Iraqi jews

'Memory is a form of resistance': President Herzog commemorates the Farhud

The Farhud marked the beginning of the end of a cohesive Jewish community in Iraq. Ten years later, in 1952, under the code name Operation Ezra and Nehemiah, the bulk of Iraqi Jewry left for Israel.

PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog commemorates 85 years since the Farhud.
View of the Conseil d'Etat, France's highest administrative court, in Paris, France, January 25, 2024.

Paris court dismisses Jewish family's compensation claim against government for not paying rent

Overview of the Human Rights Council one day after the U.S. announced their withdraw at the United Nations in Geneva,

Thousands of Middle East Jewish refugees lost est. $263 billion in assets, researchers show UNHRC

IRAQI JEWS in Israel protest their counterparts’ persecution under the Ba’ath regime. (Fritz Cohen)

Grandson of expelled Iraqi Jews sues French gov't for millions unpaid rent on house used as embassy


The triumph of the ‘dhimmi’

The 'Prayer' monument in Ramat Gan, in memory of the Jews who were killed in the ‘Farhud’ Pogrom in Iraq.

The 451st Iraqi Jew to be dismissed

The Jerusalem Post

What do the 1941 Farhud and Sarona have in common?

The Jerusalem Post

Days of catastrophe in Baghdad

Two days in 1941 led directly to the violent expulsion of 120,000 Iraqi Jews from their land, the confiscation of their property and possessions.

An Iraqi walks past a traditional house in Basra. In 1940, Jews of Iraq suffered an unprecedented pogrom that affect communities in Baghdad, Basra and elsewhere.

The ‘farhud’ – the riots against the Jews of Iraq

Not only the Palestinian Arabs suffered a nakba; the Jews of the Arab world had their own catastrophe.

A JEWISH shrine containing the tomb of the prophet Ezekiel in the Iraqi town of Kifl, south of Baghdad. The author describes his last Passover in Iraq.

The ‘farhud’ – the riots against the Jews of Iraq

Shavuot falls on the 75th anniversary of the cruel and bloody riots against the small Jewish community in Iraq.

A PHOTO of displaced Iraqi Jews in 1951. The government hopes to give a voice to the story of the millions of Jewish refugees

My Neighbor Was Shot Last Weekend

The Jerusalem Post

The expulsion of Baghdad’s Jews and the unraveling of the Middle East

Some 60 years later, in Baghdad the Jews are a ghostly memory.

Ramshackle al-Rasheed Street, in the heart of old Baghdad.

Iraqi MP: 'Iraq should establish ties with Israel, we share interests'

Mithal al-Alusi further slammed the Arab World for not recognizing the Islamic State as an Arab-Islamic creation and chided his colleagues for blaming its creation on the West and on Israel.

Iraqi MP Mithal al-Alusi

Only the ghosts remain

Their expulsion of the Jews of Baghdad was the first tug on the complex fabric of the Middle East that later unraveled in its entirety.

Ramshackle al-Rasheed Street, in the heart of old Baghdad.