Tucker Carlson: “Genocide Isn’t a Loaded Term — It’s a Crime,” Citing UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
December 22, 2025
“GENOCIDE ISN’T A LOADED TERM. IT’S A CRIME.”
When Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur, responds to media attempts to soften the language, the line is clear.
Genocide is not rhetoric.
It is not opinion.
It is not a debate tactic.
It is a crime under international law.
One with definitions, evidence, and consequences.
Calling it what it is isn’t bias.
Rejecting the word doesn’t erase the act.
And discomfort does not outweigh the truth.
International law doesn’t bend to narratives it names crimes as crimes.
#GenocideIsACrime #InternationalLaw #UNVoices
English Script:
Tucker Carlson: I get the sense from listening to you, you know what you’re talking about. Can you be more, I should have asked you this earlier, more specific about why you call what’s happening in Gaza genocide. It’s a politically charged term, of course, it’s the term we use to describe what the Germans did to the Jews and the Poles. It’s a term we associated with the Nazis. So of course, the Israelis hate it when you use that term. I get it. But it has a specific meaning, I think. What is its meaning? And when did this bombing campaign become genocide?
Francesca Albanese: Tucker, with all due respect, it’s not a politically loaded term. It’s a crime. It’s a legal term.
Tucker Carlson: I know that. But what does it mean? Why is it different from just mass killing?
Francesca Albanese: And excuse me, I mean, the Germans before committing and before leading the genocide of the Jewish people, Roman Sinti, disabled, pursuing this idea of a superior race, had committed another genocide in Namibia, in my modern day in Namibia, the genocide of the Herero and the Nama. And in fact, genocide is something that has existed in history, the genocide of the Armenian people. In my lifetime there has been the genocide of, of the Tutsi in Rwanda, of the Bosnians in former Yugoslavia and the Yazidi. So, no, no, genocide is not loaded, it is a crime and should be treated as such. So this is something that is fundamental because certain people tend to think that there is one and one only genocide.
Tucker Carlson: Right.
Francesca Albanese: And the thing is that it’s a crime and it consists in the intentional destruction, the intent to destroy a group as such. An ethical national, religious or racial group, and through acts of killing, the creation of conditions of life calculated to destroy the group as such, or members of the group as such. The infliction of severe mentally or bodily harm, the prevention of birth and the transfer of children. In Canada, there has been a genocide of the Native Americans. Canada has recognized it, even if there has not been a pronouncement of the International Court of Justice, you know, Australia, the same thing. We could say the same thing of the United States. And there is no acknowledgment of what has happened to the hundreds of Native Americans tribes in the United States. But the fact is that there are some precursors of genocide, and Rafael Lemkin, the Jewish legal scholar who coined the term genocide, had in mind settler colonialism, where he envisaged the crime, because he knew exactly what the genocide of the Jews had been produced from, that idea that there is one group that can dominate and erase the other.
