🚨 Jared Kushner’s “Master Plan” for Gaza Is Evil Colonialism—and I Reject All of It. Here is My Thorough Response to their White Supremacist Vision for a "New Gaza"

Skyscrapers over mass graves. “New Gaza” with no Palestinian input. No rights, no consent, no dignity. Absolutely not. Hell no.

This week I watched Jared Kushner stand at Davos and talk about Gaza like it’s a blank strip of beachfront land that he purchased at a property auction somewhere. I watched him unveil slides branded “Board of Peace” and titled “New Gaza” as if Gaza has no history, no people, no graves, no sacred places—no rights.

And I didn’t want to rush my response. I wanted to sit with it, pray on it, think through it, and respond with clarity. Because what we just witnessed is not policy. It’s imperialism with PowerPoint and Canva.

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Leave Gaza alone.

That’s the first sentence Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha wrote in response to this grotesque spectacle, and he nailed it.

Leave Gaza alone.

If the goal is truly peace, then the path is simple: end the occupation and help restore the rights that have been taken from Palestinians since 1948.

We, the Palestinian people, are the ones who must determine our own future. Peace cannot be imposed while our land is occupied, our lives controlled, and our voices ignored.

Stop supporting those who oppress us and murder our people.

That is the voice that matters. That is the voice that should have been at that podium. That is the voice that should be shaping any future.

Instead, we got Jared Kushner—an open Zionist—standing in front of the richest people in the world, unveiling a “master plan” for a land whose people were not even invited into the room.

And family, I’m telling you plainly: I reject every word of this plan. All of it.

Not 80%. Not “parts.” Not “in theory.” Every single word.

Because the problem is not the number of towers. The problem is the premise. The problem is the audacity. The problem is the colonial entitlement.

This is what the plan actually is

The slides they showed are not humanitarian. They’re not about recovery. They are a development pitch deck.

One slide literally breaks “New Gaza” into glossy investor categories: “Coastal Tourism,” “Transportation Hub,” “Energy & Digital Infrastructure.” Another slide lists “New Rafah” in pure metrics like it’s a consultant brief: 100,000+ permanent housing units, 200+ education centers, 180+ cultural/religious/vocational centers, 75+ medical facilities. Another map zones Gaza like it’s being auctioned off, including a tourism coast designed for “180 towers”—while the coastline is where displaced Palestinians are currently sheltering.

And then the language. My God, the language.

Kushner told the world, “We have a masterplan… There is no Plan B.” He reportedly said, “Let’s plan for catastrophic success.” He promised “amazing investment opportunities.”

Do you understand how sick that sounds when Gaza is still full of bodies? When people are still searching through rubble for bone fragments? When every neighborhood carries grief like smoke?

Gaza is not a “blank slate.” Gaza is a cemetery.

And that’s not a metaphor. Gaza right now is filled with graves—some marked, many unmarked—mass graves, family graves, people buried under homes that became tombs when bombs collapsed the walls on top of them.

So no, I don’t want to hear a single word about “skyscrapers” and “seaside resorts” from the same political network that helped enable the destruction in the first place.

Not until there is a plan to stop the killing.
Not until there is a plan to restore rights.
Not until there is a plan for accountability.

Mosab said it better than any of us:

What is especially evil about this is the audacity to make ‘plans’ for other people’s land while those very people are being killed, injured, or internally displaced.
Who the hell gave you the permission to ‘plan’?
How dare you design buildings on our land, in place of, or atop the ruins of, our homes?
Evil, evil, evil.
Is there any PLAN to hold Israel accountable for its war crimes? Such a plan would be the first step to achieve PEACE and justice.

That’s the moral map right there. And they ignored it.

My simple test for anyone still confused

Let me play the game I sometimes have to play to make plain truth land in the minds of decent people.

If Palestinians completely destroyed your neighborhood with bombs and missiles—destroyed your church, your school, your favorite restaurants, your home, your friends’ homes, your parents’ home—killed most of your family and buried them in mass graves… then did the same thing to your entire city… then your entire state… and then announced their own plan for how they were going to rebuild your city and state…

Without your input
Without the input of anybody from your city or state
Without respect for history, burial sites, mass graves, or anything else—just pure “development”—

Be honest: how would that make you feel?

You wouldn’t call it “peace.” You’d call it what it is: conquest. You’d call it humiliation. You’d call it colonialism. You’d reject it with your whole chest—and you’d be right to.

Not a single honest person in the world would accept such a scenario. Not one.

And Palestinians should not accept it either.

The plan isn’t just immoral. It’s structurally dishonest

Even the outlets describing the plan admit the basic truth: this is largely speculative and “mostly on paper.” The plan has no real answers for the questions that matter most.

Multiple reports point out what Kushner’s presentation did not address:

• property rights

• compensation for people whose homes and businesses were destroyed

• where displaced Palestinians would live during rebuilding

• how demining would happen in a land filled with unexploded ordnance

Those aren’t details. Those are the entire moral center of rebuilding.

Gaza is estimated to have roughly 60 to 68 million tons of rubble—an apocalyptic amount. UN-linked assessments say it could take over seven years just to clear that rubble, and then additional time to make the land safe. And reports also note something even more damning: heavy machinery needed for clearance and recovery has been blocked from entering in meaningful quantities.

So what are they really doing when they stand at Davos and sell “catastrophic success”?

They are selling a fantasy to people who want to believe the genocide can be “resolved” with construction and capital—without justice, without truth, without rights, without accountability.

And they’re doing it while the killing continues.

Think about the obscenity of the juxtaposition: on the same day the world is shown glossy towers and tourism zones, Palestinians are still being killed, still living in displacement, still trapped in a landscape of ruins.

That’s why I’m calling this what it is: a glittering colonial press conference.

What peace actually requires

Let me define one term simply, because this is the piece they always try to remove from the conversation: self-determination.

Self-determination means people have the right to decide their own future—who governs them, what their country looks like, how their economy works, what gets rebuilt, what gets protected, what gets memorialized, what gets left sacred.

It’s not a “nice idea.” It’s the baseline of international law and basic human dignity.

Peace does not begin with Jared Kushner drawing zoning colors on a map. Peace begins with Palestinians having freedom, rights, and control over their lives—and with the world stopping the machinery of death that has turned Gaza into rubble.

And if anyone wants to build something in Gaza, the first construction should not be a resort. It should be a guarantee:

• that Palestinians can return

• that property rights will be honored

• that graves will be protected

• that monuments and history will be respected

• that the people who suffered most will decide what comes next

Anything less is just colonization with nicer fonts.

Why Kushner cannot be the voice of Gaza’s future

Jared Kushner is not neutral. He is not a Palestinian. He is not from Gaza. He is not accountable to Gazans in any democratic way.

He is an open Zionist presenting plans for Palestinian land after a genocide—without Palestinians.

That is not peace. That is not “help.” That is domination.

And it’s also strategic: if you can get the world talking about “New Gaza,” you can get the world to stop talking about what happened to Old Gaza. You can get the world to stop talking about accountability. You can get the world to stop talking about the rights that were stolen and the lives that were erased.

Mosab’s question sits like a stone in the gut, and it should:

“Who gave you permission to plan?”

Exactly.

No Gaza without Gazans.
No “peace board” without the people.
No rebuilding without rights.
No future without justice.

Let me tell you why this “New Gaza” plan is not just insulting. It’s dangerous.

Because it isn’t simply a “bad proposal.” It’s a blueprint for permanent control. It’s a blueprint for permanent displacement. It’s a blueprint for turning a people into a labor force and a problem to be managed—while the land becomes a product.

And if you’ve ever studied colonial projects, you recognize the pattern instantly:

1. Destroy a place.

2. Declare it “unworkable.”

3. Replace the people’s rights with “development.”

4. Replace their history with “new.”

5. Replace their sovereignty with “oversight.”

6. Invite investors.

7. Call it peace.

That’s exactly what this is.

“New Gaza” is not a name. It’s an erasure.

I need you to sit with that word: new.

Nobody calls Manhattan “New Manhattan.”
Nobody calls Paris “New Paris.”
Nobody calls Jerusalem “New Jerusalem.”

You only “new” a place when you’re treating it like it can be wiped and rewritten. When you’re treating the existing people and history as disposable.

Gaza is not a blank slate. Gaza is thousands of years old. Gaza has layered civilizations, families, graves, mosques, churches, cemeteries, neighborhoods where generations were born and raised and buried. Gaza’s coastline is not a development strip. It’s where people have lived, fished, prayed, married, cried, and survived.

And now—after two years of genocide—Gaza is also something else: a burial ground.

So when I see a slide that labels a “coastal tourism” zone long enough for “180 towers,” I hear the same thing Mosab Abu Toha heard:

“How dare you design buildings on our land, in place of, or atop the ruins of, our homes?”

That’s not rhetoric. That’s the moral core.

Because “planning” without consent, without rights, without restitution, without return, is not planning. It’s claiming.

The plan’s biggest omission isn’t accidental. It’s the whole point: Palestinian rights.

Multiple reports acknowledge what this presentation does not address:

• property rights

• compensation

• where displaced Palestinians live while rebuilding happens

• how demining and unexploded ordnance will be handled

• how graves and mass graves will be protected

• what happens to the people in the meantime

Family, that’s not a missing paragraph. That’s the whole moral universe.

When someone offers you a “master plan” for your land but refuses to discuss your rights, they’re telling you everything you need to know: the plan is not built for you. It’s built over you.

And here’s the most disgusting part: while they refuse to address rights, they’re very clear about investment.

They talk about “amazing investment opportunities.” They talk about private-sector conferences. They zone Gaza into neat buckets—tourism, industry, data centers, logistics—like it’s a portfolio.

It’s not a portfolio. It’s people.

“No Plan B” is not confidence. It’s colonial arrogance.

Kushner reportedly said: “We have a masterplan… There is no Plan B.”

That line is a confession.

Because in any real humanitarian reconstruction, there are always contingencies. There is always humility. There is always respect for the fact that you are dealing with human beings who have agency and trauma and grief.

“No Plan B” only makes sense if you assume you can impose Plan A.

And that’s why Mosab’s question is the most important question on the entire internet this week:

“Who the hell gave you the permission to ‘plan’?”

That’s the whole case.

Permission does not come from Davos.
Permission does not come from billionaires.
Permission does not come from a U.S. president’s son-in-law.
Permission comes from the people who live there.

Tourism zoning on the coast is not “development.” It’s displacement by spreadsheet.

This is where I want to be especially clear, because some people genuinely don’t understand how these plans function.

When you draw a tourism zone along the coastline—where huge numbers of displaced families are currently sheltering—you are not drawing hotels. You are drawing where the people will not be allowed to stay.

When you designate “New Gaza” as industry and “full employment,” you are not offering dignity. You’re offering a future where Palestinians become a managed workforce in a system they do not own.

And when you place the first phase in Rafah—an area under Israeli military control—you are not starting with what’s most urgent. You are starting with what’s most controllable.

That is how colonization works: begin where you already hold power, then expand.

They’re selling “peace” while Israel is still killing people.

Let’s talk about the timing.

This plan was presented while Palestinians are still dying. Even in the basic reporting around the Davos event, the reality is there: Israeli fire continues. Airstrikes continue. Artillery continues. The ceasefire is repeatedly frayed and violated. People are still being displaced and shot at and buried.

So the question isn’t “Do you like the skyscrapers?”
The question is: How dare you sell real estate while the killing continues?

You don’t build a skyline over an active crime scene and call it hope.

You stop the crime.
You protect the survivors.
You recover the dead.
You restore rights.
You pursue accountability.

Then—and only then—do you rebuild.

Mosab said it in the simplest, most human way:

“Peace cannot be imposed while our land is occupied, our lives controlled, and our voices ignored.”

Exactly.

A real plan would start with the opposite of what Kushner did

Let me show you what a morally serious plan would look like, in plain language:

It would begin by saying: Palestinians decide.
It would begin by saying: return is non-negotiable.
It would begin by saying: property rights will be documented, honored, and compensated.
It would begin by saying: graves and mass graves will be protected and investigated.
It would begin by saying: the siege ends, the crossings open, and heavy machinery enters for recovery and clearing.
It would begin by saying: international law matters, and war crimes will be investigated.
It would begin by saying: rebuilding serves the people who lived there—not investors looking for “opportunities.”

That would be a plan rooted in dignity.

This one is rooted in domination.

And yes—UNRWA being sidelined is part of the same project

In the reporting, Kushner’s language strongly suggests replacing or sidelining UNRWA by studying “best practices” and treating services like some interchangeable “IP” that can be outsourced.

But UNRWA is not a vibe. It’s a lifeline. It provides education and healthcare and basic services to a population that has been deliberately impoverished and repeatedly displaced.

So when you see UNRWA being erased from the conversation while Israel is simultaneously bulldozing UNRWA premises and attacking the agency’s legitimacy, you should recognize the coordinated outcome:

Erase the institutions that preserve Palestinian refugee identity.
Replace them with “new governance” and contractor “delivery.”
Strip the people of international protections.
Then market the land.

That is not paranoia. That is pattern recognition.

This “Board of Peace” is the empire trying to replace the U.N. with a pay-to-play club.

The “Board of Peace” itself has already been described as controversial and as designed to undermine or replace multilateral systems. Some U.S. allies reportedly refused to join for that reason.

And that matters because it tells you the “peace” language is cover for something else: control without accountability.

If you build a new “board” you can chair, you don’t have to answer to U.N. principles. You don’t have to answer to international law. You don’t have to answer to the people. You answer to donors, investors, allies, and your own political needs.

That’s why this feels so colonial. Because it is.

My red line is simple.

Gaza belongs to Palestinians.

Not to Jared Kushner.
Not to Donald Trump.
Not to a “Board of Peace.”
Not to investors and developers and consultants.
Not to anyone who helped enable Gaza’s destruction.

And let me say it again because it matters:

Only Palestinians from Gaza should be making these plans—or anyone they designate to support them.

Anything else is evil colonialism.

Period.

I want to end by returning to Mosab Abu Toha, because his words are the moral compass here:

“Leave Gaza alone.”
“Stop supporting those who oppress us and murder our people.”
“Is there any PLAN to hold Israel accountable for its war crimes? Such a plan would be the first step to achieve PEACE and justice.”

That’s the truth.

So I’m asking you to do something with this. Don’t treat it like content. Don’t treat it like politics. Treat it like a line being drawn in public.

If the world accepts this—if the world nods along as Gaza is rezoned into hotels and data centers without Gazans—then we are watching colonialism rebrand itself in real time.

And if the world rejects it—loudly, relentlessly—then the empire learns something it hates: Palestinians are not disposable, and their land is not for sale.

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If someone destroyed your home and then tried to “plan” your future without you, what would you call it—and what would you do?

Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun