Antisemitic posts from a white South African granted refugee status by the Trump administration resurfaced online Wednesday.
On Monday, 59 Afrikaner refugees arrived in the United States, including Charl Kleinhaus, 46, whose social media activity would’ve gotten him deported or barred from entering the country under the Trump administration if he was……not white.
In April 2023, Kleinhaus called Jews “untrustworthy” and “dangerous” in response to a video of Christians clashing with Israeli police on their way to the Church of Nativity.
“Jews are untrustworthy and a dangerous group they are not Gods chosen like to believe they are,” he wrote. “Where is the Temple that must be their concern leave us alone we all believe in the God of Abraham , Moses and Jacob ! I almost said something ugly..”
On Oct.7, 2023, following the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel, Kleinhaus posted a video with the caption ‘Jews spitting on Christians’. Five days later he posted another video showing clashes between Christians and Israeli police, writing: “Jews attacking Christians!” according to The Bulwark
Kleinhaus, who has since been resettled in Buffalo, New York, with his daughter, son and grandson, confirmed to the Bulwark that it is his social media account.
This comes as the Trump administration announced just last month that they will begin considering “antisemitic activity on social media” as grounds for denying immigration requests.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio also argued in court that pro-Palestine Columbia University student protester Mahmoud Khalil should not be allowed to remain in the U.S. because it would create a “hostile environment for Jewish students in the United States.”
“The foreign policy of the United States champions core American interests and American citizens and condoning antisemitic conduct and disruptive protests in the United States would severely undermine that significant foreign policy objective,” he wrote in a memo.
[Featured image: Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau (R) addresses the first group of Afrikaners to arrive in the United States for resettlement (Photo:SAUL LOEB / AFP)]
