Iraqi jews
Thousands of Middle East Jewish refugees lost est. $263 billion in assets, researchers show UNHRC
The report details how systematic state oppression, pogroms, and expulsions depopulated the nearly one million Jews of the Middle East.
Grandson of expelled Iraqi Jews sues French gov't for millions unpaid rent on house used as embassy
Alan Yentob, British Jewish broadcaster and former BBC controller, dies at 78
'Ensuring their story is remembered': Report highlights forgotten exodus of Iraqi Jews
What do the 1941 Farhud and Sarona have in common?
Days of catastrophe in Baghdad
Two days in 1941 led directly to the violent expulsion of 120,000 Iraqi Jews from their land, the confiscation of their property and possessions.
The ‘farhud’ – the riots against the Jews of Iraq
Not only the Palestinian Arabs suffered a nakba; the Jews of the Arab world had their own catastrophe.
The ‘farhud’ – the riots against the Jews of Iraq
Shavuot falls on the 75th anniversary of the cruel and bloody riots against the small Jewish community in Iraq.
My Neighbor Was Shot Last Weekend
The expulsion of Baghdad’s Jews and the unraveling of the Middle East
Some 60 years later, in Baghdad the Jews are a ghostly memory.
Iraqi MP: 'Iraq should establish ties with Israel, we share interests'
Mithal al-Alusi further slammed the Arab World for not recognizing the Islamic State as an Arab-Islamic creation and chided his colleagues for blaming its creation on the West and on Israel.
Only the ghosts remain
Their expulsion of the Jews of Baghdad was the first tug on the complex fabric of the Middle East that later unraveled in its entirety.
The quagmire that once was the fertile crescent
The Jewish minority became one of the most important bulwarks of the national economy, commerce and administration , and left an indelible imprint on Iraqi life.
When Baghdad burned
Against the backdrop of the Holocaust, the June 1941 Farhud Massacre was perpetrated upon the unprepared Iraqi Jews – as the British stood by and did nothing.