tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post8563693364162510033..comments2024-03-14T02:22:26.957+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: What we can learn from UNESCO silence Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-68217467125765140212014-06-25T03:23:11.070+01:002014-06-25T03:23:11.070+01:00The propaganda that the East European Jewish diasp...The propaganda that the East European Jewish diaspora's role in bringing about the reality of Jewish independence in the Jewish homeland makes Zionism a suspect and a colonial European enterprise fits right in with leftist and Ashkenazi leftist ideology. Disgusting. Jews of the Islamic world are not the only Jews who are legitimately in the Land of Israel.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-91743628589661312832014-06-22T17:42:46.141+01:002014-06-22T17:42:46.141+01:00without a doubt - if JJAC hadn’t been there, no-on...without a doubt - if JJAC hadn’t been there, no-one would have noticed.bataweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829104245735619972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-58553252056187898502014-06-22T15:55:34.366+01:002014-06-22T15:55:34.366+01:00Out of 24 panels, an insertion of 15 words article...<br />Out of 24 panels, an insertion of 15 words articles and prepositions included?<br /><br />What were they thinking? Perhaps that no one would notice.If you were not there we probably would never have known. I didn't see it mentioned in the Hebrew media.<br />Sylvianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-14626967491545098822014-06-22T15:44:01.296+01:002014-06-22T15:44:01.296+01:00I meant that Mizrahi/Sephardi Jews were 10 percent...I meant that Mizrahi/Sephardi Jews were 10 percent of the global Jewish population. They were of course a majority Eretz Israel, as you rightly say, before the first Aliyah. bataweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829104245735619972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-31400732245150401182014-06-22T15:29:11.910+01:002014-06-22T15:29:11.910+01:00Zionism isn't responsible for this situation, ...Zionism isn't responsible for this situation, people are.Sylvianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-15144220724014573252014-06-22T15:18:10.357+01:002014-06-22T15:18:10.357+01:00They were the majority until the end of the ninete...They were the majority until the end of the nineteenth beginning of 20th century.<br /><br />There was NO physical Ashkenazi connection to the land to speak of, nor meaningful contribution (except by some Rabbis)until the end of XIXth century.<br /><br />In 614 on the eve of the Muslim conquest Persian Jews got to administer Jerusalem as a result of an alliance with the Sassanids against Byzantines, very likely arranged by the Exilarch of the day, Bostenai.<br /><br />Benjamin of Tudela reported 200 Sephardic families in Jerusalem under Frankish rule.<br /><br />Nahmanides built a Sephardic synagogue in 1270 in what was to become the Judeo-Maghreban quarter(Harat al Maghariba), now known as the Jewish quarter. They were joined two centuries later by the exiles from Castile.<br /> <br />Just the Maghreban Jews within the Sephardic community counted 2000 members by the middle of the 16th century and kept growing until they were expelled from Jerusalem in 1948.The Harat al Maghariba contained synagogues and bateh midrash.<br /><br />And of Course the Nasis and the Tiberias project.<br /><br />The first to call Jews to emigrate en masse to Jerusalem was Yehuda Bibas in the 1820s-1830s, long before Herzel. Bibas was born in Gibraltar in a Moroccan family and became the Rabbi of Corfou. He justified theologically a physical alyah, and has influenced Yehuda Alkalai who publisheed his book in 1840. <br /><br />The Messianism of Sabbatai Zvi and David Reuveni who sought a "return of the exiles"also deserves a mention.<br /><br />And I bet you heard that the first neighborhood in Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 by six Ashkenazi families among them Jeremy Ben Ami family. <br /><br />The truth is the first Tel Aviv neighborhood was Neve Tzedek, founded in 1887, 22 years earlier, by Aharon Slush, and Algerian Jew who emigrated to Jaffa and became a successful business man.<br /><br />This off the top of my head, but there is plenty more.Sylvianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-24584801620764207292014-06-22T12:40:50.198+01:002014-06-22T12:40:50.198+01:00If Jews from Arab and Muslim lands constituted 10 ...If Jews from Arab and Muslim lands constituted 10 per cent of the Jewish population pre-1948, then we are entitled to at least 40 pages. <br /><br />Meir Gal is right. But it is irritating that he lapses into the crude cliche of Arab-Jew-as victim-of-the Ashkenazi establishment. We are proud Zionists whose story has been sacrificed on the altar of political correctness - mainly by Ashkenazi leftists. bataweenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15829104245735619972noreply@blogger.com