Politics | Debunking Lies

Elder Of Ziyon - Iraqi Jews left because of Iraq's antisemitic policies, not because of bombings

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

History | History

Making sense of the great Mizrahi exodus

The history and memory of the Jews expelled from Arab countries has been suppressed in order to demonize Zionism.

People who whine about the, self-inflicted, “Nakba” never as acknowledge the millions of Jews ejected from communities in which they had lived for thousands of years. The difference is that Israel took every last one of them in, while the Arab nations decided to exploit Arab “refugees” and push the lie of the fictional Arab “Palestinian.”

History | History

How Did Jews Flee to Israel from the Arab World?

A look at some of the brave souls who risked their lives to reach Israel before and just after the state's founding...

Miscellaneous | Diaspora

We need to talk about the ethnic cleansing of Middle Eastern Jews

"The wholesale ethnic cleansing of Mizrahi and Sephardi communities, from Iraq to Egypt, from Tunisia to Libya, is a sordid episode in the history of the region which has been cynically ignored by the world." Asher Weisz reveals a disturbing pattern of pe

Miscellaneous | Israeli Culture

Elder Of Ziyon - Are there “Arab Jews?”

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.