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Albanese Sanctions Backfire On White House - Big Tech Panics!
Trump sanctioned Francesca Albanese and ICC officials over Gaza - now it’s exposed the Big Tech links even more. Right, so Donald Trump’s White House has taken the same US Treasury blacklist they use for terrorists and drug traffickers and pointed it at a UN mandate-holder and ICC officials after her Gaza reporting and the ICC’s Gaza track started biting at the people and firms who benefit from Israel’s war. Francesca Albanese didn’t bomb anyone, didn’t hack anyone, didn’t threaten anyone. She wrote letters to Big Tech and defence giants warning them they could be named for helping with gross human rights violations, and at least two of those companies sought White House help after receiving her letters, which tells you they did not treat those warnings as harmless. Now she’s on a sanctions list that can freeze assets and shut you out of banking, and the ICC is being hit too, for daring to issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. But here’s the bit they didn’t think through. If you use the SDN sanctions machinery - the same blocked-property system used for terrorism designations - against a UN rapporteur, you’re not proving she’s wrong. You’re proving she’s landed on something you can’t defend. Because normal governments don’t need financial weapons to answer a report. They answer it with facts. So in this video I’m going to walk you through what Albanese actually accused these companies of doing, what those sanctions really mean in practice, and why this move doesn’t just punish one person, it rewires the entire idea of international law into a system where the powerful can just switch it off when it gets inconvenient. Right, so Donald Trump’s administration has taken the United States Treasury’s most toxic blacklist and started using it on people whose job is to investigate war crimes. Francesca Albanese is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, and the International Criminal Court is the court set up to investigate and prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes when states will not.
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By Damien WilleyTrump sanctioned Francesca Albanese and ICC officials over Gaza - now it’s exposed the Big Tech links even more. Right, so Donald Trump’s White House has taken the same US Treasury blacklist they use for terrorists and drug traffickers and pointed it at a UN mandate-holder and ICC officials after her Gaza reporting and the ICC’s Gaza track started biting at the people and firms who benefit from Israel’s war. Francesca Albanese didn’t bomb anyone, didn’t hack anyone, didn’t threaten anyone. She wrote letters to Big Tech and defence giants warning them they could be named for helping with gross human rights violations, and at least two of those companies sought White House help after receiving her letters, which tells you they did not treat those warnings as harmless. Now she’s on a sanctions list that can freeze assets and shut you out of banking, and the ICC is being hit too, for daring to issue arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant. But here’s the bit they didn’t think through. If you use the SDN sanctions machinery - the same blocked-property system used for terrorism designations - against a UN rapporteur, you’re not proving she’s wrong. You’re proving she’s landed on something you can’t defend. Because normal governments don’t need financial weapons to answer a report. They answer it with facts. So in this video I’m going to walk you through what Albanese actually accused these companies of doing, what those sanctions really mean in practice, and why this move doesn’t just punish one person, it rewires the entire idea of international law into a system where the powerful can just switch it off when it gets inconvenient. Right, so Donald Trump’s administration has taken the United States Treasury’s most toxic blacklist and started using it on people whose job is to investigate war crimes. Francesca Albanese is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, and the International Criminal Court is the court set up to investigate and prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes when states will not.