It is estimated that a greater number of Jews in Arab countries — where Jewish communities had existed for centuries — were ethnically cleansed and became refugees after the creation of Israel than the number of Palestinian refugees that resulted. That and previous Mizrahi suffering because of antisemitism have largely been overlooked by the world — and even by many Jews themselves.
Quote: “The expulsion of 850,000 mostly Mizrahi (Middle Eastern) and Sephardic Jews from Arab and Muslim countries took place before, during, and after the Holocaust. As nationalist Arab leaders aligned with Nazi Germany in the name of oil and expelling the British, Jewish communities were targeted for pauperization, expulsion, and murder. Despite the region’s centrality to Jewish history, the narratives of Middle Eastern Jews have long been considered ‘supplemental’ in collective Jewish memory, as well as that of the rest of the world.”
— The Times of Israel
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