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   > Michael Ejercito wrote:   
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   >> https://reason.com/2025/07/14/u-n-report-blames-israel-and-ca   
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   >> U.N. Report Blames Israel and Capitalism for the Conflict in Gaza   
   >> The report includes no mentions of Hamas’ attacks or hostages.   
   >> J.D. Tuccille | 7.14.2025 7:00 AM   
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   >> U.S. $100 dollar bills surround a sniper scope, through which a war zone   
   >> is visible. | Illustration: Eddie Marshall | Caleb Sheridan |   
   >> Millafedotova | Rafael Ben Ari | Dreamstime.com   
   >> (Illustration: Eddie Marshall | Caleb Sheridan | Millafedotova | Rafael   
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   >> We can rest easily, folks: The inaptly named United Nations Human Rights   
   >> Council (UNHRC) has closely examined the aftermath of Hamas' attack on   
   >> Israel and found the culprit: It was settler colonialism and capitalism   
   >> what done it! In a masterful mishmash of leftist gibberish, the report   
   >> assumes Israel's culpability and combines antisemitism with hostility to   
   >> free markets. The report should make Americans happy that the U.S. has   
   >> disengaged from the UNHRC and bears no responsibility for its actions.   
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   >> Forget Hamas, It's All About Settler-Colonialism and Racial Capitalism   
   >> "The role of corporate entities in sustaining the illegal Israeli   
   >> occupation and its ongoing genocidal campaign in Gaza is the subject of   
   >> the present investigative report, which is focused on how corporate   
   >> interests underpin the Israeli settler-colonial twofold logic of   
   >> displacement and replacement aimed at dispossessing and erasing   
   >> Palestinians from their lands," asserts Francesca Albanese, Special   
   >> Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian   
   >> territories occupied since 1967, in the introduction to the July 3   
   >> report. The document concludes, in part: "The enduring ideological,   
   >> political and economic engine of racial capitalism has transformed the   
   >> Israeli displacement-replacement economy of occupation into an economy   
   >> of genocide."   
   >>   
   >> The report comes over a year and a half after the brutal October 7   
   >> invasion of Israel by Hamas terrorists during which, as the   
   >> Congressional Research Service summarizes, "more than 1,200 Israelis and   
   >> foreign nationals (including 46 U.S. citizens in Israel) were killed…and   
   >> Hamas and other groups also seized some 251 hostages." The report   
   >> references "October 2023" 30 times, but in a bizarre way. That date   
   >> somehow becomes a mysterious turning point during which Israel and its   
   >> corporate capitalist accessories became pointlessly meaner than ever   
   >> towards the seemingly peaceful people of Gaza.   
   >>   
   >> "Had proper human rights due diligence been undertaken, corporate   
   >> entities would have long ago disengaged from Israeli occupation," the   
   >> report asserts. "Instead, post-October 2023, corporate actors have   
   >> contributed to the acceleration of the displacement-replacement process   
   >> throughout the military campaign that has pulverized Gaza and displaced   
   >> the largest number of Palestinians in the West Bank since 1967."   
   >>   
   >> "Hamas" is mentioned only as part of the URL in a link to a Washington   
   >> Post story in a footnote. There is no mention of "hostages." The word   
   >> "antisemitism" is used exactly one time, in a dismissive manner when   
   >> Albanese "acknowledges the vital work of students and staff in holding   
   >> universities to account. It casts a new light on global crackdowns on   
   >> campus protesters: shielding Israel and protecting institutional   
   >> financial interests appears a more probable motivation than fighting   
   >> alleged antisemitism."   
   >>   
   >> A U.N. Official's History of Antisemitism and Support for Terrorism   
   >> Albanese and her staff elide any events during October 2023 that might   
   >> have precipitated a change in policy by Israel towards Gaza, and they   
   >> wave away any possible hostility towards Jews. Of course, Albanese   
   >> herself was the subject of a 2024 report from Geneva-based watchdog   
   >> group UN Watch that found she is ill-disposed towards Israel and most of   
   >> its inhabitants. Titled Wolf In Sheep's Clothing: Why Democracies Should   
   >> Sanction UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese For Propagating Antisemitism   
   >> and Supporting Terrorism, that report documented a series of concerning   
   >> facts about Albanese. These include her accusation that the United   
   >> States has been "subjugated by the Jewish lobby"; that her husband, who   
   >> compares Palestinians to Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto, formerly worked for   
   >> the Palestinian Authority; that in her role as a U.N. official, she told   
   >> attendees at a Hamas-organized conference "you have a right to resist   
   >> this occupation"; and that she responded to Hamas's October 7 atrocities   
   >> by insisting "today's violence must be put in context."   
   >>   
   >> Based on her conduct, statements, and connections, the UN Watch report   
   >> found that "Francesca Albanese knowingly supports Hamas and other   
   >> terrorist groups."   
   >>   
   >> Accordingly, Albanese's reappointment to her position in April was   
   >> opposed by the United States, Argentina, Hungary, Israel, the   
   >> Netherlands, and members of the European Parliament from Bulgaria,   
   >> Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Slovakia, and Sweden, among other   
   >> interested parties. Nevertheless, she was granted another three-year   
   >> term in her position.   
   >>   
   >> Sanctions Beget More Sanctions   
   >> That vote of confidence may have encouraged Albanese to let her freak   
   >> flag fly—more than in the past, that is. The July 3 report insists   
   >> "colonial endeavours and associated genocides have historically been   
   >> driven and enabled by the corporate sector, Commercial interests have   
   >> contributed to the dispossession of Indigenous people of their lands – a   
   >> mode of domination known as 'colonial racial capitalism.'" The report   
   >> calls out companies by name, including some top tech firms, for offering   
   >> their services to Israelis and allegedly enabling "Israeli apartheid"   
   >> and "military and population-control systems." It hisses that "while it   
   >> is impossible to fully capture the scale and extent of decades of   
      
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