The gentle approach from the Biden years is over.
On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the United States is placing sanctions on Francesca Albanese. She is the controversial United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Palestinian rights.
“Albanese’s campaign of political and economic warfare against the United States and Israel will no longer be tolerated,” Rubio posted on X. “We will always stand by our partners in their right to self-defense.”
Today I am imposing sanctions on UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her illegitimate and shameful efforts to prompt @IntlCrimCourt action against U.S. and Israeli officials, companies, and executives.
Albanese’s campaign of political and economic…
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) July 9, 2025
Albanese has tried to bring U.S. and Israeli officials to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This has angered lawmakers, diplomats, and human rights supporters.
In several reports and public statements since she started in 2022, Albanese has accused Israel of apartheid, which means a system of racial separation and inequality. She has also said that violence by Hamas was “not surprising.” In her July 2025 report to the UN Human Rights Council, Albanese claimed the U.S. may be ‘liable for the international crime of aggression’ for President Trump’s strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites.
Albanese has also criticized American companies that provide defense technology to Israel. She suggested they should face legal punishment for “aiding and abetting” supposed crimes. In a 2022 post that she later deleted, she questioned whether “the Jewish lobby” controlled U.S. foreign policy. She took it back after people criticized it for promoting antisemitism, which is hatred or prejudice against Jewish people.
“The State Department is to be congratulated for finally taking action against Albanese, her virulent and violent antisemitism and her constant attacks on the United States, American businesses and the very existence of the State of Israel,” said Anne Bayefsky, President of Human Rights Voices and Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, in an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital.
“Albanese poses a direct threat to the well-being and security of U.S. citizens – not to mention her utter disregard for the theoretical purposes and principles of the United Nations – and as such, the United States is not obligated to admit her. President Trump’s Executive Order requiring action on international actors bent on throwing American and Israeli soldiers into International Criminal Court dungeons in the Hague needs even more enforcement,” Bayefsky added.
“Add Navi Pillay and her diabolical UN Commission of Inquiry. There is an answer for those who would incorrectly argue that the U.S. is impotent in the face of the U.S-UN host agreement: kick the UN out of the U.S. along with Albanese and her UN partners in crime,” the statement concluded.
Israeli leaders quickly supported Rubio’s decision. “A clear message. Time for the UN to pay attention!” Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar posted in response.
Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon also spoke to the Jerusalem Post: “Albanese consistently undermines the credibility of the UN by promoting false and dangerous narratives… We will not remain silent.”
Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, shared a statement with Fox News Digital: “This is a bold and courageous move by Secretary Rubio. No UN official — in this case, a purported official, as her reappointment was illegal — has ever been sanctioned before in history. Then again, no UN official has ever been condemned for Holocaust distortion and antisemitism by France, Germany, Canada, and both Democratic and Republican US administrations.”
“She will never again spread her poison on American campuses or enter the country. Justice is served. Good triumphs over evil.”
Fox News Digital asked the UN for a comment on the sanctions against Albanese, but did not get a response right away.
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