Why Trump sings from South Africa and accuses him of being anti-white and anti-American

Cape Town – the decision of the Trump administration of a We expel the South -African ambassador It is his last movement against a country he selected for sanctions and accused of being anti-white and anti-American.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio Posted on X that Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was “no longer welcome in our big country” and said he is “a race politician” who hates America and US President Donald Trump.

Rubio’s posting did not explain what was behind the decision, but about a story of the Conservative Breitbart News. The story reported about a discussion that Rasool offered on a webinar on Friday, where he said that Make America Great Again movement could be seen as a response to “a supremacistic instinct.”

Trump already had issued an executive order last month cutting all the financing to South Africa over some of his internal and foreign policies. The order criticized the South African government led by black on several fronts, saying that anti-white policies follow and supports “bad actors” in the world, as Palestinian militant group Hamas and Iran.

White Farmers of South Africa

A White minority group in South Africa It was a central goal for Trump.

Trump falsely accused the South -African government of A violation of rights against white Afrikani farmers by taking over their land through a new expropriation law. No land was confiscated and the South -African government has pushed it back, saying that American criticisms are determined by misinformation.

Trump administration references to Afrikaner people – who are descendants of the Dutch and other European colonists – also raised the previous statements made by Trump South African counselor Elon Musk And some conservative American commentators that the South -African government allows attacks on white farmers in what means genocide.

This has been challenged by experts from South Africa, who say there is no evidence that whites are targeted, although farmers in all races are victims of violent invasions at home in a country suffering from a very high crime rate.

South Africa land problem is extremely emotional, considering that more than 30 years after the end The apartheid system From the control of the white minority, the whites continue to have most of the good commercial lands, despite the fact that they constitute only 7% of the population. The South -African government says that the law of expropriation aims to address those historical inequalities, but it is not “a confiscation tool” and will target unused land.

Trump has offered Afrikaner Farmers refugee status in the US and a quick way to citizenship, but the groups say they want to stay in South Africa.

Israel-Hamas connections

Trump’s sanction in South Africa also quoted the country’s case at the United Nations Court Accusing him of the ally of Israel of genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.

During the arguments in this continuous and extremely controversial case, Israel accused South Africa of acting as a proxy for Hamas. Trump has repeated this, questioning the reasons for South Africa and accused her of an anti-American foreign policy supporting Hamas, Iran, China and Russia.

The post-apartheid government of South Africa a For a long time he has been a supporter of Palestinian causeReturning to Nelson Mandela, his first black president. Compare the treatment of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank with the experiences of the South -Black Africans who were limited to certain areas during the apartheid.

Rasool, the South -African ambassador, comes from a Muslim community in South Africa, which was a support center for Palestinians. The writer from Breitbart whose story was quoted by the senior Rubio-Redactor Joel Pollak-Sa was born in South Africa and is a Jew. His story threw him on Rasool as Hamas’s supporter.

Pollak has other connections with the situation of South Africa, after recently met with a lobbying group representing Afrikans. The media in South Africa has reported that Pollak is a competitor to be Trump’s choice for US ambassador to South Africa.

“Dei and climate change”

American criticism of South Africa had extended to this year’s 20 year presidency of 20a block of major economies that aims to bring together the developed and developing world. Rubio jumped a meeting of the G20 foreign ministers in South Africa last month and said he would boycott the G20 summit in South Africa in November.

He said he had a problem with the theme of South Africa for his G20 presidency, which is “solidarity, equality and durability”. Rubio, in a post on X, rejected it as “Dei (diversity, equity and inclusion) and climate change” and said he would not waste the taxpayers’ money.

Tensions during Biden Administration

The South -African government expressed the surprise for Trump’s sanctions and says he wants to fix his relationship With the US, “South Africa remains engaged in building a mutual beneficial relationship,” a statement of the South -African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Saturday, in response to Rasool’s expulsion.

But US-Africa’s ties were incorporated just before Trump. Biden administration Accusing South Africa of supporting Russia In the Ukraine war, while claiming a neutral position. As with the Palestinians, South Africa has historical connections with Russia, which has supported the fight against the apartheid.

While Ramaphosa repeatedly said he wants to engage in discussions with the Trump Administration, his African National Congress party was sometimes challenging. ANC recently invited the Iranian ambassador to the headquarters in Johannesburg and said he would not hide his friends.