Point of No Return • Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries

December 9 1942 marked a turning point in the fortunes of the Jews of Tunisia. The Germans occupied the country the previous month, and 5,000 Jewish males were marched off to forced labour camps. There was little that the Jewish community could do to...

Egyptian-born academic Racheline Barda was honoured at a reception commemorating the plight of Jewish refugees from Arab countries in Sydney, Australia, where she was a guest speaker. The event focused on the plight of Jews from Morocco. Report in the...

On 30 November, speaking at a meeting in New Delhi, Israeli envoy to India Naor Gilon commemorated the tragedy of Jewish refugees who were expelled from Arab countries and Iran. Report in The Print:
The Israeli envoy also highlighted the number of Jewish refugees which is higher than the Palestinian refugees and questioned Arab countries for not giving asylum to Palestinian refugees....

Were Jews victims of colonialism, or collaborators with it? Modern scholarship tends towards the former approach, lamenting the ‘separation’ that colonialism wrought between Jews and Muslims. Yet colonialism was a boon to Jews, who found themselves liberated...