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.

Overview of the Human Rights Council one day after the U.S. announced their withdraw at the United Nations in Geneva,
IRAQI JEWS in Israel protest their counterparts’ persecution under the Ba’ath regime. (Fritz Cohen)

Grandson of expelled Iraqi Jews sues French gov't for millions unpaid rent on house used as embassy

 Alan Yentob, from London, Broadcaster and Television Executive poses after being made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire at an Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London. Picture date: Wednesday December 18, 2024.

Alan Yentob, British Jewish broadcaster and former BBC controller, dies at 78

IRAQI JEWS in Israel protest their counterparts’ persecution under the Ba’ath regime. (Fritz Cohen)

'Ensuring their story is remembered': Report highlights forgotten exodus of Iraqi Jews


What do the 1941 Farhud and Sarona have in common?

The Jerusalem Post

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.

An Iraqi walks past a traditional house in Basra. In 1940, Jews of Iraq suffered an unprecedented pogrom that affect communities in Baghdad, Basra and elsewhere.

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.

A JEWISH shrine containing the tomb of the prophet Ezekiel in the Iraqi town of Kifl, south of Baghdad. The author describes his last Passover in Iraq.

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.

A PHOTO of displaced Iraqi Jews in 1951. The government hopes to give a voice to the story of the millions of Jewish refugees

My Neighbor Was Shot Last Weekend

The Jerusalem Post

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.

Ramshackle al-Rasheed Street, in the heart of old Baghdad.

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.

Iraqi MP Mithal al-Alusi

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.

Ramshackle al-Rasheed Street, in the heart of old Baghdad.

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.

Unveiling ceremony for memorial to Iranian Jews killed in Iran-Iraq war‏.

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.

The 'Prayer' monument in Ramat Gan, in memory of the Jews who were killed in the ‘Farhud’ Pogrom in Iraq.