Rep. Jonathan L. Jackson, you claim H.R. 2633 is driven by “Extreme MAGA ideology” and falsely asserts there’s no “white genocide” in South Africa. Let’s tear this apart with precision, exposing the flaws, omissions, and dangerous implications of this narrative while addressing the claim of intent behind violence against white South Africans, particularly farmers. My response will be grounded in evidence, and unapologetic in calling out the denialism.
Your statement, Representative Jackson, is a masterclass in willful ignorance, draped in the sanctimonious garb of diplomacy. You dismiss the notion of “white genocide” in South Africa as a “false narrative” peddled by “Extreme MAGA ideology,” but let’s cut through the political posturing and face the blood-soaked reality. The term “genocide” doesn’t require gas chambers or state-orchestrated mass graves to apply; it demands intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a racial or ethnic group, as per the UN’s 1948 definition.
South Africa’s white farmers, particularly Afrikaners, are enduring a relentless wave of brutal attacks that bear the hallmarks of targeted, racially motivated violence. To call this a “false narrative” is to spit in the face of the victims and their families while clutching pearls over diplomatic niceties. Let’s start with the numbers. South Africa’s farm attacks are not random crimes, as you’d conveniently have us believe. Between 1994 and 2025, thousands of white farmers have been murdered; estimates over 4,000, depending on the source, with groups like AfriForum documenting over 500 attacks annually in recent years. These aren’t petty thefts gone wrong. These are the stats for only farm murders, not daily targeted crimes against the minority in their homes, gardens or on the roads.
Victims are often tortured, mutilated, and killed in ways that scream sadistic intent; burned with irons, hacked with machetes, or boiled alive. The perpetrators frequently leave behind racial slurs or messages like “Kill the Boer,” a chant popularized by figures like Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters who the President of South Africa fails to condemn. This isn’t “crime” in a vacuum; it’s a pattern dripping with ethnic hatred, fueled by decades of anti-white rhetoric from political leaders who’ve normalized scapegoating Afrikaners for South Africa’s woes.
You claim there’s no “credibility” to the genocide narrative, but you ignore the voices of those on the ground. Afrikaner advocacy groups like Solidarity and AfriForum have documented cases where police underreport farm murders, sometimes logging only one when eight occur in a single quarter. The South African government’s own statistics show 6,953 homicides in just three months of 2025, with farm attacks disproportionately targeting white farmers, who make up less than 7% of the population yet own much of the agricultural land. This land, you’ll note, is now subject to the Expropriation Act 13 of 2024, which allows seizure without compensation; a policy that, paired with violent attacks, smells suspiciously like ethnic cleansing dressed up as “redress.” If this isn’t intent to dismantle a community, what is?
Your dismissal of “white genocide” as a MAGA fever dream conveniently sidesteps the cultural and political kindling stoking these fires. Songs like “Kill the Boer” aren’t abstract poetry; they’re incitement, chanted at rallies and echoed in the actions of attackers. When ANC leaders like Nomvula Mokonyane joke about renaming streets after terrorists like Leila Khaled, or when the government pursues policies that disproportionately strip white farmers of their livelihoods, you don’t get to feign shock at the resulting violence. The intent is clear: erode the economic and physical security of a racial minority, then call it “justice.” The UN’s genocide definition doesn’t require a signed manifesto, just acts committed with intent to destroy a group. The systematic targeting of white farmers, coupled with state inaction and inflammatory rhetoric, fits that bill far better than your sanitized version of “progress.”
And let’s talk about your “diplomacy” fetish. You wax poetic about “decades of diplomatic progress” with South Africa, but what progress? The same South Africa that accuses Israel of genocide while cozying up to Iran and China? The same South Africa that slashed Taiwan’s diplomatic presence? This isn’t a beacon of democracy; it’s a nation teetering on the edge of failed-state status, with a murder rate among the highest globally; 54 per 100,000 people in 2023. White farmers aren’t the only victims, sure, but they’re targeted at a rate wildly disproportionate to their numbers, and the government’s response is a shrug at best, complicity at worst. Your call for “mutual respect” rings hollow when South Africa’s leaders cheer policies and rhetoric that dehumanize an entire ethnic group.
You brand H.R. 2633 as “Extreme MAGA ideology,” but that’s just condescending name-calling to dodge the bill’s substance. It calls for a review of US-South Africa relations and sanctions against ANC leaders for human rights abuses and corruption; hardly the stuff of tinfoil hats. The bill responds to real concerns: South Africa’s drift toward authoritarianism, its alignment with US adversaries, and its failure to protect a vulnerable minority. You claim it “risks dismantling” ties, but maybe those ties need a hard reset when they’re built on ignoring atrocities. Diplomacy that sweeps murder under the rug isn’t progress; it’s cowardice.
The “white genocide” narrative isn’t about claiming every crime in South Africa is a hate crime; it’s about recognizing a pattern of violence, enabled by political rhetoric and policy, that targets a specific group with chilling consistency. Denying this isn’t just naive; it’s a betrayal of the truth for the sake of political points. You stand before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, waving the flag of “shared values,” but what values are shared when a government turns a blind eye to the slaughter of its citizens based on their race? The real false narrative is your insistence that this is all a MAGA fantasy. Tell that to the families burying their loved ones, or the farmers arming themselves because the state won’t protect them. Your words don’t just dismiss their suffering, they embolden the killers.
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