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| Secretary of State Marco Rubio decides to disinvite South African ambassador because he saw a fake news website story. In reality, Rubio got a call from Israel. |
If Mexico and Canada decides to join the alliance of BRICS [Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa], the U.S. will lose out on trillions of dollars.
President Donald J. Trump and former president Joe Biden had feared this.
BRICS is moving towards incorporating other nations. It is driving them away from the U.S. and European Union. It could shake up the status quo.
And you can thank our special friendship with Israel.
Zionist Secretary of State Marco Rubio has revoked South African ambassador Ebrahim Rasoo at the behest of Israel.
Rubio said Friday that South Africa’s ambassador to the United States “is no longer welcome” in the country, in the latest Trump administration move targeting the African nation.
Rubio, in a post on X, accused Ebrahim Rasool of being a “race-baiting politician” who hates President Donald Trump. Rubio declared the South African diplomat “persona non grata.”
Ebrahim Rasool was born in 1962. He grew up in Cape Town to a Muslim family of mixed English-Javanese-Dutch-Indian heritage. Since he was classified as Coloured by the apartheid system, he faced a system of discrimination and violence.
When he was nine years old, he and his family were forcefully evicted from the area due to the government declaring the area a "Whites-only" residential suburb. His family relocated to Primose Park near Manenberg on the Cape Flats.
Neither Rubio, who posted as he was flying back to Washington from a Group of 7 foreign ministers meeting in Canada, nor the State Department gave any immediate explanation for the decision.
But Rubio linked to a story by the hoax website Breitbart about a talk Rasool gave earlier Friday as part of a South African think tank’s webinar in which he spoke about actions taken by the Trump administration in the context of a United States where white people soon would no longer be in the majority.
South Africa's Ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country.
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) March 14, 2025
Ebrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates @POTUS.
We have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered PERSONA NON GRATA.https://t.co/mnUnwGOQdx
Terrorist sympathizers are not welcome in the United States of America. Thank you @SecRubio and @POTUS for your leadership. Deport them all! https://t.co/Y7kYHR0i7I
— House Foreign Affairs Committee Majority (@HouseForeignGOP) March 7, 2025
Both Trump and his ally Elon Musk, who grew up in South Africa, have criticized the country’s Black-led government over a new land law they claim discriminates against white people.
It is a reparations initiative that ends Western backed investments in the exploitation of South African sovereignty. Many companies that have associations with the West often exploit minerals, poach animals and spread diseases.
South African government leaders vow to erase the European colonialism from its sovereignty. That's why Trump and Musk are upset.
It is highly unusual for the U.S. to expel a foreign ambassador, although lower-ranking diplomats are more frequently targeted with persona non grata status.
At the height of U.S.-Russia diplomatic expulsions during the Cold War and then again over Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, allegations of interference in the 2016 U.S. election and the 2018 poisoning of a former Russian intelligence officer in Britain, neither Washington nor Moscow saw fit to expel the respective ambassadors.
A statement from the office of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said it had “noted the regrettable expulsion” of Rasool and called on its diplomatic officials “to maintain the established diplomatic decorum in their engagement with the matter.”
“South Africa remains committed to building a mutually beneficial relationship with the United States of America,” the statement said.
Rasool previously served as his country’s ambassador to the U.S. from 2010 to 2015 before returning to the post in January.
As a child, he and his family were evicted from a Cape Town neighborhood designated for white people. Rasool became an anti-apartheid campaigner, serving time in prison for his activism and identifying as a comrade of the country’s first post-apartheid president, Nelson Mandela. He later became a politician in Mandela’s African National Congress political party.
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In Friday’s webinar, Rasool, speaking by videoconference, talked in academic language of the Trump administration’s crackdowns on diversity and equity programs and immigration.
“The supremacist assault on incumbency, we see it in the domestic politics of the U.S.A., the MAGA movement, the Make America Great Again movement, as a response not simply to a supremacist instinct, but to very clear data that shows great demographic shifts in the U.S.A. in which the voting electorate in the U.S.A. is projected to become 48% white,” the South African ambassador said,
He pointed to Musk’s outreach to far-right figures in Europe, calling it a “dog whistle” in a global movement trying to rally people who see themselves as part of an “embattled white community.”
Rasool made no pointed attack on Trump and instead offered tips for dealing with his administration, saying, “This is not a moment to antagonize the United States” and “Let’s avoid things that cock a snoot at the United States.”
His ouster comes after Trump signed an executive order that cut aid and assistance to the Black-led South African government. In the order, Trump said South Africa’s Afrikaners, who are descendants of mainly Dutch colonial settlers, were being targeted by a new law that allows the government to expropriate private land.
The South African government has denied its new law is tied to race and says Trump’s claims over the country and the law have been full of misinformation and distortions.
Trump said land was being expropriated from Afrikaners, when no land has been taken under the law.
The law allows the government to take land in specific instances where it is not being used, or where it would be in the public interest if it is redistributed. It aims to address some of the wrongs of South Africa’s racist apartheid era, when Black people had land taken away from them.
Trump also announced a plan to offer Afrikaners refugee status in the U.S. They are only one part of South Africa’s white minority.
Musk, who heads Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, has highlighted the land law in social media posts and cast it as a threat to South Africa’s white minority.
Good luck on getting assistance when a catastrophic event happens in the U.S. and they gonna need the help of nations they've pissed off.
Nelson Mandela who served as the first president of South Africa post apartheid was considered a terrorist in the United States until 2008. It was because of Mandela calling for the ending of Israel's brutal treatment of the Palestinians.
The Trump administration will make it so bad, more Americans will turn against him and Israel.
I am waiting patiently as the United States is falling apart and it all because of our special relationship with Israel.
Musk, earlier this month, also targeted South Africa’s government over business decisions, saying in a post on X that it had opted not to do business with his Starlink “because I’m not black.”
South Africa is the leading nation to pursue criminal charges against Israel. It is also leading a movement to sanction the apartheid ethnostate. It has called for an arms and trade embargo against Israel.
It has revoke the Israeli ambassador to South Africa.
Israel has banned the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and Special Rapporteur Francesca P. Albanese.
South Africa has also warned the United States that they will face tariffs on goods and visitors who hold American and Israeli citizenship could be banned.
Trevor Noah, a South African comedian is at risk of deportation because of the Trump administration and Israeli regime's crackdown on free speech.
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