A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness

'Albanese has spoken truth with unflinching clarity in a world largely silent in the face of a holocaust, carrying out her mandate with integrity and defiance that honours both the law and the human conscience. This book is a formidable indictment of injustice and demonstrates what it means to stand alone against power'
Susan Abulhawa, author of Against the Loveless World Israel's genocide in Palestine and the complicity of powerful Western states is undermining international human rights and the UN system. The United States has imposed sanctions on lawyers, UN experts, and Palestinian officials in an attempt to bully and intimidate them into silence. One prominent example is UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese, who has played an important role in documenting Israel's atrocities and those who profit from its oppression of Palestinians. This book compiles Albanese's indispensable and damning reports on Israel's conduct in Palestine since October 2023. First outlining the case that this period should be understood as a genocide, Albanese goes on to explain how the ongoing violence fits into a longer history of Israel's settler colonialism, and finally presents a devastating indictment against the international corporations that treat mass killing and destruction as a business opportunity. The volume also features a reflection by Albanese on the current state of affairs; revelations by her predecessors Richard Falk, John Dugard, and Michael Lynk of their experiences as UN special rapporteurs; and a preface by Lex Takkenberg, a 30-year veteran of UNRWA, co-authored with scholar Mandy Turner. The ebook is free to download from www.plutobooks.com indefinitely, with a request for a donation to the Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA. All royalties from sales of the book will be donated to UNRWA.

Francesca Albanese is an international lawyer specialising in human rights and the Middle East. Since 2022, she has served as the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. An affiliate scholar at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University, Albanese is the author of J'Accuse and co-author (with Lex Takkenberg) of Palestinian Refugees in International Law.

Preface: Bearing Witness at a Time of Genocide. Speaking out against Israel's Atrocities and Western Complicity - Mandy Turner and Lex Takkenberg Foreword: Sanctioning a UN Special Rapporteur for Truthfully Reporting on the Gaza Genocide and the Complicity of States and Corporations - Richard Falk, John Dugard, and Michael Lynk Introduction: The Arc of History Bends Towards Accountability Only When We Refuse to Look Away - Francesca Albanese  1. Anatomy of a Genocide 2. Genocide as Colonial Erasure 3. From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide Biographies Notes