The arab jews and zionists, time to know the truth! it is important for us to clarify this point: we do not try to idealize our past as Jews in Baghdad, or generally in the Arab world, we do want to see our past life and history and culture in its complexity, with the good and the bad, in that sense, we do not accept the way that is common is Israel, Europe and America, to see our life in the past as only a continuous persecution, with words taken from the christian European experience of old antisemitism and new scientific racism and pogroms leading to the Holocaust, the only event from our history taught in israels schools is the Farhud, and even in the center of Babilonian Jewry in Or-Yehuda this becomes the central event of our history, in that sense, without idealizing, in the majority of times until the 20th century we were under less persecutions than Jews in the christian world, in the 20th century, with colonialism, arab nationalism and zionism, things have changed a lot, we were a minority fighting for its rights in iraq, and if we would have stayed there - we would have continued fighting for our rights. we need to fight for our rights also in Israel (although as jews of the arab world we are not exactly a minority) - against racism and Oppression, and against being used economically, and against the making of our culture into a ridicule.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:54:37 +0000
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