Cleansed by the Torah’: Why These Afrikaners Converted to Judaism and Moved to Israel

Among the first Afrikaner converts to make aliyah were the Taljaards from Randfontein, a gold-mining city near Johannesburg. They came in the mid-1990s and began raising sheep in the settlement of Susya, where they were often involved in violent clashes with Palestinians from nearby villages in the South Hebron Hills. Jacob, the eldest of 14 children in the family, was killed in a tractor accident several years ago. He once famously told an Israeli television reporter that he “loved” the apartheid system and thought it was “the best thing in the world.”

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This has been reported by B’Tselem an Israeli human rights organization https://www.btselem.org/publications/202408_welcome_to_hell

As a Rabbi Raised in South Africa, I Can’t Ignore Israel Is an Apartheid State

They have been running concentration and labor camps since 1948

https://israelpalestinenews.org/israels-little-known-concentration-and-labor-camps-1948-1955/

Israeli journalist and author Gideon Levy in 2015 explains how Israelis do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EtNFXL_ykg

tl;dw: they don’t see Palestinians as humans

Here’s another quote where he was more honest [emphasis mine]:

[It is the] iron law of every colonizing movement, a law which knows of no exceptions, a law which existed in all times and under all circumstances. If you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living, you must provide a garrison on your behalf. Or else – or else, give up your colonization, for without an armed force which will render physically impossible any attempts to destroy or prevent this colonization, colonization is impossible, not “difficult”, not “dangerous” but IMPOSSIBLE! … Zionism is a colonizing adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force. It is important to build, it is important to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot – or else I am through with playing at colonialization.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ze'ev_Jabotinsky

Yet, nearly half the comments here blame the Palestinians for the natural response Jabotinsky accurately predicted.

Killing the negotiator… Zionists never wanted peace, not even in 1923.

Why did the Greeks, Persians and Romans want it when they were pagan? and the Egyptians long before them.

Trade routes, natural resource, strategic location, …

worked

is doing a lot of lifting

This tacit racism and ahistorical bigotry gets upvoted. Just awful. Western meddling and Zionism is the cause.

No it hasn’t, only since WW1 due to Western meddling.

Europe has a history of more brutal and longer wars. They even brought some wars our way during the Crusades.

The conditions of the US and Iran aren’t the same. Iran has been one of the most consistent and reliable supporters of Palestine since 1979. Also, Palestinians don’t want to leave Palestine. In fact, Palestinian diaspora wants to return.

The Middle East has been a powder keg for a long time,

no, only since WW1 due to French and British designs, and since WW2 due to US and Israel

It is also ironic that a lot of this bigotry is coming from some of the most violent people throughout history, even in peaceful times

What would you say is the defining factor for those competing nationalisms?

indigenous vs. people from Ukraine and Poland

Sabaya is plural for captives and is genderless, both male and female captives are Sabaya

You don’t have to take my word for it https://translate.google.com/?sl=ar&tl=en&text=سبايا&op=translate

The dictionary definition is:

سَبْي [مفرد]: الجمع: سُبِيّ (لغير المصدر): 1- مصدر سبَى. 2- مأسور “رجلٌ سَبْيٌ”. • السَّبْي: النِّساءُ؛ لأنهنّ يأسرن القلوب، أو لأنهنّ يُسْبَين. II سَبِيّ [مفرد]: الجمع: سَبايا، مؤنث: سَبِيّة وسَبِيّ، جمع مؤنث سَبايا: صفة ثابتة للمفعول من سبَى: مأسور، أسير “أُخذت نساءُ الأعداء سَبايا”.

The definition applies to men and women clearly. 2- مأسور “رجلٌ سَبْيٌ”.

Literally the word means taking something from a place to another, the below example shows how “wine” can be a sabyyah (feminine singular of sabaya) if it is carried from one country to another سَبَى الخَمْرَ،

السَّبْيُ: أَخْذُ شَيْءٍ مِنْ بَلَدٍ إلى بَلَدٍ آخَرَ قَهْراً، يُقال: سَبَى الخَمْرَ، يَسْبِيها، سَبْياً، أيْ: حَمَلَها مِنْ بَلَدٍ إلى بَلَدٍ. ويأْتي السَّبْيُ بِـمعنى الأسْرِ، يُقالُ: سَبَى العَدُوَّ سَبْياً وسِباءً: إذا أَسَرَهُ وأَخَذَهُ قَهْراً، فهو سَبِيٌّ، والأُنْثَى سَبِيَّةٌ ومَسْبِيَّةٌ، والنِّسْوَةُ سَبايا. ومِن مَعانيهِ أيضاً: الإِبْعادُ، ومِنْهُ قَوْلُهُم: سَباكَ اللهُ، أيْ: أَبْعَدَكَ.

The Arabic words for female slave are amat أمة and jariyat جارية , plural إماء Imaa’ and جواري Jawari