In Trump’s war on global justice, court staff and U.N. face terrorist?grade sanctions

MODENA, Italy – Marked “confidential,” the letters went out to some of America’s most powerful companies in the spring of 2025. Written by Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for Palestine, the letters warned more than a dozen U.S. firms and two charities that she might soon name them in a U.N. report for “contributing to gross violations of human rights” by Israel in Gaza and the West Bank. Among her targets: Alphabet, Amazon, Caterpillar, Chevron, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft and Palantir. Her letters so alarmed the U.S. companies that at least two sought help from the…