The injustice meted out by Arab Strongmen in the fifties and sixties, on their respective Jewish populations, should be acknowledged by the newly minted governments of the Arab spring. Just like Gaza and the West Bank, Northern Israel is filled with the slighted and the forgotten. And ironically Brooklyn New York is filled with both slighted/forgotten peoples. Although, I disagree with the article’s inclusion of Morocco, its thriving Jewry refutes said statement. It’s not too late to remember the Jewish Nakba The tragedy (or ‘Nakba’) of the Jews from Arab countries has been ignored - but it is not too late to remember it, argues Iraq-born Zvi Gabay in the Israeli daily Maariv (with thanks: Yoram):Every year, in late January, the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center in Or Yehuda holds a modest memorial ceremony for the 80 Jews in Iraq who laid down their lives since the creation of Israel. They were hanged, tortured or died during the flight to Israel.Jews experienced similar serious tragedies in all the Arab countries: Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Syria and Yemen. Many Jews gave their lives before the establishment of Israel, and after the establishment lost their lives in retaliation for the triumph of Israel over the Arab armies on the battlefield.On the eve of Israeli independence, there was an atmosphere of anti - Jewish terror in all the Arab states, accompanied by impassioned anti-Jewish declarations on the UN stage. There followed severe harassment by the authorities and personal injury and violence from the masses.All these factors forced Arab Jews to escape and emigrate from Arab countries, while leaving private property and assets of their communities behind. Today there are few Jews in Arab countries out of a population of one million with the state. There are few who remember the terrible human tragedies suffered by the Jews in Arab countries. It is a disaster almost forgotten, not taught properly in schools, not discussed in the media, not referred to in state and UN institutions.About half the population of Israel originated in Arab countries where Jews lived for thousands of years, but few in the world know about it. Arab propaganda has managed to eliminate the population exchange in international discourse. Picture: Emmanuelle Chriqui is probably the most popular Arab Jew in American pop-culture. 
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The injustice meted out by Arab Strongmen in the fifties and sixties, on their respective Jewish populations, should be acknowledged by the newly minted governments of the Arab spring. Just like Gaza and the West Bank, Northern Israel is filled with the slighted and the forgotten. And ironically Brooklyn New York is filled with both slighted/forgotten peoples.

Although, I disagree with the article’s inclusion of Morocco, its thriving Jewry refutes said statement.

It’s not too late to remember the Jewish Nakba

The tragedy (or ‘Nakba’) of the Jews from Arab countries has been ignored - but it is not too late to remember it, argues Iraq-born Zvi Gabay in the Israeli daily Maariv (with thanks: Yoram):

Every year, in late January, the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center in Or Yehuda holds a modest memorial ceremony for the 80 Jews in Iraq who laid down their lives since the creation of Israel. They were hanged, tortured or died during the flight to Israel.

Jews experienced similar serious tragedies in all the Arab countries: Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Syria and Yemen. Many Jews gave their lives before the establishment of Israel, and after the establishment lost their lives in retaliation for the triumph of Israel over the Arab armies on the battlefield.

On the eve of Israeli independence, there was an atmosphere of anti - Jewish terror in all the Arab states, accompanied by impassioned anti-Jewish declarations on the UN stage. There followed severe harassment by the authorities and personal injury and violence from the masses.

All these factors forced Arab Jews to escape and emigrate from Arab countries, while leaving private property and assets of their communities behind. Today there are few Jews in Arab countries out of a population of one million with the state.

There are few who remember the terrible human tragedies suffered by the Jews in Arab countries. It is a disaster almost forgotten, not taught properly in schools, not discussed in the media, not referred to in state and UN institutions.

About half the population of Israel originated in Arab countries where Jews lived for thousands of years, but few in the world know about it. Arab propaganda has managed to eliminate the population exchange in international discourse.

Picture: Emmanuelle Chriqui is probably the most popular Arab Jew in American pop-culture. 

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