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Social Equality Minister Gila Gamliel. Nowadays, it is estimated that only around 15, remain, as the majority of the Jewish population in Muslim lands were forced to flee their homes in the years following the establishment of the State of Israel. For over 2, years, Jews lived continuously in North Africa, the Middle East and the Gulf region the first Jewish population had already settled there at least 1, years before the advent of Islam.
Throughout the generations, Jews in the region were often subjected to various forms of discrimination -- and in many cases, ranked lower on the status of society than their Muslim compatriots -- but they were nevertheless loyal citizens who contributed significantly to the culture and development of their respective countries.
Despite the positive influence that Jews brought to the places where they lived, more than , Jews were forced to leave their homes in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Morocco, and several other Arab countries in the 20 years that followed the Arab-Israeli war of There is ample evidence that this conduct against Jews was orchestrated in tandem as a joint effort of all the involved Arab countries.
Among the events preceding the expulsion were: a The drafting of a Law by the Political Committee of the Arab League that recommended a coordinated strategy of repressive measures against Jews; b strikingly similar legislation and discriminatory decrees, enacted by numerous Arab governments, that violated the fundamental rights and freedoms of Jews resident in Arab countries; c statements made by delegates of Arab countries at the U.
In , the Political Committee of the Arab League League of Arab States drafted a law that was to govern the legal status of Jewish residents in all of its member states. In a key address to the Political Committee of the U. If the United Nations decided to partition Palestine they might be responsible for very grave disorders and for the massacre of a large number of Jews.
This is a very meaningful and deep aspect of the current political problem, which we cannot allow ourselves to ignore. Without understanding this, it is impossible to understand the conflict.
Then why is it not dealt with more by academics and the press? For the Arab world, this should come as no surprise, as self-criticism is not popular among Arab journalists, intellectuals and public-opinion leaders.
With the exception of a very short incidental note by [the late Prof. This subject might upset their one-sided worldview, so they simply avoid it. He ignores the role played by the Zionist movement in undermining the relations between Jews and Muslims in the Arab countries.
Or the Jews of Morocco, who were not allowed to leave after Morocco became independent. No one was allowed to leave Morocco in those years unless he was close to and well connected with the authorities. The Zionists had to use the Jews of the United States and the administration in Washington to bring pressure to bear on the palace in Morocco to allow the Jews to leave after Why not talk about the years before Moroccan independence, when [Prime Minister David] Ben-Gurion could have brought all the Jews of Morocco to Israel, but took fright and chose to conduct a racist selection in which the strength of their muscles and the width of their shoulders were measured!
This was all done by good Zionists, and I am not saying anything new here. And above all, the life of the Jews in the Islamic countries was never the hell of the Jews of Europe. Never at any point in history. The Jews from the Islamic lands came to Israel out of love. Not because of hatred, not because of persecution and not for revenge.
Only for love of the Land of Israel. Adi Schwartz May. Updated: Apr. Get email notification for articles from Adi Schwartz Follow. Open gallery view. Nathan Weinstock. These words, despite their apologetic tones, were not far from the truth. The attitudes shown by several prominent figures and religious groups in the region, and the pressure exerted by the Porte so that local Jews could become full Ottoman citizens, give credit — at least as a general tendency — to such a consideration.
We were like one family […] Our children played with their [Muslim] children in the yard, and if children from the neighborhood hurt us the Muslim children who lived in our compound protected us.
They were our allies. In the same period, in a religious city par excellence such as Jerusalem, almost 80 percent of the inhabitants lived in mixed neighbourhoods and quarters. Cleavages and clashes of this type can be documented as early as the Middle Ages.
Yet, their nature and scope are hardly comparable to those of more recent times. Indeed, thousands of Jews in Arab countries suffered discrimination, oppression, threats and various forms of violence. The most well-known example is the Farhud — a pogrom against Jews in which over Jews were brutally killed in Baghdad. They may be Arab, but they were and are not the same people as Iraqis.
Jews who suffered discrimination and brutality in certain Arab countries have legitimate claims; all forms of violence are equally unacceptable and must be acknowledged and condemned. In , al-Husayni made his way first to Italy and then to Germany. Two years later, h e participated in the formation of the Handschar, a Nazi division created in collaboration with SS commander Heinrich Himmler, which fought the communist partisans in Yugoslavia and committed various crimes against the local population, including many Jews.
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