Posts Tagged: Iraq Israel
Miss Iraq: Grotesque Antisemitic Iraqi Law Demands Strong Response
What does it mean when a society makes peace a crime, and adds the death penalty as a consequence? My native Iraq is about to...
Iraq Attacks Israel; What Should Happpen Next?
On May 26, Iraq approved a poorly thought out authoritarian law; its implications will hurt Iraqis in the diaspora, Iraqis in Iraq, and the Iraqi...
Why We Need to Remember the Farhud
JNS.org - Iraq is in the news again, this time due to its passage of a “draconian” law that forbids contact between Israel and Iraqi...
Iraq’s Blood-Curdling Bill Targets Israel (and Its Own People)
JNS.org – Nearly 20 years after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime in a US-led invasion, Iraq remains at war with Israel, as has been...
US Condemns Iraqi Law Criminalizing Contact With Israel
The United States has strongly condemned the passage of new legislation in Iraq that criminalizes contact between Iraqi citizens and Israelis on pain of death. The...
Iraqis Could Face Death Penalty for Promoting Israeli Normalization
i24 News – Iraqis could face the death penalty or life imprisonment for promoting normalization with Israel according to a bill being discussed in parliament,...
An Iraqi Perspective on Israel
Growing up in Iraq, my curriculum in Baghdad’s elementary school included a “nationalism class” and required that we read a text by the Governor of...
The False Promise of Iraqi-Israeli Peace
No one should be misled by the revelation that several Iraqi delegations visited Israel in 2018, and let that turn into optimism about Iraqi-Israeli relations....
Iraqi Parliamentarian, Friend of US and Israel, Calls for ‘Mideast Summit’ as Islamists Burn Ballots in Baghdad
Last week, as Islamists burned ballot boxes in Baghdad, Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi -- whose unconventional career in Parliament has included championing normalized relations between his country...
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...
Senator Chuck Schumer: Iraqi Archive Belongs to Jewish Community
JNS.org - Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wants to stop the State Department from returning 2,700 Jewish books and ancient documents to Iraq. Sixteen American...
Should Iraq’s Jewish Archive be Returned to the Country?
JNS.org - A few years ago, in response to a Palestinian critic who made a disparaging remark about the fact that I don't speak...
Report: UK Deployed SAS to Iraq Ahead of Invasion to Prevent Attack on Israel
In the lead up to the country's entry into the Iraq war British Prime Minister Tony Blair deployed an elite unit to Iraq in...
Iraq Says No to U.S. Offer on Jewish Archives
Last month, Iraq announced that it would halt archaeological cooperation with the United States until all archives that were removed during Operation Iraqi Freedom in...