“Speak out, you got to speak out against the madness. You got to speak your mind, if you dare.”
David Crosby’s rallying cry for peace and justice back in 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, rings loud and clear today.
If US-backed Israeli genocide, ethnic cleaning and apartheid are what you’re speaking out against, better watch your back. No one knows this better than Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in Occupied Palestine.
Since assuming the unpaid position in 2022, the Italian legal scholar and human rights advocate has submitted a host of excoriating reports to the UN, detailing Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In response to her filings, in July 2025, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, slapped crushing sanctions on Albanese. Albanese’s reports amount to “lawfare,” Rubio declared, and a “gross infringement” of Israel-USA’s right to commit internationally unlawful acts with impunity.
Albanese family has now launched a lawsuit against the Trump Administration.
“Francesca’s expression of her views about the facts as she has found them in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and about the work of the ICC is core First Amendment activity,” the legal filing says.
Francesca Albanese isn’t the only one in Little Marco’s crosshairs.
Following the issuance of arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then War Minister Yoav Gallant, eleven prosecutors and judges at the International Criminal Court have had their bank accounts frozen, credit cards cut off, and online services terminated. Of course, they’re all banned from entering the US.
Smelling blood, a Zionist entity called UN Watch has called on the UN to dismiss Albanese from her post as Special Rapporteur. Based on a doctored video from UN Watch, France, Germany, Italy, Austria and Czechia seconded the group’s call. The Human Rights Council has yet to act on the call. Annual meetings of the Council, in Geneva, Switzerland, have now closed.
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The GPM reached out to Francesca Albanese’s predecessor in the Special Rapporteur position, Canadian legal scholar Michael Lynk. Listen to our conversation in today’s podcast. Click on the play button above, or go here.
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Speaking of ‘lawfare’ (in the positive sense), a handful of human rights groups have just filed a complaint to the International Criminal Court, calling on it to prosecute top football chiefs for aiding and abetting Israeli crimes in Palestine.
Gianni Infantino is the President of the International Football Federation, FIFA. Aleksander Ceferin is the President of UEFA, the European Football Federation.
According to the 120-page filing, submitted to the world’s only permanent criminal court on February 16, Infantino and Ceferin have provided extensive organizational and financial aid to Israeli football clubs based in illegal Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, at the expense of Palestinian teams and players.
Indeed, FIFA and UEFA have allowed settlement clubs to compete in European and international matches, all the while ignoring Israel’s systematic persecution of Palestinian footballers. Settlements are illegal under international law – a war crime under the court’s founding instrument, the Rome Statute.
By allowing settlements clubs to compete in league play, Infantino and Ceferin have aided and abetted Israel’s apartheid regime, a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute.
To learn more about the ICC filing, the GPM reached out Rebecca O’Keeffe, a spokesperson for one of the filings sponsors, Irish Sport for Palestine. Listen to our conversation in today’s podcast. Click on the play button above, or go here.
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