In 1948, there were almost a million Jews in Arab countries. Today, there are barely 4,000. Because of Arab and Muslim antisemitism, most refugees and their descendants are now in Israel - where they make up 50.2 percent of the Jewish population.
Yet, in the reams written about the Arab-Israeli conflict, it is rare to find any mention of Jewish refugees from Arab countries. Why has this silent exodus, one of the most dramatic of the last 70 years, gone un-noticed, while the Palestinian refugee narrative hogs the limelight?
Lyn Julius is the British-born daughter of Iraqi-Jewish refugees. A journalist, speaker and blogger, her work has appeared in The Times of Israel, Jewish Chronicle, The Guardian, JNS News, Jerusalem Post, among other media.
Lyn is the co-founder of Harif, the UK Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa which arranges talks, film screenings and advocates for the rights of ex-refugees from Arab countries and Iran. Her book “Uprooted: How 3000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight" was published in 2018 and has been translated into Norwegian, Portuguese and Arabic.
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