🖋️ By Malik Mukhtar
📍 www.ainnbeen.blogspot.com
📅 July 11, 2025
In the age of genocide, telling the truth is the ultimate crime.
Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, has committed that unforgivable sin — she spoke honestly, fearlessly, and with moral clarity. And for that, she must be burned at the stake of Western hypocrisy.
How dare she call genocide by its name? How dare she document war crimes when the perpetrators wear the right uniforms and wave the right flags? How dare she believe that international law should apply to everyone — even those who consider themselves immune to it?
Sanctioned by the Trump administration, vilified by Israel’s loyal attack dogs, smeared with the old, reliable slur of “antisemitism,” Albanese is being punished not because she lied, but because she told the truth too well. Because she had the audacity to name names — Palantir, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, MIT, BlackRock — and list the profiteers who are literally making billions off the blood of Palestinian children.
And the empire trembled.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, ever eager to protect war criminals and gaslight the world, declared Albanese unfit for her role. Why? Because she supports the International Criminal Court. You know, that pesky body that insists genocide should have consequences.
What a radical notion — that war crimes should be prosecuted. That David Cameron’s threats to defund the ICC might actually be illegal. That EU leaders might be complicit. That bombing hospitals, starving children, and reducing Gaza to rubble might not be “self-defense” but... colonial erasure?
What madness.
And when she joined hands with the Madleen Flotilla to break the inhumane blockade of Gaza with humanitarian aid, she didn’t just carry supplies — she carried a moral indictment of the entire world. That’s what terrifies them. Not her reports, but her integrity. Not her criticism, but her consistency.
You see, Albanese breaks the cardinal rule of Western diplomacy: never apply your own values to your allies. Democracy is sacred — unless you’re arming dictators. Human rights are universal — unless you’re ethnically cleansing Palestinians. The rule of law matters — unless you have a seat on the Security Council.
But what makes her truly dangerous is this: she sees Gaza not as an exception, but a mirror.
A mirror for every drone strike in Somalia. Every migrant child torn from their mother at the U.S. border. Every asylum seeker drowned in the Mediterranean. Every voice silenced by imperial cowardice.
And that is why they must destroy her. Because Francesca Albanese does not just speak for Palestine. She speaks for the wretched of the earth. And those who defend the oppressed are always treated like the oppressed.
But history has a long memory. And when the genocide in Gaza is finally recorded — when the death toll is no longer buried under press releases, and the war crimes no longer hidden behind words like “moral clarity” — Francesca Albanese will not be remembered as a threat. She will be remembered as a light.
And those who sanctioned her?
They will be remembered as collaborators in genocide.
📚 Read Chris Hedges’ powerful original column: “The Persecution of Francesca Albanese”
📘 Buy his book: “A Genocide Foretold”
🕊️ And remember this — when telling the truth becomes a crime, resistance becomes a duty.
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