AFDI Sponsors South Sudanese Solidarity Trip to Israel

In December, the American Freedom Defense Initiative sent the courageous South Sudanese freedom fighter Simon Deng and a group of his countrymen to Israel to show their solidarity with the Israeli people in their hour of need.

Simon Deng explained: “Their pain is our pain. As a friend, I have to be there when they need me. It was important to me to show solidarity as an African, especially now after the October 7 attacks, and as opposed to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and the South African Communist leader Julius Malema, who have called Israel an apartheid state. Malema has organized hundreds of thousands of Africans to denounce Israel for it is alleged practice of apartheid. To me, this is an insult to the Africans who were victims of genuine apartheid. We wanted to show Israelis that when they hear those voices of denunciation, there are also voices on their side.”

Simon also said: “In 1969, when southern Sudan needed defense against jihadis, when 1,500,000 southern Sudanese were slaughtered by Muslims in the name of apartheid and enslavement, only Israel came to our aid. So as a victim of Islamization and enslavement myself, I couldn’t stand by and say nothing. When people are kidnapped and brutalized by people screaming ‘Allahu akbar,’ I know what that means. And so that is the purpose of our mission in Israel: to stand with the Israelis in this time of crisis.”

The South Sudanese also traveled to cities in southern Israel, offering aid to those who have been hit hardest by Hamas’ demonic Oct. 7 attack. At one farm that had no workers, as they have all gone to fight in the war, the South Sudanese offered their services for free. Simon noted: “The farmers could not believe the intense love of people they don’t even know, for them and for the entirety of the land of Israel. They were in tears, as was I. For me to witness that, as a friend of the Jewish community, was an extraordinarily powerful experience. I hope that I was able to contribute something, along with my fellow South Sudanese, because of our great love for Israel.”

The South Sudanese walked the forty-one miles from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, carrying Israeli flags and showing their solidarity with the Israeli people. Simon Deng says that the walk took two days and was “very intense.” The South Sudanese, as well as many onlookers, were overcome with powerful emotions as they traversed the Jewish state. Simon stated that numerous people stopped along the highway to thank the South Sudanese for their demonstration of support, which is so rare in these days in which the world is inundated with anti-Israel propaganda.

Gd bless Simon Deng and the others in this heroic and generous South Sudanese delegation. The whole world should join them.

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