Farhud

Herzog on Farhud Anniversary:

‘The waves of antisemitic hatred continue’

President Isaac Herzog marked the Farhud’s 85th anniversary, warning that antisemitism remains a growing threat worldwide.

A critique of ‘Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew'

Prof. Avi Shlaim's ‘Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew' may have won a prestigious prize, but its claims are unsubstantiated and propagandistic. Shlaim seems to be using Zionism as a scapegoat for his exiled family’s trials and tribulations. Review.

The Farhoud Pogrom remembered – June 1-2, 1941

The October 7th massacre in Southern Israel joins a long line of dates and events such as the Faroud on June 1-2, 1941 when Jews were murdered for no other reason than being Jews. Op-ed.

A taste of the myth of peaceful Muslim-Jewish coexistence

A letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the bloody history of Muslim-Jewish 'coexistence' in countries with Muslim populations.

Iraq's massacre of its Jews: 'Thriving community lost overnight'

June 2, 2022 marks 81 years since the brutal massacre of Baghdad's thriving Jewish community; one of the oldest in the world.

Pitfalls of Jewish-Muslim dialogue

Islamic antisemitism reached Christian proportions when Zionism proved Jews were better than Muslims at fighting and ruling. Op-ed.

Yom HaGirush—the inside story

From Morocco to India, Yemen to Afghanistan, centuries of legacies were incinerated with barely a murmur from the world. Op-ed.

'Vital' to commemorate pogrom that decimated Iraqi Diaspora

Over 10,000 light a virtual candle in commemoration of the Farhud ahead of its 80th anniversary.

Yes, there was a Nakba, but it was not about Arabs

May 15 is the day the Arabs mourn the 'catastrophe' of Israel's establishment, but the real Nakba was that of the Jews of Arab lands. Op-ed.

The Iraqi Farhud stymies invented Arab history

State grants benefits to Jewish refugees from Arab lands

Israelis who fled anti-Semitism in North Africa and Iraq finally to be recognized under law, like Holocaust and Nazi regime survivors.

Jewish Kurds hold groundbreaking Iraq commemoration

Could a ceremony commemorating deadly anti-Semitic pogrom which led to Iraqi Jewish exodus also mark the start of a Jewish revival?

When Nazism met Arabism

When Baghdad Burned: The June 1941 Farhud Massacre

The fusion of Nazism and Arab nationalism in the Middle East spelled unimaginable horror for Iraq's ancient Jewish community.