Green Party Condemns Trump’s Call to Displace Palestinians

The Green Party of the United States condemns the proposal by President Trump to permanently displace Palestinians from Gaza and their homeland. For more than 70 years, Palestinians have sought the right to return to their homes after being displaced by Israel and other colonial powers.

Greens also condemn the United States for failing to arrest Israel President Netanyahu, an indicted war criminal, when he came to Washington, DC to meet with Trump. It called on Trump and Congress to make clear that the U.S. strongly opposes the ongoing efforts by Netanyahu to break the ceasefire.

Green Party of the United States
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For Immediate Release:
February 5, 2025

Contact:
Gloria Mattera, Media Coordinator, [email protected], 202-804-2758

“Both the Democrats and Republicans have aided Israel in their genocide against the Palestinian people. The unwavering support by President Biden and the Democrats for Netanyahu’s war crimes was a major factor in returning a convicted felon calling for a dictatorship back into the White House. It is no surprise that Trump is embracing ethnic cleansing. He primarily sees the destruction of Gaza by Israel as an opportunity for profits by turning the occupied territories into a redevelopment project to benefit Israel, contractors, and predatory financiers,” said Craig Cayetano, co-chair of the national Green Party.

The Green Party national platform has long called “on the U.S. President and Congress to suspend all military and foreign aid, including loans and grants, to Israel until Israel withdraws from the Occupied Territories, dismantles the separation wall in the Occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem, ends its siege of Gaza and dismantles settler colonies and systemic apartheid toward its non-Jewish citizens.”

As Americans for Justice in Palestine Action has pointed out, “international law is clear: the forced transfer of a civilian population under occupation is a war crime. The Fourth Geneva Convention (Article 49) prohibits an occupying power from deporting or transferring the population of an occupied territory.”

Trump’s proposal to forcefully relocate the Palestinian people to Jordan and Egypt has long been rejected not only by Palestinians but by both countries. Such relocation was a principal goal of the IDF in its recent genocide.