Representative Greg Steube (R-FL) is introducing legislation suspending aid to South Africa for its pro-Hamas bias, saying, "It is clear as day that the Government of South Africa is unfairly targeting the State of Israel and inciting hostility towards the United States and our allies."
Specifically, Rep. Steube's Addressing Hostile and Antisemitic Conduct by the Republic of South Africa Act suspends direct assistance to the country and places sanctions on specific leaders for its friendliness toward Iran and Hamas while attempting to try Israel for genocide.
Rep. Steube detailed the various instances in which the South Africans have sided with the Iranians and Hamas.
In August 2023, South Africa signed an agreement with Iran to expand economic ties, while ten days after the horrific massacres of October 7th, South Africa's Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor spoke of her support for Hamas in a phone call, and the country received agents of the terror organization two months later in Johannesburg.
"It is clear as day that the Government of South Africa is unfairly targeting the State of Israel and inciting hostility towards the United States and our allies," the Florida Congressman said in his press release, adding, "South Africa's purported grievances against Israel are nothing more than antisemitism wrapped in a bad-faith interpretation of international law."
"America has no business engaging with a corrupt government that weaponizes its political system against the Jewish people while jeopardizing our national security interests by indulging terrorist organizations and their sponsors," Steube continued. "That is why I have proposed cutting off all direct assistance to South Africa and sanctioning their leaders until they stop abusing international institutions and catering to Iran and its terrorist proxies."
In May, President Donald Trump welcomed a small number of white South Africans into the United States as refugees, citing escalating fears of anti-white violence in the former apartheid state despite South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's denial.
