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%%Meet Joseph Pelzman.%%    Excerpts link to full below.  
  
GWU, FIRE JOSEPH PELZMAN - ARCHITECT OF GENOCIDE

The George Washington University

In July of 2024, GWU Professor Joseph Pelzman authored "\*An Economic Plan for Rebuilding Gaza\*", a proposal to complete the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. The plan, written for and adopted by the Trump administration, has been described by the U.N. as an act of ethnic cleansing illegal under national law. In it, Pelzman implies Israel – which has already destroyed 60% of the buildings in Gaza – should have "carpet bomb\[ed\]" Gaza and refers to the 62,000 Palestinians killed by Israel only as "lost human capital". He goes on to propose the expulsion of all Palestinian from Gaza and the destruction of all remaining structures in the strip, which would then be turned over to "foreign investors". Pelzman's disturbing fantasy of "destroy\[ing\]" the whole of Gaza stems from the same Islamophobia that motivated him to call Islam a "disease" on a twitter account which publicly ties him to GW, later retweeting "fuck palestine", "fuck islam". Multiple peer reviewed journal articles describe the racism of Pelzman's earlier works.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/gwu-fire-joseph-pelzman-architect-of-genocide  
  
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%%"SJP calls on GW to fire economics professor linked to Trump’s Gaza redevelopment plan"%%
  
"Pelzman teaches five economics classes at GW and has taught at universities like Renmin University in Beijing, Ben Gurion University of the Negev and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has done consulting work for U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank and the Department of Labor, according to his resume."  
  
"They said the University will not be able to “sweep” Pelzman’s involvement “under the rug,” and SJP will continue to protest until officials fire Pelzman."  
  
"The representative said Pelzman has not faced any consequences for his economic proposal while GW’s response to students protesting the University’s investment in companies with ties to Israel has been “political repression.”

“They have repressed and brutalized and arrested students for protesting against genocide and yet are continuing to allow a literal architect of genocide to continue to teach at this University,” the representative said."  
  
"Pelzman’s paper rejects the “outdated” and “unsuccessful” policy that the United States has carried out so far in Gaza after Hamas took political control in 2007, which includes providing humanitarian assistance to Gaza and advocating for a two-state solution, which proposes creating an independent Palestinian state alongside an Israeli state.

Pelzman wrote in the paper that the U.S. forced Israel to take on a policy of “occasional ping-pong battles” and “appeasing” Hamas with Qatari money, instead of carpet-bombing Gaza and “eliminating the danger” from the territory.

“The Biden-Harris-Blinken people were stuck in the Washington census which has not worked for the past 100 years and will never work in the future,” Pelzman said in an email.

He continued in his paper that Gaza’s economy is struggling and that the destruction in Gaza has been so extensive during the war that it is beyond repair or reconstruction."  
  
"He continued in his paper that Gaza’s economy is struggling and that the destruction in Gaza has been so extensive during the war that it is beyond repair or reconstruction.

He wrote that the first step to rebuilding Gaza requires the elimination of the “underground military infrastructure” in Gaza, referring to a network of underground tunnels created by Hamas, and the creation of a 3.0 to 5.0-kilometer area along the borders of Israel and Egypt, similar to the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.

Pelzman called for “foreign investors” to develop three sectors in Gaza — tourism, agriculture and technology — to address the region’s economic turmoil, which he said is due to Hamas’ control over Gaza following Israel’s unilateral withdrawal in 2005.

Pelzman wrote in his proposal that these investors would provide funding to help reconstruct Gaza and would receive equity shares in exchange for a limited 50- to 100-year lease. He said investors would establish a “robust civil administration” after completing the lease and would then address the sovereignty of Gaza.

He said the selection of specific investors is outside the scope of his paper and declined to comment on which countries would be foreign investors.

“With respect to an exclusion list of foreign investors, I think it is obvious that it cannot include any parties who have contributed to the current crisis, including the Muslim Brotherhood, its sponsor Qatar or Iran,” Pelzman said in an email.  
  
“With respect to an exclusion list of foreign investors, I think it is obvious that it cannot include any parties who have contributed to the current crisis, including the Muslim Brotherhood, its sponsor Qatar or Iran,” Pelzman said in an email.

Pelzman wrote in his paper that Gaza needs a revitalized education system reformed through United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabian curriculums and staffed by international educators based on the Singapore International Baccalaureate model, which is a two-year program for high school students based on a global curriculum.

“The objective function of this education system is to “denazify” the education system in Gaza, similar to how it was done in Germany after World War II,” Pelzman said in an email. “The curriculum will be taken from Muslim countries like the UAE and Saudi Arabia, which remove all forms of antisemitism, anti-Israel bias and anti-Christian bias.”  
  
https://gwhatchet.com/2025/02/27/sjp-calls-on-gw-to-fire-economics-professor-linked-to-trumps-gaza-redevelopment-plan/

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