JTA News - A group that is pushing for restitution for Jews who fled Arab countries wants to preserve Jewish sites in the Muslim world.
Several members of the French branch of Justice for Jews from Arab Countries, which met on 19 December in Paris, said the group should focus on registering Jewish sites as historical sites with UNESCO. The group, convened under the guidance of CRIF, the umbrella group of secular French Jewish groups, outlined several broad aims: to remember the Jews who came from Arab/Muslim countries; re-establish historical truth concerning ancient Jewish communitities existing in Arab countries; and collect testimony regarding the conditions under which Jews lived in Arab countries and which led them to leave these lands.
The group will work with several other French Jewish organisations to promote the culture, history, memory and politics of Jews from these areas.
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