Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries

One-stop blog on Jews from Arab and Muslim Countries and the Middle East's forgotten Jewish refugees, updated daily

Sunday, August 01, 2021

Point of.No Return has moved!

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 The new address is www.jewishrefugees.org.uk. See you there!
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Persian-Israelis defy ban to reach out to Iranians

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Persian Jews in Israel have been keeping channels open with people in Iran, as demonstrated by a Voice of America  documentary series made ...
Monday, July 19, 2021

Iraqi man in pro-Israel video beaten up and hospitalised

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It was one of the most eye-popping videos to surface from the Arab world: an Iraqi man calling for Benjamin Netanyahu to save him and bring...
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Sunday, July 18, 2021

Tunisians serve up Merguez with everything before 9th Av

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Tonight begins the longest fast of the Jewish year, Tisha b'Ab (9th of Av), in memory of the destruction of the two Jewish Temples in Je...
Friday, July 16, 2021

Muslims in Aden pose with book by Israeli

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How come a book about the Jews of Aden is suddenly appearing on the streets of this war-torn port at the tip of the Arabian peninsula? Adeni...
Thursday, July 15, 2021

African politician discredited for his Jewish ancestry

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Antisemitism is threatening to penetrate deep  into the heart of Africa as the Congo contemplates disqualifying presidential hopeful Moise K...
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Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Lapid to make official visit to Morocco

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Matters are moving apace as the new Israeli Foreign Minister, Yair Lapid, prepares to implement the next stage of the Abraham Accords with M...
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Tuesday, July 13, 2021

The Libyan Jew preserving 'la dolce vita' in the kitchen

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Meet Hamos Guetta, who fled his native Libya for Italy in 1967. Italy and Italian cooking has had a profound influence on Jews like Guetta a...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Cairo Book Fair still purveying Antisemitism

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The good news is that the Gulf States, bound by the Abraham Accords,are not pumping out antisemitism at their book fairs. The bad news is t...
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Sunday, July 11, 2021

Context-free Haaretz exposes 1949 discrimination

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The Israeli newspaper Haaretz likes to publish context-free articles alleging discrimination by Ashkenazim of Sephardim in order to portra...
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Friday, July 09, 2021

Why Kobi Oz is the new voice of Israel

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Who is the most important Israeli musician of the last generation? Not the most gifted or popular, but the most influential, one without who...
Wednesday, July 07, 2021

The Moroccan girls lured into Brazilian prostitution

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With thanks: Michelle Earlier this year, in  a Harif Lockdown Lecture about the Jews of the Amazon, Dr Saul Zadka  shocked listeners with t...
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Tuesday, July 06, 2021

Farewell Naim Kattan, celebrated author from Baghdad

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The death in Paris of the celebrated author, literary critic and professor Naim Kattan, was announced by his son Emmanuel on 2 July.  Kattan...
Monday, July 05, 2021

Moroccan Airforce plane lands in Israel

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The Abraham Accords seem to have built on a new era of military collaboration between Israel and Morocco, according to a report in Infos - ...
Saturday, July 03, 2021

The other Nakba: New film will tell Jewish refugees ' story

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 Coming soon - a new documentary about Jews from Arab Countries. The makers are South-African based Pulp Films. This punchy trailer is not ...
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Friday, July 02, 2021

Diplomat updates list of Egyptian-Jewish surnames

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Using sources such as periodicals, memoirs, geneaological records and telephone directories, veteran Israeli diplomat and researcher Jacob ...
Thursday, July 01, 2021

Israeli foreign minister inaugurates UAE embassy

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Pursuant to the Abraham Accords, Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid formally opened Israel's new UAE embassy. Bahrain's ambassaor ...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Progressives should support Jewish victims of Arab colonalism

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One of the most persistent slurs against Israel among progressives is that it is a 'settler colonial state'. The truth is that the o...
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Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Five Israeli women ministers have Moroccan or Iraqi roots

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  The new Israeli cabinet under the leadership of Naftali Bennett has nine women ministers, two with Iraqi roots, two with Moroccan roots, a...
Monday, June 28, 2021

There are still Jews in Bangladesh - or are there?

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Are there still Jews in Bangladesh? There was a liberating military commander (General Jacob) , there may be a few business people and expa...
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Sunday, June 27, 2021

Farhud witness remembers, and identfies the main actors

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Dr Nimrod Raphaeli, emeritus senior analyst with MEMRI, was a witness to the Farhud, the deadly anti-Jewish pogrom in Iraq of 1 and 2 June 1...
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Friday, June 25, 2021

David Harris: 'I am a forgotten Jew'

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Eyes glaze over when David Harris of the American Jewish Committee, whose wife escaped Libya in 1967,  tries to raise the issue of the forgo...
Thursday, June 24, 2021

Shooting of Algerian-Jewish musician marked turning point

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Sixty years ago this month, the murder of Raymond Leyris, a famous Jewish musician in Constantine, Algeria (Enrico Macias's father-in-la...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

The Moroccan students who came into the cold

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  During the 1950s and 1960s, the student cohort in a yeshiva or religious school in the northern  English town of Sunderland was entirely m...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

The Spanish Golden Age: myth or reality?

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The debate rages on: did Jews experience a Golden Age in al-Andalus, in medieval Islamic Spain? Professor Mark R. Cohen of Princeton wrote a...
Monday, June 21, 2021

Moroccan-born mogul moves into Britain

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Art lover and founder of Israel's i24 News, Patrick Drahi is now the biggest shareholder in the British Telecoms company, BT. The Guardi...
Sunday, June 20, 2021

On World Refugee Day, Jewish bodies remember refugees

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 In honour of United Nations World Refugee Day today, Israel and Jewish organizations remembered the often forgotten story of the nearly one...

Hamas chief meets Moroccan Islamists

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In a bid to 'balance' its peace deal with Israel, Morocco has permitted Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh to visit the country and meet Mor...
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Friday, June 18, 2021

Israeli rabbi wants millions to build community with no Jews

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Exclusive to Point of No Return  An Israeli rabbi is claiming to be Chief Rabbi of a non-existent community and is demanding $10 million to ...
Thursday, June 17, 2021

Of 'Jewish Arabists' and 'Arab' Jews

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K haled Diab is an Egyptian journalist who has always had an interest in Jews from Arab countries. In fact he was one of the first to write...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Collective biography of Jewish doctors in Muslim Spain

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A new book by Professor Efraim Lev focuses on  600 Jewish doctors  who lived in Islamic Spain in the Middle Ages. Review in the Jerusalem Po...
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