Tag Archives: Jewish Refugees

“This is the untold story of the Jewish forgotten refugees. These Jews, who survived ethnic cleansing and were systematically expelled, were now forgotten” [VIDEO]

JERUSALEM POST Remembering the ethnic cleansing of the Middle East’s Jews by Tzahi Gavrieli November 29, 2017 My family was expelled from Iraq in 1951. My grandfather Haim owned a successful business with several trucks, while my grandmother Gazelle ran … Continue reading

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“The foreign policy failures of the Obama years are father to Trump’s callous treatment of refugees”

AMERICAN INTEREST The Refugee Ban and the Holocaust by Walter Russell Mead & Nicholas M. Gallagher January 28, 2017 …The refugee question is not the only uncomfortable parallel between the 1930s and our own time. The real problem in the … Continue reading

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Media Rule: Only talk about Palestinian refugees — never Jewish refugees

JERUSALEM POST Kurdistan holds first memorial ceremony marking 70 years since Jewish expulsion by Staff December 4, 2015 The Jewish Affairs Directorate of the Kurdistan Region Government (KRG) marked the 70th anniversary of the expulsion of Kurdish Jews by the … Continue reading

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Sephardic community commemorates the forgotten Jewish refugees

JUF NEWS by Lisa Pevtzow January 2015 ….In 1948, nearly a million Jews lived in Arab countries and Iran, which is ethnically Persian, not Arab. After the State of Israel was declared in 1948, a wave of anti-Zionism crested through … Continue reading

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Israel remembers plight of Jews who fled Arab world

UK YAHOO by Steve Weizman November 30, 2014 Israel on Sunday marked the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Arab countries after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. In a bid to draw attention to their plight, Israel formally marked … Continue reading

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