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This year, on Holocaust Memorial Day, educators are wringing their hands in despair. Eighty years of Holocaust education have failed, they lament, as antisemitism skyrockets. Read article in full

Let solidarity turn into political action. Read article in full The photo shows Jews and Kurds at a meeting organised by the Jewish-Kurdish network in a UK parliamentary committee room […]

It was in 1974 that I took a flight from Tel Aviv to Tehran. You could in those days. Read article in full    

The story of MENA Jews is a vital part of Jewish history . Every Jew needs to think of him or herself as if he or she came out of […]

The film Sleeping with the SS  tells the true story of Ziko, a young orphan from Salonika, in an engaging way. Read article in full

In this case, by Arabs. Why are there so few such voices, while Western far-leftists, in alliance with Islamists, almost all traffic lies about Israel or Jews? Read article in […]

The Baghdad bombings are back in the news. A scurrilous article by Haaretz has breathed new life into the allegation, strenuously demied, that Mossad mounted a false flag operation to […]

Have the British learned nothing since the anti-Jewish riots in Libya in the 1940s? Read article in full

An Imam is emboldened to rewrite history. Read article in full

For 100 years, the community led a double life; in so doing, its members managed to preserve their identity. Read article in full

The devastating attack on the Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester, in which a terrorist murdered two Jews and injured four others, has elicited shock and condemnation. Politicians and civic leaders have […]

Muslim states have a dishonourable tradition of scapegoating Jews   Read article in full The photo is of Norman Solomon

The UK, France and other western countries have been suckered into advocating for the destruction of the Jewish state (See article 39 of the UN resolution). While the Right of […]

Flirting with the right might not be the answer to Israel’s isolation Read article in full

Epithets such as genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and colonialism, trafficked on campus and by liberal elites, have attached themselves to the tiny Jewish state and seem impossible to dislodge. But […]

Was 7 October really the greatest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust? Since 2015, conclusive proof has emerged that the largest and most barbaric postwar massacre of Jews actually took […]

Two sets of refugees – Arab and Jewish –  exchanged places in  the Arab-Israeli conflict but the Arab side perpetuates war by refusing resettlement: Read article in full

First they came for the Alawites, then they came for the Christians. Now they are coming for the Druze. Ever since regime change in Syria last December, the country had not exactly offered safety to […]

A majority of Jews in Iran supported the Shah’s regime. He  was deposed in 1979 by the Islamic Revolution. This did not prevent the community from making overtures to the […]

“France has occupied a stolen Jewish property for 50 years in full knowledge of the fact,” says attorney for family that fled Iraq in the 1950s and owned the property […]

Jewish memory has an important role to play: it affirms that Jews once lived in Arab and Muslim countries, a millennial history that is continuously being erased or denied.  But […]

True ethnic cleansing is what happened to the Jews, 99% of whom were driven out of their pre-Islamic communities in a single generation. On October 7, 2023, Hamas just sought […]

Double standards are at work when it comes to the resettlement of Middle Eastern refugees. Read article in full  

Population exchanges have been the norm after conflicts in the 20th century. Read article in full

The Syrian Jewish population was successfully removed – all but nine Jews. So why is the Western press intent on depicting a sizable, functioning community? Read article in full

It’s too late to save the Jews of Syria, but the burning of a Christmas tree by gunmen in the Syrian city of Hama is a sinister portent of what minorities […]

  We can only surmise that Shlaim is using Zionism as a scapegoat for his exiled family’s trials and tribulations. Read article in full  

In the case of the violent riots targeting the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans in Amsterdam, were the police incompetent or did they fail to act by design? Read article in […]

The Farhud massacre of 1941 was a watershed for Jews in Iraq, sounding the death knell for the community.  It is only in the last 15 years that the term […]

The stark truth is that there can be no compromise with jihadis who want Jews dead. But it is a truth that cannot be ever spelled out, because it contradicts the narrative  […]

Holocaust education needs to teach about the direct link between Nazism and the genocidal ideology of Hamas. Read article in full The photo shows Arab fighters,  including the pro-Nazi Fawzi […]

Historian Avi Shlaim is giving oxygen to the false claim that “Zionists” committed bombings in 1950 and 1951 to make the Jews leave Iraq. Read article in full

The 19th century Sephardi pioneers – who built the land of Israel before the First Aliya – have been largely forgotten. Read article in full

How many politicians taking their seats in the new Parliament will have heard of  the 850,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries?  In order to challenge ignorance and entrenched misconceptions, we […]

Earlier this month, Arvin Ghahremani, an Iranian Jew, was due to to be executed by the clerical regime. His crime was to defend himself in a brawl, resulting in the […]

Gaza hostage Shlomo Mansour survived the Iraqi Farhud of 1-2 June 1941. Read article in full

Holocaust education needs to teach about the direct link between Nazism and the genocidal ideology of Hamas. Read article in full  

For centuries, music was the preserve of Jews in Iran. But Jewish musicians themselves would not let their children learn music. Why? Read article in full

Like turkeys voting for Christmas, the Hollywood glitterati who sport their Free Palestine pins and abjure their Jewishness have no idea that they are actually supporting a form of antisemitism […]

Despite almost a million Jewish refugees from Arab countries, the United Nations remains obsessed with the descendants of Arab refugees alone. Read article in full

Until recent tensions came to light, Jews in modern Turkey have not attracted much attention when compared to their treatment in Arab states. Read article in full

Massacres of Jews living in Arab countries, such as the Constantine pogrom,   exhibiting a sadism suddenly familiar to us, are virtually unknown outside those communities which directly suffered them. Read […]

The Gaza hospital lie is only the latest iteration of ancient incitement. Read article in full  

In the past 100 years alone, Arab and Muslim antisemitism has led to a series of attacks on Jewish communities in the region.  Read article in full  

Since the release of ‘Je reviendrai là-bas (I’m coming home), Henri Tibi has shot to posthumous fame. Young Tunisians are playing his music and humming the songs he wrote. Read […]

A new book shows that Arab antisemitism is not a backlash but the cause of the conflict with Israel. Read article in full

If Iraq’s most powerful and richest Jew, who had hosted the regent in his home and had no links to Israel or Zionism, could be indicted in a show trial […]

Jewish elites must change the terms of the debate. Read article in full  

Comparisons to the Holocaust are misleading and appalling. Read article in full

It’s hard enough being a woman in the Middle East, but what if you are also disabled? Now in her 80s and living in California, Minou Soumekh Michlin has recently […]

It is a mystery why “the Zionists” might have thought it necessary to bomb the synagogue when, by late 1950 a backlog of 80,000 Jews who has registered to leave […]

Nazism continues to inspire the Palestinians: Read article in full

The Farhud was not just another anti-Jewish pogrom. The inspiration behind the coup, and the Farhud itself, came from the Nazi collaborator, the Palestinian grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin […]

Official recognition by the Israeli government that Tunisian Jews are eligible for Holocaust reparations has been a long time coming. And some, like Yitzhak Smadar, are still fighting for their […]

At this year’s Seder, Jews with roots in Arab and Muslim countries might be reflecting, in spite of all the hardships, that the exodus was a blessing and a liberation […]

Lyn Julius: ‘The Mizrahim recognised that the antisemitism fuelling the conflict between Israelis and Arabs was the same as that which they had just escaped’ Read article in full

Lyn Julius, co-founder of Harif, the association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa in the UK, reflects on her disappointing experience working with producers on the BBC […]

Can a shared love of ‘Arab culture’ be a force for moderation? More to the point, can it stop the ‘Second Israel’ from voting for the right-wing Benjamin Netanyahu and […]

It would raise uncomfortable questions about Arab collaboration with Nazism Read article in full

Nazis, kidnappings,  brawls, great escapes — Elia Meghnagi’ s autobiography Escape from Benghazi appears to have all the ingredients of a fast-paced adventure story. Sometimes it is hard to believe that what […]

The history and memory of the Jews expelled from Arab countries has been suppressed in order to demonize Zionism. (The picture shows the Great Synagogue of Algiers, now a mosque) […]

Os judeus do Líbano, Síria e Egito são os principais componentes da comunidade sefardita do Brasil. Mas como e por que eles chegaram nesse país é um mistério para a […]

It was a dark and stormy night when the five members of Sabah Zubaida’s family emerged from a taxi in a Kurdish village. “What are you doing here?” asked a Peshmerga (Kurdish […]

Were Jews victims of colonialism, or collaborators with it? Modern scholarship tends towards the former approach, lamenting the ‘separation’ that colonialism wrought between Jews and Muslims. Yet colonialism was a […]

Stories of those who made the hazardous journey through mountainous Kurdistan between 1970 and 1971 are told in documentary to be shown at 30 November Commemoration. Read article in full

A book on the Jews of Algeria ignores centuries of pre-colonial oppression. Read article in full

Amid talk of foreign embassies moving to Jerusalem, some are protesting that East Jerusalem is Arab. But  the issue of land ownership in  East Jerusalem is far more complex than […]

In the aftermath of Queen Elizabeth’s death, Iraqi Jews posted a curious photograph on Facebook. It was a picture of a youthful Elizabeth, side by side with an even more […]

A look at some of the brave souls who risked their lives to reach Israel before and just after the state’s founding..Read more 

Since the film ‘ Remember Baghdad’ was made in 2017, the number of Jews in Iraq has gone down from five to three. The film, commissioned by David Dangoor, has been […]

The baton has been passed from those who massacred Jews in 1941 Baghdad to today’s Iraqi politicians controlled by Iran. Read more

The  world has reacted with shock to Iraq ratifying a ‘draconian’ law criminalizing normalization with Israel. Read more…  

May 15 is ‘Nakba’ Day, when Palestinians and their supporters mourn the ‘catastrophe’ of Israel’s creation. Read article in full  

It is likely that the Jews Paul O’Brien meets are the type who belong to Jewish Voice for Peace, delusional liberals who are willing to trade in Jewish sovereignty for […]

  It is not Haj Amin al-Husseini’s effect on the Nazis that Yad Vashem chair Dani Dayan ignores, but rather, the Mufti’s impact on the Arabs. Read article in full

In 1956, a famous hit song of the time was ‘Que será será.’ The song is indelibly associated with the Suez crisis in one 14-year old Jewish girl’s memory.  It may […]

  For some years now, the creeping politicization of the arts and social sciences in Western universities has been a cause for concern. Now the rewriting of Jewish history in […]

Professor Mohamed Aboulghar is a busy man—an obstetrician, politician and amateur historian who has published two books on the Jews of Egypt. Apparently, they are selling like hotcakes. At a recent […]

On 29 October 1956, Lilian Abda was swimming in the Suez Canal when Egyptian soldiers arrested her. Abda was charged with trying to relay information to the enemy. ‘I was […]

Writing here last month, Sabrina Miller made a plea: Jewish schools should teach Palestinian views. Her argument was that this would help woefully ill-informed young Jews better to argue Zionism’s […]

Today, any connection with slavery, however tenuous, is enough to make historical figures into non-persons. It’s time to treat the subjugation of Jews in Arab lands with the same seriousness. […]

When Haim Gabbai was 10 in wartime Morocco, his father was taken by force from the family home in Marrakesh and sent to a forced labor camp.  (Photo is of […]

The past is not dead, it is not even past’. William Faulkner’s aphorism  might sum up Jean Naggar’s novel ‘Footprints on the heart.’ No matter how much her characters try and […]

Baghdad, 1941. There was a frenzied banging on the front door. When my mother answered it, she recognised her aunt’s Jewish cook, ashen-faced, pleading to be let in: “I was […]

It was early on 1st June, 1941, that the woman who delivered milk to Ivy Shashoua’s house in Baghdad warned: ‘Stay at home.’ Trouble was brewing for the Jews that […]

All avenues leading to restitution of Jewish property in Arab countries are closed. Read article in full

By now the name ‘Sheikh Jarrah’  will be familiar to anyone who has been following events in Israel and Gaza. You will have learned that Arabs living in four houses […]

The path to true reconciliation lies in a balanced view of history, where Jewish victims of Arab antisemitism are allowed to tell their stories, and Arab states are called to […]

The recent death of the “last Jewish doctor” in Iraq highlights the near-extinction of the oldest Jewish Diaspora in the world…. Read this full article in the Jewish News Syndicate […]

The news that Israel and Morocco are about to “normalize” their relations has been met with jubilation in Israel—and in the Moroccan diaspora. The first direct flight has taken off […]

Jews with roots in Iraq are today the third largest community in Israel – after the Soviet and the Moroccan. Did you ever wonder how they got there? Read this […]