US pro-Palestinian groups mum or opposed to Gaza peace deal

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activist groups in the US reject the deal proposed by US President Donald Trump to end the war in Gaza.

National Students for Justice in Palestine and the US Palestinian Community Network share a message on social media that says, “Normalization is never the answer.”

“The Palestinian people alone determine their path to liberation, not Trump, not Israel,” the statement says.

Nerdeen Kiswani, the head of the leading activist group in New York, Within Our Lifetime, says the plan is “not about peace, it’s a blueprint for surrender and foreign control.”

“The deal would dismantle Hamas’ military capabilities, end its political rule, and ensure Gaza never poses a challenge to Israel,” she says.

The far-left activist group Code Pink, which often protests Israel, says, “This is not a peace plan. It’s a plan for permanent occupation.”

The plan unveiled by the White House on Monday explicitly states: “Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza.”

Another far-left anti-Israel group, the People’s Forum, says the meeting between Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “reinforced US complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people,” while calling to “end the genocide.”

The anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Peace does not respond to a request for comment.

Other groups have not issued any comment, and no pro-Palestinian activist groups appear to have voiced support for the agreement.

US Rep. Rashida Tlaib says, “Trump and War Criminal Netanyahu, perpetrators of the genocide, do not get to decide the future of Gaza.”