Rubio imposes sanctions in the United Nations anti-Israeli campaign

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The children’s gloves in the Biden era are disabled.
Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio Announced that the United States imposes sanctions in Francesca Albanese, the controversial special rapporteur of the United Nations (UN) on Palestinian rights.
“The Albanian political and economic war campaign against the United States and Israel will no longer be tolerated,” posted Rubio on X. “We will always be alongside our partners in their right to self-defense.”
Albanian pushed to transport American and Israeli officials before the International Criminal Court (ICC), attracting the indignation of legislators, diplomats and human rights defenders.
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In several public reports and comments since his appointment in 2022, Albanian accused Israel of apartheid and rejected the violence of Hamas as “not surprising”. According to her July 2025 report At the United Nations Human Rights Council Albanese said the United States could be “responsible for international attack” for President Trump’s strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites.
Albanese has also targeted American companies providing defense technologies to Israel, suggesting that they should face legal consequences to “help and encourage” alleged crimes. In a Post in 2022 now deletedShe wondered if “the Jewish lobby” controlled foreign policy in the United States, a comment that she later retracted in the midst of the criticisms that she married anti-Semitism.
“The State Department must be congratulated by having finally taken measures against the Albanians, its virulent and violent anti-Semitism and its constant attacks on the United States, American companies and the very existence of the State of Israel,” said Anne BayefskyPresident of Human Rights, in an exclusive declaration to Fox News Digital.
“Albanian constitutes a direct threat to the well -being and security of American citizens – not to mention its total contempt for the theoretical ends and the principles of the United Nations – and as such, the United States is not forced to admit its soldiers of President Trump, which requires determined international actors to throw American and Israeli soldiers in the gain of the international criminal court.
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Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanian, speaks during a press conference at the European headquarters of the UN in Geneva, Switzerland, December 11, 2024. (Reuters / Pierre Albouy)
“Add Navi Pillay and his Diabolic United Nations Diabolic Commission of Inquiry. There is an answer to those who would wrongly say that the United States is helpless in the face of the United States’s reception agreement: launch the United States UN with Albanian and its UN partners in crime,” said the statement.
Israeli leaders quickly supported Rubio’s decision. “A clear message. It’s time for the UN to be careful!” The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gideon Sa’ar, posted in response.

The United Nations rapporteur in the Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, speaks during the Publico 2025 prices gala in CaixaForum Madrid, June 25, 2025. (Matias Chiofalo / Europa Press via Getty Images)
The UN ambassador of Israel, Danny Danon, also weighed The Jerusalem post: “Albanian constantly undermines the credibility of the UN by promoting false and dangerous stories … We will not remain silent.”
Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of the UN Watch, weighed in a statement to Fox News Digital, writing: “This is a bold and courageous decision by Secretary Rubio. American American administrations.”
“She will never spread her poison on American campuses or will enter the country. Justice is done. Good triumphs on evil.”
Fox News Digital contacted the UN to comment on the sanctions against the Albanians, but did not immediately receive an answer.
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