Former Slave Simon Deng Stands with Israel

On July 21, 2024, Simon Aban Deng, enslaved as a child in the 1960s during the First Sudanese Civil War, spoke at a rally for Israel in Washington Square Park in New York City. He expressed his deep love for the Jewish people - but, far more profoundly, also declared that “what happened to your peoples” on October 7 “happened to my peoples [a] long time before.”
Between 1955 and 1972 and again between 1983 and 2005, Arabs from the north of Sudan embarked on two genocidal jihads against their black Christian neighbors in the south. The first war claimed the lives of around 1.5 million, and the second perhaps 2 million, along with approximately 200,000 taken as slaves. No one knows how many Africans were enslaved in the first conflict, but one of them was Simon, then aged nine.
The way the Arabs committed genocide in Sudan - as well as throughout Africa - was by means of what Jews endured on October 7, 2023. Surprise dawn massacres complete with gang rape, burning of both houses and people, and the taking of slave captives. Such atrocities have been happening in Africa since the 640s C.E., when Muslim invaders first penetrated into continental Africa.
As Simon shows, blacks and Jews have an unconquerable bond, sadly forged in tears and bondage.
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Thank you Simon for your passion your bravery and your trhth telling May God bless you and protect you