Trump Finds 'Genocide' in South Africa, Not Gaza
Al Jazeera dutifully reports Trump's latest pronouncement: the US should boycott the G20 in South Africa over a 'white genocide,' a claim utterly debunked years ago. What’s consistently overlooked is that the US readily engages with and funds regimes complicit in actual, documented atrocities. For example, Washington’s robust support for Netanyahu's government continues unabated, despite repeated
UN warnings and mounting evidence of an ICJ case investigating plausible genocide in Gaza . ($14.5 billion more in aid was just approved for Israel, per S.3216 in April 2024.) One might wonder if the 'genocide' threshold for US boycotts is set exclusively for white populations, or if perhaps it's simply a convenient pretext to avoid summits with nations critical of long-standing US foreign policy.
It appears the world's most powerful nations only find 'disgrace' when it's politically expedient, leaving actual human suffering conveniently out of the diplomatic lexicon.