundwork for these atrocities. From Economy of Occupation to Economy

of Genocide. It goes even further exploring
the global corporate infrastructure
sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project
and war on Gaza. It explicitly accuses 48

companies including tech giants like
Microsoft, Amazon, and Google’s parent
company Alphabet of being embedded in
an “economy of genocide.” The report

outlines how arms manufacturers,
surveillance firms, and financial
However, this report gained immediate institutions profit from Israeli aggression
reaction from the same Western while shielding themselves from

governments who fiercely rejected her accountability. Albanese names the global
findings. Many pro-Israel organizations investment giants BlackRock and
accused her of antisemitism, some Vanguard as key financiers behind this
demanding her removal from the UN post. machinery.

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