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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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   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   
   corporate connivance in the exploitation of the occupied Palestinian   
   territory, the present report exposes the integration of the economies   
   of settler-colonial occupation and genocide." It adds that "corporate   
   entities must refuse to be complicit in human rights violations and   
      
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