Francesca Albanese, Rapporteur at the UN Human Rights Committee, paid a heavy price for her categorical hatred. After Marco Rubio imposed sanctions on the Italian for being pro-Hamas, anti-America, and anti-Israel, she can’t get a credit card or open a bank account. “Treated almost like Osama bin Laden” said the forlorn woman.

The complaint should be golden publicity. Antisemites of her loud stamp will take an object lesson from her predicament. And so they ought. Contrary to a defeatist view that toxic Jew-hatred cannot be solved, President Trump has made it plain sailing through his covert axiom, “hit them where it hurts.” By imposing colossal reparations the DOJ Task Force to Combat Antisemitism coerced mighty Columbia, Stanford, and Harvard to make onerous and humiliating concessions.

Never before did a U.S. government compel antisemites and institutions to pay with trauma or crushing penalty. No leader anywhere fought with Trump’s muscularity against antisemitism, a severely damaging personality and societal disorder.

Still, the President has unfinished business.

South Africa Carrying Water for Iran

It’s been too long an interval since February 7th, when Trump’s Executive Order put the South African government on notice that it would pay dearly for its, “Aggressive positions towards the U.S. and its allies, including accusing Israel, not Hamas, of genocide in the ICJ, and reinvigorating relations with Iran. The U.S. cannot support undermining U.S. foreign policy.”

He stopped U.S. assistance to the country because the government did “bad things.” You like keeping company with regimes that wish America ill? No more money for your people. Goodbye.

Sure it was punishment, but of ordinary citizens not their government, the contaminated fly in the ointment for Trump’s realignments and peace-making ambitions in the Middle East.

To this day he desists from persuading his South African counterpart to drop the lawfare against Israel.

When reporters asked at their May meeting in the Oval Office if he expected Ramaphosa to drop the case of genocide at the International Court of Justice, Trump answered with indifference, or even bored resignation,

“I don’t expect anything to be honest. I don’t know. They’ve got a case. There’s a lot of anger.… We’ll have a ruling, and who knows what the ruling is going to mean.”

If we are defined by the company we keep, President Ramaphosa is defined as Iran’s lawfare proxy. As such his craven government, corrupt even by Third World standards, complements Tehran’s terrorist assets, Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis.

Bankrupt and threatened at the ballot box, his ruling party unleashed what before Oct 7 had been a tolerable antisemitism. It provided proof, if any more was needed, that the disease really is more than hatred. Fundamentally “it is a highly effective political tool particularly in times of crisis.” Professor Ruth Wisse explains it as “the organization of politics against the Jews.”

Not to put too fine a point on it, that government has been captured also by home-grown Islamists.

A Christian Country Appoints Islamists to Key Posts

Iran’s operative in Ramaphosa’s government is one. Naledi Pandor is a black convert to Islam who phoned Hamas 10 days after it unleashed Oct 7th. Hamas claimed it was to congratulate it. What is known is that the week following her call she made a whistle stop visit to Tehran. The ANC ruling party was bankrupt and about to be liquidated. Lo and behold, on her return it was announced that money woes were no more. It not only paid off debts, but out of nowhere, had a trove to spend on a court application and sittings at The Hague.

Promptly a bulky team of jurists and hangers-on was dispatched to convince a biased bench that Israel intended genocide. Bear in mind that all the above happened before Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza, before Israel had killed or displaced one civilian.

Who says that a down and out country can’t make bad mischief for the MAGA White House.

Back home President Ramaphosa made South Africa his collateral damage. The overlord of a bedlam state is the kingpin criminal, Iran asset, BRIC stooge, Islamist ally, and white-hater.

Not stopping at cementing alliances with evil regimes, Ramaphosa stuffed Islamist ideologues into his department of foreign affairs. After Trump had Tehran’s nuclear plants bombed to smithereens, that department signed a book of condolences at Iran’s embassy in Pretoria. It’s all part and parcel of the government’s provocative antisemitism.

In sync with the case at the ICJ, the government hosted a Sudanese warlord on the run from genocide in Darfur. According diplomatic honors to mass murderers is another stamp of the Ramaphosa government. It gave senior Hamas member Bassem Naim the same red carpet treatment. He and Mandela’s raving antisemite grandson laid a wreath at the foot of the icon’s statue. The calumny was topped by repurposing the Nelson Mandela Centre into a pro-terrorist institute.

Few gambits are grimmer and more disgusting than exhuming a civil rights icon for waging a vendetta against the Jews. It began with Martin Luther King, the Zionist enthusiast. Nelson Mandela came next. The late giant of humanity was hardly cold in his grave when he got hijacked for settling antisemitic scores.

The Nelson Mandela Centre is today occupied by the President’s hand-picked Islamist, Pandor. As CEO she expanded her religious war against Jewish Zionists to Christian Zionists, which is more than sad.

South Africa is a Christian country, historically and culturally. So too is neighboring Mozambique, where Africa’s terrorist group Al Shabaab has decapitated Christians, burnt down churches, displaced whole villages and converted tribes to Islam.

There’s a disgusting aspect. While South African troops are in a peace keeping force to combat the jihadi group, the Nelson Mandela Centre undertakes to pay anyone who combats — no not Al Shabaab — Christian Zionism,  which it calls, “a force for genocide.”

I took the repurposed Nelson Mandela as a personal affront. During the years of his Presidency, Mandela lent me his irresistible stature, empowering me to make the country’s mainstream media pay a price for antisemitism.

But, people object, how can a government accuse Israel of genocide when it makes no secret of alliances with genocide-bent regimes? North Korea and Iran, to name but two of South Africa’s allies. The Emperor has no clothes.

This Emperor does not need clothes. He needs to get dressed. And Trump must dress him. South Africa’s President and cohorts must be kitted out as partners in and enablers of violence, antisemitism, and jihad. The U.S. President, the scourge of antisemites, must hit them where it hurts.

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