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In reply to the discussion: Hundreds of rabbis accuse Mamdani of fueling antisemitism over 'monsters' comment [View all]Mossfern
(4,886 posts)133. And this?
AI Overview +1
Following the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, approximately 850,000 Jews were displaced from Arab nations. Driven by government-sanctioned persecution, anti-Jewish pogroms, and the freezing of assets, these ancient communities were uprooted and forced to leave their homes.The historical events surrounding the exodus varied by region:North Africa: Riots in Oujda and Djerada in 1948 killed 44 Jews, sparking a massive wave of emigration from Morocco to Israel, France, and the Americas.Iraq: Zionism was made a capital crime, and thousands of Jews were denaturalized and stripped of their assets before a mass airlift (Operation Ezra and Nehemiah) brought the vast majority to Israel.Egypt and Syria: Following the UN partition vote, violence broke out against Jewish quarters. The Egyptian government froze bank accounts, declared Zionism a crime, and arrested thousands, leading to a near-total collapse of the Egyptian Jewish community.Yemen: Bloody pogroms, such as the 1947 Aden riots, claimed dozens of lives and prompted the near-total migration of Yemenite Jews to Israel.To acknowledge this displacement and the loss of communal and individual assets, the State of Israel passed a law in 2014 establishing November 30 as an annual national day national day to commemorate the expulsion and exodus of Jews from Arab countries and Iran.For a more detailed breakdown of how this displacement affected individual nations, you can review the Fact Sheet on Jewish Refugees maintained by the Jewish Virtual Library.
What happened during the Jewish exodus from Arab countries in the 1940s-50s?
Tamar Goldsmith
BA in Hebrew Literature & Hebrew Linguistics, Tel Aviv University (Graduated 1975)1y
It was a forced exodus of Jews from 10 Arab states (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Aden, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco) after the 1948 war that ended with Israels victory. The Arabs took their anger on their own Jews by ending their employment, freezing their assets, harassing them, imprisoning suspected Zionists and basically forcing them out. 850,000 Jews had to leave with only one suitcase in their hand, and the rest of their property and money stayed behind to be repossessed by their former governments. Some of the expelled Jewish communities have been there more than a thousand years (like Iraq) and had deep routs in the place. Many of the expelled Jews held important positions in their home country and contributed a lot to their economy but it didnt matter, they were not wanted anymore. The majority of them settled in Israel, which was quite poor then, and ill-prepared to receive so many people at once. The arrival of the Jews from Arab states doubled the Jewish population in Israel overnight. Integration in their new country was hard, but over all it was worthy. Today, descendants of Jews from Arab states are the majority among the Jewish population in Israel.
I'm no trying to create any sort of competition about who was abused more or were the greater abusers, but it does help to understand the entire picture rather editing history to make a case.
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Hundreds of rabbis accuse Mamdani of fueling antisemitism over 'monsters' comment [View all]
question everything
Yesterday
OP
"Say no to AIPAC" is not aimed at just Jews, it's aimed at everyone
muriel_volestrangler
11 hrs ago
#72
People should not say "If the Jews would just do X, then people wouldn't hate them!"
muriel_volestrangler
8 hrs ago
#91
What Israel is doing in Lebanon and GAZA is genocide. AND I will vote in primaries for the candidate who does not
Demsrule86
6 hrs ago
#99
When people peddle in collective responsibility for hate received by an ethnic group
Sympthsical
6 hrs ago
#109
Sympthsical - you lumped me in with the assholes that attacked that Jewish man in the park.
AloeVera
2 hrs ago
#126
He should be brought to the Hague for Crimes against humanity. lebanese people and GAZA
Demsrule86
6 hrs ago
#100
You surely feel the same about the leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.
DavidDvorkin
4 hrs ago
#116
So, for you, the problem is not the ideology of AIPAC. It's just that it's not 100% successful.
Intractable
Yesterday
#12
Oh, how is it not the case? I see no argument here. Just a vacuous statement.
Intractable
Yesterday
#14
Your supposed "truth" is irrelevant and is a feeble distraction from the main point.
Intractable
Yesterday
#19
You keep pointing at who is funding it when many people other than Jewish people fund it also.
Eko
Yesterday
#25
I've been reading his posts for years now. There's no misunderstanding from either of us.
Intractable
21 hrs ago
#52
Sometime, probably soon. The rabbis will learn the US ain't taking it so much anymore.
31j20b3
Yesterday
#11
Muslims are persecuted in Israel and what has been done in GAZA is a disgrace.
Demsrule86
6 hrs ago
#106
I am well aware of the expulsion of Palestinians as well as their leaving voluntarily during the 1948 war.
Mossfern
11 hrs ago
#71
700,000 Palestinians were expelled or fled, never allowed to return to this day.
AloeVera
1 hr ago
#130
US Gentiles have no problem with the Jewish population. In fact we love and welcome you to the Democratic Party
hookaleft
Yesterday
#33
Mamdani accused AIPAC of pouring "millions of dark-money dollars" into efforts to turn the public against itself.
Nanjeanne
Yesterday
#16
What fuels antisemitism is people like them conflating Jews and Israel/AIPAC
RockRaven
Yesterday
#27
not just centrist and conservative Dems but also hard RWer MAGAt rethugs, including 2020 seditionists and traitors
Celerity
20 hrs ago
#59
Having not given it any thought - woah on supporting those Republicans! TY 4 info.
electric_blue68
5 hrs ago
#112
The I/P forum tries hard to host these kinds of discussions, but in reality the independent forums
hlthe2b
7 hrs ago
#96
Israel is involved in Genocide. They must be called out. And a fair number of those
Demsrule86
6 hrs ago
#104
Well it hurts feelings when a message that's cherished and been pushed all your life
31j20b3
5 hrs ago
#111