How About War Crimes As A Business Model? BCG And The Gaza Grift

Boston Consulting Group, Orbis & Their Private Equity Backers Built A Profitable New Frontier In “Humanitarian” Exploitation

While Gaza’s been burning, the Boston Consulting Group was running spreadsheets on depopulating the Strip. The Financial Times broke the news this afternoon.

Turns out BCG— yes, the prestigious consulting firm that advises Fortune 500 companies on how to squeeze more profit out of misery— was quietly modeling the cost of mass “relocation” of Palestinians from Gaza. Their internal number? $5 billion to push out over half a million people, at $9,000 a head. Ethnic cleansing, rebranded as a budgeting exercise.

They codenamed the project Aurora— a name with Disney vibes masking an ethnic cleansing horror show. It was part of their seven-month involvement in the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an Orwellian operation backed by Netanyahu and Señor TACO, staffed by private contractors and guarded by the IDF. Humanitarian groups refused to touch it. The UN called it a “fig leaf” for Israel’s war aims. Since GHF started operating, hundreds of Palestinians have been killed trying to reach its distant, militarized “aid” sites.

One of the key puppet-masters behind this “humanitarian” theater was Orbis, a shady Washington-area security contractor with deep ties to U.S. intelligence. Originally, reported Stephen Foley, Orbis hired BCG to do a “feasibility study,” which quickly turned into full-blown business planning for Safe Reach Solutions, a private army-for-hire masquerading as logistics support. Orbis was working on behalf of an Israeli think tank and was owned by McNally Capital, a Chicago private equity firm that took a stake in the operation and guaranteed BCG’s fee.

Helping run this cynical circus was Phil Reilly, an ex-CIA operative who used to advise BCG and just happened to found SRS once the plan was far enough along. His buddies at BCG’s defense practice— now fired— kept the wheels turning while Reilly switched roles from “advisor” to “client.”

Exposed, BCG now claims it had no idea what it was really involved in. They fired two partners and insist they were misled. But multiple senior BCG leaders— its chief risk officer, the head of social impact, and others— were looped in. They approved travel, signed off on new project codes, and funneled millions in resources into the effort. They weren’t just helping build a fake charity. They helped design a parallel “humanitarian” infrastructure, with private security and no accountability, built to serve geopolitical goals, not human lives.

The U.S. government threw $30 million at this Frankenstein operation last week. Private equity made a profit. The “consultants” collected their fees. And 400 people are dead. BCG says they’ve launched an “independent investigation.” I suspect they will not be launching a moral reckoning. By the way, it seems inevitable that wars lead to stuff like this.