Yemenite Jewish children studying Torah, 1925.
The Arab world is almost Judenrein.
But almost is not good enough.
There are no Jews in Afghanistan—save for some American Jewish soldiers.
Algeria expelled every Algerian-Jewish citizen, about 140,000, after France capitulated to the Islamic terrorists. By 1962, the ancient and proud Algerian community was no more.
In 1922 there were 80,000 Jews in Egypt. Pogroms, confiscation of bank accounts, property and expulsions from 1942 onward has left the Jewish population at less than one-hundred.
It’s the same story for Jews from Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, and Lebanon.
Jews are officially barred from stepping on Saudi Arabian soil. Henry Kissinger was given special permission by the House of Saud to enter the Jew-hating kingdom.
Currently, Morocco is home to the largest Jewish Arab population, about 4,000. But growing hostility will most certainly force these remaining Jewish Arabs to emigrate.
And now the ancient Jewish community of Yemen, a tiny and elderly minority, are on the verge of extinction.
Thus, when the world—with the aid of an odious Israeli government—claims that Jews have no right to live in Gaza, Judea or Samaria, one must recognize that these declarations are but the first step in creating Judenrein zones.
Seraphic Secret believes that Jews have the right to live anywhere in the world.
And when violence, intimidation and Islamic propaganda attempt to dictate where Jews may or may not live, well, these efforts must be recognized for what they are: eliminationist tactics.
If the Islamist claim that Jews may not live in the Jewish homeland is accepted, you can be sure that the next Judenrein zone will be Paris, London, Dublin, New York—your hometown, your street.
Yemen is in danger of losing what’s left of its Jewish community, which has called the country home for more than 2,500 years and provided its kings for a century.
Growing intimidation and violence are pushing the 300 Jews left in the Arabian Peninsula country to flee to Israel or the U.S. Four months ago, a Muslim extremist gunned down Jewish- studies teacher Moshe Yaish Nahari, a father of nine, in the town of Raida, north of the capital of Sana’a.
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About 7,000 Jews live in Arab countries, down from more than 750,000 before Israel was created in 1948. Yemen, with the third-largest community after Morocco and Tunisia, has become a more hostile place for Jews since Israel’s January invasion of the Gaza Strip.
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The first Jews arrived in Yemen at about the time of the 586 B.C destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem. About 1,000 years later, the Himyari ruling family converted to Judaism; Jewish rule in Yemen lasted until 525 A.D., when Christians from Ethiopia took over.
Of the more than 50,000 Jews in Yemen last century, most emigrated in Operation Magic Carpet, in airlifts organized by Israel in 1949-1950 after anti-Jewish riots. Two smaller waves of emigration involving 1,700 Jews took place in the mid 1960s and the early 1990s.
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Yemenite Jews
Back in 1976, the North Vietnamese Communist General Giap was asked, “How do you know so much about American troop movements and other classified information?”
“Simple,” answered Giap, ”I just read the New York Times!”
Check out the New York Times death watch. Next stop for Roger Cohen, Isabel Kirshner, and Ethan Bronner: Al Jazeera.
As President Obama’s spiritual adviser said: ”The chickens have come home to roots.”
New novel promotes religious tolerance
After talking about the al-Akhdam last year, Ali al-Muqri came this year with a new novel about the Jewish in Yemen. The novel “al-Yahudi al-Hali: The handsome Jew,” published by Dar al-Saqi, Beirut 2009, explores religious differences bonded by love.
The novel introduces a love story between a Muslim woman, Fatima and a Jewish man, Salem, taking place in the stormy atmosphere of Yemen’s history during the seventeenth century; this is a period in which tense relations prevailed between the followers of Judaism and the Muslim religion.
Fatima marries Salem, however, she remains Muslim and her character does not change. The reader is led through the times and tribulations of the “impossible” marriage. The book’s setting occurs with events from the time of Imam Mutawakkil Ismail Bin Qasim and al-Mahdi, in the middle of the seventeenth century.
Love is expressed in various forms through the novel. There is, of course, the love diffusing love to friends, family, animals, and even the small ants on her home’s perch.
Salim was reared in an Islamic house and grew up learning about Arab culture. Salim finds himself full of uncertainties in both his Hebrew and Islamic upbringing. Fatima reassures him that Islam is peaceful, and the names of God include loving, friendly, and merciful.
Salim’s memories are recorded, revealing beauty in both Islam and Judaism. His diary exposes the love, ethics and sacred conduct of a Muslim woman, and a Jewish man reacting to that environment.
The child of Salim and Fatima becomes the center of attention as he struggles with being both Jewish and Muslim. Fatima died giving birth to her son, so he must venture out into the world, still timid of his roots. The son is not accepted by both religious groups: in Judaism, the child religion is of his mothers and in Islam, the child’s religion belongs to his father. He is both Muslim and Jewish, but abandoned by both.
http://www.yobserver.com/culture-and-society/10017726.html
Just a small factual correction: the FLN fighting the French colonial occupation which ended in 1962 were not ‘Islamic terrorists’. The key English and French-language historians on the period make it very clear that a wide range of positions were represented in this nationalist movement and, indeed, gave rise to a great deal of internal conflict.
The situation in France is getting day after day worse for anybody who is zionist/jewish/or just wants to know more about jewish culture.
You just cannot stay on a bench in a park and read a book which would beatray you. As the weather was really sunny, i decided to go on saturday afternoon in a park to continue my reading. It is the study of Gershom Scholem about Shabtai Tsvi. On its cover, i mean, in the french edition, you can see big hebrew letters.
Some young guys may have noticed that, and they began to shout they would kill the jews here in response for the killing of palestinians there, as they said. For i have already lived such situations, i did know i couldn’t rely on other people sitting around me, and i had to go back home and read in front of my wide-opened window…
I don’t tell all French people have antisemitic views, but 1- French medias only show biased informations such as the well-known “Dura-Affaire”, so that “normal” people really think Israel is a threat for peace. That’s the so-called “politique arabe de la france”. 2- Here in France we have a very important minority of Muslims (around 12 million out of 62 million people) and Arabs (ca 8 million people). In some areas of the country, the republican law does not exist anymore. Most people fear riots or violent attacks from these minorities. That’s probably why they prefer to give support to Palestinian Arabs.
The leftist were the first here to support anti-zionism, just the way it was theorized in Soviet Union. Then it became an alliance between extrem right wingers (antisemitic) and left wingers (antizionist). Politically, it represents the majority of the population against israel and jewish national rights.
I totally agree with Bat Ye’or’s analysis about this phenomenon!
ps= i apologize for my english, which is not fluent..
Batya:
The so-called Palestinians have become a fetish for leftists Westerners. These creatures don’t care about Jewish civil rights because Jews have been relentlessly demonized, and history turned upside down by multi-culturalists, moral relativists, and academics who have enshrined Jew-hatred in poisonous Middle Eastern Studies Departments, most funded by Saudi petro dollars.
YU91:
A few years ago there were 2 Jews in Kabul. The guy in the clip, and another man.
They both lived in the synagogue.
But they hated each other and refused to speak to eachother.
It was like a 20-year feud.
The other guy died about a year ago.
So now Afghanistan is down to one, um, weird Jew.
It actually has all the ingredients for a wild and crazy comedy.
Beth:
I was once supposed to adapt “The Haj” for a TV miniseries, but the network decided that they didn’t want to get bombed into rubble and they canceled the project.
Johnny:
Fine summation. And that’s why Seraphic Secret believes that most anti-Zionism is Jew-hatred in disguise.
You see, once Jews were despised because we had no homeland.
Now we’re despised because we do have a homeland.
In short: we can’t win—unless we agree to national and religious suicide.
More should be written about the “free” world’s demand that Biblical Land of Israel be judenrein.
What about my civil rights?
“There are no Jews in Afghanistan—save for some American Jewish soldiers.”
Did this guy leave to join his family in Israel yet? I hope so.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj8tqcFyPtU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2Fvideosearch%3Fq%3Dlast%2Bjew%2Bin%2Bafganistan%26hl%3Den%26emb%3D0%26aq%3Df&feature=player_embedded
For a good understanding (in novel form) about how the Palestinian problem came about and how the Arabs were the originators of it, read the book “Haj” by Leon Uris.
Robert:
When you said the other day that the war against Israel wasn’t about the land I thought about this exact situation. Jews once lived in great numbers across North Africa and the ME and were assimilated with the rest of the population.
After 1948 the amazingly thin piece of land called Israel served the leaders of muslim countries in two ways. They could drive out their Jewish population with the knowledge that there was another country that would accept them. And they could keep their muslim citizens from blaming their own corrupt leadership by blaming everything on the land stolen by the Jews.
The idea that Jewish settlements in the “West Bank” or Gaza are an impediment to peace is ridiculous. It’s like saying whites shouldn’t live in Zimbabwe or blacks should stay in South Central LA. But all good liberals that denounced apartheid have no problem with saying the Jews living in Hebron or Ariel are blocking peace in the ME.
Absolutely.
Jack:
Not just “push” but fight on every front.
If the Islamist claim
It almost doesn’t matter what the actual claim is about. We have to push back and set boundaries because otherwise we let them make the rules and we already know how well that works.