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== Quick Grammar error/Typo ==
== Impact of 1948 persecutions in the lead ==
1. Could an authorised editor please make the following 2/1 character correction in the article lede? Sentence currently flips "direction" in its final third -- jarring for native English speakers. Thanks in advance.


NOW: "In total, of the 900,000 Jews who left Arab and other Muslim countries, 600,000 settled in the new state of Israel, and 300,000 immigrated to France and the United States."
{{U|Ykantor}} has added the sentence ''"As the armed conflict in Palestine intensified, the Jews in Arab and Moslem states suffered persecutions"'' to the lead. The sentence is factually correct, but being in the lead of an article on the Jewish Exodus creates an implication of a direct connection and primary importance to the exodus, which is of course ]. The subsequent paragraph in the lead starting "The reasons for the exodus..." gives persecutions as the first reason, among many. If we are going to "double down" on the impact of persecutions over and above all the other reasons for the exodus, it will need very strong sourcing. ] (]) 09:01, 9 February 2015 (UTC)


BETTER AS: "~ 300,000 emigrated ~"
:- You are right concerning the ], So I added a text based on Morris. Note that Morris says: "'''The immediate propellants to flight were the popular Arab hostility''', ''including pogroms, triggered by the war in Palestine and specific governmental measures, amounting to institutionalized discrimination against and oppression of the Jewish minority communities.'' while the next lines are specifying a long list of reason, of which the persecution is one of them. Hence it is misleading by minimizing the impact of the persecutions on the Jewish emigration.
Tom Segev's quote (footnote 300)
:- Is there a source for the "political instability" influence?
:- Is there a source for the "''highlight good relations between the Jewish communities and their country's governments"'' ? Morris (2008, p. 70) say that the U.N partition resolution changed the situation to the worst. ] (]) 20:02, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
:- Is there a source for saying that those Jews were not refugees? It is amazing to use such a source: "''A refugee is a person who is expelled to another country, where he is not accepted by the government." If you look in dictionaries the definition is different. So why to use one mistaken source while the other sources has a different view? ] (]) 20:13, 11 February 2015 (UTC)


2. "if a man as well connected and powerful as Shafiq Ades could he eliminated by the state" - change "he" to "be"
::Hi {{U|Ykantor}}:
::* Regarding the Morris quote, this has been discussed in detail at ]. Per that thread, Morris' quote reflects one paragraph of a book on a different subject, and talks in very general terms without any sourcing. We should not be using such a source over and above the dozens of specialist sources used in this article
::* I still don't see a justification for the double-inclusion of this topic in the lead. The Morris quote uses the term "Partly". So if you want this area covered twice in the lead you need to prove that it was MORE important than the other push and pull factors listed.
::* Morris's sentence of "immediate propellants" simply mirrors our list of "push factors". That is what propellants literally are - push factors!
::* On the source requests, yes these are throughout the article. If you add "cn" templates where needed in the article i will link the references.
::] (]) 18:00, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
:::- Yours: "''the dozens of specialist sources used in this article "''. Do you mean that those sources oppose the "partly" reason? It seems that it is accepted that the persecutions were partly responsible for the emigration.
:::- The relative importance of the push factors. Looking at the numbers, about 500 thousand Jews emigrated and 260 thousand Jews immigrated to Israel, during those 3 years. Concerning those who immigrated to other countries (and not to Israel), why did not they emigrated before or after this period? It seems that they were driven by push factors only. It indirectly indicates that most of the Jews who left for Israel were driven by push factors and not because of Zionism.
:::-Yours: "covered twice in the lead". You are right.
:::-"political instability" influence?. I have looked in the article but did not find. Wil you please specify it?
:::- Is there a source for the "''highlight good relations between the Jewish communities and their country's governments"'' ? This is an absurd. You yourself agree that the Jews were persecuted during this period. I propose to limit this factor to a proper time frame.
:::-Again: Is there a source for saying that those Jews were not refugees? It is amazing to use such a source: "''A refugee is a person who is expelled to another country, where he is not accepted by the government." If you look in dictionaries the definition is different. So why to use one mistaken source while the other sources has a different view? ] (]) 12:29, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
::::- My "dozens" comment is simply saying that Morris's analysis highly superficial and there are better sources we should use to source our lead. I agree with the partly statement - the question is simply how much.
::::- Other major reasons the exodus started in a big way in 1948 are (1) the lifting of the British immigration controls, and (2) the activation of the Israeli immigration plan following the creation of the state, hence the Yemeni, Libyan and Iraqi immigrations. The idea that persecution was the primary cause is (IMHO) disproven by the fact that, with the exception of Libya, emigration from the countries where there were riots / pogroms in 1947-49 was much lower than in Iraqi or Yemen.
::::- Can we deal with your other points in a different thread as they relate to different paragraphs so it'll be easier to follow
::::] (]) 13:37, 13 February 2015 (UTC)


== Some Iraqi politicians... == == 2024 Jewish population of Yemen ==


] says:
Who? Were they notable? Were they on the fringes of Iraqi politics? Did their views influence policy? Why is Iraq worth highlighting above other counties in this paragraph even though it was only 10% of the exodus?


> As of 2024, only 5 Jew remained in Yemen, with one of them being ].
At the moment this looks like weasel wording and synth.


Cites: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sj7dfbxic
{{U|Ykantor}}, please could you answer the above? ] (]) 11:43, 13 February 2015 (UTC)


The population table should be updated accordingly. ] (]) 05:42, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
:- Iraqi motivation. There are 2 sources for the claim that the Iraq had other motivation to expel their Jews.
:- Iraqi emigration importance. During the years 1948-1951, about 260 thousands Jews immigrated from Arab and Moslim countries to Israel. Among them, there were more than 100 thousand Iraqi Jews, making the emigration from Iraq the biggest one. ] (]) 12:00, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
::Everyone involved in the Iraqi exodus had a variety of motives. It was very complex. The Israeli government, the Iraqi Zionist underground, the Iraqi government, the Iraqi opposition, and other Iraqi politicians all had a web of different issues. As you know, the Iraqis were not expelled, and the initial government agreement to allow emigration was due to Israeli and other international pressure. Just focusing on one aspect of the motivations of a cherry picked group of people presents a distorted picture.
::Yes Iraqi emigration was the biggest during the short period of mass Iraqi emigration. Egypt's was the biggest in 1956. Algeria's was the biggest during their civil war. Yemen's was the biggest in 1948. Again this is cherry picking.
::] (]) 13:23, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
::: The case of the Iraqi Jews is complex. For instance, ] who is himself an Iraqi Jew who left when he was five years old, is emphatic that they were not persecuted, though he states that there was discrimination there. See this for some of the complexities involved. ] ]] 10:47, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
:::: A notorious partisan like Shlaim is not one who will well elucidate any such complexities. ] (]) 22:17, 23 April 2015 (UTC)


In 2024 6 Jews were living in Yemen; 1 has died now there are five left alive
:::::-"There were anti Jewish laws." AdelmanBarkan2013p237<ref name="AdelmanBarkan2013p237"/>
Cite https://www.jewishrefugees.org.uk/2024/06/muslims-bury-one-of-the-last-jews-in-yemen.html <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 12:58, 23 July 2024 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:::::-"Sixty year old man was sentenced to five years in jail for getting a letter from his son in Palestine…Large numbers of Jews employed at government ministries were let go from their position" Bashkin2012p187 <ref name="Bashkin2012p187"/>
:::::-"Immediately after the establishment of the State of Israel, the Iraqi government adopted a policy of anti-Jewish discrimination, mass dismissals from government service, and arrests. The climax of this policy was the hanging of the Jewish millionaire, Shafiq Ades on September 1948, and the confiscation of his property. The Jews felt the ground burning under their feet.Gat1998p47<ref name=Gat1998p47/>
:::::-gat p. 113 "the Jews from the provincial towns. Several days after the airlift to Israel began, their Arab neighbours began to threaten their lives, demand their property and insist that they abandon their homes....the police decided...them to move to Baghdad. These Jews arrived penniless"
:::::-Nuri's threats "encouraged Iraqi officials to abuse the departing jews before they boarded the planes and to destroy their baggage". Meir-Glitzenstein2004p206 <ref name="Meir-Glitzenstein2004p206"/>
:::::-"In Iraq, following the May 1948 declaration of martial law, hundreds of Jews were arrested (the Iraqi government admitted to “276” Jews detained and “1,188” non-Jews),48 and Jewish property was arbitrarily confiscated. Jewish students were banned from high schools and universities. Some fifteen hundred Jews were dismissed from government positions, the Iraqi Ministry of Health refused to renew the licenses of Jewish physicians or issue new ones, Jewish merchants’ import and export licenses were canceled, and various economic sanctions were imposed on the Jewish community.49 In January 1949, Prime Minister Nuri Sa’id threatened “that all Iraqi Jews would be expelled if the Israelis did not allow the Arab refugees to return to Palestine.”50 A new “wave of persecution” was unleashed against the 125,000-strong community in early October 1949, with about two thousand being packed off to jails and “concentration camps” and vast amounts of money being extorted in fines on various pretexts.51 But the Iraqi government kept a tight leash on the “street.” (Morris 2008, p. 413).<ref name="Morris2008p413"/>
:::::-"The minister of defence, Sadiq al-Bassam, denied much say in the conduct of the war, used the opportunity to initiate systematic harassment of the Iraqi Jewish community whose loyalties were now more suspect than ever. Their movements were restricted, Jews were barred from certain government posts, courts martial were used extensively to imprison and intimidate Jews and a prominent member of the Community was executed for allegedly assisting the new state of Israel.Tripp2002p122 <ref name="Tripp2002p122"/>
:::::-And : "these Jews left their native lands not as a result of officially sanctioned policies of persecution but because they felt threatened by the rising tide of Arab nationalism...the Arab defeat provoked a backlash against the Jews back home...my parents did not have the slightest sympathy with Zionism. We were not persecuted but opted to leave because we felt insecure."
:::::- Who is right? the long list of historians who elaborate the anti Jewish oppression or the contrarian Shlaim? ] (]) 04:33, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::: I will ignore Plot Spoiler's random response as ]. To Ykantor: Nobody is denying that there was discrimination against Jews in Iraq. I even said this in my original post. Iraq was hardly unique in that respect. Wars have a tendency to create repression on ethnic and religious grounds. The question is whether there was officially sanctioned policy to expel the Jews. And that has not been shown. The factors in their leaving is a mix of several factors, like rise of Arab nationalism, Israeli inducements and underground activities, economic considerations (Jews would leave their properties behind) and international pressure, as mentioned in the ] "A reversal...". ]&nbsp;]] 07:24, 24 April 2015 (UTC)


== Lybian Jews ==
== forcibly inserting misleading text while removing correct text ==


In the paragraph about Lybia, it might be of interest to provide information on the number of Arabic-speaking and Italian-speaking Jews. Andrea Domenici, Pisa, Italy ] (]) 12:48, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
{{re|Oncenawhile}} The discussion with you is deeply disappointing. You remove a well supported text, you do not reply to the questions , you downgrade a well respected source like Morris as superficial but avoid supporting your opposite view.
<P>-Moreover, that pushes an agenda. The question "how many of the emigrating Jews were refugees" is misleadingly presented as pushed by an agenda rather than looking on it at face value. I am an Israeli but I do not agree to "view the Jewish exodus as equivalent to the 1948 Palestinian exodus" although it is still a major tragedy. How come that the lead carry a misleading statement (for those years) like: "''good relations between the Jewish communities and their country's governments,"''? How come that at the same time the Jews were persecuted and had good relations? You have been asked for but there was no response. How come that your source uses a mistaken definition of a "refugee" but you avoid replying to the point? ] (]) 11:47, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
:Hi {{U|Ykantor}}, with respect to the topics in the first sentence, let's continue to discuss these in the threads above - I have no more right than anyone to decide the outcomes to these points, so I am keen to continue to discuss until we reach a point we are all satisfied with.
:With respect to the diff you linked to, this was arrived at after more than a month of discussion. The archived discussion is at ]. I have promised to make the sources clearer as you request, and so I will do so. But could you explain why you deleted two existing references ? Your edit summaries said the "Times of Israel" source was "mistaken", and that the ] source was not ] - I don't understand your first point and I don't agree with your second. ] (]) 14:25, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
::I have added in some more sources to support the points you were questioning. It has taken some time as this paragraph was written a long time ago so needed to go back to read the original sources.
::On the good relations point, you write "How come that at the same time the Jews were persecuted and had good relations". The word "government" is the key here. Of all the governments involved around the time of the exoduses, not a single one I am aware of is thought to have specifically persecuted their Jewish communities. Even in post-Suez Egypt, Nasser's government was targeting the ] more broadly.
::The persecutions you are referring to that took place in e.g. de-colonialising Morocco or WWII Iraq were NOT government-led, in fact they were always quelled by the respective governments. So yes, scholars have absolutely pointed out that in e.g. Morocco and Iraq the governments had good relations with their Jewish communities. ] (]) 22:40, 15 February 2015 (UTC)


== Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 8 October 2024 ==
:::- REFUGEE DEFINITION 1. You returned Alon lial words as a source, although I have already said that "How come that your source uses a mistaken definition of a "refugee" but you avoid replying to the point? ". It is amazing. If you just google for the term "refugee" , the first phrases in the search list (i.e. Misplaced Pages, U.N ) define what is a refugee, and see for yourself that Mr Lial mislead his listeners by re-defining what is a refugee. Please do not cite him here.
:::- REFUGEE DEFINITION 2. The Csmonitor is not a ] either. Also, in my opinion, the article should deal with the question whether some of the emigrating Jews were refugees, which is not related to what both sides politicians are claiming nowadays. Besides, are you sure the it is an Israeli policy to "''settle its account with the Palestinians by deducting the lost assets of its own citizens, "''? . I guess that there no Israeli Knesset members who supports such a stupid idea. Please do not cite this non-] here.
:::-''"How come that at the same time the Jews were persecuted and had good relations"''?. Yours: "''scholars have absolutely pointed out that in e.g. Morocco and Iraq the governments had good relations with their Jewish communities."''. Are you sure that those scholar claims for good relations during those years? It is really amazing.<P>Yours:''"Of all the governments involved around the time of the exoduses, not a single one I am aware of is thought to have specifically persecuted their Jewish communities.''. Please have a look in this article for:
:::# Nuri Said words and acts
:::# Senior Arab officials threatened the Jews.
:::# "Jewish bank accounts were confiscated and many Jews lost their jobs"
::: Also, Morris (2008, p. 412 ) says: "''The war indirectly created a second, major refugee problem. Partly because of the clash of Jewish and Arab arms in Palestine, some five to six hundred thousand Jews who lived in the Arab world emigrated, were intimidated into flight, or were expelled from their native countries, most of them reaching Israel, with a minority resettling in France, Britain, and the other Western countries. The immediate propellants to flight were the popular Arab hostility, including pogroms, triggered by the war in Palestine and '''specific governmental measures''', amounting to '''institutionalized discrimination'''' against and '''oppression of the Jewish''' minority communities. "''. ] (]) 17:09, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
::::{{U|Ykantor}}, the sentence we are discussing is written ''"Those who argue that the exodus does not equate to the Palestinian exodus... argue that most or all of those who left were not refugees."'' We are not therefore using Liel or others to prove that they were not refugees. We are simply saying that some people ''argue'' that they were not refugees. We have an entire section of the article or people making the same argument ]. Are you disputing that people really make that argument?
::::An WP:RS judgement depends on the subject and specific text being supported. If this was an article on Christian Science, I would agree that CSM may not be WP:RS. But on this topic they have no obvious bias, and their analysis of this point appears credible. Please take this to ] if you disagree.
::::The same goes for your last point. We are not arguing that all the governments had good relations, only that scholars have made that argument. Having said that, on your three points above: 1. We have discussed Nuri before - the words and acts you refer to came after he had been convinced by external parties to allow an exodus, following which the ''"delay became a significant problem for the Iraqi government... as the large number of Jews "in limbo" created problems politically, economically and for domestic security"''; 2. Were the "Senior Arab officials" you refer to responsible for the relevant government policies in their respective countries?; 3. This refers to post-Suez Egypt - see my comment from 15 Feb.
::::] (]) 07:55, 17 February 2015 (UTC)


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::::: {{re|Oncenawhile}} Again:The discussion with you is deeply disappointing. You remove a well supported text, you do not reply to the questions , you downgrade a well respected source like Morris as superficial but avoid supporting your opposite view.
Change the second line of the opening paragraph to my suggestion, or another appropriately neutral phrasing
:::::- Concerning your wrong claim:''"Of all the governments involved around the time of the exoduses, not a single one I am aware of is thought to have specifically persecuted their Jewish communities.'' You repeat claims that "'' scholars have made that argument"'' but you do not bother to provide those ] although asked for few times. On the other hand, I provided Morris support and some of this specific article details, that proves the opposite: The establishment and the local population persecuted the Jews during those years.
:::::- I repeat: "'' in my opinion, the article should deal with the question whether some of the emigrating Jews were refugees, which is not related to what both sides politicians are claiming nowadays."''.You do not bother to refer to this point.
:::::- There are more instances of your avoidance to deal with a questionable points. -So what is the consequence? Is it an attrition tactic? ] (]) 12:03, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
::::::This conversation would be easier if you would try to ]. This mistrust is clouding our discussion. I am keen to agree imporvements to the article with you - try working to "build" with me rather than constant negativity.
::::::To comment on each of your comments:
::::::- I am answering most of your questions. The only ones I have not answered immediately are where you have asked for details on sources for text written more than a year ago. This takes a bit of time, so let's be reasonable. Laskier is a good example - he definitely explained the good relationships between the Maghrebi governments and their Jewish populations; I just need to go back to look at the book again to find a quote. I find your aggression misplaced - you have answered less of my questions than I have of yours, so I sense the conversation has become uneven. On 17 Feb I asked two questions and made four points, which you have yet to respond to.
::::::- I agree with your comment "the article should deal with the question whether some of the emigrating Jews were refugees". See the "Question 3" thread above from December - we were making good progress there until Asilah left.
::::::- This article is hard work, as it covers a very broad and complex subject. If you are willing to work with me on this, and stop imagining things like "attrition tactic", I am sure we can achieve real improvements to the article. If I have missed answering any other questions, please just restate them clearly (preferably in a separate thread as we did in December with Questions 1-6). I will work with you on whatever topics you like, just please give me time to go back and get sources where they are less easily available.
::::::] (]) 11:39, 18 February 2015 (UTC)


My suggested phraseology is:
:::::::-Yours:"''I am keen to agree improvements to the article with you - try working to "build" with me"''. OK. Let's try to cooperate.


'In the 20th century, approximately 900,000 Jews migrated, fled, or were expelled from Muslim-majority countries throughout Africa and Asia. Involving push factors, such as antisemitism, and pull factors, such as the appeal of the newly created state of Israel, the mass movement mainly transpired from 1948 to the early 1970s, with one final exodus of Iranian Jews occurring shortly after the Islamic Revolution in 1979–1980.'
:::::::-mine:"''which is not related to what both sides politicians are claiming nowadays"''. I propose not to mention nowadays politics in the lead. I myself would like to exclude it from the article all together, but if you wish, it may stay in the relevant section.


:::::::- mine: "''"settle its account with the Palestinians by deducting the lost assets of its own citizens, "? . I guess that there are no Israeli Knesset members who supports such a stupid idea"''. One of your sources, : "''It has yet to extract a single noteworthy declaration from any major Israeli politician"'', which is identical to my guess. So why should the article discuss the analogy that has no real support?


The reason for this edit request is as follows:
:::::::-My couple of sentences (that you deleted) deals with the years 1948 to 1951, which in my opinion are important since the Israeli immigration gates were suddenly opened, and the 1947-1949 war raised the animosity toward the Jews in the Arab / Moslim states, which resulted in oppression, driven by both the population and the governments. However, each Arab country behaved differently toward the Jews during those 3 years. Some Arab states blocked Jewish emigration or the oppression there was not very bad. The result was a doubling of Israel Jewish population from 700 thousand Jews on 1948 to 1400 thousand Jews on 1951, among them 260 thousands Jews from Arab/ Moslem states. The major contributors were Iraq (110,000 Jews), Yemen, Libya and Morocco and much less from other Arab/ Moslem states . ( I have yet to verify it). Hence, those lead sentences (years 1948-1951) should relate to those countries, and not to other countries. ] (]) 13:55, 20 February 2015 (UTC)


The opening paragraph of this page says that the exodus was 'Primarily a consequence of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War,' and is supported by a citation to Avi Beker's 2005 THE FORGOTTEN NARRATIVE: JEWISH REFUGEES FROM ARAB COUNTRIES. There are two problems with this:
::::::::Hi {{u|Ykantor}},
::::::::* Re "settle its account...", see for example some of the sources at ]. Also Fischbach's 2013 book discusses exactly this.
::::::::* Re verifying the immigration during 48-51, see ].
::::::::* I am fine with your concept of treating 48-51 separately in the lead. But per my edit comment on my revert just now, we should ensure that we are not implying that one factor was more important than another. Perhaps we can work together to craft a couple of sentences that we both think are neutral?
::::::::] (]) 22:04, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::::::- I'll happily cooperate with you. Your recent deletion is not appropriate, since the deleted text is important and fully supported, while You have not supported yet your claim concerning "cherry picking". Hence I return this text.
:::::::::- I repeat my proposal to omit from the lead the nowadays politicians view. If at all, it should have a low weight in the article body. ] (]) 06:52, 17 April 2015 (UTC)


The way it is currently phrased suggests that the expulsion of the Jews from the Arab world was the result of the war (And seems to allign with the 'popular' narrative that Jewish expulsion from the Middle East was a response to Palestinian expulsion in the 1948 war), and even implies that it was retributive. But even if this was the case these Jews are not responsible for what happened in Israel, and therefore their being held responsible is not a result of the war but a result of antisemitism.
{{outdent|:::::::::}} Hi {{u|Ykantor}}, thanks for your post. Let's discuss the text specifically. Your proposal is:


:''"As the armed conflict in Palestine intensified, the Jews in Arab and Moslem states suffered persecutions. Partly because of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, more than half a million Jews emigrated from Arab countries. The war created hostility against local Jews, resulting in pogroms, government-sponsored discrimination and other hostility that drove many Jews out of Arab states, but Iraqi politicians candidly admitted that they wanted to expel their Jewish population for reasons of their own."''


The second problem is that this isn't what Beker writes in this paper (his claim is that push factors contributing to Jewish exodus began before 1948). He writes:
This wording implies that the <u>most important</u> factors in the 1948-51 exodus were (1) persecutions, hostility, pogroms, discrimination (2) the Arab-Israeli conflict, and (3) Iraqi politicians. Why are these the only factors you chose to highlight? We have a paragraph later on "push and pull factors", which covers the question of "why the exodus happened" in a much more neutral way.


'
This "why" question is undoubtedly the single most sensitive and difficult NPOV question we have on this article. Your text shows only one POV. I could write the other side of the story, supported by equally good sources as follows:
In a few years, Jewish communities that had existed in the Middle East for more than 2,500 years were brutally expelled or had to run for their lives. The statements made in the UN were harbingers of what became a total collapse of these Jews' security. Following the Partition Resolution of November 1947, and in some countries even earlier during World War II, Middle Eastern Jews were the targets of official and popular incitement, state-legislated discrimination, and pogroms -- again, all this before the massive flight of the Arabs from Palestine.


:''"Following the British withdrawl in May 1948, immigration restrictions were immediately lifted. Mossad Aliyah Bet, Jewish Agency officials and local Zionist groups began organising immigration to Israel from across the region, as well as from Romania, Poland and other Eastern European nations. Immigrants were attracted by promises of future economic success, nationalistic fervour stoked by local Zionist organizations, religious beliefs, and political instability in their countries of origin."''


In Syria, anti-Semitism grew after the Nazis' rise to power in Germany. By the late 1930s, Syria already served as a headquarters for anti-Semitism and hosted Nazi officers. By 1945 the thirty thousand Syrian Jews already faced restrictions on emigration to Israel and some of their property was burned and looted, including the Great Synagogue in Damascus. In December 1947 there was a major pogrom against the Jews of Aleppo, the largest community with seventeen thousand; many were killed and seven thousand fled. Jewish bank accounts in the city were frozen and private property was confiscated; fifty shops, eighteen synagogues, and five schools were burned. Later, after Israel's founding, more Syrian Jews were killed and banks were instructed to freeze all Jewish accounts.
Don't forget also that for many of the persecutions that took place such as the riots in Libya or Morocco, there were also claims that these outbursts were sparked by Zionists looking to catalyze divisions between the local Jews and their neighbors. Also we shouldn't forget to mention that during this 1948-51 period, almost all of the governments involved were actively trying to <u>prevent</u> Jewish emigration.
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All of this is sourced already in the article, and both sides have their place. I am not proposing replacing one side's version with another, but rather that we work together to produce a version that show both sides in a balanced manner.
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How do you propose we progress? ] (]) 10:50, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
::- I propose to differentiate between the years immediately after the 1948 war and the Later years. The lead says: "The first large-scale exoduses took place between 1948 and 1951, as two hundred sixty thousand Jews from Arab countries immigrated to Israel , among them up to 90% of the Jews in Iraq, Yemen and Libya,". The immigration from Iraq was the biggest one, by far. I have cited good ] that the Iraqi government oppressed the Jews and wanted to get rid of them. Incidentally, the Israeli government did not wanted them to immigrate (temporarily) because of the Israeli limited absorbing capability. There are no sources (yet?) that claim otherwise. So, at least for Iraq, your balanced description does not reflect the emigration reasons. ] (]) 08:14, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
:::{{u|Ykantor}},
:::* We are agreed that we can differentiate the time periods as you suggest. In the 1948-53 period, per ], 354,623 people from Asia and Africa immigrated to Israel. Of this 35% were from Iraq, 13% from Yemen, and 9-10% from each of Turkey, Tunisia, Iran and Libya.
:::* On Iraq, we have already discussed the "some politicians" reference at ] - unless you can prove any actual relevance, it is just ] which ''"may be unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise non-representative samples of typical cases"''. We have discussed the complexity of the situation in Iraq at ], as well as others. We also have a large number of good sources in the article at ]. If we are going to bring up Iraq specifically here, we must do so in an NPOV fashion. That means describing the (1) Zionist underground movement and Mossad agents there, (2) the Baghdad bombings, (3) the British influence on Nuri and the British involvement in the negotiations to open the gates, (4) the many Israeli politicians who identified value of the ] in the Iraqi Jewish community as the most attractive group of potential immigrants in the region, (5) that many Iraqi Jews blame the Zionist movement for misleading them into leaving their homeland, (6) that many Iraqi Jews chose to stay, (7) that the challenges around the actual immigration were due to an Israeli u-turn at the last minute etc.
:::] (]) 10:40, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
:::: Here it starts again. Although you do not bother to provide source that shows an allegedly cherry picking, you develop a parallel so called history. Is that what you call a cooperation?] (]) 11:18, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::I can point you to the sources - what information do you want sourced? It is all in the article already. ] (]) 11:19, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
::::::1- You deleted this supported text: "As the armed conflict in Palestine intensified, the Jews in Arab and Moslem states suffered persecutions. Partly because of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, more than half a million Jews emigrated from Arab countries. The war created hostility against local Jews, resulting in pogroms, government-sponsored discrimination and other hostility that drove many Jews out of Arab states, but Iraqi politicians candidly admitted that they wanted to expel their Jewish population for reasons of their own". In my opinion it is a good summarized description of the situation there. Your opinion is different and you call it a cherry picking. So why don't you provide a supported text for the alleged cherries that have not been picked yet.?
::::::2- Concerning the bombing, it seems that it was not a Zionist plot. Initially the regime accused the Zionists in all of 5 cases of bombing, but in the trial they were indicted (and found guilty) in the later ones only, those who happened after the immigration registration expired. Hence the Zionists allegedly arranged the bombing in order to promote Jewish immigration by bombing after the last registration date. This is an absurd.
::::::3- Technically the Jews were not expelled from Iraq, so there were 5% - 10% that decided to stay, but practically it was fairly close for most of the Jews. I am against equating the Jewish exodus with the Palestinian refugees, but let us have a look in the accumulation of reasons: "''In examining the causes of the Arab exodus from Palestine over 1947–1949, accurate quantification is impossible. I have tried to show that the exodus occurred in stages and that causation was multi-layered: A Haifa merchant did not leave only because of the weeks or months of sniping and bombings; or because business was getting bad; or because of intimidation and extortion by irregulars; or because he feared the collapse of law and order when the British left; or because he feared for his prospects and livelihood under Jewish rule. He left because of the accumulation of all these factors. ''" (Morris, revisited, p. 598). ] (]) 19:34, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
:::::::1- My proposal: <small>"Following the British withdrawl in May 1948, immigration restrictions were immediately lifted. Mossad Aliyah Bet, Jewish Agency officials and local Zionist groups began organising immigration to Israel from across the region, as well as from Romania, Poland and other Eastern European nations. The intensification of the armed conflict in Palestine, together with alleged agitation by local Zionist agents, resulted in growing hostility against the Jewish population in certain countries, including violent persecutions. Many governments in these countries, both colonial and independent, put up restrictions against Jewish emigration during this period, although these restrictions were dropped in Iraq and Yemen following negotiations with the Israeli government. These factors resulted in around 350,000 Jews emigrating from these countries to Israel from 1948-53, of which 35% were from Iraq, 13% from Yemen, and 9-10% from each of Turkey, Tunisia, Iran and Libya. Immigrants were attracted by promises of future economic success, nationalistic fervour stoked by local Zionist organizations, religious beliefs, and political instability in their countries of origin."</small>
:::::::2- This has been discussed extensively at ]. If you read any of the sources at ], you will see from the context at the time that there is nothing absurd about it, although noone knows for sure.
:::::::3- Both were driven by multi-layered factors, and both populations (Palestinians and Mizrahi Jews) were victims. The difference is that, of all the factors, the only truly "strategic" or "planned" factor was on opposite sides in the two occasions. In the Palestinian exodus, the one factor which was clearly "strategic" was the Jewish leadership's desire to create a clear Jewish majority in Israel (some people think this was documented in ]). In the Jewish exodus, the one factor which was clearly "strategic" was the Israeli leadership's desire to create an even stronger Jewish majority in Israel (i.e. the ]).
:::::::] (]) 08:42, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
{{outdent|:::::::}}Hi {{u|Ykantor}}, it's been two weeks since I proposed the draft in (1) above combining both our views. Please let me know if you have any comments. ] (]) 17:48, 8 May 2015 (UTC)


In Yemen, Jews were always treated as second-class citizens. As far back as the 1880s, 2,500 Jews moved from there to Jerusalem and Jaffa, and as conditions worsened another seventeen thousand left to Aden and Palestine between 1923-1945. Riots and massacres also occurred in Aden, which was in British-controlled Yemen. In three days of disturbances in December 1947, many Jews were killed and the Jewish quarter was burned to the ground, so that the community lost its business and economic base. Altogether in those three days, 82 Jews were killed, 106 shops looted out of 170,220 houses destroyed, and four synagogues gutted.
:- your proposed text is somehow improved but not sufficiently. The article and the lead should reflect the sources, relatively to the weight of the opinions. There are plenty of sources that claim that Jews in Arab/ Moslem countries were oppressed and some were driven out. As I recall, there are hardly any source who claim that the Zionist cause was a major factor. (Please update me if I am wrong). Hence the text should give a proper weight for each claim.
:- Countries were nearly all the Jews left (e.g. Iraq, Yemen, Libya) until 1952, Should be mentioned together. I am familiar in the case of Iraq, and they were de-facto expelled. (Adelman p. 179). In Egypt a big minority left at that time, but it does not make sense to claim that they were de-facto expelled since the majority remained. However, a lot of Jews were expelled or driven out after the 1956 Suez crisis.
:- Concerning the Palestinians, their fate was worst. I am not sure why this article should deal the Palestinians refugees problem. The Jewish exodus from Arab countries was deleted from , and apparently is not mentioned in other articles of the ].
:-Anyway, concerning an alleged plan to expel the Palestinians, I suggest to follow Benny Morris, who is one of the so called new historians. Please have a look at the article ] where he is probably the most cited Historian. He says that there was no such a plan, and the poof is that if there was such a plan, why most of the Arab villages in central Galilee region stayed. He claims that other were expelled, but he considers the Israeli government responsible for the Palestinian Refugees problem, mainly because it did not allow them to return to there homes, when the war was over. It seems that all of the Arab sources support the version of an expulsion plan, so in that case both views should be mentioned. ] (]) 15:53, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
::- {{re|Oncenawhile}} Will you please refer to those issues? thanks ] (]) 20:05, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
:::Hi Ykantor, thanks for the prompt. To your first point, all of the quality research on this subject discusses Zionist agitation. The sources are all in the Further Reading section. I suggest you read Fischbach, Shenhav, Haoohen, Morris & Black, Parfitt, Roumani, Shohat, Chouraqui, Laskier, Beinin, Bashkina and Meir-Glitzenstein. It's critical to understand that the best scholars on this topic see the different regions as hardly comparable, and so avoid broad sweeping statements like those made by the propagandists, and thereby focus on just one country or sub-region.
:::On your second point, the reality was much more complex than you suggest. The "de facto expelled" in Iraq is wholly incorrect - the Iraqi government wanted to keep the borders closed to Jewish emigration, yet ultimately gave into pressure to allow Israel to arrange for transfer of what was the most attractive pool of ] out of all the Jewish communities in the whole region. And in Egypt, the Jews were not singled out - the entire ] was encouraged to leave after Suez.
:::On the final paragraph, it is critical as it explains the only remaining ongoing relevance of the history. It explains why there is now a memorial day in Israel for this, why there have been bills in the US congress, and why this topic remains heated in the scholarly community. In fact, it explains why this topic exists at all, as without the modern agenda, the propagandistic construct of the "exodus from Arab and Muslim countries" would not have been created in the first place, but each country or sub-region would have been considered independently. The modern agenda is highly notable as a result.
:::] (]) 01:01, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
::::You are very much mistaken about Iraq. The Jews there were very much persecuted for at least a decade before they left. From the ] to ] to being kicked out of all government office, not allowed to import/export, work in finance, bullied, arrested, not getting protection from the state in court, etc, etc, etc.
::::I find it somewhat amusing that you call scholars you agree with "the best scholars" (at least half of which are self-proclaimed activists) and those you don't "propagandists".
::::You are also very mistaken about what drives the people who care about this exodus, and the "modern agenda" as you call it. But apparently you have some kind of view into a parallel universe where the people who don't agree with you don't exist. Must be fun. ] (]) 06:38, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
:::::To your final point, the "modern agenda" point is based on an overwhelming number of sources. Some of them have been discussed before, e.g. ].
:::::Since you are casting aspersions about my list of 13 scholars, please provide sources underpinning your "self-proclaimed activists" claim regarding the "at least half".
:::::Your statements about Iraq suggest that you have a very confused understanding of the history there. The actual timing of events, including the periods of good relations between the government and the Jewish communities in Iraq is a critical detail which you overlook. As is Israel's well documented interest in the immigration of Iraqi Jews, and many Iraqi Jews later blaming Israel for misleading them. It is all in the article. ] (]) 13:11, 24 May 2015 (UTC)


The Iraqi Jews' condition deteriorated parallel to the rise of Nazism in Germany. Nazi ideology pervaded Iraqi society including the school curricula, which praised Hitler for his anti-Jewish policy and called the Iraqi Jews a fifth column. Hundreds of Jews were forced out of their civil service jobs in the 1930s, and during the 1936 Arab evolt in Palestine, Jews were terrorized and murdered in Baghdad.
::::- {{re|Oncenawhile|No More Mr Nice Guy}} Will you accept to move the lead's last paragraph (i.e politics) to the article body, perhaps to a new section called "retrospective"?
::::- Oncenawhile: It seems that you prefer Shiblak version as for what happened in Iraq. ( see Gat p. 2 <ref name="Gat2013p2"/>) . This version is contradicting the other historians version (see next paragraph). So will you accept to present both parallel versions in the lead and in the article body?
::::- yours:''"all of the quality research on this subject discusses Zionist agitation"''. As for Iraq, Some of your suggested sources say clearly that the Iraqi government's oppression and the insecurity were the major factor for the exodus. e.g.
::::----"…fight against Zionism, the state engaged in a process of collective punishments…unjustly designated an entire community as second-rate citizens. These undemocratic measures …pushed the Jews to emigrate from Iraq" Bashkin2012p185 <ref name="Bashkin2012p185"/>
::::----"Any tension in the Middle east would impinge directly on the situation of the Jews. Their chances of having stability or equality in Iraq appeared slim, and therefore it is understandable that many members of the community… wished to leave Iraq…The timing was determined by the Iraqi government, Israel was the only available option, and the magnitude of the emigration was due to the growing insecurity of the Jewish community in 1950. … In a different, non catastrophic context, as occurred in other Muslim countries such as Iran and Egypt, one might have expected a much slower, drawn out exodus and a range of destinations, with Israel being only one of them, not necessarily the main one" Meir-Glitzenstein2004p216 <ref name="Meir-Glitzenstein2004p216"/>
::::----], the Iraqi prime minister, was determined to drive the Jews out of his country as quickly as possible,<ref name="Gat2013p124"/> Gat2013p124 <ref name="Bashkin2012p277"/> Bashkin2012p277, <ref name="KacowiczLutomski2007"/>Ka cowiczLutomski2007
:::::Hi Ykantor, to your points
:::::*My concern is that most news articles on this topic mention the attempted connection to the Palestinian refugees. Another . So why should we hide the issue by expunging it from the lead?
:::::*I agree we should show both scholarly versions of the Iraq narrative. .
:::::*None of those sources, and no truly scholarly sources I have ever seen, state that oppression and insecurity were THE major factor. Frankly, so sensible scholar could ever make that claim, as there were so many competing factors at play. The best we can do is explain all the major factors, and not giving into temptation to prioritise whichever one we choose to believe is THE major factor.
:::::*Please don't continue to mislead people by using that Nuri quote out of context. You and I have discussed this many times before and you are fully aware by now that the statement referred to a situation where the Jewish community had been stuck in limbo for many months following the temporary breakdown / delay of the indirect transfer arrangement between Israel and Iraq.
:::::] (]) 19:30, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
::::::- What is the relation between nowadays politics and news and between an encyclopedic article? Other articles concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict do not mention current politics, so why this one should mention politics? In my opinion it shouldn't. However, in order to compromise and to get a consensus, I propose to move it to the article body.
::::::- Thank you for the interesting comparison article. I'll come back after I'll read it. In the meantime, will you accept to write a paragraph with Shiblak version and I'll write a paragraph with the other sources views.
::::::- Yours: "''None of those sources, and no truly scholarly sources I have ever seen, state that oppression and insecurity were THE major factor"''. I presented here (and plan to add more) quotes with the claim that the main reason for the exodus was the insecurity, government oppression, etc.
::::::- If Nuri's quote is misleading, it is because it is only a sample of his other plans / quotes when he repeatedly wanted / proposed/ plans to expel/ oppress the Jews, already at 1947 and of course latter as well. from the article:
::::::---- Before United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine vote, the Iraq's prime minister Nuri al-Said told British diplomats that if the United Nations solution was not "satisfactory", "severe measures should be taken against all Jews in Arab countries"
::::::----In January 1949, the pro-British Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Said discussed the idea of deporting Iraqi Jews to Israel with British officials,
::::::----On 14 October 1949 Nuri Al Said raised the exchange of population concept with the economic mission survey
::::::----in September 1950, he summoned a representative of the Jewish community and warned the Jewish community of Baghdad to make haste; otherwise, he would take the Jews to the borders himself. (to be continued) ] (]) 20:42, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
:::::::I don't have a problem with the political issue being mentioned in the lead along the lines of what I suggested in a section below (assuming there's something in the body of the article which is summarizes, of course). I don't think it needs the amount of detail it has now, though.
::::::: is another comparison of the Iraq narratives, one by an academic rather than "a writer and book critic" . ] (]) 21:24, 24 May 2015 (UTC)


That year the Chief Rabbi of Iraq, Sassoon Khaddouri, was forced
== Inaccurate title/sub-headings ==
to issue a statement denying any connection between Iraqi Jews and
the Zionist movement, and in 1938 thirty-three Jewish leaders cabled
to the League of Nations a strong condemnation of Zionism.18


The worst, however, came in June 1941 with the Farhud, a pro Nazi uprising against the Jews. Beginning on the Shavuot holiday, in two days incited mobs murdered two hundred Jews, wounded over two thousand, looted more than nine hundred homes, and damaged shops and warehouses.
There are two reasons why the current title is incorrect. Firstly, it includes Maghrebis as Arabs, even though thats debateable. For instance Morocco is nowhere near Arabia, its languages Berber and Moroccan-Arabic are both unintelligible among non-Moroccans, and the Morocco page states "HLA DNA data suggest that most Moroccans are of a Berber origin". Secondly, the expulsions happened during a period when some of these countries were secularistic. Therefore the adjective "Muslim" before "coumtry" would be inaccurate. It would be the equivalent of labeling grouping Spain, Italy, France and Mexico under "Catholic countries". Also, Turkey was secular for most of its history, and Sudan prior to being split had significant animist and Christian populations.


The Partition Resolution of November 1947 found Iraq's Jews in a state of fear. There had already been riots in the two preceding years, and Jewish children were no longer accepted in government schools. In May and again in December 1947, Jews were accused of poisoning sweets for Arab children and trying to inject cholera germs in drinking water. In 1948, Zionism was declared a crime, 1,500 Jews were dismissed from public service, and Jewish banks lost their authorization.
There are four solutions to these problems; either (a) change the title or (b) split the article or (c) gutting/mass deletion or (d) a mixture of all. So do you guys prefer option A, B or C, or D? ] (]) 19:22, 18 March 2015 (UTC)


:Thank you for starting this discussion. You raise some interesting points. I'll have to consider them before offering an opinion. —&nbsp;]&nbsp;<sup>]</sup>/<sub>]</sub> 20:15, 18 March 2015 (UTC)


Many Jews were imprisoned and some hanged on the same "charge"; in 1948 the richest Jew in Iraq, Shafiq Adas, received the death penalty for "Zionist and communist crimes." His execution by hanging was a clear message that Jews had no future in the country.20 Again in 1949, numerous Jews were injured in a new wave of riots. Hence, the evacuation of more than one hundred thousand Jews to Israel between 1949-1951 was precipitated by Iraqi anti-Semitism and echoed the calls of Iraqi leaders for expulsion and population exchange.
:: I am an Arabic-speaker and I have never understood a Moroccan, nor can any other Arab-speaker I know. In short, it is a real stretch to call Moroccans "Arab". The same argument applies for most people in western Algeria too. ] (]) 23:32, 18 March 2015 (UTC)


A similar wave of persecution took place in Egypt and Libya, where in 1945 there were riots and massacres of hundreds of Jews, with destruction of synagogues and other communal buildings. This recurred in 1948 with the arrest of thousands in Egypt, and deadly attacks in both countries along with synagogue burnings and confiscation of both communal and private property.
::: '''Oppose''' {{reply|Mowwweer}} I'm confused about your argument. This discussion was raised after your move to ] was reverted. So it seems that, although you argue here against the use of the term "Arab", your real concern is the classification of countries as "Muslim" rather than "Muslim-majority".
::: Addressing the argument you have raised here, however (Arab or not), since the title encompasses both "Arab countries" and "Muslim countries", we can argue all day long whether Moroccans are rightly classified as Arabs or not, but we can't argue that Morocco is a Muslim (or Muslim-majority) country, so it falls under the umbrella of the article's title.
::: As to the finer argument over "Muslim" vs "Muslim-majority", I think that's just a matter of a more convenient title. The term "Muslim country" connotes (to my mind, at least) a country where, not only is the majority of the population Muslim, but one where the Muslim culture pervades life beyond the sphere of religious and faith life, but governs much of day-to-day life. It is from countries such as those that Jews fled or were expelled. I don't see a need to change the title based on the fine point of "Muslim" vs "Muslim-majority". Just one man's opinion. <font color="green">]</font><font color="green" size="5px"></font><sup>]</sup><sub>]</sub> 04:19, 19 March 2015 (UTC)


The North African countries of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia also saw periodic waves of anti-Jewish riots including mass killings, but they were less intensive and with fewer casualties because of the better protection offered by the French authorities, who were engaged in their own conflict with the Arabs. However, many testimonies express fears of sudden deterioration that were reinforced by developments in other Arab countries and in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
:::: I also split the article between Maghreb and Arab. The following countries are disputably non-Arab: Morocco and Algeria. People from the Maghreb region are prominently known as Maghrebi rather than Arab. Libya is categorised as a "berber country" and "Maghreb country", not an "Arab country". As for Turkey, it was mostly secular from the 1920 onwards, when the caliphate was abolished. ] (]) 09:11, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
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This should be edited for neutrality and fidelity to the source. ] (]) 15:27, 8 October 2024 (UTC)
::: Like WikiDan61, I'm not sure why there is an argument. While it's true that many people mistakenly consider "Arab" and "Muslim" to be synonymous, the title already says "Arab ''and'' Muslim", thereby including both Arab and non-Arab countries where Muslims are in the majority -- so this would seem, at least to me, to be a non-issue in this context. ]&nbsp;]/] 13:29, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
:{{not done}}:<!-- Template:EEp --> this is not an uncontroversial improvement. ] (]) 12:08, 22 October 2024 (UTC)


== discussion ==
I also oppose and I imagine in a few years time we'll be having the same argument over a Christian exodus from the Muslim world. <small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 01:19, 29 March 2015 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


see discussion at ]. I wonder if this article should have another move request. ''']'''<span style="border:2px solid #073642;background:rgb(255,156,0);background:linear-gradient(90deg, rgba(255,156,0,1) 0%, rgba(147,0,255,1) 45%, rgba(4,123,134,1) 87%);">]</span> 18:35, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

== one million plan ==

I removed the following text from the article:

<blockquote>From 1944,{{sfn|Eyal|2006|p=86|ps=: "The principal significance of this plan lies in the fact, noted by Yehuda Shenhav, that this was the first time in Zionist history that Jews from Middle Eastern and North African countries were all packaged together in one category as the target of an immigration plan. There were earlier plans to bring specific groups, such as the Yemenites, but the "one million plan" was, as Shenhav says, "the zero point," the moment when the category of mizrahi jews in the current sense of this term, as an ethnic group distinct from European-born jews, was invented."}} the ], which became the top priority{{sfn|Hacohen|1991|p=262 #2|ps= :"In meetings with foreign officials at the end of 1944 and during 1945, Ben-Gurion cited the plan to enable one million refugees to enter Palestine immediately as the primary goal and top priority of the Zionist movement.}} of ] in ],<ref>{{citation|title=Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture|volume=1|first=Mark Avrum|last=Ehrlich|isbn=9781851098736|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2009|quote="A Zionist plan. designed in 1943–1944, to bring 1 million Jews from Europe and the Middle East to Palestine as a means and a stage to establish a state. It was the first time the Jews of Islamic countries were explicitly included in a Zionist plan."}}</ref>{{sfn|Meir-Glitzenstein|2004|p=44 #1|ps=: "After it was presented to the Jewish Agency Executive, the One Million Plan became the official policy of the Zionist leadership. The immigration of the Jews of Islamic countries was explicit or implicit in all the declarations, testimonies, memoranda and demands issued by the Jewish Agency from World War ll until the establishment of the state."}}{{sfn|Ofer|1991|p=239|ps= :"This tactical approach, the demand for "control of aliyah" and the immediate immigration of two million (later, one million) Jews, was the declared policy of the Jewish Agency Executive until the end of the war."}} encouraged the immigration of the Jews of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa into what became the State of Israel.<ref>Ben-Gurion's diary, 30 July 1945, Ben-Gurion Archives. Midreshet Sede Boker, Quote: "We have to bring over all of Bloc 5 , most of Bloc 4 , everything possible from Bloc 3 , and pioneers from Bloc 2 as soon as possible."</ref>{{sfn|Meir-Glitzenstein|2004|p=39}}</blockquote>

First of all, the lead is supposed to summarize the article. This information does not appear in the body of the article and thus is not a summary.

Second none of the sources here actually tie it to the Jews leaving their countries. There was a plan, who said it had an effect on the topic of this article? Someone bring some sources.

Third, the The One Million Plan appears in the article 3 times. Twice in the lead and once in the body (and that not related to the lead). If that's not UNDUE I don't know what is.

So, if someone can bring some sources to connect this to the article, and develop a section in the body, we could possibly restore it with some changes. ] (]) 06:50, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
:Great, then put it in the main body of the article.
:Yes of course the sources connect it to this topic. Read Shenhav for example. And HaCohen goes through and explains exactly how the various agencies implemented the Plan. ] (]) 16:44, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
::Perhaps I didn't explain myself clearly. WP:LEAD is an editing guideline. You can't put stuff in the lead that's not in the body, although I know some editors like to do that because it's easy and most people just read the lead. But alas, it's not allowed. I don't have the sources to write a section in the body to be summarized in the lead, nor do I have the time. Nor do I want you to think it's my job to do your homework.
::On top of that, you violated WP:V (that's ''policy'') buy restoring unsourced information.
::Also, if you have a source that directly ties the plan into the topic of this article, kindly provide it here. "Read Shenhav" is not a source.
::I'd like to remind you that you often remove large chunks of text and other editors not to restore them pending a discussion. Perhaps you should do as you preach. ] (]) 05:18, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
:::{{u|No More Mr Nice Guy}}, you deleted seven sources, many with detailed quotes, and you call that unsourced? The sources that you removed explain in plain quotes that the OMP was the first time the topic of this article was ever even conceptualised by anyone. Your claim that that is not connected closely enough to the topic of this article is patently absurd.
:::Thank you for encouraging me to add extra detail on this topic into the article. I will be glad to do so. ] (]) 20:27, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
::::First of all I didn't delete anything, I moved stuff here for discussion. Second, the unsourced stuff was where you added the plan for a second time in the lead. Twice in the lead, once in the article. Way to UNDUE. Third, the source says it was the first time this whole group was treated as one. That's not the topic of this article. I will note that if what you claim was true, it would conflict with your "modern agenda" theory, but that's besides the point.
::::By all means, develop a section in the article then we can assess both the relevance and the DUE weight to give it in the lead. ] (]) 21:06, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
:::::I have made a start. There are a lot of high quality sources out there on this topic, so please feel free to add as you see fit. ] (]) 21:12, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
::::::I see some problems already. I can't fix anything because of 1rr, so I'll edit tomorrow. But to begin with, both in the lead and in the body it quotes Ben Gurion's diary for wanting to bring all the Jews from MENA, but that's his thoughts, not what they voted on as far as I can tell. Meir-Glitzenstein 2004 says on page 39 that the Planning Committee was thinking 150,000 and that number increased later, but doesn't say to how much. She also notes (p.38) that when voted on, the plan was not presented as an operative plan, but in a political context. On p.44 she says the plan had no operative significance. Yet our article not only notes none of this, you keep restoring contested and unsourced language into the last paragraph of the lead stating that agents were working towards the plan. ] (]) 06:28, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
::::::Another thing I noticed: The source (Hachohen 1991, currently source #7) says the plan "enabled" Jewish immigration while our article says it "encouraged" such immigration. No bueno.
::::::I also see that Oncenawhile once again slipped the "minor" before expulsions back into the lead despite it not being in any source and it being contested. Who says it's minor? Stop edit warring and explain why you think it belongs in the article. You may not restore unsourced information without consensus, as I'm sure you're aware. It's called WP:V. It's Misplaced Pages policy. ] (]) 07:28, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
:::::::On the "minor", yes I see I did do that. I don't know when it came back out - all I did was go back to . I believe the word was originally added following ]. In summary, there was only one known expulsion, which was in Egypt following Suez and the Jews were one of many groups forced out. Per ] it is not known exactly how many were actually expelled, and some sources suggest that they "only expelled a small minority". ] (]) 12:04, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

== lead ==

The last paragraph of the lead pretty much repeats the push/pull factors in the much better written previous paragraph. I'm not even sure what we're trying to say here. That some people compare it to the Palestinian exodus and others disagree? Can't we write that in plain English without repeating stuff? This is supposed to be a summary. ] (]) 06:58, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
:Plain English is good. Please make a proposal. ] (]) 16:44, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
:: As said previously, it is proposed to get rid of the last paragraph. A political discussion of nowadays is not relevant to the past. ] (]) 20:08, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
:::Something along the lines of the issue is politicized, some people compare it to the Palestinian exodus. Those who do emphasize the push factors and consider these people refugees while those who don't emphasize the pull factors and do not consider them refugees.
:::Suggestions for exact wording welcome. ] (]) 05:21, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

== notes ==

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<ref name="Gat2013p2">{{cite book|author=Moshe Gat|title=The Jewish Exodus from Iraq, 1948-1951|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=B_r3_-9ZU1YC&pg=PA2|date=4 July 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-24654-9|pages=2|quote=Shiblak attitude:" the threat was not grave enough to explain maas emigration of Jews to Israel." the zionists used "drastic measures, such as bomb throwing, so as to jolt the Jewish community, most of whom preferred life in Iraq to emigration to Israel."}}</ref>



<ref name="AdelmanBarkan2013p237">{{cite book|author1=Howard Adelman|author2=Elazar Barkan|title=No Return, No Refuge: Rites and Rights in Minority Repatriation|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=WRpHAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT237|date=13 August 2013|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-52690-6|pages=237–}}</ref>


<ref name="Bashkin2012p185">{{cite book|author=Orit Bashkin|title=New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=VdDjaxqHzx8C|date=12 September 2012|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-8201-2|page=185|quote="…fight against Zionism, the state engaged in a process of collective punishments…unjustly designated an entire community as second-rate citizens. These undemocratic measures …pushed the Jews to emigrate from Iraq"}}</ref>


<ref name="Bashkin2012p187">{{cite book|author=Orit Bashkin|title=New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=VdDjaxqHzx8C&pg=PA187|date=12 September 2012|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-8201-2|pages=187–|quote="Sixty year old man was sentenced to five years in jail for getting a letter from his son in Palestine…Large numbers of Jews employed at government ministries were let go from their position"}}</ref>

<ref name="Bashkin2012p277">{{cite book|author=Orit Bashkin|title=New Babylonians: A History of Jews in Modern Iraq|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=VdDjaxqHzx8C|date=12 September 2012|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-8201-2|page=277}}</ref>


<ref name=Gat1998p47>{{cite web|last1=Gat|first1=Moshe|title=The Immigration of Iraqi Jewry to Israel as Reflected in Literature|url=http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/remi_0765-0752_1998_num_14_3_1643|publisher=Revue européenne des migrations internationales ,Year 1998 , Volume 14 , Issue 14-3|pages=47,48|date=1998|quote="Immediately after the establishment of the State of Israel, the Iraqi government adopted a policy of anti-Jewish discrimination, mass dismissals from government service, and arrests. The climax of this policy was the hanging of the Jewish millionaire, Shafiq Ades on September 1948, and the confiscation of his property. The Jews felt the ground burning under their feet."}}</ref>

<ref name="Gat2013p124">{{cite book|author=Moshe Gat|title=The Jewish Exodus from Iraq, 1948-1951|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=B_r3_-9ZU1YC&pg=PA124|date=4 July 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-24654-9|pages=123–125}}</ref>


<ref name="Morris2008p413">{{cite book|author=Benny Morris|title=1948: a history of the first Arab-Israeli war|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=J5jtAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=13 July 2013|year=2008|publisher=Yale University Press|page=413|quote="In Iraq, following the May 1948 declaration of martial law, hundreds of Jews were arrested (the Iraqi government admitted to “276” Jews detained and “1,188” non-Jews),48 and Jewish property was arbitrarily confiscated. Jewish students were banned from high schools and universities. Some fifteen hundred Jews were dismissed from government positions, the Iraqi Ministry of Health refused to renew the licenses of Jewish physicians or issue new ones, Jewish merchants’ import and export licenses were canceled, and various economic sanctions were imposed on the Jewish community.49 In January 1949, Prime Minister Nuri Sa’id threatened “that all Iraqi Jews would be expelled if the Israelis did not allow the Arab refugees to return to Palestine.”50 A new “wave of persecution” was unleashed against the 125,000-strong community in early October 1949, with about two thousand being packed off to jails and “concentration camps” and vast amounts of money being extorted in fines on various pretexts.51 But the Iraqi government kept a tight leash on the “street.”}}</ref>

<ref name="Meir-Glitzenstein2004p206">{{cite book|author=Esther Meir-Glitzenstein|title=Zionism in an Arab Country: Jews in Iraq in the 1940s|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ZU2QAgAAQBAJ|date=2 August 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-76862-1|page=206|quote=(Nuri's threats) "encouraged Iraqi officials to abuse the departing jews before they boarded the planes and to destroy their baggage"}}</ref>

<ref name="Meir-Glitzenstein2004p216">{{cite book|author=Esther Meir-Glitzenstein|title=Zionism in an Arab Country: Jews in Iraq in the 1940s|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ZU2QAgAAQBAJ|date=2 August 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-76862-1|page=216|quote="Any tension in the Middle east would impinge directly on the situation of the Jews. Their chances of having stability or equality in Iraq appeared slim., and therefore it is understandable that many members of the community… wished to leave Iraq…The timing was determined by the Iraqi government, Israel was the only available option, and the magnitude of the emigration was due to the growing insecurity of the Jewish community in 1950. … In a different, non catastrophic context, as occurred in other Muslim countries such as Iran and Egypt, one might have expected a much slower, drawn out exodus and a range of destinations, with Israel being only one of them, not necessarily the main one"}}</ref>

<ref name="Tripp2002p122">{{cite book|author=Charles Tripp|title=A History of Iraq|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=WR-Cnw1UCJEC|year=2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-52900-6|page=122|quote="The minister of defence, Sadiq al-Bassam, denied much say in the conduct of the war, used the opportunity to initiate systematic harassment of the Iraqi Jewish community whose loyalties were now more suspect than ever. Their movements were restricted, Jews were barred from certain government posts, courts martial were used extensively to imprison and intimidate Jews and a prominent member of the Community was executed for allegedly assisting the new state of Israel." }}</ref>

<ref name="AdelmanBarkan2011p179">{{cite book|author1=Howard Adelman|author2=Elazar Barkan|title=No Return, No Refuge: Rites and Rights in Minority Repatriation|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=80j612aFo_4C|year=2011|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-15336-2|page=179|quote="If Arab countries took no responsibility for forcing the Jews to leave, the new Israeli state reciprocated…The de facto expulsion of the Jews from most Arab state …In expelling the Jews and encouraging anti Jewish policies, The Arab states played into Israeli"}}</ref>

<ref name="AdelmanBarkan2013p365">{{cite book|author1=Howard Adelman|author2=Elazar Barkan|title=No Return, No Refuge: Rites and Rights in Minority Repatriation|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=WRpHAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT365|date=13 August 2013|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-231-52690-6|pages=365–|quote="At times, Iraqi politicians candidly acknowledged that they wanted to expell their Jewish population for reasons of their own, having nothing to do with the palestinian exodus...Nuri Said described a plan to expell jews from Iraq ...head of Jordanian government"}}</ref>


<ref name="Hakohen2003p124">{{cite book|author=Devorah Hakohen|title=Immigrants in Turmoil: Mass Immigration to Israel and Its Repercussions in the 1950s and After|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=fYOiPrm-6PsC&pg=PA124|year=2003|publisher=Syracuse University Press|isbn=978-0-8156-2990-0|page=124|quote=Said had warned the Jewish community of Baghdad to make haste; otherwise, he would take the Jews to the Borders himself}}</ref

<ref name="KacowiczLutomski2007">{{cite book|author1=Arie Marcelo Kacowicz|author2=Pawel Lutomski|title=Population Resettlement in International Conflicts: A Comparative Study|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ovck_g0xwX0C&pg=PA124|date=1 January 2007|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-0-7391-1607-4|pages=124–|quote=Nuri...determined to drive the Jews out of his country as quickly as possible}}</ref>

}}

== Afghanistan ==

{{u|Telaviv1}}, your edit needs further work:

Your source ({{cite book|author=Joan G. Roland|title=The Jewish Communities of India: Identity in a Colonial Era|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=kHJccZ92IecC&pg=PA349|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-4128-3748-4|pages=349}}) does not say what you suggest it does. It says that Afghan Jews were expelled from certain towns, but were allowed to live in Kabul and Herat. So they were NOT expelled from Afghanistan.

Also the statement "During the 1930's the Nazis cultivated relations with Afghanistan (which was an independent monarchy) with a view to a possible invasion of British India" seems to be anachronous - the idea that the Nazis were planning an invasion of India in 1933 (as implied by the juxtaposition of the sentence with the subsequent one) seems highly unlikely. ] (]) 22:15, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

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Quick Grammar error/Typo

1. Could an authorised editor please make the following 2/1 character correction in the article lede? Sentence currently flips "direction" in its final third -- jarring for native English speakers. Thanks in advance.

NOW: "In total, of the 900,000 Jews who left Arab and other Muslim countries, 600,000 settled in the new state of Israel, and 300,000 immigrated to France and the United States."

BETTER AS: "~ 300,000 emigrated ~" Tom Segev's quote (footnote 300)

2. "if a man as well connected and powerful as Shafiq Ades could he eliminated by the state" - change "he" to "be"

2024 Jewish population of Yemen

Yemenite Jews says:

> As of 2024, only 5 Jew remained in Yemen, with one of them being Levi Marhabi.

Cites: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/sj7dfbxic

The population table should be updated accordingly. Miraj31415 (talk) 05:42, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

In 2024 6 Jews were living in Yemen; 1 has died now there are five left alive Cite https://www.jewishrefugees.org.uk/2024/06/muslims-bury-one-of-the-last-jews-in-yemen.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:6010:BB00:288B:E920:DB09:63B3:522A (talk) 12:58, 23 July 2024 (UTC)

Lybian Jews

In the paragraph about Lybia, it might be of interest to provide information on the number of Arabic-speaking and Italian-speaking Jews. Andrea Domenici, Pisa, Italy 188.217.54.52 (talk) 12:48, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

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Change the second line of the opening paragraph to my suggestion, or another appropriately neutral phrasing

My suggested phraseology is:

'In the 20th century, approximately 900,000 Jews migrated, fled, or were expelled from Muslim-majority countries throughout Africa and Asia. Involving push factors, such as antisemitism, and pull factors, such as the appeal of the newly created state of Israel, the mass movement mainly transpired from 1948 to the early 1970s, with one final exodus of Iranian Jews occurring shortly after the Islamic Revolution in 1979–1980.'


The reason for this edit request is as follows:

The opening paragraph of this page says that the exodus was 'Primarily a consequence of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War,' and is supported by a citation to Avi Beker's 2005 THE FORGOTTEN NARRATIVE: JEWISH REFUGEES FROM ARAB COUNTRIES. There are two problems with this:

The way it is currently phrased suggests that the expulsion of the Jews from the Arab world was the result of the war (And seems to allign with the 'popular' narrative that Jewish expulsion from the Middle East was a response to Palestinian expulsion in the 1948 war), and even implies that it was retributive. But even if this was the case these Jews are not responsible for what happened in Israel, and therefore their being held responsible is not a result of the war but a result of antisemitism.


The second problem is that this isn't what Beker writes in this paper (his claim is that push factors contributing to Jewish exodus began before 1948). He writes:

' In a few years, Jewish communities that had existed in the Middle East for more than 2,500 years were brutally expelled or had to run for their lives. The statements made in the UN were harbingers of what became a total collapse of these Jews' security. Following the Partition Resolution of November 1947, and in some countries even earlier during World War II, Middle Eastern Jews were the targets of official and popular incitement, state-legislated discrimination, and pogroms -- again, all this before the massive flight of the Arabs from Palestine.


In Syria, anti-Semitism grew after the Nazis' rise to power in Germany. By the late 1930s, Syria already served as a headquarters for anti-Semitism and hosted Nazi officers. By 1945 the thirty thousand Syrian Jews already faced restrictions on emigration to Israel and some of their property was burned and looted, including the Great Synagogue in Damascus. In December 1947 there was a major pogrom against the Jews of Aleppo, the largest community with seventeen thousand; many were killed and seven thousand fled. Jewish bank accounts in the city were frozen and private property was confiscated; fifty shops, eighteen synagogues, and five schools were burned. Later, after Israel's founding, more Syrian Jews were killed and banks were instructed to freeze all Jewish accounts.

In Yemen, Jews were always treated as second-class citizens. As far back as the 1880s, 2,500 Jews moved from there to Jerusalem and Jaffa, and as conditions worsened another seventeen thousand left to Aden and Palestine between 1923-1945. Riots and massacres also occurred in Aden, which was in British-controlled Yemen. In three days of disturbances in December 1947, many Jews were killed and the Jewish quarter was burned to the ground, so that the community lost its business and economic base. Altogether in those three days, 82 Jews were killed, 106 shops looted out of 170,220 houses destroyed, and four synagogues gutted.

The Iraqi Jews' condition deteriorated parallel to the rise of Nazism in Germany. Nazi ideology pervaded Iraqi society including the school curricula, which praised Hitler for his anti-Jewish policy and called the Iraqi Jews a fifth column. Hundreds of Jews were forced out of their civil service jobs in the 1930s, and during the 1936 Arab evolt in Palestine, Jews were terrorized and murdered in Baghdad.

That year the Chief Rabbi of Iraq, Sassoon Khaddouri, was forced to issue a statement denying any connection between Iraqi Jews and the Zionist movement, and in 1938 thirty-three Jewish leaders cabled to the League of Nations a strong condemnation of Zionism.18

The worst, however, came in June 1941 with the Farhud, a pro Nazi uprising against the Jews. Beginning on the Shavuot holiday, in two days incited mobs murdered two hundred Jews, wounded over two thousand, looted more than nine hundred homes, and damaged shops and warehouses.

The Partition Resolution of November 1947 found Iraq's Jews in a state of fear. There had already been riots in the two preceding years, and Jewish children were no longer accepted in government schools. In May and again in December 1947, Jews were accused of poisoning sweets for Arab children and trying to inject cholera germs in drinking water. In 1948, Zionism was declared a crime, 1,500 Jews were dismissed from public service, and Jewish banks lost their authorization.


Many Jews were imprisoned and some hanged on the same "charge"; in 1948 the richest Jew in Iraq, Shafiq Adas, received the death penalty for "Zionist and communist crimes." His execution by hanging was a clear message that Jews had no future in the country.20 Again in 1949, numerous Jews were injured in a new wave of riots. Hence, the evacuation of more than one hundred thousand Jews to Israel between 1949-1951 was precipitated by Iraqi anti-Semitism and echoed the calls of Iraqi leaders for expulsion and population exchange.

A similar wave of persecution took place in Egypt and Libya, where in 1945 there were riots and massacres of hundreds of Jews, with destruction of synagogues and other communal buildings. This recurred in 1948 with the arrest of thousands in Egypt, and deadly attacks in both countries along with synagogue burnings and confiscation of both communal and private property.

The North African countries of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia also saw periodic waves of anti-Jewish riots including mass killings, but they were less intensive and with fewer casualties because of the better protection offered by the French authorities, who were engaged in their own conflict with the Arabs. However, many testimonies express fears of sudden deterioration that were reinforced by developments in other Arab countries and in the Arab-Israeli conflict. '

This should be edited for neutrality and fidelity to the source. HealthyBias (talk) 15:27, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: this is not an uncontroversial improvement. M.Bitton (talk) 12:08, 22 October 2024 (UTC)

discussion

see discussion at Talk:1948_Arab–Israeli_War#"Jewish_exodus_from_Muslim_world"_due_for_lede?. I wonder if this article should have another move request. Andre🚐 18:35, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

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