The Jews of Baghdad

There is an organised campaign in development at the moment to have people believe that there was a concerted ethnic cleansing campaign against the Jews of the Arab world after the establishment of the state of Israel. Here's Professor Geoffrey Alderman promoting a typically dishonest zionist take on this in the Guardian:

The most dramatic incidence of ethnic cleansing in modern times has been the systematic ethnic cleansing of Jews from Arab lands. It is a pity the mayor appears either to be in ignorance of this or to be indifferent to it.
Prof Geoffrey Alderman
London

This campaign is still quite young as it couldn't be mounted while many of the emigrants were still alive because the idea that there was "systematic ethnic cleansing of Jews from Arab lands" is a complete lie. Perhaps the professor is ignorant of this or he is indifferent to it. It doesn't matter because the Professor is only one player in this campaign to rewrite the history of Arab Jewry and view it through the distorting prism of zionist historiography.

I have posted before about the cases of Egypt and of Morocco. The article linked to the headline above is about the Jews of Iraq and is written by David Shasha. Here's a piece but please read the whole thing:

The recent call to have the 1941 events in Iraq, known as the Farhud*, linked to the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust is yet another step in the regrettable process of having Sephardic Jewish history measured and calibrated along the lines of Ashkenazi Jewish history. Such a phenomenon is more than lamentable. Under a strange confluence of forces, merging Sephardi weakness, Ashkenazi dominance and the pressing need to lay out Arabs as a primal demonic and anti-Semitic force, a committee has now been formed in Los Angeles – replete with a website and a media campaign – to formally insert the Farhud into Holocaust history thereby distorting the historical and political context of the original event.

I'll be returning to this issue in future posts as this is going to become a live issue in coming months or years with the zionists trying to extort money from Arab states as part of some "peace" deal if that ever comes.

*violent dispossession