Just two days after we sat down with Francesca Albanese, the Trump Administration placed her under sanctions. They accuse the UN Special Rapporteur of waging “economic warfare” on the United States. She says the sanctions are “mafia style intimidation techniques” and vows to continue her work to remind states of their obligations to “stop and punish genocide. And those who profit from it.” So why has the US taken such a drastic move? That has a lot to do with a scathing report Albanese just published, titled the “economy of genocide”. In it, she accuses more than 60 corporations of “sustaining and profiting off of Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide.” Some of these companies include Google, Amazon, Hyundai, Booking.com and the bank Barclays. This week on the Big Picture Podcast, we sit down with Francesca Albanese to talk about what her explosive report exposes about the world’s richest companies, and how the rest of us are implicated in a system that exploits the pain of Palestinians for the sake of profit.
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