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A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness
Reports on Israel's Genocide in Palestine
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Albanese is perhaps the one figure of our times that future historians will recall as the one who did the most to redeem our generation from its guilt over the genocide of the Palestinian people. Her reflections in this book are not just timely - they...
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A devastating indictment against international complicity in Israelโs genocide in Palestine
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Albanese is perhaps the one figure of our times that future historians will recall as the one who did the most to redeem our generation from its guilt over the genocide of the Palestinian people. Her reflections in this book are not just timely - they are for the ages - Yanis Varoufakis
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.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780745352312
Publisher: Pluto Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 09 October 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pluto Press
Contributors:
- Edited by Lex Takkenberg
- Edited by Mandy Turner
- Foreword by Richard Falk
- Foreword by John Dugard
- Foreword by Michael Lynk
- Preface by Lex Takkenberg
- Preface by Mandy Turner
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Francesca Albanese is an international lawyer specialising in humanย 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 scholarย at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetownย University, Albanese is the author of JโAccuse and co-author (with Lex Takkenberg) ofย Palestinian Refugees inย International Law. Mandy Turner is a researcher based in London. She has held positions as professor of conflict, peace, and humanitarian affairs at the University of Manchester, UK; director of the Kenyon Institute in East Jerusalem; and senior lecturer in conflict resolution at University of Bradford. Her last book was an edited collection From the River to the Sea: Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of โPeaceโ published in Arabic in 2024 by ACRPS (Doha). She currently writes for Security in Context. Lex Takkenberg is Senior Advisor on the Question of Palestine atย ARDD (Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development) and freelance lecturer at the University of Vienna. From 1989-2019, he worked with UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinianย refugees. He is co-author (with Francesca Albanese) of The Status of Palestinian Refugees inย International Law. Mandy Turner is a researcher based in London. She has held positions as professor of conflict, peace, and humanitarian affairs at the University of Manchester, UK; director of the Kenyon Institute in East Jerusalem; and senior lecturer in conflict resolution at University of Bradford. Her last book was an edited collection From the River to the Sea: Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of โPeaceโ published in Arabic in 2024 by ACRPS (Doha). She currently writes for Security in Context. Lex Takkenberg is Senior Advisor on the Question of Palestine atย ARDD (Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development) and freelance lecturer at the University of Vienna. From 1989-2019, he worked with UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinianย refugees. He is co-author (with Francesca Albanese) of The Status of Palestinian Refugees inย International Law. Richard Falk is Emeritus Professor of International Law at Princeton University in the United States. He served as UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 from 2008-2012, and is currently Chair of the Gaza Tribunal. He is a prolific writer on international law and global politics; his most recent publication is Genocide in Gaza: Global Voices of Conscience (co-editor with Ahmet Davutoฤlu). John Dugard SC is Emeritus Professor of Law at the Universitiesย of the Witwatersrand and Leiden and a Member of Institut de Droitย International. He served as UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 from 2001-2008; and currently serves as Legal Counsel, South Africa v Israel (Genocide Convention). Michael Lynk is Professor Emeritus of Law at Western University in Canada, where he taught from 1999 until his retirement in 2022. He has published widely in the areas of Canadian labour law, humanย rights law, and international law. He served as UN Specialย Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territoriesย occupied since 1967 from 2016-2022.
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