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Charl Kleinhaus', white South African who received asylum, media posts
https://forward.com/fast-forward/720109/charl-kleinhaus-south-africa-refugee-trump-antisemitism/Kleinhaus, a 46-year-old farmer, told reporters that threats to his life and land forced him to flee. “We just packed our bags and left,” he said. He arrived Monday with his daughter, son, and grandson, and is being resettled in Buffalo, New York.
A social media account that appears to match his identity tells a more complicated story than the one stamped on his immigration papers. It is filled with prayers for Israel and biblical affirmations — alongside posts accusing Jews of being “dangerous” and promoting conspiracy theories long recognized as antisemitic
The Bulwark news site said it reached out to Kleinhaus on LinkedIn and confirmed that the X account belongs to him. A post from April 2023, which was deleted on Wednesday, reads: “Jews are untrustworthy and a dangerous group. They are not Gods chosen like to believe they are,” adding: “Leave us alone. We all believe in the God of Abraham, Moses and Jacob.”
A now-deleted post from a social media account associated with Charl Kleinhaus. Courtesy of X
The user reposted a graphic from July 2024 claiming that Jews believe Jesus performed “miracles by the power of the devil” and is now “in boiling excrement in Hell.”
He has reposted content from Stew Peters, a popular podcast host and Holocaust denier, in which Peters talked about “an Israeli-funded media” and called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “homosexual Jew that plays the piano with his penis.”
The same Peters video referenced the Rothschilds, a prominent Jewish banking family that is often invoked in antisemitic conspiracy theories, and also called the Israeli military “war criminals” and the country a “fake” one founded in 1948 and is “not the Israel of the Bible and these are not the Jews that Jesus was speaking of.”
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