Making Apartheid Great Again.
British-Tunisian writer and Middle East politics expert Soumaya Ghannoushi explains how Donald Trump’s policies underscore his commitment to preserving a world order built on racial and territorial supremacy.
Backed by a network of libertarian billionaires with ties to apartheid-era South Africa—most notably Elon Musk and the so-called “PayPal Mafia”—the US president’s decision to cut aid to South Africa, in response to land reform policies he claims will harm its white minority, is not about economic freedom or justice, argues Ghannoushi. Rather, it is about defending the consequences of apartheid.
Trump has become the champion of Israeli right-wing extremists, aligning himself with Israel’s most extreme territorial ambitions through his proposed forced displacement of Palestinians.
South Africans know apartheid when they see it, Ghannoushi says, and now, as they seek to right historical wrongs, the country that led the charge in bringing Israel before the International Court of Justice is being made to pay.
