💼 The American Firm Planning to Send Palestinians to Somalia - Learn the Evils of the Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) built Gaza’s deadly aid system — and modeled how to profit from sending Palestinians to Somalia.

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🧠 The Consultants Behind the Genocide

It’s hard to describe the horror of this revelation plainly.

In early 2025, Boston Consulting Group — one of the most powerful and prestigious business consulting firms in the world — modeled a plan to relocate hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to Somalia.

The plan was detailed in a complex spreadsheet that projected the cost of removing Gaza’s civilians from their homeland, sending them to all over the world to countries like Somalia, Somaliland, Egypt, Jordan, and the UAE. Each nation was assigned a relocation cost per Palestinian. Some countries had lower costs than others. Rent. Food. Health care. Temporary housing. “Optional return.”

It was all there — line by line — as if human displacement was just a matter of logistics. It’s like they weren’t talking about people, but data…numbers on a screen. Not human beings with families and culture and history.

BCG’s model was circulated to U.S. officials and Middle Eastern governments. And at its core was one estimate: 25% of Gaza’s population — more than 500,000 people — would agree to leave and most would never return.

“By accepting the Gazans who relocate temporarily and voluntarily, a country will get an injection of population that will have an economic benefit that clearly could be significant,”
— Person familiar with BCG’s internal modeling, via Financial Times

This wasn’t a backroom plan. It was a polished document prepared by America’s top corporate strategists — delivered to help realize the Trump administration’s dream of turning Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East.”

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🔥 What BCG Actually Did

Boston Consulting Group wasn’t a bystander. It wasn’t even just a vendor. It was an architect. Here’s what we now know:

• BCG helped design the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) — the U.S.- and Israeli-backed aid scheme now responsible for the deaths of nearly 2,000 Palestinians in less than two months.

• They worked “closely with Israeli officials” and U.S. security firms to plan and launch the system, which replaces the UN aid model with militarized, U.S.-staffed distribution zones.

• Their team created the full GHF logistics plan, financial model, risk assessments, private contractor chain, and oversaw the construction of the first four sites.

Then, they went further.

• BCG consultants created internal plans for “humanitarian transition areas” — compounds where Gazans would be relocated and issued ID cards to access food. Critics called them concentration camps.

• Finally, they built the spreadsheet modeling the relocation of Palestinians to African and Arab countries, estimating $4.7 billion in economic gains for host nations that “absorbed” the expelled.

Let’s call it what it is:
Ethnic cleansing modeled as economic development.

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🏥 “A Death Trap Disguised as Aid”

When GHF launched in March, after an 11-week total aid blockade of Gaza, the first week alone saw over 200 Palestinians killed while seeking food at distribution sites.

Since then, the toll has surpassed nearly 2,000 civilians killed and thousands more wounded, most of them around GHF's militarized aid zones.

The United Nations, MSF, Amnesty International, and Save the Children have all refused to participate in GHF, calling it:

• “Militarized aid”

• “A grotesque theatre of cruelty”

• “A violation of humanitarian neutrality”

• “Part of Israel’s war strategy”

One senior UN official described the aid zones simply:

“Death traps.”

And Boston Consulting Group helped build them.

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✂️ Internal Revolt and Mass Resignations

The backlash didn’t just come from outside.

A group of BCG employees, horrified by what they had learned, wrote an internal letter to the company’s senior leadership:

“BCG risks complicity in human rights abuses… Hold to account all those who dragged BCG into this unenviable situation.”

The pressure worked. In June, BCG finally pulled out of the project. They fired the partners involved and issued a public apology — saying the work was “unauthorized,” done “in secret,” and billed as “business development.”

But the damage was already done. The plans were already circulated. The GHF was already operational. And people were already dying.

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🚨 Save the Children Cut Ties With BCG Entirely

On July 8, 2025, Save the Children International — one of the world’s most respected humanitarian groups — announced it was severing its 20-year relationship with Boston Consulting Group.

The group had worked closely with BCG since 2006. BCG employees had served on their boards, shaped their digital infrastructure, and helped lead internal reform.

Now? It’s over.

“Utterly unacceptable… Devoid of humanity… Disregards fundamental rights and dignity.”
— Save the Children CEO Inger Ashing

The decision came after it was revealed that BCG had created models comparing the cost of displacing Palestinians versus the cost of rebuilding Gaza — as if dispossession and demolition were just two items on a consulting whiteboard.

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⚖️ This Is Ethnic Cleansing

Let’s be clear:
Forced population transfer across international borders — whether done by gunpoint or under economic duress — is a war crime.

Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, it constitutes a crime against humanity.

Under customary international law, it is called ethnic cleansing.

And when it's built, costed, approved, and proposed by a for-profit consulting firm — whose other clients include the World Bank, Gavi, the WHO, and the Gates Foundation — it becomes a story not just of war, but of corporate complicity.

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🧠 A Culture of Sanitized Brutality

BCG wasn’t alone. They were part of an entire world of “smart” people, using data to justify horror.

Their role in this genocide is no different than IBM helping Nazi Germany track Jews with punch cards. Or banks helping apartheid South Africa bypass sanctions. Or tech companies selling surveillance software to the dictators around the world.

Every genocide has planners.
And every genocide has collaborators in suits.

The only difference now is: the spreadsheet was cleaner. The branding was slicker. And the war crime wore a navy blazer.

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