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, May 17, 2012

How her Egyptian uprooting liberated my mother

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The uprooting of Jewish women from Egypt, for some, was a liberation. In her new book The Arrogant Years and in this piece for the Wall St ...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Jewish 'nakba' starts to enter the mainstream

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Palace belonging to the Farhi family in Damascus, Syria (Photo: Lucien Gubbay) I hope it's not wishful thinking, but do I get the feelin...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

A different story of displacement for Nakba Week

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The Baghdadis, a Jewish family in Aleppo, Syria, around 1940. In Aleppo, and in other cities and towns across north Africa and the Middle E...
Monday, May 14, 2012

Thousands join Hiloula to Moroccan rabbi's shrine

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Prayers during the Hiloula to Rabbi Amran Ben Diwan's tomb (Photo: AFP) Strict security was in force last week when thousands of Jews v...

Whatever happened to the Jews of Pakistan?

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Mystery has long surrounded the Jews of Pakistan, and this blog has attracted dozens in search of information about them. Finally, Shalva We...
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Sunday, May 13, 2012

'How Islam saved the Jews': lectures at SOAS

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Professor David J Wasserstein of Vanderbilt university I bring you notice of a series of lectures starting on Monday 14 May 2012, (17:30-19...
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Spare a thought for the Jewish 'nakba'

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When they do not deny Jewish suffering, many pro-Palestinians rationalise the ethnic cleansing of 850,000 Jews from the Arab world as an ...
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Saturday, May 12, 2012

Must all Jews come from Europe? I don't...

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A scene from the Ramallah theatre company Ashtar's production of Shakespeare's Richard 111 Why do pro-Palestinians automatically ...
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Friday, May 11, 2012

Vidal Sassoon: a cut above the rest

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Hairdressers, anti-fascist fighters, Israel supporters and women everywhere are mourning the passing at the age of 84 of Vidal Sassoon, fash...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

Murky truth behind the Aleppo codex

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The mystery of the ancient but incomplete Aleppo codex is about to be revealed in a new book by journalist Matti Friedman. In this Times of ...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012

What future for the Jews of Tunisia? (updated)

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The pilgrims sing the Tunisian national anthem. Most were local Jews living on Djerba, joined by 500 Jewish tourists from Europe. There were...
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Arab squatters lose Jerusalem property case

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Jerusalem's Temple Mount (Flash 90) "It's a political issue more than an Arab or Jewish property issue," says the lawyer r...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012

A heavy metal band is uniting Jews and Muslims

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While Israel’s relationship with the Arab and Muslim world has deteriorated, an Israeli heavy metal band is bucking the trend. Roi Ben-Yehud...
Monday, May 07, 2012

Yemen rabbi alleges fraud by Jews back from Israel

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What are we to make of this Yemen Observer story alleging fraud of public funds by three Jews ? We know that the enclave of 70 Jews who ha...
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Hitler has never left the Middle East

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Important article in American Thinker by Karen McQuillan, highlighting the Arab-Nazi wartime alliance and its enduring legacy of Jew-hatred...
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Sunday, May 06, 2012

Coca Cola 'fully aware' Egyptian plant was stolen

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Photo: Courtesy In the latest round of a protracted struggle, Raphael Bigio, an Egyptian Jewish b...
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Saturday, May 05, 2012

Islamist MP : Jews making '2nd Palestine' on Djerba

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Judeophile Tunisian lawyer and blogger Souhail Ftouh Amid terror warnings for the approaching Lag Ba' Omer pilgrimage at the Ghriba syna...
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Friday, May 04, 2012

Breaking the silence on Jewish property rights

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If you listened only to leftwing and human rights groups, you would conclude that Jews had no rights in 'Arab' East Jerusalem, argue...
Thursday, May 03, 2012

After 60 years, a landmark moment for refugees

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Israel's new-found support for the Jewish refugees from Arab countries is a landmark moment, says Michelle Huberman in Jewish News : Las...
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