Tuesday 3 January 2023, 7 pm UK time, 9 pm Israel. Shafiq Ades, considered the wealthiest Jew in Iraq, was hanged in front of cheering crowds outside his Basra mansion on September 23, 1948, after a kangaroo court found him guilty of treason and aiding the “Zionist enemy.” His brutal execution and public humiliation sent shockwaves through the millennia-old Jewish community in Iraq;  together with the 1941 pogrom of the Farhud, it  was the  main reason for the hurried 1950-1951 Jewish exodus from Iraq.  What were the similarities between the Shafiq Ades and Dreyfus affairs – the deliberate targeting of a prominent Jew as a scapegoat by the government?  Adas personified both the opportunities and the problems of his age. His personal story represents a collective biography of an entire community.  Dr Adi Schwartz is a researcher, lecturer and author,  specialising in the history of Jews from Arab countries and the Palestinian refugee issue.  He is the co-author, together with Dr. Einat Wilf, of The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace (St. Martin’s Press, 2020). Recording here: https://youtu.be/JDZYbj7CGJ8