Trump’s Gaza Plan is a White Supremacist Agenda, and the Homeland is Next

President Donald Trump’s plan for America to “take over” the Gaza Strip and “permanently” resettle Palestinians elsewhere in Egypt and Jordan – widely criticised as a form of genocidal ethnic cleansing including by UN Secretary-general Antonio Guterres — does not come out of the blue.

It begins to make more sense when we realise that the plan is part and parcel of a broader white supremacist agenda being pursued by Trump’s State Department.

Trump’s 2025 foreign policy agenda is headed up by his new Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, a former Florida Senator who has sponsored and elevated white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

“As @POTUS shared today, the United States stands ready to lead and Make Gaza Beautiful Again”, Rubio posted to X. “Our pursuit is one of lasting peace in the region for all people.” He later walked back the idea, declaring that the proposal to resettle Gazans would be an “interim” arrangement while Gaza was under reconstruction. 

Last year, the America 2100 think-tank founded by Marco Rubio’s former chief of staff to promote Rubio’s political ideas, hired white supremacist Nate Hochman as an advisor and frontman for a series of new videos.

Hochman had previously been sacked by Florida Governor Ron de Santis for using neo-Nazi imagery in a campaign video. The video displayed DeSantis victoriously against the backdrop of marching soldiers and a Sonnenrad symbol, a Norse icon that was adopted by the Nazi Party, the Nazi SS and neo-Nazi movements.

Hochman also previously appeared in a conversation with Nazi sympathiser and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, when he praised him for his influence on young men. 

Rubio’s ties with white supremacists are also far more direct. Just two years before Hochman was fronting videos for the America 2100 think-tank, the Florida Republican Party was paying $10,000 to Christopher Monzon — an associate of the white supremacist Proud Boys — who was canvassing in support of the Rubio campaign.

Monzon, however, had a long and well-documented history of antisemitism and anti-black racism, using the ‘n’ word and describing “all Jews” as a “cancer on the face of the earth”. 

Monzon drew significant media attention after claiming at a Proud Boys rally that he had been attacked for political reasons while canvassing on behalf of Rubio, contradicting police records showing that he had not described the attack as political at the time. Despite this, Rubio had publicly defended Monzon.

The Proud Boys is identified by the FBI as an “extremist group with ties to white nationalism”. It has also been designated a terrorist organisation by the governments of Canada and New Zealand. The group has a history of antisemitism but has also been involved in anti-Palestinian activism. 

Its founder, Gavin McInnes, is an antisemite who in 2017 created a video for Rebel Media called “10 things I hate about Jews”, where he defended far-right Holocaust denial, blamed Jews for the Soviet Union’s starvation of millions of Ukrainians, and complained that Jews have a “whiny paranoid fear of Nazis”. Last year, McInnes attempted to enter and disrupt the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University but was denied access.

Trump’s Gaza plan remains in doubt as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt further denied that the plan would involve US government funds or troops.

Despite the contradictions in the white nationalist sentiments behind Trump’s new foreign policy agenda, these ties reveal how antisemitic white supremacists are revelling in Israel’s war on Gaza and the idea of barring Palestinians from returning to their homes. Despite their antisemitic views, they see Israel’s war as a display of ethnic violence that should be emulated in the American homeland against immigrations, minority groups, and the left.

The influence of white supremacist ideology on the Trump White House is now unmistakable. But this is why Trump’s Gaza plan — as lacking in substance as it seems — dovetails with his actions at home. 

Following through with what was promised in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 plans, Trump is actively dismantling key structures across the US government designed to implement decades of civil rights legislation to protect minorities from discrimination. This has included shutting down the Department of Justice’s civil rights division.

Meanwhile, more than 1,500 criminal insurrectionists — including Proud Boys members — have been pardoned by Trump in a clear signal that white supremacist paramilitary violence in the homeland to support the Republican agenda is legitimate. 

This has emboldened white supremacist groups across the US, with neo-Nazi activists feeling energised by the back-to-back Nazi salutes performed by Elon Musk.

Most disturbing of all is the threat of violence in the homeland against political opponents. Project 2025 proposed that Trump should use the Insurrection Act to authorise deploying US troops on US soil.

Peter Hegseth, Trump’s defence secretary — who complained that black people are being promoted in the US military due to their race — has railed against democracy, and given credence to “cultural Marxism”, the antisemitic theory that liberal Jews are fighting a culture war to undermine Western civilisation. He has also repeatedly focused on the idea of the need to wage “war” on American liberals.

All of which goes to say that the casual decision to rubber stamp the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza is part of a broader racist endeavour with longstanding roots in US white supremacist movements that Trump is systematically elevating in the homeland.

Nafeez Ahmed is the author of ALT REICH: THE NETWORK WAR TO DESTROY THE WEST FROM WITHIN