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The narratives of the departure of the Jews from Arab lands differ in detail by country, and from one family to another, but in the substance the stories are similar. On November 30 Israel commemorates the expulsion of the Jews from Arab lands.
On June 23, 2014 the Knesset adopted a law which designates November 30th as an annual, national day of commemoration for the 850,000 Jewish refugees who were displaced from Arab countries and Iran in the 20th century.
Jews had lived in the Arab lands for thousands of years, and many of their communities preceded the advent of Islam. But in the 20th century, with the rise of Arab nationalism and the conflict in Palestine, the new Arab regimes began a campaign of massive violations of the rights of their Jewish citizens. Arab states expropriated property of their native Jews, and denaturalized, expelled, arrested, tortured and murdered many of them.
The narratives of the departure of the Jews from Arab lands differ in detail by country, and from one family to another, but in the substance the stories are similar.
The Jewish community of Iraq had existed for more than 2,500 years and were a cultural center of Judaism where the Babylonian Talmud was written and compiled. This ancient community came under attack from the Iraqi government in the wake of the establishment of Israel, and was expelled, after being physically attacked with many fatalities, and their property and assets confiscated. In this film, Aharon Abudi, tells the story of his upbringing in Iraq, and the story of his family, through the Farhud pogrom and expulsion, their absorption in Israel and a life rebuilt from the ruins.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Remembrance Day what else there the ones that caused it you can read books on the subject it’s like killing
Someone and attending his
Funeral
The Zionists don’t mention the various misdeeds of Zionism in this whole parsha, just as in the Holocaust.
They also don’t mention that the Zionists usurped the land of Israel to create their State of Israel – solely for the purpose of shmad, to turn the Jewish people into yet another one of Esav’s nations – when the Zionists knew full well how dangerous and foolhardy this was to Jews worldwide.
But that perfectly served the Zionists’ evil purpose, that they could then lie to Jews that the only place for them is with the Zionists.
Like the arsonist who then wanted to be the firefighter.