{"id":440836,"date":"2026-05-14T05:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/440836\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T05:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:49:10","slug":"u-s-federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-u-s-sanctions-against-francesca-albanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/440836\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks U.S. Sanctions Against Francesca Albanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-chromatic=\"ignore\" title=\"UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese. Credit: Jure Makovec\/AFP\" alt=\"UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1603\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/383523.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"x1mraiob xxymvpz xt7dq6l x193iq5w xh8yej3 x1huxd7x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><img data-chromatic=\"ignore\" title=\"UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese. Credit: Jure Makovec\/AFP\" alt=\"UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1603\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/383523.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" class=\"x1mraiob xxymvpz xt7dq6l x193iq5w xh8yej3\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Close<\/p>\n<p>UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese Credit: Jure Makovec\/AFP<\/p>\n<p>UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese Credit: Jure Makovec\/AFP<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">A federal judge temporarily blocked U.S. sanctions issued against Francesca Albanese, a UN expert considered one of the most prominent public critics of Israeli policy toward the Palestinians, whom critics accuse of veering into antisemitic territory with her aspersions.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington determined that Albanese&#8217;s \u2060residency outside the United States does not undercut her protections under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and \u2060that the Trump administration sought to regulate her speech because of the &#8220;idea or message \u2060expressed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">The ruling came nearly three months after Albanese&#8217;s husband and daughter, who is a U.S. citizen, sued the Trump administration over sanctions that were &#8220;effectively debanking her and making it nearly impossible to meet the needs of her daily life.&#8221; The Trump administration first placed sanctions on Albanese in July 2025, citing her influence on the International Criminal Court&#8217;s decision to take action against Israeli interests.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"rich-text\" class=\"x13faqbe x12ds5z6 x1rrzvkg x1txrjqu x115k1yo x126s5kd x1az39ph x1qxhirb xhhm3bp xjplvm8 x1ur7pbh\">The sanctions came nearly six months after Israel declared Albanese persona non grata over her statement that &#8220;the victims of the October 7 massacre were not murdered because of their Jewishness, but in response to Israeli oppression.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Close UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese Credit: Jure Makovec\/AFP UN Special Rapporteur for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[157718,49,54,50,51,42,86,1031,9152,14045,1513,43,3215,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-440836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-2026-israel-iran-war","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel-u-s","tag-israel-settlements","tag-israel-gaza-war","tag-news","tag-october-7","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}