Trump Administration must end all aid to Israel, enforce accountability, and reject Israel’s annexation Dear Email, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) condemns Israel for granting itself and settlers new “authorities,” further entrenching the occupation and making it easier to steal Palestinian land. These measures, which ease the sale of Palestinian land to Israeli settlers and extend Israeli administrative and enforcement into areas nominally under Palestinian control, constitute a grave escalation of Israel’s apartheid regime and amount to de facto annexation of occupied Palestinian territory. Israel’s new policies are deliberate steps to accelerate Israel’s land theft, ethnic cleansing, and permanent domination of Palestinians. Under international law, Israel is illegally occupying the West Bank, and neither the Israeli government nor Israeli settlers have any legal right to Palestinian land. Yet the Israeli security cabinet has removed internal prohibitions that blocked settlers from purchasing land in the occupied West Bank. This change now allows for private settler land seizures without the state first formally expropriating the Palestinian’s land, accelerating the pace at which Israelis steal the land from Palestinians.  Netanyahu’s administration also effectively erased the remaining distinctions between Areas A, B, and C, making it easier to impose Israeli administrative and security control over Palestinians, including in the West Bank’s largest cities. These measures directly empower settlers to steal Palestinian land and, in practice, carry out full annexation of the West Bank, even without a formal declaration. Israel’s decision also represents open defiance of the Trump administration. After symbolic annexation votes in the Israeli Knesset in summer of 2025, President Donald Trump publicly stated that annexation of the West Bank would not be allowed. Vice President JD Vance dismissed those votes as reckless, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that annexation would not receive U.S. support. Israel has now openly ignored those warnings, treating them as mere suggestions and moving forward with policies that achieve annexation in all but name. Netanyahu’s government has done so while the Trump administration continues to push for $3.8 billion in military aid to Israel. “These measures are another shameful step toward Israel’s complete annexation of the West Bank,” said Dr. Abu Irshaid. “But what’s even more shameful is that Israel is openly implementing annexation while the Trump administration responds with empty rhetoric and even rushes to provide Israel billions more in aid.” AMP calls on the Trump administration to stop being walked on by the Israeli government and to move beyond statements and take concrete action against Israel. First and foremost, the United States must name these measures for what they are: de facto annexation and a violation of international law. It must end its complicity by ending all aid to Israel, enforcing accountability, and rejecting Israel’s occupation and apartheid whole stop. Israel’s occupation is illegal. Its settlements are illegal. Its annexation project is illegal. Continued U.S. tolerance and enablement of these crimes is complicity, and history will judge it as such.
In solidarity,
American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) | 
