Hillel Neuer Admits Lobbying for Sanctions Against UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
June 24, 2026
According to reports, Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, openly acknowledged lobbying efforts aimed at securing sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, in both the United States and Europe.
Neuer also bragged about demoting her husband who shared similar views, from his position, and also ensuring closure of her bank accounts.
Why?
Because Albanese refused to stay silent. And because she continued speaking when many others chose comfort over courage. Sanctioning a UN official for documenting alleged human rights abuses should alarm anyone who claims to care about international law, accountability and freedom of expression.
Today it’s a UN rapporteur. Tomorrow it could be a journalist. A whistleblower. A special thank you to Francesca Albanese, who has endured years of attacks while continuing to speak for people who are too often ignored by the international community.
When truth becomes dangerous, the people telling it become targets.
And that tells you everything you need to know.
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English Script:
Hillel Neuer: Francesca Albanese, the UN Rapporteur on Palestine. As you know, I don’t have to tell this audience. She has said that America is controlled by the Jewish lobby. On October 7th, she defended Hamas, said there’s a context, and every five minutes on Twitter, she is echoing the worst blood libels against Israel. She is the leading purveyor of the genocide libel. We are fighting back. We are fighting back. We have exposed her. We have exposed her hateful remarks. She is now the first UN Rapporteur in history to have been condemned by France, Germany, Canada, the Netherlands, the UK, Argentina, Hungary, the US, and many other countries, Latvia, Estonia, many other countries, and each condemnation matters. And we led a campaign; we got 120,000 people, including many here, who signed our petition asking Senator Rubio to take action when the UN failed to act. Secretary Rubio announced for the first time in history the US would sanction a UN official on July 9th. For the first time in history, UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese was sanctioned by the United States. No more lectures that she used to give in Harvard, Princeton, Georgetown, and Columbia. She is banned entry from the United States. She cannot use a bank card. She cannot use a debit card. She cannot receive a payment. And in her words, the sanctions are “devastating,” and as she says, or, very good, very good, it sends a message of deterrence. And after she was sanctioned, we got her husband, who works for the World Bank and who shares in her incitement; he was demoted from his position at the World Bank for incitement to hate. And after she was sanctioned, the head of the Commission of Inquiry against Israel, Navi Pillay, resigned. We heard that she has family in the US. She was afraid if she got sanctioned, she couldn’t enter the US. She resigned.
