In this post, X user Nick Stankovic (@nickstankovic_) points out the irony in the United States advocating for forcing Palestinians out of Gaza while the US condemns South African policies addressing the inequitable land-distribution legacy of the apartheid era.
Israel’s US-backed military onslaught against Palestinians in Gaza reportedly k*lled more than 186,000 as of early July 2024, according to the Lancet medical journal. Despite the International Criminal Court (ICC) issuing warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his then-Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant, the US continues to support Tel Aviv’s 76-year-old settler-colonial project to occupy Palestine. US President Donald Trump even went as far as announcing US intentions to occupy and rebuild Gaza—while displacing Palestinians—during a press conference on 4 February during Netanyahu’s White House visit.
Ironically, the Trump administration has threatened South Africa with sanctions following a new land reform law seeking to remedy the injustice of European settler-colonialism and the apartheid era, which dispossessed Black South Africans of their indigenous lands. Over 70 per cent of privately owned farmlands are in the hands of white settlers, who comprise less than 8 per cent of South Africa’s population.
It appears the US only has an issue when people take a stand to end systemic white supremacy, while ardently defending initiatives that advance white supremacy, imperialism and colonialism.
Video credit: @nickstankovic_ (X)
Sources:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext