It was tragic for Palestinian Jews too, who lost a full one percent of their population in the attack by the Arab League. Many of those who died and of those who survived on the Jewish side had already suffered grievous losses in the previous decade.

Why do you have to treat the experience of Jews who left the Arab world in the aftermath of 1948 with same denial, derision and deflection that you complain about with regard to the Nakba. Sorry if it isn’t convenient for your political views but it sucked to get thrown out of Egypt and Iraq and have your property taken away from you, to live under the threat of arrest and arbitrary violence. There may be books on the subject but it doesn’t seem like you have read any of them. Some of the people that experienced this persecution are in Canada, you can ask them what it was like. The distinctions you make are frivolous and are designed to subordinate the suffering of Jews to your political views. So the Jews left the Arab countries in waves, the Arabs left Jerusalem, Haifa, and Jaffa on different dates too. And why does that make a difference to the personal suffering of the people involved?

Really, attempting to excuse the persecution of Jews because they were allegedly “aligned with colonialism” is merely apologizing for racism. The Jews of Aleppo and Tripoli didn’t disperse the Palestinians either.

You need to hold both sides of the conflict to higher standards

Leaving all your inaccuracies aside, the point of my post is this: ALL people deserve the right to tell the stories of their tragedies, and to have those tragedies acknowledged. This post is about the Jews’ inability and unwillingness to grant that right to the Palestinians – to acknowledge their tragedy. In fact, I specifically mention in my article – did you read it? – that the dispersion of the Jews from Arab lands is used as an excuse to avoid acknowledging the Palestinian tragedy of 1947-8. Can you say ‘yes, the Palestinians experienced a great tragedy in 1948′ WITHOUT needing to add ‘yes, but’? Because there is a very long list of tragedies all over the world, all the time.

So please do not leave another comment about the subject here. It’s closed.

One cannot say that kicking out 0.8 Million of these people is a Nakba but kicking out 0.8 Million of the othe people is NOT a Nakba

Now, if that is not a Nakba, I do not know what is.

So please STOP EXCUSING the Jewish Nakba

The Jews from Arab countries were not, for the most part, refugees. Their dispersal is not called a nakba. They moved to Israel, France, Canada, the United States and other countries and they became citizens of those countries.

They did not all leave their home countries in 1948. They left in waves, mostly from the mid-1950s on, due to the policies of their governments – eg, Nasser nationalized private businesses and expelled all ‘foreigners’ – Greeks, Italians, etc. Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian Jews were never expelled. They left for a variety of reasons, largely having to do with their alignment with the French during the colonial era. Qadhafi expelled the Jews in the 1960s. There was a functioning, organized Jewish community in Syria until the 1980s. The Lebanese Jewish community actually grew larger after 1948, with its number declining in the late 1960s and 1970s. The Iraqi Jews were expelled mostly during the 1950s.

The Jews from Arab countries were not dispersed by the Palestinians.

wow. that itself is a Holocaust.

FROM GEORGE ORWELL: “…All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by ‘our’ side. . .
. . . The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. . .” ~ George Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism” (1945)