UN Gaza Investigator Francesca Albanese on US Sanctions Against Her; Plus: Glenn Takes Your Questions on Trump's Pressure on Brazil, Sam Harris, Bill Ackman, and More
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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🗓️ 12 July 2025
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Glenn Greenwald interviews UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese about the US sanctions against her and her latest findings about how Western companies enable Israel's atrocities in Gaza. Plus: Glenn answers audience questions about Trump's tariffs on Brazil, Bill Ackman's pathetic tennis tournament, and Sam Harris.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. It's Friday, July 11th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live |
| 0:19.1 | nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here in Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube. |
| 0:26.5 | Tonight, it's very well documented on this show and elsewhere that critics of Israel are not only smeared in the line, but are often officially punished by the U.S. government and other Western nations. |
| 0:37.7 | Few people have endured more such attacks |
| 0:41.1 | than our guest tonight. |
| 0:42.6 | The Italian specialist in human rights law |
| 0:44.7 | and the UN Rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese. |
| 0:49.0 | Her job with the UN requires her to document |
| 0:51.6 | human rights abuses in Palestine. |
| 0:53.3 | Just as other similar jobs as |
| 0:55.7 | Rapporteur with the UN require similar documentation for abuses in all sorts of other |
| 0:59.6 | countries, Afghanistan, Belarus, North Korea, Iran, Syria, and many others. |
| 1:05.2 | And for doing her job and doing it well, Albanesey has now not only widely been branded |
| 1:10.0 | and anti-Semite, of course, |
| 1:11.6 | but is also being punished by multiple Western governments as well as Israel in all sorts of ways. |
| 1:16.6 | Those reprisals against her, again, for the crime of documenting Israeli crimes in Gaza and the West Bank, |
| 1:22.6 | her job, severely escalated this week when Secretary of State Marker Rubio announced the imposition |
| 1:29.4 | of American sanctions against her personally, against her finances, her travel, and other |
| 1:35.8 | abilities in her life. |
| 1:37.8 | His announcement, not coincidentally, came just days after the UN's publication of her |
| 1:43.2 | report about the role of American big tech companies, |
| 1:46.0 | including Google, Amazon, and Palantir in working with the IDF and profiting off of the destruction |
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