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<span><a href="https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/ Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist"> Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist</a></span>
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of the UN Security Council raise their hands to vote in favour of a
draft resolution to authorise an international stabilisation force in
Gaza, on November 17, 2025 at UN headquarters in New York City [AFP]</div>
<div class="gmail-clearfix gmail-text-formatted gmail-field gmail-field--name-body gmail-field--type-text-with-summary gmail-field--label-hidden gmail-field__item"><p><em>By
approving a U.S. "peace plan" that legitimizes genocide and ends the
right to resist, the United Nations Security Council has not just failed
Palestine\u2014it has actively consolidated a new era of global fascism.</em></p>
<p dir="ltr"><em><strong>A Day That Will Live in Infamy</strong></em> </p>
<p dir="ltr">A few days into the massive revenge attack by Israel on the
Palestinian population in Gaza after the October 7th military action of
the Palestinian anti-colonial resistance, the Colombian President
Gustavo Petro warned that the Israeli-led and U.S.-supported genocidal
attack on Gaza represented the global rise of fascism. \u201cGaza,\u201d he<a href="https://bdsmovement.net/news/un-security-council-shamefully-votes-endorse-illegal-and-colonial-trump-netanyahu-plan-gaza" rel="nofollow noopener" class="ext" target="_blank" title="(opens in a new window)"> alerted</a>, "is just the first experiment in considering us all disposable\u201d and in bringing in a \u201cmight-makes-right era.\u201d </p>
<p dir="ltr">Two years later, the morally obscene and legally dubious
vote by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on November 18
approved the Trump Administration\u2019s pseudo-peace plan that effectively
transfers the administration and occupation responsibilities of
colonized and occupied Palestine to the U.S. and Israel, can only be
understood as a corruption of the United Nations Charter and the
concrete manifestation of the successful consolidation of U.S. led
fascist power internationally.</p>
<p dir="ltr">On a vote of thirteen in favor with two abstentions from
China and Russia, the UNSC continued the fiction that the so-called
Trump peace plan advanced by the U.S., a nation that at minimum is
guilty of complicity with genocide, represented a serious and credible
attempt to bring about a resolution of the Palestinian national
question. </p>
<p dir="ltr"> In reality, however, the UNSC resolution firmly places the
UN on the side of the Israeli/U.S. colonial project, violating all
preceding resolutions, actions and legal interpretations that
delegitimized colonialism in general but also specifically supported the
legitimate right of Palestinians to resist colonization, including with
arms. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The right to engage in anti-colonial struggle and for
national self-determination are theoretically prescribed rights under
international law, and various United Nations resolutions from both the
General Assembly and the Security Council. Those rights are not
negotiable and cannot be redefined or surrendered as a result of a vote
by the UNSC. Yet, that is precisely what happened.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The plan requires that Palestinians in Gaza surrender their
right to resist colonial domination and self-determination.
Objectively, it amounts to a declaration of war on Palestinian
nationhood and a physical war against the Palestinian resistance. But
even more ominously for the peoples of the global South, the resolution
legitimizes and normalizes genocide as an acceptable response to
anti-colonial resistance.</p>
<p dir="ltr">According to this \u201cpeace plan,\u201d two million Palestinians
are supposed to submit to living in concentration camps on less than
half the land mass they were originally confined to in Gaza before the
Israeli attack. Moreover, they are also supposed to submit to the
indignity of a foreign-imposed occupation force with the Orwellian
nomenclature of an \u201cInternational Stabilization Force\u201d under the joint
domination of the white supremacist U.S. and Israel settler-colonial
states.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Compounding the moral and legal outrageousness of this
\u201cpeace plan\u201d is the fact that it was advanced by the U.S., which is
clearly complicit in the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza and the ethnic
cleansing of the West Bank. Despite the claim by the U.S. president
that his plan is supposed to bring peace and eventually a Palestinian
state, the reality is that the intercession of the UNSC resolution
legitimizing the UN\u2019s alignment with the continuation of the oppression
and colonial occupation of Palestine and its people, only re-normalized
colonial genocidal practices. These same practices created all the white
supremacist settler states and the European colonial projects in
general.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The historical analogy of this vote would be if the UNSC
had come down on the side of the white colonialist Afrikaners in South
Africa, legitimized an interventionist force to suppress the Africans,
and conferred a colonial mandate to rule over the colonized African
indigenous majority.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So, is it<a href="https://bdsmovement.net/news/un-security-council-shamefully-votes-endorse-illegal-and-colonial-trump-netanyahu-plan-gaza" rel="nofollow noopener" class="ext" target="_blank" title="(opens in a new window)"> really hyperbole</a>
to argue that the US-Israeli plan has nullified the Genocide
Convention, the Apartheid Convention, the Geneva Conventions, opinions
of the International Court of Justice and all the UN resolutions on
Palestine? I don\u2019t think so.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Up until the UNSC vote, these international instruments and provisions conferred<a href="https://bdsmovement.net/news/palestinian-civil-society-reacts-trump-netanyahu-genocidal-plan" rel="nofollow noopener" class="ext" target="_blank" title="(opens in a new window)"> stringent legal obligations</a> for all States vis-ŕ-vis Palestine. </p>
<p dir="ltr">In July 2024, the International Court of Justice <a href="https://www.icj-cij.org/case/186" rel="nofollow noopener" class="ext" target="_blank" title="(opens in a new window)">ruled</a>
that \u201cIsrael\u2019s entire presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
was unlawful, constituted apartheid, and must be brought to an end.
States, it said, have an urgent legal obligation to neither recognize
nor support this illegal regime, to end their complicity with it, and to
act to dismantle it, as subsequently affirmed by the <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/09/1154496" rel="nofollow noopener" class="ext" target="_blank" title="(opens in a new window)">UNGA Resolution on 19 Sep 2024</a>, as was done to South Africa\u2019s apartheid regime.\u201d</p>
<p dir="ltr">Yet, instead of dismantling apartheid and adhering to
international law, the UNSC resolution placed the entire United Nations
on the side of apartheid, colonialism, and state terror.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Comments from the Russian and Chinese representative<a href="https://bdsmovement.net/news/un-security-council-shamefully-votes-endorse-illegal-and-colonial-trump-netanyahu-plan-gaza" rel="nofollow noopener" class="ext" target="_blank" title="(opens in a new window)">s</a>
during the debate on the UNSC made it clear that the UNSC resolution
would strip away the protections and basis for international legal
support for Palestine and turn the Palestinian people over to their
racist, fascist tormentors in Israel and the U.S. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Yet, \u201cNot a single member of the Council had the courage,
principle, or respect for international law to vote against this
US-Israel colonial outrage,\u201d <a href="https://x.com/CraigMokhiber/status/1990543276479513012" rel="nofollow noopener" class="ext" target="_blank" title="(opens in a new window)">said </a>former senior UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>People(s)-Centered Struggles for Human Rights Must Be Counter to Fascist Takeover of International Institutions</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">The UNSC revealed two important elements. It stripped away
the veneer of respectability and obscurantism that obfuscated the
post-war agenda of the U.S. to rehabilitate the Western colonial
project, but under the hegemony of the U.S. and secondly, it
dramatically revealed the political corruption and inherent limitations
of a legal and moral order structured by states representing a
colonial/capitalist order born out of state violence, systematic
oppression sustained by capitalist oligarchical totalitarian rule posing
as democracy since the end of the second imperialist war in 1945. </p>
<p dir="ltr">But what this vote also reaffirms, with the open
abandonment of the pretense of any commitment to liberalism, the rule of
law and the equal value of human beings, is that the U.S. and Israel
are in the forefront of escorting the world into a new era of global
fascism.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Fascism was always a normalized practice of white
supremacist colonial and neo-colonial governance in the colonized global
South. In those spaces, degradation and dehumanization of the colonized
peoples were commonplace and drove the extractivist objectives of the
colonial practices. However, as a form of colonial/capitalist bourgeois
rule, fascism ended up being transferred back to the Northern metropoles
as a structural reform movement in response to the capitalist crisis,
first in the 1930s by Mussolini in Italy and the German Nazis and today
as a bipartisan, intra-bourgeois political movement in the U.S. that has
taken on a global character. </p>
<p dir="ltr">The depth of the current crisis that began in 2007-8 has
intensified over the last few years, resulting in a number of political
changes. Those include the complete abandonment of any commitment to the
ideas and values of liberalism and the liberal global structures
produced by the U.S. at the conclusion of the second imperialist war
that ended in 1945.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Neofascism has consolidated its grip on most of the
post-war international institutions, with the takeover of the Security
Council being the latest and probably most significant. The agenda of
war, state terrorism, dominance and degradation of peoples, nations and
the planet that is at the center of the Western fascist project led by
the U.S. has emerged as hegemonic, despite the desperate belief in an
emerging multipolarity and still non-existent opposition from the BRICS+
+ process. Instead, we have officially entered a new era that can only
end with the destruction of this order, OR the further enslavement of
global humanity by an arrogant \u201cWest\u201d under the hegemony of the U.S. and
blind to the contradictory character of policies.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The battle for Palestine in many ways represents the end of
the old colonial/capitalist order and the potential beginning of a new
era of human liberation. The direction that history will go depends on
the will, vision, and confidence of the \u201cpeoples\u201d still in formation
globally. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Palestine will be free, but only if we are able in the
process of liberating Palestine, to liberate ourselves from the
collective nightmare of 1492.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><em><strong>Ajamu Baraka is an editor and contributing
columnist for the Black Agenda Report. He is the Director of the
North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights and serves on
the Executive Committee of the U.S. Peace Council and leadership body of
the U.S.-based United National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC).</strong></em></p>
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