White’s Blood Is More Red Than the Blood of Other Race

Paris (Imran Y. CHOUDHRY) :- Former Press Secretary to the President, Former Press Minister to the Embassy of Pakistan to France, Former MD, SRBC Mr. Qamar Bashir analysis : Once upon a time, there was a land called South Africa, ruled not by its native people, but by a foreign settler minority—white colonialists—who built an inhuman and infamous system known as apartheid. Under this regime, white South Africans lived in opulence—villas, exclusive suburbs, and protected enclaves—while Black South Africans, the rightful heirs of the land, were confined to segregated, impoverished townships and were barred from entering the privileged zones without permits. They toiled in gold and diamond mines, built roads, fished, and farmed, creating the wealth that the white elite luxuriated in.
And then came Nelson Mandela, a beacon of resistance. He dared to challenge this brutal system and paid the price with 27 years in prison. But history turned. Under immense internal and global pressure, the apartheid regime finally crumbled in the early 1990s. In 1994, South Africa held its first multiracial elections, Mandela was elected president, and a new era of democracy and reconciliation began.
But history, as ever, is not done teaching us irony. On Wednesday, May 21, 2025, a disturbing diplomatic episode unfolded when South African President Cyril Ramaphosa visited Washington to reset U.S.–South Africa relations. But instead of a respectful bilateral engagement, the meeting was choreographed more like a royal tribunal—where Ramaphosa was treated not as a visiting head of state, but as a defendant. Under the full glare of the media and in front of Trump’s inner circle, he was subjected to a public interrogation, humiliation, and scolding—not based on verifiable facts, but on a highly edited and inflammatory video and selectively quoted Western media articles.
He was charged with allowing the persecution of white South Africans of Dutch descent—Afrikaners—under what Trump labeled a “white genocide movement.” Despite Ramaphosa’s composure and the presence of his multiracial delegation—including the white agriculture minister John Steenhuisen, golf icons Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, and billionaire Johann Rupert—Trump persisted in his denunciation, reminiscent of his earlier televised humiliation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump falsely alleged: “You’re taking people’s land away from them and those people in many cases are being executed. They’re being executed and they happen to be white.”
The king Trump intoxicated with power, issued his verdict: that all white families allegedly affected by the so-called genocide would be granted fast-tracked citizenship. This starkly contradicted his broader anti-immigration policies, under which thousands of asylum seekers from Central America, the Middle East, and Africa were detained, deported, or barred at the border. While Syrian, Afghan, and African refugees were branded threats, the white Afrikaners were welcomed with open arms.
Now, let us pivot to another chapter: Palestine. In 1948, following the horrors of World War II, Western powers carved out Israel in the heart of historic Palestine—a move that displaced over 750,000 Palestinians in what is known as the Nakba (catastrophe). Over decades, Israel expanded, annexing more than 85% of historic Palestine, confining Palestinians to slivers of land in Gaza and the West Bank, often surrounded by walls and military checkpoints, deprived of basic rights, water, and dignity.
Then came October 7, 2023. Hamas launched a surprise attack, killing around 1,200 Israelis. But what followed was a military onslaught by Israel of such intensity that the world had not seen in decades. By May 2025, over 75,000 Palestinians, including thousands of children, were reported killed in Gaza.
And how did the self-declared leader of the free world react? President Joe Biden the King at of that time, moved and apparently impressed by Israel’s genocide, flew to Tel Aviv, stood shoulder to shoulder with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and declared unwavering support for what many international observers and human rights organizations called the genocide of Palestinians. There were no red lines drawn, no threats of sanctions, and no outrage over the staggering toll of more than 75,000 Palestinian deaths. Instead, there were handshakes, pledges of solidarity, and red carpet receptions.
A tale of two leaders. Ramaphosa—scolded for being “soft” on violence allegedly committed by his people. Netanyahu—celebrated for perpetrating mass violence with American weapons against an occupied people.
Let us rewind history a little and examine how Asian and white refugees were treated by those nations that profess racial equality. When U.S. and NATO destroyed Iraq (2003), Libya (2011), and helped plunge Syria into endless war, they unleashed one of the largest refugee crises since World War II. Over 13 million Syrians were displaced. The bodies of children like Alan Kurdi, washed ashore on Turkish beaches, broke hearts but didn’t move Western policy. More than 20,000 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean since 2014, according to the International Organization for Migration. European borders closed. Camps like Moria in Greece became open-air prisons. Refugees were called “invaders” and “threats to Western civilization.”
Now contrast that with Ukraine. When Russia invaded in February 2022, the Western world sprang into action. Over 8 million Ukrainian refugees were welcomed with open arms. Germany, France, Poland, and the UK offered residency, work permits, education, and healthcare almost overnight. Biden pushed for billions in aid, including a fast-track path to U.S. resettlement. Ukrainian refugees were “Europeans,” “civilized,” and “like us,” as several European officials shockingly admitted on air. Their suffering mattered more.
Why this double standard? Because in the eyes of the West, especially its power centers, the value of life is racialized. White lives evoke emergency, solidarity, and action. Brown and Black lives, whether African, Arab, or South Asian, evoke suspicion, indifference, and restraint. The blood of the white man stains the conscience of the world. The blood of others barely makes headlines.
And thus, we return to the hypocrisy. A world where the apartheid of South Africa is a memory to be condemned, but the apartheid in Israel, as labeled by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, is funded and defended. A world where the United Nations resolutions on Palestine are ignored, while Russia is sanctioned for invading Ukraine. A world where Nelson Mandela is hailed, but Palestinian resistance is criminalized.
History has shown us that empires fall not from external threats, but from internal contradictions—from moral bankruptcy and hypocrisy. And unless these global double standards are confronted, the West risks losing not just its credibility, but its very soul.