AK<p>[Open Letter] Top Economists Back Francesca Albanese's Report on the 'Economy of Genocide' in Gaza (Zeteo, 2025-07-07)</p><p><a href="https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-top-economists-back-francesca" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">zeteo.com/p/exclusive-top-econ</span><span class="invisible">omists-back-francesca</span></a><br>———</p><p>>> Last week, UN Special Rapporteur <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/FrancescaAlbanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrancescaAlbanese</span></a> … exposing the dozens of companies that she says have profited from Israel’s genocide in Gaza. … calls out financial institutions, educational institutions, and Big Tech companies, including Alphabet Inc. (Google), Amazon, IBM, Palantir, as well as many, many others.</p><p>>> In response, the US Mission to the UN renewed its calls for the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/UN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UN</span></a> secretary-general to condemn Albanese and remove her as special rapporteur for human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.</p><p>>> Now, world-leading economists, including former Greek Finance Minister <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/YanisVaroufakis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YanisVaroufakis</span></a>, French economist Thomas Piketty, and … Nassim Nicholas Taleb, are praising Albanese for her report.</p><p>>> Zeteo has obtained an exclusive English copy of the economists’ open letter …</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/EconomyOfGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EconomyOfGenocide</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lemmy.ml/c/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine@lemmy.ml</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine@a.gup.pe</span></a></span></p>