Trump’s plan to ‘take over’ Gaza is US colonialism

Stop Trump UK unequivocally condemns Trump’s announced plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza – and demands Keir Starmer condemn it too. 

Trump’s open declaration of his desire to “take over” Gaza, and for the US to “own” it long term, represents a new stage of colonialism in the erasure and dispossession of the Palestinian people. 

The UK government must loudly distance itself from an American colonisation of Palestine, and push for the protection of Palestinians by upholding international law and demanding an end to the genocidal attacks on Gaza and the occupied West Bank, and an end to Israel’s military occupation of Palestine. 

Trump sitting alongside Netanyahu as he made the announcement – a man wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes committed in Gaza – is another urgent challenge to every principle of international human rights law.

The UK government must impose an immediate full arms embargo on Israel and commit itself to upholding the ICC arrest warrant issued for Netanyahu. 

Stop Trump stands in solidarity with the people of Palestine and their rights under international law and as occupied people to self-determination and the creation of a safe and secure Palestinian state, where Palestinians can live with justice, freedom, hope and dignity. 

We support the upcoming march for Palestine on Saturday 15 February, from London’s Whitehall to the US Embassy.

Stop Trump also stands in solidarity with undocumented people in the USA, their families and communities, facing the brutality of Trump’s dehumanising mass deportation programme and his threats to create a concentration camp for deportees in Guantanamo.

We call for the mass mobilisation of people, trade unions and institutions on the streets if Starmer’s government bows down to Trump’s ego by inviting him on a state visit to the UK. We will protest the politics of colonialism, racism, climate denialism and corporate greed, and demand our own government is held to account for its appeasement of Trumpism. 

During Trump’s first term as president, people across the UK protested against Trump in their hundreds of thousands and we will be ready to do the same again – to defend Palestine, stateless people, migrants, refugees, workers, trans people, and our planet against the global existential threat that is Trumpism.