A Moon Will Rise from the Darkness

Reports on Israel's Genocide in Palestine

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 thirty-year veteran of UNRWA, coauthored with scholar Mandy Turner.

©2025 Francesca Albanese and Mandy Turner (P)2026 Tantor Media

The authors courage. Aperson vs absurd system.

This book offers a stark and deeply human account of lives shaped by prolonged hardship, dispossession, and loss. Through stories and documented realities, it shows how suffering is not incidental but sustained by systems that extract political, economic, and material gain from people’s pain. The book stands out for grounding its moral argument in evidence, revealing how everyday survival unfolds within an economy that benefits from perpetual crisis rather than its resolution. It’s unfortunately called the genocidal lucrative economy.