The UN’s Francesca Albanese routinely demonizes the United States and the West. Below is a partial selection of her anti-American and anti-Western rhetoric.
Ironically, Albanese accuses democracies like France, Germany, Canada, and the U.S. of threatening and inciting violence against her simply for quoting her own antisemitic statements.
Anti-American Statements
• Immediately following the Charlie Hebdo terror attack, Albanese posted an article from Iranian state-owned media PressTV with the title “CIA and Mossad carried out the Paris attack” (January 11, 2015).
• After the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Addameer for having been “long supported and is affiliated with the PFLP,” a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, Albanese affirmed her “full solidarity to @Addameer” (June 11, 2025).
• During Italy’s anti-fascist rally on Liberation Day, commemorating the end of Nazi German occupation, Albanese called the United States “a nation founded upon genocide.” (April 25, 2025).
• In an written interview with the Irish Times, Albanese said that the second Trump administration is “wildly and fastly contributing to the dismantlement of the world order that was established after World War II, in the sense it is acting manifestly above and against the law.” She then called on “all the other members of the United Nations stand united against this. It’s really the united people of the world against the government of the United States of America” (May 17, 2025).
• Albanese fundraised for her former employer UNRWA by posting that America is “subjugated by the Jewish lobby” (July 31, 2014).
• Albanese retweets that “Trump like Churchill is the new white supremacist” (March 30, 2025).
• After the United States struck Iran’s nuclear facilities, Albanese wrote that “it is still not too late for the 191 other UN Member States to act” and “stand FIRM against rapacious lawlessness” (June 22, 2025).
• In a press conference, Albanese called “the U.S. politics under the current administration is terrible in many ways” although “when it comes to Palestine, the worsening is in the margins, if there is worsening at all, because the U.S. has always been that lawlessness driven.” Albanese then went on to accuse U.S. foreign policy as being controlled by Israel, stating that people “tend to refer to Trump’s plan to forcibly displace the Palestinians. No! This is the Israeli plan to displace the Palestinians, and President Trump, as its persona, is just saying that out loud” (December 11, 2024).
• Albanese invoked the Sandy Hook massacre, comparing it to Israel’s military operation in Gaza: “To U.S. audiences: in 5 months Israel has killed as many children as 675 Sandy Hook massacres combined. That is more than 4 Sandy Hook a day for Palestinian children. For 150 days. With US-manifactured [sic] weapons” (March 14, 2024).
• After President Trump’s vision to turn Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East,” Albanese condemned Trump’s “aggression” and called for “the 191 members of the UN who still have an interest in protecting themselves from this madness” to “recover from their paralysis and stand united against this imperialist lawlessness” (February 5, 2025).
• Shortly after Trump’s second term began, Albanese co-authored a letter pleading that “the new US administration must recommit to human rights at home and abroad.” The letter continued that they “are alarmed by the United States’ escalating attacks on the international architecture of human rights, the rule of law, multilateralism, the principles of sovereign equality and self-determination, and vital international agreements on peace and security, climate change, global justice, and international cooperation” (February 27, 2025).
• Albanese tells Spain’s Público that “many are used to being close to or within the U.S. sphere-for fear or for convenience. But no one is safe with a state that respects no agreements, that respects none of international law. The United States, together with Israel, is taking us back to a time before the last 60 years, when we had a system of rules-of international law-that limited the exercise of public power. But these states still act as empires. There are no rules, no limits. No one is safe in this system” (June 23, 2025).
• Albanese called the U.S.-Israel humanitarian aid distribution venture a “concentration camp” representing the “worst humanity is capable of from the bastions of Power” (May 28, 2025).
• Albanese wrote that “it is about time that Israel and the U.S.-and those who enabled and armed the genocidal assault against the Palestinians-make plans to offer REPARATIONS to the Palestinian people to rebuild Gaza.” She added that the “Riviera plan does not count as reparation; rather as a rapacious attempt to continue to commit crimes in Palestine” (February 16, 2025).
• After Mahmoud Khalil was arrested for his anti-American and anti-Israel activism, Albanese co-authored a letter which called for his immediate release, while adding that “the arrest, detention, and pending deportation of Mr. Mahmoud Khalil marks a dangerous escalation in the U.S. Government’s crackdown on student activism and censorship of pro-Palestinian voices” (March 20, 2025). On Twitter, Albanese further called Khalil’s arrest a form of “apartheid” (March 11, 2025).
• After a poster referred to the U.S. plan to deliver humanitarian aid in Gaza via a floating pier as “truly the humanitarianism of idiots,” Albanese added that it is the “U.S. at its best” (May 26, 2024).
• After President Trump signed an executive order authorising sanctions on the International Criminal Court, Albanese co-authored a letter condemning the move, calling it an “attack on global rule of law” (February 10, 2025). A month earlier, Albanese co-authored a letter opposing a passed U.S. House bill which imposed sanctions and cut funding to the ICC. The letter called it “shocking to see a country that considers itself a champion of the rule of law trying to stymie the actions of an independent and impartial tribunal set up by the international community, to thwart accountability” (January 10, 2025).
Anti-Western Statements
• Albanese tells Spain’s Público that “the idea of a pure race didn’t die with Hitler. It mutated. It still exists-it still lingers in this system, in the DNA of the Western system” (June 23, 2025).
• Albanese writes that “500yrs of colonialism have left an imprint in the DNA of the West” (December 25, 2023).
• After European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen tweeted that “Iran must never acquire the bomb,” Albanese responds that “the harm caused by the policies she has championed-whether for ideology or otherwise-demands scrutiny: they may have contributed to make Europe complicit in int’l crimes” (June 23, 2025).
• When then Vice-President of the European Commission Josep Borrell stated that “Europe is in danger and must learn to speak the language of power,” Albanese responded that “Europe must learn to speak the language of Respect and Integrity, which manifests, for example, by complying with international law without discrimination and double standards. Power, without Respect and Integrity, represents a threat, including for European citizens” (November 30, 2025).
• After Iran’s missile barrages targeting Israeli civilians, Albanese retweets that “the level of Orwellian confusion in Europe over Israel’s attack on Iran is staggering. It’s so sad to see the total inability of European leaders to think with their own heads (rather than act as derivatives of the US) in the Middle East” (June 15, 2025).
• After The Times U.K. publishes an article by Former Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, Albanese sarcastically tweets that this is “The West, at its best” (June 21, 2025).
• With regards to the EU-Israel Association Agreement-the legal framework for the EU’s trade relations with Israel-Albanese says that “what prevents the suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement is just the moral bankruptcy of far too many European leaders.”
• In reference to an interview on Norwegian television in which Albanese was asked if she was an antisemite, Albanese states that “in fairness, this is how some crooks in our world (spoiler: there’s a high concentration in ‘the West’), think” (February 13, 2025).
• Albanese shares the quote that the “mainstream liberal West is still enamored with its own illusions and deceptions about what it is and what it represents to the rest of the world” (December 20, 2024).
• After Kenneth Roth claims that “Germany’s suppression of Palestinian activism is a ‘misunderstanding of the proper lessons of the Holocaust,’” Albanese adds that “It is part of the racism that Germany and other European countries seem to be unable to uproot” (March 5, 2025).
