Haaretz
'Cleansed by the Torah': Why These Afrikaners Converted to Judaism and Moved to Israel - Israel News - Haaretz.com
September 30, 2021 - From a Former Pentecostal Pastor to Entire Families, a Growing Number of Afrikaners Are Converting to Orthodox Judaism and Swapping South Africa for Israel – And, in Many Cases, West Bank Settlements
Middle East Eye
South Africans in Israel: A home away from home for white colonialists | Middle East Eye
October 22, 2021 - The Afrikaner Jan Smuts, South African prime minister (1919-1924 and 1939-1948) and the only person to sign both the treaty of Versailles and the UN Charter, was a major supporter of Zionist colonisation of Palestine, so much so, that socialist Zionist colonists in Palestine would later name ...
The Guardian
Brothers in arms - Israel's secret pact with Pretoria | Israel | The Guardian
March 26, 2019 - Within three decades of its birth, ... of the Jewish state became so intertwined with South Africa that the Israeli security establishment came to believe the relationship saved the Jewish state. Afrikaner anti-semitism Apartheid sought to segregate every aspect of life from the ...
ethnic subgroup
Wikipedia
South African Jews in Israel - Wikipedia
March 20, 2025 - A number of South African Jews settled in Israel, forming a South African community in Israel. Perhaps the most famous South African community founded in Israel is Savyon, which remains the wealthiest suburb in Israel.
Wikipedia
Israel–South Africa relations - Wikipedia
2 weeks ago - In 1947, South Africa voted in ... the racial policies of South Africa. But from 1967 onwards, Israel deepened relations with the apartheid South African regime, and maintained diplomatic relations with the "Bantustans"....
The Times of Israel
South Africa's chief rabbi lauds Trump but calls his Afrikaner refugee policy a 'mistake' | The Times of Israel
He called the rhetoric about a genocide against Afrikaners “absurd,” and speculated that there could be a connection between Trump’s policy and South Africa’s decision to file genocide charges against Israel at the International Court of Justice.
Quora
Do most Afrikaners have a positive view of Israel? - Quora
Answer (1 of 2): You have to understand that the Afrikaner(White) and Israelites story almost walks hand in hand, it doesn't make Afrikaners Isrealits but the true conservative Afrikaner is 100% with Israel , you must understand that the current government in south africa is not connected to the ...
Wikipedia
Afrikaner-Jews - Wikipedia
June 8, 2025 - Afrikaner-Jews (Afrikaans: Afrikaner-Jode, also called Boerejode) are Jewish Afrikaners. At the beginning of the 19th century, when greater freedom of religious practice was permitted in South Africa, small numbers of Ashkenazi Jews arrived from Britain and Germany.
JSTOR
The South Africanization of Israel on JSTOR
Brice Harris, Jr., The South Africanization of Israel, Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Summer 1984), pp. 169-189
Wikipedia
African Hebrew Israelites in Israel - Wikipedia
3 weeks ago - Believing that they were Jews by blood (i.e., through the Hebrews or Israelites), the community first settled in Liberia, where they were not welcomed by the Liberian government. Later moving to Israel, they were recognized as non-Jews by the Israeli government and by Israeli religious authorities.
Wikipedia
African immigration to Israel - Wikipedia
April 25, 2025 - The African refugee population in Israel is composed primarily of Sudanese and Eritrean refugees migrating to Israel through the Sinai Desert. Israeli policy concerning these refugees has evolved from a policy of neutrality to a policy of deterrence. These refugees began arriving in Israel ...
Indieskriflig
Israelvisie, die Nuwe Suid-Afrika en ‘Afrikaners’ | Meyfarth | In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi
When comparing the traditional ... to the teachings of Israel Vision (and British Israelism), the Caucasian people are what is referred to as the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel – the covenantal descendants of Abraham....
Institute for Palestine Studies
Israel and South Africa: A Comparison of Policies | Institute for Palestine Studies
The Israelis base their claim on the fact that Israel was the home of the Jews in Biblical times, from which they were driven by the Romans against their will. Afrikaners (Dutch-descended whites) argue that South Africa was empty when they arrived in the 1650's and that they have lived in Africa ...
Jewish Virtual Library
Israel Is Nothing Like the Afrikaner Government in South Africa
Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.
Haaretz
LISTEN: They Were Devout Christians in South Africa. Then They Discovered Judaism and Moved to Israel - Podcasts - Haaretz.com
October 4, 2021 - The Incredible Story of Hundreds of Afrikaners Who Converted to Judaism and Left South Africa to Move to Israel. Also: The Progressive Democrats Who Are Willing to Meet Israeli Left-wing Politicians – but Not in Public
Jacobin
Israel and Apartheid South Africa Were the Closest of Friends
Like the Zionists who claimed that ... so the Afrikaner settlers spread the myth that there were no black people in South Africa when they first settled in the seventeenth century. They conquered by force of arms and terror and the provocation of a series of bloody colonial wars of conquest. The relationship became so close by the mid-1970s that Israeli prime minister ...
Al Jazeera
Which countries have joined South Africa’s case against Israel at the ICJ? | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
June 6, 2024 - More than 10 countries are supporting South Africa’s genocide case against Israel’s actions in Gaza.
Reddit
r/Israel_Palestine on Reddit: 'Cleansed by the Torah': Why These Afrikaners Converted to Judaism and Moved to Israel
February 23, 2022 - The article is well worth reading in full, but some notable details include mention that hundreds of Afrikaners have coveted to Judaism in recent decades and moved to live ether within Israel or in illegal Israeli settlements throughout what little remains of Palestine.
Jewish Report
Afrikaans, Jewish, and on YouTube, advocating for Israel - Jewish Report
June 1, 2021 - A YouTube channel detailing the facts behind the conflict in Israel is going viral for its assertive unpacking of the context behind the headlines. However, the life story of its creator, Theo Kriel – an Afrikaans South African who was inspired to become an Orthodox Jew by two German Muslim ...
Wikipedia
History of the Jews in South Africa - Wikipedia
1 week ago - When the Afrikaner-dominated National Party came to power in 1948 it did not adopt an anti-Jewish policy despite its earlier position. In 1953 South Africa's Prime Minister, D. F. Malan, became the first foreign head of government to visit Israel though the trip was a "private visit" rather ...