Continued……. Contrary to Martinon's claims that former French President François Mitterand (1916-96) was the first head of state to call for a Palestinian state, other leaders, such as Libya's Muammar Gaddafi (1942-2011) and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-70), had been doing so for years before Mitterand's speech to the Knesset in 1982.

While Martinon argued here that South Africa had done nothing, South Africa dragged Israel before the International Court of Justice to force Israel to halt what has been provisionally ruled by the ICJ as a ‘plausible’ g*nocide. The Lancet medical journal estimated Israel had k*lled at least 186,000 people between October 2023 and July 2024. France’s Gaza complicity mirrors its African playbook: Arm the oppressor, criminalise the oppressed, then claim the moral high ground. However, South Africans—shaped by the Sharpeville massacre, the Soweto uprising and apartheid's fall—see through the ruse.

Video credit: @psc_capetown (IG)

Sources
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67922346

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/26/1227078791/icj-israel-genocide-gaza-palestinians-south-africa

https://www.politico.eu/article/11-ngos-take-france-to-court-over-arms-sales-to-israel

https://enaat.org/eu-export-browser/overview?origin=france&destination=israel&year_from=2013

https://www.meforum.org/middle-east-quarterly/nasser-and-the-palestinians

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-31427-8_15

https://www.jta.org/archive/mitterrand-tells-knesset-that-israel-has-a-right-to-live-but-this-right-cannot-be-denied-to-the-pal

IMPERIALISTS ARE FUNDING T*RRORISTS

‘It’s not t*rrorism, it’s imperialism. All the imperialist countries finance these fighters.’ These were the words of Burkina Faso President Ibrahim Traoré (@CapitaineIb226 on X) during an interview with RT en Français (@rtenfrancais on X) that aired on 10 May.

This is not the first time that an official from Africa’s Sahel region has accused Western or Western-allied countries of aiding t*rrorists. In 2022, Mali’s Prime Minister Abdoulaye Maïga (@Col_Maiga on X) said France had provided arms, ammunition and intelligence to t*rrorist organisations that it claimed to be fighting during its now-dissolved Operation Barkhane, essentially a French military occupation of Mali.

Continued……. Shortly thereafter, Mali’s Minister of Foreign Affair Abdoulaye Diop (@AbdoulayeDiop8 on X) submitted a letter to the United Nations stating that France illegally violated Mali’s airspace to gather information for t*rrorist groups in addition to supplying them with weapons.

Then, in 2024, after t*rrorist rebels k*lled Malian soldiers, Andriy Yusov, a press representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, stated on television, ‘The rebels received necessary information, which enabled a successful military operation against Russian war criminals.’ Days later, Ukraine’s ambassador to Senegal, Yurii Pyvovarov, publicly celebrated the t*rrorist assault on Malian soldiers on the Ukrainian embassy’s Facebook page, leading Senegal’s foreign ministry to summon him.

On 19 August 2024, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger submitted a joint letter to the president of the United Nations Security Council, denouncing Ukraine’s support of t*rrorism in the Sahel.

More recently, on 24 February 2025, Mali called on the United States to take legal measures against those using foreign aid for subversive activities following the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). US Congressman Scott Perry alleged in February that USAID had funded B*ko H*ram, Al-Q*eda and other t*rrorist organisations.

Video credit: @RTenfrancais (X)

Sources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHjVl6dZx8o&t=3s

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/17/mali-accuses-france-of-arming-non-state-actors

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/36557

https://wadr.org/senegal-summons-ukrainian-ambassador-over-malian-conflict-comments/

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/west-african-juntas-write-un-over-ukraines-alleged-rebel-support-2024-08-21/

https://www.lesahel.org/communique-conjoint-mali-burkina-faso-niger-les-pays-de-la-confederation-des-etats-du-sahel-denonce-devant-le-conseil-de-securite-de-lonu-le-soutien-ouvert-et-assume-de-luk

https://www.maliweb.net/org-non-gouvernementales/accusation-de-financement-du-terrorisme-a-lusaid-le-mali-demande-des-poursuites-judiciaires-3097136.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKefOY_3IQ0

The price of playing imperialist stooge is apparently too steep for Kenya. Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi has called for more funds to shore up the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission in Haiti - led by Nairobi at the behest of Washington. He says that the deployed forces are struggling to tackle escalating gang violence because of a lack of money and logistical help.

His call was supported by the Dominican Republic. The country, neighbouring Haiti, but not officially part of the MSS mission, has been helping Kenya by evacuating and treating wounded officers, as well as by sharing intelligence. Its foreign minister, Roberto Alvarez, and Mudavadi signed a Memorandum of Understanding concerning this assistance on 13 May.

Things are tough for Kenyan police officers in Haiti, despite being largely exempted from US aid cuts. Two Kenyan officers have reportedly been k*lled in clashes with gangs.

Continued………Nairobi sent around 1,000 police officers to the Caribbean island nation in defiance of Kenya’s High Court, which ruled that the deployment was unconstitutional. When President William Ruto addressed the UN General Assembly in September 2023, he presented the imminent Haiti intervention as a 'pan-African humanitarian gesture' - despite concerns about the dismal human-rights record of Kenyan police.

The UN reports that more than 5,600 people were killed in gang-related violence in Haiti in 2024 - an increase of over 1,000 versus 2023. During the first three months of 2025 alone, the UN estimates that over 1,600 were murdered. More than 1 million are displaced.

But will pouring in more money solve Haiti's systemic problems, which stem from decades of foreign meddling, mainly by the US and France? So-called UN peacekeeping missions have resulted in cholera outbreaks, child abuse and civilian casualties, while Washington uses dirty tricks to ensure Haitians don't pick their own leaders.

Sources

https://archive.ph/kV6hL

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/dominican-republic-kenya-sign-agreement-supporting-haiti-security-mission/3565545

https://www.citizen.digital/news/kenya-mission-in-haiti-unaffected-by-us-funding-freeze-mudavadi-n357133

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations/2025/01/13/haiti-depth-why-kenya-led-security-mission-floundering

https://icj-kenya.org/news/respect-court-decision-on-deployment-of-police-to-haiti/#:~:text=The%20deployment%20of%20the%20Kenyan,officers%20were%20to%20be%20deployed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-68090488

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1158781

https://www.voanews.com/a/kenyan-president-reiterates-his-country-s-commitment-to-support-haiti-/7279301.html

https://www.citizen.digital/news/ruto-stands-firm-on-haiti-mission-amidst-north-rift-banditry-crisis-n342729

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0ql5yq167o

https://press.un.org/en/2025/db250204.doc.htm

https://press.un.org/en/2016/sgsm18323.doc.htm

Continued……The tension between South Africa and the US escalated after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a land expropriation law in January, which permits the government to take privately owned land in certain situations deemed ‘just and equitable and in the public interest.’

Swipe through to uncover the facts. Let us know if the baseless claims made by white nationalists and their supporters in Washington measure up.

Sources

https://archive.ph/lGd00

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/realigning-the-united-states-refugee-admissions-program/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45282088

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyj1198wy3o

https://archive.ph/dVv4T#selection-1985.451-1985.501

https://bbc.com/news/articles/crljn5046epo

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/10/white-victimhood-to-g20-whats-behind-trumps-attacks-on-south-africa

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1886321811937189902

https://www.unhcr.org/sites/default/files/legacy-pdf/4ec262df9.pdf

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg9w4n6gp5o

https://archive.ph/Ve1ow

https://medium.com/@hrnews1/white-south-africans-are-only-7-of-the-total-population-yet-own-72-of-the-farmland-13b9266c56ae

https://southafrica-info.com/people/south-africa-population/

https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/history-apartheid-south-africa

AFRIKANER ‘REFUGEES’ REACH U.S.

So, the first White South African ‘refugees’ have escaped a country where they belong to a minority that (*checks notes*) owns nearly all the land and sits on nearly all the wealth!? Yes, these are strange times indeed.

Allegedly ‘persecuted’ White South Africans arrived in the U.S. on 12 May 2025, landing at Dulles International Airport. They’d been invited by Donald Trump, and their travel expenses were taken care of by his government. They will be settled in various US states, receive aid, can expect entry-level jobs, and are now on a path to US citizenship.

Trump made the asylum offer in reaction to South Africa’s new Land Expropriation Law. This allows seizures in very limited circumstances as part of efforts to address historical colonial injustices.

Continued……. President Cyril Ramaphosa rejects the idea that White South Africans are persecuted. They reportedly make up 7% of the country’s population, but own over 70% of all commercial land. Another example of their privileged status in South Africa is the fact that, on average, they earn 18 times as much as Black people in the country.

Sources
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-5395067/first-group-afrikaner-refugees-arrive

https://travelpander.com/a-comprehensive-guide-to-white-privilege-in-south-africa/

Continued……. In 1996, a US federal court ruled that the city used excessive force and violated constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure. The court ordered the city to pay $1.5 million to a MOVE bombing survivor, Ramona Africa, and the families of two k*lled MOVE members. In 2005, a court awarded $12.83 million to residents of the Black working-class neighbourhood who had lost their homes, but an appeals court in 2008 reduced the amount to $150,000 per homeowner.

Then, in 2021, a controversy ensued when a Princeton University forensic anthropology course allegedly did a 'case study' using the remains of two of the k*lled children. After protests and public scrutiny, Princeton retired the course. The city stated the families had not claimed the remains. Yet, in May 2021, Philadelphia Health Commissioner Thomas Farley resigned following news that in 2017, he had ordered the cremation and disposal of victims' remains without identifying them or contacting family members. A day after Farley's resignation, staff at the Medical Examiner's Office found a box labelled 'MOVE' containing uncremated remains.

Sources

https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/move-bombing-philadelphia-reflection-day-city-council

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/move-bombing

https://collaborativehistory.gse.upenn.edu/stories/long-shadow-move-fire

SOUTH AFRICA: PRIVILEGED SETTLERS WON’T LEAVE

On 7 February, former US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to allow the resettlement of white South Africans in the US despite a refugee ban on other countries. The move came under the guise of the so-called ‘unjust racial discrimination.’ Then, on 12 May, the US government welcomed the first group of Afrikaner ‘refugees’ on US soil.

The hard right’s outrage re-emerged after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a land expropriation bill in January.

Continued…….. Trump advisor and South Africa-born tech billionaire Elon Musk also peddled unfounded claims of a ‘white g*nocide.’ Interestingly, during apartheid, the US government extended no such offer to Black South Africans for facing actual persecution at the hands of white settlers. In fact, the US supported the apartheid regime by blocking UN sanctions and maintaining strong economic ties with the regime. Further, many Afrikaners rejected this offer in February. 

The legacy of the apartheid regime continues to disenfranchise Black South Africans today. Despite making up more than 80 per cent of the population, Blacks hold only about 4 per cent of private farmland. Meanwhile, white settlers, who make up less than 8 per cent of the population, own over 70 per cent of private farmland.

In his interview with BreakThrough News (@btnewsroom on X), Thapelo Mohapi explained to hosts @EugenePuryear (X) and @raniakhalek (X) that white settlers who refuse to take up Trump’s offer want to continue enforcing a system of white dominance, founded on the myth of white superiority. Mohapi, general secretary of Abahlali baseMjondolo (@abahlalibasemjondolo on Instagram and @abahlalibM on X), South Africa’s pro-democracy and land reclamation grassroots movement of over 150,000 shack dwellers, pointed out an irony: These settlers referred to themselves as ‘Europeans’ during the apartheid era (1948-94) to enforce systemic racial discrimination against Black South Africans and others. Yet, now, they want to establish ‘Afrikaner nationalism’ on South African soil.

Video credit: @btnewsroom (X)

Sources

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/11/trump-administration-south-african-refugees

https://www.gov.za/news/media-statements/president-cyril-ramaphosa-assents-expropriation-bill-23-jan-2025

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg9w4n6gp5o

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https://www.reuters.com/world/stark-divide-that-south-africas-land-act-seeks-bridge-2025-02-09/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/9/no-thanks-white-south-africans-turn-down-trumps-us-immigration-offer

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/white-south-africans-to-arrive-in-us-under-exception-to-trump-s-refugee-ban-report/3562100

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/group-49-white-south-africans-leaves-us-after-121696684

https://za.usembassy.gov/president-trumps-executive-order-on-addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/