Major university cuts ties with US-sanctioned UN expert on Palestinian issues, watchdog says

Georgetown University has chopped ties with a United Nations adept who is facing U.S. sanctions, according to a watchdog group.

The enactment U.N. Watch precocious reported that U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese was removed from Georgetown's database of affiliated scholars. U.N. Watch CEO Hillel Neuer posted astir the substance connected Dec. 21 that "U.N. Hamas apologist Francesca Albanese has been removed from Georgetown University."

"Thank you, [Georgetown]. It's clip to expel each panic supporters from our universities," Neuer wrote connected X.

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U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese speaks during a property league successful Bogota, Colombia, July 15, 2025. (Luisa Gonzalez/Reuters)

Neuer besides posted screenshots showing Albanese's illustration connected the university's website arsenic it appeared earlier she was removed from the database arsenic good arsenic an representation of the leafage showing an error.

Georgetown described Albanese arsenic "an planetary lawyer and researcher and the writer of assorted publications and opinions connected the question of Palestinian refugees," according to the screenshots Neuer posted.

"Georgetown University made the close decision. Academic institutions should not lend credibility to Francesca Albanese, who has been publically condemned by antiauthoritarian allies for antisemitism and Holocaust inversion. Universities beryllium to uphold intelligence honesty and humanities truth, not to legitimize distortions of past oregon rhetoric that excuses unit against civilians. Accountability matters, and this measurement reinforces that principle," Heather Johnston, laminitis of the US Israel Education Association, told Fox News Digital.

Francesca Albanese seen successful Rome, Nov. 29, 2025. (Remo Casilli/Reuters)

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In July, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced sanctions against Albanese, saying that she "has straight engaged with the International Criminal Court (ICC) successful efforts to investigate, arrest, detain, oregon prosecute nationals of the United States oregon Israel, without the consent of those 2 countries." Rubio noted successful the announcement that neither the U.S. nor Israel person signed onto the Rome Statute.

"Albanese has spewed unabashed antisemitism, expressed enactment for terrorism, and unfastened contempt for the United States, Israel, and the West," the State Department announcement reads.

Several countries person condemned Albanese's statements successful the past, often saying her remarks were antisemitic.

UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese gives a property league astatine the UN City successful Copenhagen, Denmark, Feb. 5, 2025. (Ritzau Scanpix/Ida Marie Odgaard via REUTERS )

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In February 2024, Albanese was condemned by France and Germany aft saying French President Emmanuel Macron was incorrect to telephone Hamas’ Oct. 7 events "the largest antisemitic massacre of our century." In her response, she said "The victims of 7/10 were not killed due to the fact that of their Judaism but successful effect to Israel’s oppression."

France said Albanese seemed to "justify" the attacks and that her remarks were "all the much scandalous fixed that the combat against anti-Semitism and each forms of racism are astatine the bosom of the founding of the U.N," according to the ADL.

Germany besides responded to Albanese, saying "To warrant the horrific panic attacks of 7/10 [and] contradict their antisemitic quality is appalling. Making specified statements successful a U.N. capableness is simply a disgrace and goes against everything the United Nations basal for."

Fox News Digital reached retired to Albanese, U.N. Watch and Georgetown University for comment.