Posts Tagged: Lyn Julius
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...
Amnesty’s Blinkered Anti-Zionism Is a Recipe for Disaster
JNS.org - “The right of people to self-determination is something I believe in … but we are opposed to the idea that Israel should be...
The Nazi Roots of Arab Antisemitism Must Not Be Denied
JNS.org - What impact did the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, have on the Nazi enterprise? According to Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad...
To Combat Shoah Denial, Call Out Arab Antisemitism
JNS.org - The walls of Holocaust denial are crumbling, wrote Washington Institute for Near East Policy executive director Robert Satloff earlier this month. We are...
Don’t Forget Sudan’s Jews in Rushing to Peace
JNS.org - It was in the 1950s -- when Gamal Nasser took power in Egypt, and a military coup d’état took place in Sudan --...
In Arab Countries, Restoring Synagogues Means Never Saying Sorry for Past Crimes
JNS.org - Last week, to much fanfare, the largest synagogue in the Middle East was reopened in Alexandria, Egypt. Some 300 guests, including Egyptian Antiquities...
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...
Palestinians Share Responsibility for Jewish Refugees, Too
JNS.org - Not long ago, I heard emeritus professor of Tel Aviv University Asher Susser give a talk on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. He came to...
Is There a Chance of Building Arab Peace With Israel From the Grass-Roots Up?
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “breaking bread” with Arab leaders at the Warsaw conference on Middle East security was a warming and unprecedented sight. But...
Why the Trump Peace Deal Can’t Ignore Jewish Refugees
JNS.org - For some weeks now, governments and opinion-makers have been waiting with baited breath for Donald Trump to unveil his peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. We’ve had...
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, 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...