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

Thursday, February 23, 2006

'My father would have been proud '- Amir Peretz

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Guysen News has more detail on Israeli Labour Party leader Amir Peretz's lightning visit to Morocco : "When I shook the King of Mo...
Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Iran Jewish leader challenged to debate

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An Iranian professor has challenged the leader of the Iran Jewish community to a debate. The professor says the Holocaust has been misuse...
Sunday, February 19, 2006

Bernard Lewis on antisemitism

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Bernard Lewis, one of the greatest living experts on Islamic history, wrote this must-read piece in the American Scholar , Winter 2006. He d...
Saturday, February 18, 2006

The plight of the Jews of Iran

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Shelomo Alfassa asks: If the US (or Israel) makes a preemptive strike against Iran to destroy their nuclear reactors, what will be the fate ...
Friday, February 17, 2006

Amir Peretz meets King of Morocco

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Labor party chairman Amir Peretz met on Friday with Morocco's King Muhammed VI at the king's palace in Fez, the Jerusalem Post re...
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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Is Iranian Jewish leader being sidelined?

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Haroun Yeshaya , the leader of the Iranian Jewish community who wrote a letter criticising President Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust, ...

Yemen-born diva dies

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Born in 1923 in the city of Damar in Yemen, Shoshana Damari, diva of Israeli popular song and an Israel Prize laureate, has died aged 83. Sh...
Wednesday, February 15, 2006

The last three Jews of Qamishli, Syria

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Writing in the Jerusalem Post, Sasha Troy meets the last three Jews living in the Syrian town of Qamishli, 800 meters from the Turkish bord...
Tuesday, February 14, 2006

The forgotten narrative: Jews from Arab countries

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In his seminal, must-read piece published in the Fall 2005 issue of the Jewish Political Studies Review Avi Beker asks two leading question...
Monday, February 13, 2006

Beware the 'dhimmified' non-Arab

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If you thought Dr Boutros Boutros-Ghali, ex-Secretary General of the UN, would, as a Christian Copt from Egypt, be more sympathetic to his...
Sunday, February 12, 2006

Iranian Jewish leader criticises President

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The chairman of the Iranian Jewish commmunity, here reported as uneasy over the Iranian president's Holocaust denial, has plucked up cou...
Saturday, February 11, 2006

We are all dhimmis now

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In the wake of the Danish cartoon controversy, we need to learn a new word: dhimmitude , writes Diana West in the Washington Post . "I...
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Friday, February 10, 2006

WJC Iran campaign may cause Jews to leave

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The World Jewish Congress has launched a campaign against Iran following the nuclear crisis and the anti-Semitic statements of Iran's pr...
Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Dhimmi denial: confessions of an Ashkenazi

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Avril Mailer is an Ashkenazi who confesses she once knew nothing about the history and experience of Jews in Arab countries. But nine years ...
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Monday, February 06, 2006

Iranian Jew fears for those who remain

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“Some of the Jews in Iran (under the Shah) were like the Jews in Germany,” says Laudie Freed (with thanks: JIMENA February newsletter). “Af...
Friday, February 03, 2006

Are Tunisian Jews blinded by nostalgia?

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An article by Albert Bellaiche (French) in Guysen Israel News hails the Tunisian head of state Zine El Abidine Ben Ali as a symbol of rel...
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Tributes to Meir Basri, 1911 - 2006

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Meir Basri, the last president of the Iraqi Jewish community, was born on September 11, 1911. He died on January 3, 2006, aged 94. Here i...
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Thursday, February 02, 2006

Young Iranian Muslim visits Israel

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Making the headlines in the Israeli press lately has been a young Iranian Muslim on a visit to Israel. His purpose: to build bridges betwee...

Telling the truth about the Jews of Egypt

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Reviewing the article The Jews of Egypt yesterday and today Rami Mangoubi, a Jewish refugee from Egypt, laments the absence of honesty whe...
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