I am writing in uncompromising condemnation of the United Nations Security Council’s Resolution 2803 establishing a so-called “trusteeship” over Gaza. This is not a humanitarian measure—it is colonial rule reintroduced in the 21st century and it is unlawful.
International law scholar Professor Ralph Wilde has made clear that this resolution revives the same colonial structures used in the old Mandate system, the trust territories, and the British Mandate in Palestine: foreign powers claiming to “temporarily administer” a people while in fact entrenching domination. Resolution 2803 simply replaces the colonial administrators of the past with new Western figures and repeats the same pattern of control through legal pretext.
The law is not ambiguous:
• The right to self-determination is a jus cogens norm.
It cannot be overridden by any state or Security Council resolution. No exception exists—not for Israel, not for the U.S., not for “stabilization,” and not for “transition.”
• Consent obtained during genocide, mass displacement, or military coercion is invalid.
Even if Palestinian representatives were pressured to accept trusteeship, such “agreements” are legally void.
• Invoking Hamas, terrorism, or Palestinian political division does not legalize foreign rule.
International law does not permit powerful states to suspend a people’s sovereignty because they dislike its governing authorities or resistance groups. Armed resistance—whether one supports it or not—does not erase a peremptory norm.
• “Security needs” do not permit colonization.
The ICJ has already ruled that Palestinians are entitled to self-rule simply because they are a people with that inherent right. No external conditions, prerequisites, or performance tests are lawful.
• The Security Council cannot legalize what international law forbids.
Any resolution that contradicts a peremptory norm is ultra vires—beyond the Council’s lawful authority—and therefore void.
Replacing an illegal occupation with a foreign “trusteeship” is not peacebuilding; it is colonial continuity dressed up as humanitarianism. Palestinians do not need a new administrator. They need an end to genocide, siege, and foreign control.
Therefore, I demand that you:
1. Publicly reject and condemn UNSC Resolution 2803 as unlawful and colonial.
2. Oppose all U.S. participation, funding, or recognition of the Gaza trusteeship.
3. Affirm that neither Hamas nor any armed group negates Palestine’s right to self-determination.
4. Call for an immediate end to Israel’s genocidal assault and for full, unconditional Palestinian sovereignty.
There are no more excuses. Either you stand with international law—or with a colonial project built on dispossession and illegality.
First sent on November 22 by BlueCollarJew
