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Israel's genocide in Palestine and the complicity of powerful Western states is undermining international human rights and the UN system. The United States has imposed sanctions on lawyers, UN experts, and Palestinian officials in an attempt to bully and intimidate them into silence. One prominent example is UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese, who has played an important role in documenting Israel's atrocities and those who profit from its oppression of Palestinians. This book compiles Albanese's indispensable and damning reports on Israel's conduct in Palestine since October 2023. First outlining the case that this period should be understood as a genocide, Albanese goes on to explain how the ongoing violence fits into a longer history of Israel's settler colonialism, and finally presents a devastating indictment against the international corporations that treat mass killing and destruction as a business opportunity. The volume also features a reflection by Albanese on the current state of affairs; revelations by her predecessors Richard Falk, John Dugard, and Michael Lynk of their experiences as UN special rapporteurs; and a preface by Lex Takkenberg, a thirty-year veteran of UNRWA, coauthored with scholar Mandy Turner.

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Francesca Albanese is an international lawyer specializing in human rights and the Middle East. Since 2022, she has served as the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. An affiliate scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University, Albanese is the author of J'Accuse and coauthor (with Lex Takkenberg) of Palestinian Refugees in International Law. Mandy Turner is a researcher based in London. She has held positions as professor of conflict, peace, and humanitarian affairs at the University of Manchester, UK; director of the Kenyon Institute in East Jerusalem; and senior lecturer in conflict resolution at University of Bradford. Lex Takkenberg is senior advisor on the Question of Palestine at ARDD (Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development) and freelance lecturer at the University of Vienna. From 1989-2019, he worked with UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. Richard Falk is Emeritus Professor of International Law at Princeton University in the United States. He served as UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 from 2008-2012, and is currently Chair of the Gaza Tribunal. John Dugard is Emeritus Professor of Law at the Universities of the Witwatersrand and Leiden and a Member of Institut de Droit International. He served as UN Special Rapporteur from 2001-2008, and currently serves as legal counsel, South Africa v. Israel (Genocide Convention). Michael Lynk is professor emeritus of law at Western University in Canada, where he taught from 1999 until his retirement in 2022. He has published widely in the areas of Canadian labor law, human rights law, and international law. Dina Pearlman was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, and went on to attend Carnegie Mellon University. Based in New York City, this actress, stand-up comic, and Audie Award-nominated narrator of over 300 audiobooks is best known for her appearances in Sex and the City (as Ruby Rosen, jeweler extraordinaire) and several Spike Lee films, notably Bamboozled in the role of slick network TV consultant Myrna Goldfarb. In HBO's Bad Education, Dina portrayed Wendy, a member of the doomed Roslyn Board of Ed frantically attempting to cover up missing funds, and Gina in Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade, a sun-block-obsessed mom pulling partygoers aside to apply and re-apply. Dina is recurring on The Good Fight Season 5 as the lawsuit-averse rule-follower Katherine from Human Resources.

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