Three years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Palestinian human rights lawyer and legal scholar Noura Erakat argues that Donald Trump’s Board of Peace is about more than Gaza: it’s a blueprint for a new world order.
Drop Site’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous speaks with Erakat, a professor at Rutgers University, about her Boston Review essay, “Exit and Exception.” Erakat argues that the Board of Peace matters less for whether it succeeds than for what it reveals: a political project, driven by market fundamentalists and a tech elite, to exit international law and popular democracy altogether. She traces that project from the charter cities and special economic zones championed by figures like Peter Thiel to Gaza, which the Board’s charter designates as a special economic zone and where Palestinians are described as “Gazans” rather than a people with a right to self-determination.
Israel, she argues, has long been the model, claiming that Palestine is a legal exception where the rules that apply everywhere else do not. Erakat also traces the Board’s roots in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose militarized aid sites became death traps for starving Palestinians.
She also describes her arrest last month at a Palm Beach County public hearing, where she came to testify against the county’s more than $1 billion investment in Israel bonds.
Read “Exit and Exception” in Boston Review here.
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