FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 21, 2025
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Washington, D.C. | The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) condemns Israel’s weekend airstrikes that torpedoed the ceasefire brokered by President Trump and killed dozens of Palestinians.
ADC rejects the rollout of a U.S.-led Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) as a substitute for accountability or an end to occupation. Vice President JD Vance, Jared Kushner, and Steve Witkoff offered no path to ending Israel’s military rule or to disarmament—only threats of “obliteration” and vague promises of an “international stabilization force” with “no U.S. boots.” Calling the United States “the only real mediator” makes clear what this framework is designed to do: entrench control, not deliver justice.
We categorically oppose Mr. Kushner’s proposal to rebuild only the parts of Gaza the Israeli military currently holds—the so-called “new Gaza.” Partitioned reconstruction would reward occupation, harden the IDF’s new concrete-marked “yellow line,” and convert a “temporary” carve-up into a permanent regime of segregation. With vast swaths of Gaza reduced to rubble and tens of millions of tons of debris to clear, selective rebuilding is not “pragmatic”—it is punitive. Palestinians must not be told that their homes will be rebuilt only if they live on the right side of Israel’s line.
ADC’s position is clear: honor the ceasefire in full and end Israeli strikes, raids, and collective punishment; open Rafah immediately so the UN and humanitarian agencies can deliver unimpeded aid; rebuild all of Gaza swiftly and completely, without conditioning reconstruction on IDF control or carving a “new Gaza” behind concrete markers; end U.S. weapons transfers and military aid to Israel because peace cannot survive an open arms pipeline; and restore Palestinian self-determination by ensuring Palestinians—not foreign envoys—decide their governing future.
Ceasefire means end the violence, end the blockade, rebuild every neighborhood, and restore Gaza to its people—not entrench occupation.