On November 18th, the Biden Administration rolled out a new round of sanctions against Jewish farmers and businesses. As I began to skim the list of names and businesses, I was immediately struck with shock as I realized I had met one of the farmers a week before.
Zohar Sabah: Is He a Violent and Destructive Settler? A wave of emotions occupied me as I realized the man whom I had met just a week before and had served me Turkish coffee and tea; the man who had introduced me to his family, whose daughter had turned three the same day I visited him; this man was sanctioned by the U.S. government. In the time I had spent at his farm, I had experienced nothing other than a loving husband and father who also loved the land that he called home.
After some research, a video surfaced of people from his farm going into a Bedouin village with clubs and harassing the “innocent” people living there. This was starkly different from the man I had met, so I commissioned myself to see if anything had led to this event.
Were His Actions Unjustified? Prior to the entrance of the Bedouin village, Palestinians from this village had attacked one of Zohar’s shepherds. During the attack, they had beaten him and inflicted a head injury. This is not the only instance of attacks on Jewish shepherds.
Some months before this attack, a 14 year-old boy was attacked and viciously murdered while shepherding his sheep.
Could this attack have been a reminder of the boy’s death and created a need to prevent this outcome from happening to his own shepherd or his young children? Only each individual is able to decide if Zohar’s actions were justified or not.
Some folks would say that an argument could still be made for the people who attacked Zohar’s shepherd:
“They have to attack Jews because they are under Israeli oppression.”
Let’s dig into why “Israeli oppression” isn’t actually the cause of violence in Judea and Samaria. . . . continue reading (5 min read)
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