tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post780300028066265936..comments2024-03-29T11:39:42.348+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: Jews critique report by Algerian-Jewish historian StoraUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-8530617160212183842021-02-18T11:51:06.392+00:002021-02-18T11:51:06.392+00:00Ms. Azoulay is 100% wrong in her comments of Stora...Ms. Azoulay is 100% wrong in her comments of Stora's report, which report was also wrong in its own way.<br />Ms. Azoulay mentions "Arab-jews" which never existed: there were jewish people in North Africa long before the 7th century arab invasion and conquest which imposed unfair and humiliating "Dhimmi" status to the aboriginal jews, as a form of apartheid.<br />The french protectorate and rule in North Africa put an end to piracy and slave trading by arab tribes and protected the jews from persecution under the "Dhimma" segregation.<br />Mr. Stora writes that the algerian jews "chose" France, meaning that they emigrated to France by their own free will, abandoning their native country and the land of their ancestors. This is a blatant lie: the jews and the christians, and all of the non muslim residents of Algeria were offered by independant Algeria a choice between "The suitcase or the coffin", after a string of murders of unarmed non-muslim civilians.<br />Both Azoulay and Stora are blinded to historical truth by their leftist fanatical ideology.Jean-Loup Msikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03438656382100368384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-58583673449996293752021-02-15T18:07:24.185+00:002021-02-15T18:07:24.185+00:00Good comments and I could't agree more.Good comments and I could't agree more. <br />Rodinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03557909244564177795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-89118839322102350782021-02-15T16:51:40.586+00:002021-02-15T16:51:40.586+00:00Reely Azoulai is one of those fanatic "leftis...Reely Azoulai is one of those fanatic "leftist" Israelis who hates Israel and makes up a false history of the Diaspora country that her family came from in order to justify her hatred. I have read some of her hate-ridden writings and know that she was published in English long before she left Israel. She is the longtime "partner" of one Adi Ofir whom I am acquainted with. Ofir held a rather high position at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem and also wrote book reviews for the Ma`ariv weekend edition [maybe he was the editor of the book review section]. <br />More recently he and Reely Azoulai left Israel, because --Ofir said-- he and she had despaired of changing the bigoted minds of the nationalistic, Zionist Israelis. We can be assured that he and Azoulai both got comfortable academic positions at American institutions. Since there is more than one way to skin a cat, the descendants of those Judeophobic US officials like Harry Hopkins and Roosevelt and Robert Murphy, welcome anti-Israel [fundamentally anti-Jewish] Jewish intellectuals into the American academy in order to spread their false and bigoted beliefs. In this case, the notions of "left" and "right" can only mislead honest people seeking the truth. The very fact that Reely Azoulai has found refuge in America, a "colonial settler" country par excellence discloses her hypocrisy in regard to Israel.<br /><br />As to her ignorance about history, she exposes it by asserting "more than two millennia of Arab Jewish life in the Maghreb," whereas the Arabs conquered North Africa in the early eighth century, only about 1300 years ago, not 2000. And the idyll she describes of Jewish life in Algeria among their "Muslim brethren" is simply laughable. Georges Bensoussan's book might enlighten her. And as a sidelight, is she aware that French settlers and native Arab Muslims joined together to persecute Jews at the time of the Dreyfus Affair? And after?<br />Eliyahu<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com