{"id":318417,"date":"2025-11-13T06:12:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318417"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:05:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:05:59","slug":"francesca-albanese-why-im-accusing-63-nations-of-complicity-in-the-gaza-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318417","title":{"rendered":"Francesca Albanese: Why I’m accusing 63 nations of complicity in the Gaza genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sondos Asem \u2013 Middle East Eye Nov 12, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories,\u00a0Francesca Albanese, has accused major European powers, including the UK, Italy and Germany, of complicity in the\u00a0genocide in Gaza<\/a>\u00a0and warned that their government officials should face legal consequences.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Expert Witness <\/a>podcast on 3 November, Albanese discussed the findings of her latest report, titled\u00a0Gaza Genocide: A Collective Crime<\/a>, where she cited evidence of the alleged responsibility of 63 states for enabling Israeli breaches of international law.<\/p>\n

Despite overwhelming evidence of genocide and mass atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank, Europe’s most powerful states continue to provide diplomatic, military and political cover for Israel, she told Middle East Eye.<\/p>\n

She called out UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer for failing to acknowledge the risk of genocide and for his government’s alleged complicity in Israel’s conduct against the Palestinians.<\/p>\n

“The UK is one of those interesting cases where the political leadership has helped manufacture consensus around the war that Israel has unleashed against the population of Gaza,” she said.<\/p>\n

She also denounced the UK’s crackdown on Palestine Action, saying it has helped create “a climate of complicity”.<\/p>\n

“I do not dispute that the methods used by Palestine Action might cause damage. I don’t dispute that they might trespass what is legally acceptable. But framing this as terrorism is beyond what terrorism is and constitutes,” she said.<\/p>\n

“The fact that the government makes a deliberate choice to target civil society action as terrorism, or to go after journalists who are investigating the genocide on charges of terrorism, while continuing to support the state that uses and practises terror against a virtually defenceless population, creates a climate of complicity.”<\/p>\n

Albanese also took aim at Germany and Italy for blocking joint EU action against Israel.<\/p>\n

“It is a very sad coincidence that one century later, these two countries are still on the wrong side of history,” Albanese said, referring to Italy and Germany’s opposition to suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement<\/a>, even as other European states, including Slovenia<\/a> and Spain, have opted to impose arms embargoes and sanctions independently.<\/p>\n

“These two countries have individually the highest responsibility to prevent genocide – particularly Germany, given its record.”<\/p>\n

Albanese argued that Germany, “which has already brought havoc upon Europe and beyond once in history”, is again failing to prevent atrocity.<\/p>\n

Undeterred by Trump sanctions<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Continues \u2026\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine has accused UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer of \u2018enabling genocide\u2019 in Gaza and called out Germany and Italy for blocking EU action on Israel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318417"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318440,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318417\/revisions\/318440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}