ANTISEMITISM AND WANNABE NY MAYOR MAMDANI

The New York Democratic primary mayoral election result produced a seismic shock that has reverberated throughout the American political world. Zohran Mamdani a 33 year old little known State’s Representative won to run in the November election for the most economically and politically important metropolitan city in the world, New York,(NY). At the beginning of the race he polled at 1 percent and now he is in the lead by 7 points at 43 percent, Added to his limited resume is the fact that he is of the Muslim faith in a city that has been influenced disproportionately by Jews for over a century. That in itself is irrelevant in the pool of vast faiths, cultures and origins of cosmopolitan NY. However what is relevant is his attitude towards Zionism, (a Jewish homeland), or can his actions even be interpreted as antisemitic?

Mr. Mamdani’s rationale for all the anti Zionism allegations against him is that he is holding  Israel accountable for the current continuing war in Gaza. But that is the position of at least half the Israelis who have been protesting for months for an end and the return of hostages. As this blog is being written there are hundreds of thousands gathered in Israel calling on Netanyahu to end the war and bring home the hostages. Nor does this simplistic explanation jive with his actions and statements on this issue.

Behind this momentous election result is the volatile political climate in America at the moment and the fact that Mr. Mamdani ran on a populist ticket calling himself a Democratic Socialist  He admitted that he was influenced by Donald Trump’s campaign appealing to basic economic issues. The young candidate is highly personable, charismatic and has a cult like following. Mamdani’s elevation to the top of Democratic leadership has produced glee to the floundering MAGA movement, sends a message to the directionless Democratic leadership and has to be analyzed in many contexts, including demographics. 

DEMOGRAPHICS AND STATISTICS

There are 16 million Jews in the world, 0.02 percent of its peoples, 9 million in Israel and 7 million in America. Metropolitan New York, (NY) has the world’s largest population of Jews in a city,1.3 million double that of Israel’s Tel Aviv. Metropolitan NY itself has nearly 10 million domiciled including roughly the same number of Muslims as Jews. The latter are 2 percent and Muslims 1.4 percent of America’s 330 million. 

There are 51 Muslim Majority Countries in the World. Muslims, who are far from homogenous number 1.7 billion who embrace the faith. The most vigorous protests against Israel and Jews generally are not in the the Muslim countries like Indonesia, Pakistan , India and Bangladesh who have populations between 150 million to 200 million but in America and Europe.The Israeli/Gaza problem lies in the Middle East where the Sunni States have no beef with Israel but rather it is the Shia nations led by Iran which have as a central constitutional objective the destruction of Israel and all Jews. The latter as well are far from being an homogenous group but traditionally have been very socially conscious. This is illustrated by the fact that President Trump’s “immigration guru” and the most senior Democratic Leader are both Jewish. In the New York Primary one out of five Jews voted for Mr. Mamdani’s candidacy.

 Besides the well publicized demonstrations that made 75 percent of Jewish students and faculty, feel “uncomfortable and fearful”, at Ivy League Universities the number of incidents defined as “anti semitic”, increased by 351percent In the USA in 2024. According to FBI data 66 percent of the religious hate crimes were against the Jews, Recently there have been three major hate crime actions where the victims were Jews. There was an arson attack on Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, the murder of two Israeli Embassy staff and attack with Molotov cocktails against a group calling for the return of the hostages still in Gaza. 

According to the ADL there is a world wide anti Jewish sentiment. A report released in January 2025 indicated that 46 percent of the world’s population harbor deeply entrenched antisemitic attitudes. It is in this environment the actions of Mr. Mamdani, rightly or wrongly have caused apprehension among most of the Jewish citizenry of New York.

WHAT ACTIONS OF MR MAMDANI HAVE CAUSED CONCERN?

Democratic candidate Mamdani’s claims his focus of criticism is on Israel which is an independent sovereign state not a colonial offshoot. Mr. Mamdani argues that he cannot support any country that is based solely on one religion. Yet he has no problem apparently with the 51 Muslim states. Also attacks on Israel as a nation rather than its government are not synchronous with democratic values. The objective of the outcry against Russia’s naked aggression towards Ukraine is not to eliminate Russia as a country but rather the attack is on Putin and the current government.

Mamdani recently has concentrated on the plight of Palestinians in Gaza yet on October 8 one day after the October 7 slaughter of Israeli citizens, Mamdani took the opportunity to attack Israel. October 7 was the most obscene, sadistic and unholy massacre, rape, baby murder, kidnapping of hostages in recent world history. On October 13, 6 days after October 7, activist Mamdani organized a protest outside the home of Jewish Senate Democratic leader.

Mr. Mamdani has called for a “Global Intifada”and when challenged he stated that the term had once been used by the Holocaust museum in connection with the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. This led to an immediate response from the museum that claimed that using that term in the current context “was outrageous and especially offensive to holocaust survivors”. Frankly this terminology in the context of the Israeli situation is highly inflammatory. Mamdani knows of the two “Intifada” attacks on Israel by the PLO which were an attempt to kill all Israeli citizens. Since then there have been frequent calls for a third “Intifada”. So what does he really mean by a Global Intifada?

Candidate Mamdani has refused to disavow a podcaster Hasan Piker whom he joined on a 3 hour internet discussion. Piker called a condemner of the October 7th Nova Festival massacre a 'bloodthirsty pig”. Jews he has smeared as being “inbred”. When pressed as to why he consented to program with Piker candidate Mamdani stated that he would interact with anyone and everyone on this campaign.

State Legislator Mamdani’s defense of his refusal to sign a resolution condemning the Holocaust and “Honoring Israel” was absurd claiming that his office does not sign resolutions that come by email!

He has repeatedly called for “Boycott, Sanction and Disinvestment” of Israel and refuses to answer whether he would do the latter as Mayor of New York. He also is supportive of the boycott of Israeli academics.

As a States Legislator he condemned the participation of legislators in a pro Israel march. America has this type of event annually. It is not used generally as an attack on the Irish, Italian Polish, Hungarian legislators that join in, for example. Likewise as mentioned in the New York Times editorial the preoccupation of the left only with Gaza and ignoring Ukraine, Sudan and other questionable humanitarian crisis such as exist in Iran and Saudi Arabia is significant. So as horrific as the Gaza situation is the irresistible conclusion is that the sole focus on this one instance of a humanitarian crisis must bear some relationship to the fact that Israel is a Jewish nation.

Just in case this agenda bears any relation to reality, as Mayor, he would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu when he arrives in New York!

It may be clear in Mr. Mamdani’s mind that his position doesn’t remotely impact Jewish citizens. To Jay H. Ell that is a hard sell, for example what was he doing outside a Jewish leader’s house on October 13, 6 days after the most heinous attack on Jews since the Holocaust, attacking Israel? Why is he calling for a “Global Intifada” which only can be interpreted as an incitement against Jews in the world?

MR. MAMDANI’S POPULIST AGENDA AND WHO VOTED FOR HIM

The agenda of the winning Democratic candidate is a naive wish list from building houses, creating grocery shops with cheaper wares, freezing rent, free bus rides and on and on. In order to pay for this he will tax the rich and the companies. New York City and New York State have the highest taxes in the country. This is not the Federal system where the real taxation is collected.

So why on earth did the Democratic electorate vote for him? They were only to happy to reject the complacent entitled smug compromised Democratic establishment candidate. Mamdani’s largest constituency was the youth who are desperate for some kind of what passes for authenticity. He connected. He was on TikTok He was everywhere. He knocked on a million doors. He was engaged. It didn’t matter that he didn’t make sense. He was change. He was empathetic. He was charming. He was real.

Ironically the next lot that pulled the lever for him were the richest and the middle class of Democratic New York. The Democratic nominee didn’t get the voters you had to assume put him over the top, the lower income group and the African Americans. For them life is too serious to play games, They voted for reality as awful as it looked. The arrogant and compromised Cuomo had for all his weaknesses experience in running government and his policies always cared for all of New York.

AT THE END OF THE DAY

This situation does not need Islamophobia added to the debate.

Jay H. Ell hopes the Israelis force Netanyahu out of power. But before that he stops his never ending war that is now only producing casualties and untold misery, If he finished off Hezbollah and Iran in no time how come he needs a lifetime to conclude a war that is over?

If anyone doesn’t believe that this will only end when a solution for the other victims, the Palestinians, whom no powers really care about, is found, they are mistaken.

It is not only diaspora Jews that conflate their identity with Israel. It is the “other”.

Whether the Democratic nominee for NY mayor is a de facto anti semite and  “some of his best friends are Jews” or not ,will emerge in what has become one of the more important elections in November.

Whichever way this is diced and sliced the Jews have seen this movie again and again for about 2 millennia. Even the Jews that blended in. In a pogrom it was irrelevant if they backed the Tzar or not.

IS THE USA GOING FASCIST?

 

For most the announcement by three internationally known academics on Fascism, including the famed Yale Professor Timothy Snyder, that “We have written on Fascism and are leaving” was met with bored indifference. However it stirred a debate among opinion makers and academics. By Trump’s own admission and policy documents he is definitely creating the most autocratic Presidency in American history. So the question is are these authorities right and if so can the Trump regime succeed? One fact is for certain he is the most powerful leader since WW11 in terms of influence and power akin to FDR, Stalin, Churchill and Hitler. 

For Fascism to morph from a democracy a number of circumstances have to be present. In effect it is a coup.

TRUMP AN ASPIRATIONAL FASCIST?

Ruth Ben - Ghiat ,who has written the definitive volume on dictators, has likened Trump to Mussolini and argues that Project 25, which is the Heritage Foundation’s detailed handbook to turn the Federal Government on its head and concentrate power in the executive is comparable to the Italian dictator’s Laws for the Defense of the State. Trump’s “Agenda 47” is also considered by some as Fascist.

 Retired General McCaffery observed that the 47th President statements were reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930’s. Retired General Kelly Trump’s former Chief of Staff is one of the many others who maintained that the President fitted the definition of a Fascist. In a poll that preceded the 2024 election 49 percent of the electorate agreed that the Republican candidate was, “a political extremist who seeks to act as a dictator, disregards individual rights and threatens or uses force against their opponents”. 

For those that need reminding Trump still does not accept that he lost the 2020 election where he had a multi faceted approach to staying in office which terminated with his followers storming the Capitol where President Biden's election was being ratified. Trump's Vice President who was guiding the process was threatened with death while Trump watched for hours. In coming into office in 2025 he immediately pardoned 1600 insurrectionists who had stormed the Capitol and called the date, January 6, “a day of love”. Had the January 6 rioters succeeded in preventing Biden being ratified the situation would have been ripe for a coup.

 So let’s go the whole hog and compare Trump’s America with that of Hitler’s Germany and see why Fascism is not likely going to be the outcome. 

HOW A DEMOCRACY MORPHS INTO A FASCIST GOVERNMENT.

Jay H. Ell believes there are a number of components that stack up before a democracy can morph into a Fascist government. These include a once in a generation charismatic gifted leader, a torrid economic and social situation, a victim ethos, a pariah demographic to blame, a belief in an “Ubermensch”, a weak constitutional order with an objective particularly to break the rule of law, weak institutions and territories to conquer. Also the process has to be rapid. 

No one can argue that Trump isn’t a phenom. He has literally taken over an established party in a two party state in the most powerful nation in the world and turned it into a cult. Hitler revolutionized the campaigning of his time. Trump too went from place to place and utilized modern day communication systems like the internet and reality TV while in Germany it was the sound systems, radio and the news reel. Without revolutionary media systems there could not have been a threat to the established constitutional order of the two countries.

With regard to the economic situation Trump inherited the best post Covid financial situation in the world but with his rhetoric mesmerism he persuaded enough of the electorate that he could return the economy to pre Covid levels. Post WW1 Germany was chaotic with grotesque inflation and over 30 percent unemployment. Hitler had no need to create a false reality.

Both leaders wailed that their nations were victims. Germany apparently lost the war as a result of traitors from the inside while America had been played for as suckers by the world who rip off America with their subsidized cheap goods. Both used social Darwinism to define who the real citizens of the country were and are. In Hitler’s Germany it was the white Aryan race and in Trump’s America it is the white Christians. Jews were also central to both polemics - in Germany they were the cause of  the decay of the culture and professions, exploitative capitalism and Godless Communism while in America they were ostensibly the reason, as a result of unchecked campus anti semitism, to takeover and defund the Universities blocking even their medical research.

 The bogeymen in Germany were first and foremost the Jews, the gypsies, the feebleminded and the opposition traitors. In America it is the immigrants those legally and illegally here, the "lunatic scum" left and the "USA hating" Judges . Elimination of the bogeymen became the obsession of both Hitler and Trump. Hitler when the war was lost rather than feeding his troops and supplying ammunition reserved all his coffers for “The Final Solution”. Trump insanely is risking the American economy by the forceful, sadistic and cruel removal of millions who don’t fit his definition of being an American. He favors the white Afrikaners. That coupled with his paranoid introduction of tariffs and the ever growing deficit will put the country into at least recession territory.

America and Germany both wanted to expand their territories.“Lebensraum” as Germany labeled it. Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal are the stated objectives of Trump’s America.

THE MAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GERMANY IN 1930’S v AMERICA IN 2020’S

Where America and Germany differed markedly in the attempt to create a dictatorship was the chaotic political, constitutional and economic situation Germany was in. America on the other hand, about as divided as ever. but with a relatively stable political, constitutional, institutional and economic situation. Also if the American economy goes sour the current perception is that it will be Trump that was responsible.

Germany had 9 political parties and each of these had paramilitary organizations. The Nazis and Communists were fighting in the streets The Chancellor wasn’t elected by the Legislative Reichstag and in any case no party or coalition was ever able to gain a majority. The President, Hindenburg, nominated the Chancellor from the Center Right even though they were never ever the majority party in the 1930’s. The President was also entitled to shut down the Reichstag and call an election.

 In 1930 the Nazis moved from being in the 9th place in the 1928 election, 2.6 percent of the electorate, to 2nd with over 18 percent.

 

In March 1932 there was a Presidential election and Hitler ran only to be defeated by 6,000,000 votes by Hindenburg. The next month, April 1932, saw Hindenburg calling another Reichstag election. Hitler won the most votes with 37 percent and the Communists come second with 14 percent. Hindenburg dissolved the legislature again in November 1932. This time the Nazis won with 34 percent. The President once again didn’t appoint Hitler as Chancellor. 

In January 1933 the economic and political situation worsened and Hindenburg reluctantly anointed the Nazi leader as Chancellor. Hindenburg declared yet another election but before it could take place the Reichstag was set on fire. An emergency was declared the constitution suspended and the rest is history. Trump had to wait 4 years after January 6 before he could have an election because that is what the Constitution said. 

SO WHERE IS TRUMP ON THE SCALE OF TRYING TO CREATE A FASCIST STATE?

It would have made more sense for Trump to take the slow path as did Erdogan, Orban and Modi to competitive authoritarianism to centralize power in America. Even his alter ego Putin bided his time. However he is 78, supposedly on term limits and at this stage of the game cannot prevent the midterm elections in 2026. He signed over a hundred Executive orders on day one and has appointed an ignorant, unlawful cabinet whose only unifying feature is blind loyalty to him and is in a race against time and reality.

So the 47th President is on tear with every Fascist move in the book from grabbing people off the streets and even those checking in with immigration authorities, questioning habeas corpus, intimidating judges, instructing the Justice Department to investigate his enemies, shipping the victims to foreign concentration camps, neutering liberal universities, suing the conventional media, using the Internal Revenue Service to investigate opponents, bye passing the Legislature by firing constitutional appointments and departments, ordering private corporations on how to run their businesses and on the verge of being found in contempt of court. 

Trump has one problem - a 250 year old Constitution that is still intact with regular elections going on all the time. There are 94 District Federal Courts, 12 Appeal and the final arbiter the Supreme Court. Trump has had a torrid time in the courts, which is a co - equal branch of Government, even though the Supreme Court has given him plenty of slack. Lately the center piece of his policy, "wonderful" tariffs has been declared unconstitutional. Bizarrely he is trying to weaken the Courts in the budget bill, to ban them from issuing contempt citations against him!

There is strong citizen involvement in American civic affairs and every day sees protests. The Resistance is gaining strength, see blog: April 26, “Trump - The Resistance Begins”. Trump has no insight as to the chaos his tariffs and budget might wreak.

The polls for a President at this stage are the worst in history. In the most recent bye election for the Mayor of Omaha Nebraska followed a familiar pattern since 2024 and saw a 12 year old Republican incumbent who had safely won her elections thrashed by 10 points by an African American candidate. Matters are only going to become worse as the contents of the Budget Bill become public and the impact of tariffs are felt. In addition 400 Presidents of Colleges are supporting Harvard in their litigation against the Trump regime while law firms have been created to challenge Trump abuses of power.

What is really going to be fascinating will be the events of June 14 where Trump’s Defense Department is organizing a military parade in Washington at a massive cost. It is also the President’s birthday. Indivisible and other protest organizations are calling a “National Day of Defiance - No Kings Day”. The infrastructures of these organizations are massive and growing. That day will truly be a test of the sentiment of the electorate.

AT THE END OF THE DAY

Unless there is some unforeseen change in the public sentiment the Republicans will lose the House of Representatives in November which will, hopefully, herald the beginning of the end of this nightmare. 

TRUMP’S DEI PICK - WHITE AFRIKANERS

Amidst all the sturm und drang of Donald J. Trump strutting on the Arab Gulf stage like a colossus - stopping wars, making deals for himself and his billionaire buddies, selling meme coins, auctioning access to the Presidency, solving the tariff crises that he had initiated, dumping Netanyahu, graciously accepting personal 400 million dollar gifts, real estate deals, gutting the rule of law, and expelling legal and undocumented immigrants - 59 White Afrikaners from South Africa were brought to America by a chartered jet as refugees. Meanwhile back home there are protests everyday somewhere while fired scientists and academics are being courted throughout the world. Three internationally known experts on fascism Timothy Snyder, Marci Shore and James Robinson announced “We have written on fascism and are leaving”.

There is much to unpack here as to how on earth this oddity could have occurred. Why South Arica? Who are the Afrikaners?  Why did Trump who is dragging people off the streets ending the legal stay of 500 000 South American and over 100, 000 Afghani refugees and seriously considering ending the parole stay of a quarter million Ukrainians, favor this group for DEI, (diversity, equity and inclusion)? The latter being a concept that Trump and the Republicans ran against in 2024 while Elon Musk was sent to root out in every corner of the government bureaucracy, axing grants, welfare programs and US aid to the world poor. Musk’s official job was head of the Department of Government Efficiency - DOGE.

A good start is to try and explain to the uninitiated what DEI means in the American context.

DEI (DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION)

DEI has evolved into a vast, cultural, educational and economic complex. It is an attempt to document and correct historical inequities and discrimination. The whole exercise being ostensibly at the expense, of the white rural population and the white workers who were relegated from the middle class by the outsourcing of American manufacturing jobs. Every minority or oppressed group was included from the LGBT and women, to notably those of color, particularly the African Americans. Politically great exception was taken to the resources afforded to brown immigrants and refugees from “shit hole” countries. 

The proponents of this DEI  undertaking were the “liberal elites” from the East and West coast and their Universities. DEI became an objective of Democratic government and business who attempted to further the cause of minorities generally. The issue became central to the populism of Trumpism which claimed to be the party of the neglected forgotten workers and rural inhabitants. 

What had started off by John F. Kennedy in 1963 under the term “affirmative action” in an attempt to redress past discrimination and increase opportunity for those victimized had grown extensively and now was subject to the most bizarre attacks and distortions such as “why should whites be made to feel guilty or uncomfortable about what happened in the past” and “the slaves were taught skills which they could use when freed”. If an accident occurred in governmental service the immediate argument was that this inefficiency or incompetence was as a result of DEI.

In January 2025 Donald J. Trump put an end to all governmental DEI programs with an Executive Order. They were to be shut down within 2 days. All members employed were to be put on administrative leave and eventually laid off. The 47th President claimed that “DEI efforts were illegal and immoral discriminatory programs and a public waste”. This included those involved in immigration and those immigrants who were already here as a result he believed under DEI philosophy.

So now we get to why in heavens name did he make his own DEI choice, the South African Afrikaners?

WHY THE SOUTH AFRICAN AFRIKANERS?

Allowing white South African Afrikaners special status was floated in the Trump first presidency. This idea followed a blast from Tucker Carlson who was then numero uno in Fox News. Tucker has fallen on tough times since then as he was axed by Rupert Murdoch following Fox’s nearly a billion dollars settlement in litigation by a company that Fox had alleged crooked their voting machines to give Biden the presidency in 2020. He has slipped off the radar and is not much of an influencer at the moment following a gushing interview with Vladimir Putin and a piece where he was shown extolling Russia while shopping in a wondrous Super Market there.

 Trump 2.0 surrounded himself with the white South African billionaires, the “Paypal Mafia”, including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Dave Saks. Elon of course is the DOGE king who has wrecked havoc with America’s governmental institutions with his “chainsaw”. The Tesla founder has used the same criticism that Trump has leveled against the South African black government that they are “racist” and were  “genocidal against white farmers”. Incidentally the design of the Tesla Cybertruck is reminiscent of the Caspers used by the apartheid police which were a symbol of oppression. Just in case that makes Musk feel uncomfortable let him add the fact that he backed the far right party in the Germany election. Trump himself has some hairy incidents including the forced withdrawal of his recent nominee to be Attorney General of Columbia who championed a Nazi supporter who was a January 6 rioter, 

Trump signed an Executive Order halting all aid to South Africa echoing Musk’s claims and maintaining that the government was guilty of “massive Human Rights VIOLATION”. He threw the South African Ambassador out and the war of words is ongoing.

So who better to import than these White Afrikaners who in the words of the Deputy Secretary of State “did not pose any threat to national security and that they were easily assimilated into the country”. The 60 odd that arrived in North Virginia had been vetted and it has been reported that about 40 didn’t meet the criteria whatever they were. All in all 8,000 of this category have been said to have made “enquiries”.

But who are these people?

WHO ARE THE WHITE AFRIKANERS?

At the outset it be made crystal clear that labelling all Afrikaners as espousing a certain ideology is about as accurate as claiming everyone from the Southern States vote Republican. But there is a history and this demographic was chosen by Musk et al and invited by Trump for a reason. 

South Africa has a dark history and much like America for the first few hundred years of their existence the discussion was between the white groups - those of predominantly Dutch descent - the Afrikaners and those of British descent - the English. Unlike in America the English were on the British side against the Afrikaner war for independence  - the Boer War. The subsequent peace never negated the majority of Afrikaners to accept the result. As the mid twentieth century loomed the English side had a more but limited openness to black rights. 

The Afrikaner Nationalist Party surprisingly won the post WW11 election and heralded in constitutional apartheid. Apartheid was defined in all its brutality, cruelty, oppression and abrogation of the rule of law from the late 1950’s to about 1980 under the premierships of HF Verwoerd and BJ Vorster who held the reins for two decades. Both had sided with the Nazis in WW11. 

Verwoerd an ideologue who defined what became recognized as apartheid sprung to prominence by organizing a pre war protest march against the immigration of jews from Europe. He subsequently was successfully sued as editor of “Die Vaderland” for Nazi propaganda. From 1948 he was the power behind the scenes and was appointed Prime Minister in 1958. His strongman henchman as Minister of Justice was Vorster who succeeded him after he was assassinated in 1966. The latter was an open supporter of the Nazis and was interned as a result. The white political opposition to the Nationalist party gradually became more and more involved in expanding the rights of all peoples 

THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA

Fast forward to 1990 when an Afrikaner Willem De Klerk brokered a new South Africa partnering the icon Nelson Mandela whom he released from prison. He led a referendum among whites to change the Constitution. Following Mandela and his successor, Jacob Zuma became premier and when challenged as to his open corruption which permeated the governing ANC he stated he never was a member of the party to “become poor”.  His nominee for succession was narrowly beaten by Cyril Ramaphosa who hasn’t helped South Africa’s cause with America by siding with Iran and receiving a massive injection of cash from the latter to charge Israel with genocide at The Hague. He has earned the ire of South African Jews by threatening anyone who immigrated to Israel and was in the military returning to South Africa for any reason to be subject to arrest. Also his relationships with Russia and China have not endeared him to the democracies.

So where does leave the 60 or so white Afrikaner refugees?

THE WHITE AFRIKANER REFUGEES 

At the very least those that qualify for American refugee status have to believe in Trump and Musk’s mantra that the government is racist supporting genocide and land stealing. That these allegations are not supported by the facts is not relevant to them or theIr American benefactors. These people are the hangovers from the apartheid regime and the fact that they are classified as an ideal fit into American society has to be a cause for concern to Americans. 

The Refugee Convention’s updated protocol defining refugee status is someone who has a well founded fear of persecution based on their demographic or opinion. The fact that South Africa has a Constitution, which Ruth Bader Ginsberg maintained was the only one better than the American, a fearlessly independent Constitutional Court, the rule of law and habeas corpus has to make a claim of refugee status at kindest a far stretch - especially compared to the actual refugees who are being deported. 

AT THE END OF THE DAY

This saga still has to play out however the fact that Trump elected this group as his DEI is another example as to who he believes is a true American and his blatant hypocrisy.

Instead of paying airlines to transport the Afrikaner refugees maybe he can lend his Qatari Boeing which need not be upgraded for the purpose.