Posts Tagged: Farhud
The Old Jewish Cemetery of Baghdad: A Forgotten Chapter in Iraq’s History
The old Jewish cemetery in Baghdad, a relic of a once-thriving Jewish community, holds the stories of generations who contributed to Iraq’s social, cultural, and...
On World Refugee Day, Will Bella Hadid Remember Nearly 1,000,000 Expelled Jews?
The Ukraine war has catalyzed media coverage highlighting the plight of displaced people around the world. Ahead of World Refugee Day -- which is marked on...
Why Did the Media Forget ‘Iraq’s Kristallnacht’ on Its Anniversary?
Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24 has been widely condemned as an illegal act of aggression. The United Nations Human Rights Council...
Massacre of Iraqi Jews Remembered on 81st Anniversary
Jewish groups on Wednesday marked the 81st anniversary of the Farhud, a Nazi-inspired pogrom of Iraqi Jews that marked the beginning of the end for...
Media Erase Plight of Jewish Refugees From Arab Lands
The media went into overdrive this week with wall-to-wall coverage of the United Nations’ “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People” that marked the...
‘Farhud’ Massacre of Iraqi Jews Remembered, 79 Years Later
Jewish leaders and organizations on Monday marked the anniversary of the 1941 Baghdad pogrom known as the "Farhud," which began the ethnic cleansing of the...
Why International Farhud Day Stymies Invented Palestinian History
When International Farhud Day was proclaimed at a conference convened at the United Nations headquarters on June 1, 2015, its proponents wanted to achieve more than merely...
New York Times Whitewashes Iraq’s History of Killing Jews
A New York Times article about Israel’s support for Kurdish independence gives readers a false impression about how Jews were treated in Iraq. The Times news...
The Difficult and Important Task of Commemorating Iraqi Jewry’s Farhud
JNS.org - Every Iraqi Jew has a tale to tell about the Farhud, the two-day pogrom that befell the Jews of Baghdad 75 years ago in...
When Iraq Expelled Its Jews to Israel: The Inside Story
After Adolf Hitler’s defeat in May 1945, many Nazis melted away from the Reich, smuggled out by such organizations as the infamous Odessa group and...
Remembering Farhud Day and the Arab Pogroms
While I was speaking to the packed room, a woman I did not know, sitting in the front row, slowly shook her tear-stained head in...
When Baghdad Burned: The June 1941 Farhud Massacre
"Violent dispossession." In an Arabic dialect, the word is Farhud. For decades after it occurred, many thought the nightmare was a sudden and unexpected convulsion that...
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...
Abbas Claims Jews Were Not Expelled From Egypt
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas claimed yesterday that no Jews were expelled from Egypt under the rule of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, according to Al-Masryalyoum. Publicly...
