The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security is utterly horrified by the failure of the so-called “ceasefire” in Gaza, the continued wanton killing of Palestinians by Israel in Gaza and the Occupied Territories, the plans to sell off Palestinian land to developers without any Palestinian control or input, and the establishment of a so-called “Board of Peace” that functions mainly to conceal genocide.
In fact, Trump’s Peace Plan fits right into Lemkin’s genocide framework as laid out in his 1944 study, Axis Rule.
It sets out a “coordinated plan” that is administrative, economic, territorial, and demographic in nature, thereby aiming to dismantle the manifold foundations of Palestinian national existence.
As Lemkin has made crystal clear in his analysis, territory is more than just physical space. It forms the material basis of national existence.
Trump’s framing of Gaza as a real estate opportunity thus lays bare the settler-colonial logic of the Peace Plan, in which ancestral land and natural resources are reduced to an economic opportunity for exploitation.
When we understand that genocide is not only achieved by mass killings, but also through institutional restructuring imposed by an external power, the genocidal character of the Board of Peace becomes apparent.
The situation in Palestine is truly dystopian and must not be allowed to continue.
Read the full statement at: bit.ly/4cmApNL
