Francesca Albanese

Absolutely.

Thank you.

Thank you, Tucker, for having me.

I've been a special rapporteur for the

United Nations, not the US, since 2022.

And in this role, I'm asked by the United Nations to document and report on the violations committed by Israel as the occupying power in the occupied Palestinian territory, of which Gaza is a part, but it is also the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

And after one year and a half, after October 7,

Israel started a brutal attack, which was the fifth in 17 years against the Gaza Strip.

And five months later, I suggested that what we are seeing could constitute genocide in a report that had the title Anatomy of a Genocide.

After another six months, I said, I do confirm that this is genocide and it's part of a colonial erasure of the Palestinian people.

Israel is committing genocide because it aims to erase Palestinian presence from the occupied Palestinian territory.

And it's a long trajectory that has led us to here.

Then in the other two reports, I looked at the complicity of the private sector, including many businesses.

Many are in Europe, others are in the so-called Global South, many are in the United States.

And the complicity that has sustained the economy of the occupation for decades and

There are people who have profited from this and Israel's impunity, including as this economy turned genocidal.

During the two years of genocide, while many Israelis were losing their income, their businesses, their livelihood, the Israeli stock exchange has kept rocketing, increasing its value of 213%.

And after this, I get sanctioned.

by the United States.

I get sanctioned for my work, for my denouncing the fact as I'm doing for the United Nations for free, because yes, I am a UN expert, but I do that pro bono.