Black Agenda Report
Black Agenda Report
News, commentary and analysis from the black left.

  • Home
  • Africa
  • African America
  • Education
  • Environment
  • International
  • Media and Culture
  • Political Economy
  • Radio
  • US Politics
  • War and Empire

Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Trump’s Declaration of War on Palestine
Black Alliance For Peace
12 Feb 2025
🖨️ Print Article
Destroyed building in Gaza

Donald Trump's recent statements claiming U.S. ownership of Gaza are the latest iteration of U.S. bipartisan imperialist policy. 

Originally published in Black Alliance for Peace.

February 5, 2025 — Last night, President Trump named what many of us have known for some time – the intentions of the United States to complete the State of Israel’s final solution by announcing his plans to resettle Gazans and assume U.S. control and ownership of the Gaza Strip, Palestine. 

In signaling the U.S. imperial initiative, Trump has also revealed that the U.S. cannot be seen as a trusted partner or leader in pursuing global stability and peace. Indeed, the cognitive dissonance and moral infirmity associated with the U.S. colonial, imperialist mindset, driven by the sickness of white “supremacy” ideology, is now irrefutably elucidated. As Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) founder and Coordinating Committee member Ajamu Baraka noted, “The Russians and Chinese must learn the lesson that the peoples and nations of the global South learned decades ago, and that is that the U.S. is a lunatic state that can't be reasoned with.” He continued, “The Russians should have learned this with Ukraine. But if the Chinese believe that they can keep their heads down and allow the U.S. to destroy peoples and nations, it is only a matter of time before  the barbarians will be at their gates." 

This is nothing more than a continuation of the U.S.’s own settler colonial experiment that includes the extermination, ethnic cleansing, and displacement of Indigenous peoples from their sovereign homelands that commenced in the 15th century and continues today. And the idea that even the most reactionary Arab governments would accept such a non sequitur proposal continues the same amateur, inefficacious, and wanton approach to foreign policy we observed under Biden, Blinken, Austin, and other Democrat party agents who were complicit in funding and arming Israel’s genocidal war machine 15 months before Trump assumed control of the White House. 

To this end, BAP admonishes those who seek to use this as an opportunity to evoke the idea that conditions would be better if the U.S. government were currently controlled by Harris and the Democrat Party. For such a silly and sophomoric proclamation ignores the fact that it was a Democrat-controlled government that vetoed numerous United Nations ceasefire resolutions, allocated billions of dollars to support genocide and ethnic cleansing, and enjoined the conclusions of the  International Criminal Court (ICC) when it rightfully asserted that the State of Israel had committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. It should not be at all surprising that Prime Minister Netanyahu is the first convicted war criminal to be invited to, and enjoy the pomp and circumstance of, the Oval Office.

For those who believe that the Democrats would be any better if they emerged victorious from the 2024 elections, BAP would ask, has there been any indignation or semblance of disapproval from leaders of the Democrat Party, including, but not limited to, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi or its Black Misleadership Class representatives Jim Clyburn or House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries? Have any Democrats called for an immediate arms embargo and economic sanctions against the State of Israel? Have any Democrats pledged to block the use of the military to carry out Trump’s feckless and illegal pogrom? Has the new leadership of the Democratic National Committee (DNC)  declared it will no longer accept donations from or allow for the American Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC) to influence its primaries? 

It should be noted that Trump’s Gaza Grab Declaration would require the use of U.S. military force, which would be a violation of International Law, the Geneva Convention, and the basic tenets of human rights. To this end, BAP calls on the Congressional Progressive Caucus, as well as the Congressional Black Caucus, to immediately denounce previous Democrat Party stances on Gaza and to do all within their constitutional authority to proactively block the use of any U.S. military forces to carry out Trump’s plans.  Furthermore, as using the military to colonize and occupy  Gaza would be an illegal act and in itself a war crime, BAP reminds all U.S. military personnel of their duty to reject any and all unlawful orders pursuant to the Uniform Code of Military Justice. 

The world is awakened, the Palestinian resistance and pursuit of their liberation is more ubiquitous and unwavering than ever, and global solidarity with Palestine remains inexorable. 

Palestine
Gaza
Donald Trump
Barack Obama
Joe Biden
Genocide
settler colonialism

Do you need and appreciate Black Agenda Report articles? Please click on the DONATE icon, and help us out, if you can.


Related Stories

Black Alliance For Peace
Two years after Al-Aqsa Flood, Palestinians Continue Their Fight for National Liberation and the Right to Exist
08 October 2025
Two years of genocide have failed to break Palestinian resistance.
Jim DeBrosse
Who profited off 7 October?
08 October 2025
Unusual stock market activity is one of the indicators that the Israeli government had prior knowledge of the Hamas action which took place on
Robert Inlakesh
Hamas, Trump, Israel, and Who Accepted What Ceasefire – Analysis
08 October 2025
As it stands, there is no chance that a ceasefire can be implemented, according to the current parameters of the Trump-Netanyahu plan.
Carlos Ron
“We will blow you out of existence”: Trump’s Caribbean spectacle
08 October 2025
What is being carried out against Venezuela is not an operation against drug trafficking but rather a regime change operation.
​​​​​​​ Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Trump “Peace Plan” A Cynical Cover to Continue Campaign of Palestinian Extermination
01 October 2025
The so-called "peace deal" does not offer peace; it demands surrender.
Hanna Eid
Recognizing the Palestinian 'State': A Colonial Hauntology
01 October 2025
While Gaza burns, a collaborationist class is being handed the keys to a prison and calling it a state, all in service to western imp
Bikrum Gill
Orders of Sovereignty: Internal Power and External Dependency in the Recognition of the State of Palestine
01 October 2025
Western nations complicit in occupation and genocide offer a fig leaf of sovereignty by recognizing a Palestinian state that in reality would s
Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright
On the Right to Exist: Rosh Hashana Represents a Choice for Jews of Conscience, a New Year for Zionism, or a Commitment To a New Era of Jewish Values
24 September 2025
This Rosh Hashana falls during an ongoing genocide, creating a profound moral crisis for Jewish people.
The Cradle News Desk
Italy Paralyzed as Anti-Genocide Protesters Take the Streets
24 September 2025
Walkouts in over 60 cities disrupted trains, ports, and schools to protest Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
BettBeat
Capitalism Hijacked the World to Keep Contributing to Genocide—BRICS Proves It
17 September 2025
We are like addicts who scream "no" while stabbing the needle into our arms.

More Stories


  • Ilyasah Shabazz
    Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley
    Shabazz Family Lawsuit Against the FBI and NYPD
    03 Oct 2025
    The investigation of the 1965 assassination of El Hajj Malik El Shabazz, Malcolm X, was compromised by the NYPD and the FBI from the very beginning by informants, coverups, false testimony, and the…
  • x
    Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team
    The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns Establishment of Colonial Military Governance Over Haiti by UN Security Council
    03 Oct 2025
    The United Nations has once again acted against the interests of the Haitian people in approving yet another military occupation under the guise of humanitarian action.
  • sovereign media launch
    Sovereign Media
    Anti-Imperialist Coalition Sovereign Media Launches Today
    01 Oct 2025
    Today, we launch Sovereign Media, an anti-imperialist coalition bringing together voices from the Global South and the Global North who refuse to bow to censorship or empire.
  • Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
    Trump Declares War on the U.S.
    01 Oct 2025
    Donald Trump has declared war on the “enemy within” and put the military on notice that they will mete out the same treatment domestically that they dispense around the world.
  • ​​​​​​​ Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
    Trump “Peace Plan” A Cynical Cover to Continue Campaign of Palestinian Extermination
    01 Oct 2025
    The so-called "peace deal" does not offer peace; it demands surrender. The Trump plan is the manifestation of a colonial logic that believes might makes right.
  • Load More
Subscribe
connect with us
about us
contact us