Lyn Julius
ARTICLES BY: Lyn Julius
Arab States Are Claiming the Heritage of Their Expelled Jews
JNS.org - On or around November 30, Jewish communities around the world will be holding events to remember the mass exodus of Jewish refugees from Arab...
The Palestinian Distortion of the Balfour Declaration
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki has threatened to sue Britain for issuing the 1917 Balfour Declaration because, he claims, that it led to mass Jewish immigration...
On November 30, Remember the Jewish Refugees Expelled from Arab Lands
Linda Hakim left Iraq for London in 1970. But she has never been able to shake off the fear that she felt growing up as a...
Remembering the Triumphant Success of Israel’s Migration Crisis
The current refugee crisis in Europe has evoked memories among Jews in particular. More often than not, the comparison is made with Jews desperate to flee...
Why Doesn’t BDS Care About Expelled Jews and Arab Human Rights Abuses?
The man behind the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel, Omar Barghouti, is a PhD student at Tel Aviv University. Yes, you read...
France No Longer a Home for Jews Fleeing Persecution
The Jews of France are reeling. It's been a month that they would rather forget. Although all European Jewish communities have been affected, the French...
Was the ‘Farhud’ Really a Nazi Event?
Last week was the 73rd anniversary of a cataclysmic event in the tragic annals of Iraq's Jews: the outbreak, on June 1-2, 1941, of the Farhud. The Farhud...
Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and the Right of Return
As the current negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians lurch forward, the burning question is: will Israel's withdrawal from the West Bank put an end...
Israel, Colonialism, and the Arab World
It's been 46 years since the late French Marxist scholar Maxime Rodinson published his influential essay, and later book: "Israel: colonial settler state? " Reinforced by...
EU Settlement Policy Legitimises Mass Dispossession
Cairo's Tahrir Square is once more in the news: revolution and counter-revolution, protest and put-down. But some issues never capture the headlines: for instance, did...