Cape Town, South Africa – The South African ambassador who He was expelled from the United States And he declared that the non -pleasant person of the Trump administration received a welcome from hero on his return home on Sunday, when hundreds of followers gathered at an airport and sang songs praising him.
The crowds at the Cabo del Cabo International Airport surrounded Ebrahim Rasool and his wife Rosieda while emerging at the arrivals terminal in their hometown, and needed a police escort to help them navigate the building.
“A Non Grata character statement is destined to humiliate you,” Rasool told the followers while heading to them with a megaphone. “But when you return to crowds like this, and warmly … thus, then I will use my personality not pleasant as a dignity badge.”
“It was not our choice to return home, but we returned home without regrets.”
Rasoo also said it was important for South Africa to fix their relationship with the US. After President Donald Trump punished the country and accused him of adopting an anti -American position even before the decision to expel Rasool.
The president of the United States issued An executive order last month Reduce all funds to South Africa, claiming that your government is supporting the Palestinian group Hamas and Iran, and chasing anti-white policies at home.
“We do not come here to say that we are anti -Americans,” Rasool told the crowd. “We are not here to ask you to throw our interests with the United States.”
They were the first public comments of the former Ambassador since the Trump administration declared it Non Grata more than a week ago, eliminated its diplomatic immunities and privileges, and gave it until Friday to leave the United States.
It is very unusual for the United States to expel a foreign ambassador.
Rasoo was Person declared not pleasant by the United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio in an X post on March 14. Rubio said that Rasool was a “politician who scores the race” that hates the United States and Trump.
The publication of Rubio linked to a story of the Breitbart news conservative site that reported a talk that Rasool gave in a web seminar organized by a group of South African experts. In his talk, Rasool spoke in the academic language of the Trump administration repressions in diversity and equity programs and immigration and mentioned the possibility of an US. where the whites would soon be the majority.
“The supremacist assault against incumbency, we see it in the internal policy of the United States, the Maga Movement, the Make America Great Again Again movement, as an answer not only to a supremacist instinct, but of very clear data that show great demographic changes in the US.
Upon his return home, he said he stayed in those comments and characterized them simply alerting intellectuals and political leaders in South Africa that the United States and their policy had changed.
“It is not the United States of Obama, it is not the United States of Clinton, it is a different us and, therefore, our language must change,” said Rasool. “I would support my analysis because we were analyzing a political phenomenon, not a personality, not a nation, and not even a government.”
He also said that South Africa would resist the pressure of the United States, and any other person, to leave their case in the International Court of Justice. accusing Israel of genocide against the Palestinians In Gaza. The Trump administration has cited that case against the ally of the United States, Israel, as one of the reasons why South Africa is anti -American.
Breitbart’s story cited Rubio by announcing the expulsion of Rasool was written by the editor of South Africa, in general, Joel Pollak, who is Jewish and an ally of the Trump administration. Pollak is also a contender to be the new United States ambassador to South Africa, according to South African media.
Some of the followers welcome Rasool, who is Muslim, home in Cape Cabo Wavy Palestinian flags and sang “Free Palestine”.
“While we are here, the bombing (in Gaza) has continued and the shooting has continued, and if South Africa were not in the (International Court of Justice), Israel would not be exposed, and the Palestinians would not have hope,” said Rasool. “We cannot sacrifice the Palestinians … but we will not give up with our relationship with the United States. We must fight for it, but we must maintain our dignity.”
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