Boers regarded the Old Testament God as a national figure like the Jews do

Evidence

24 “The God of the Old Testament has been to them almost as much a national figure as He has been to the Jews…I recall a memorable scene in a Cape Town club, where a bold Briton, dining by chance with three or four Dutchmen, ventured to observe that Christ was a non-European and that, legally speaking, he would have been a prohibited immigrant in the Union of South Africa. The Dutchmen were so electrified at the remark that they nearly fell off their chairs” (Barnes, op. cit., p. 33). — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2325

Categorization

• XREF: The fusion of biblical religion with national/racial identity is a building block for later Islamophobia readings that examine how religious identity is racialized.