Iraqi jews
Iraq opens first Jewish museum as country's ancient community nears extinction
Iraq’s Jewish community, which dates back 2,500 years and once made up nearly a quarter of Baghdad’s population, now has its own museum in the city it largely left behind.
'Memory is a form of resistance': President Herzog commemorates the Farhud
Paris court dismisses Jewish family's compensation claim against government for not paying rent
Thousands of Middle East Jewish refugees lost est. $263 billion in assets, researchers show UNHRC
Islamic State attacks Kirkuk as Iraqi forces push on Mosul
The offensive that started on Monday to capture Mosul is expected to become the biggest battle fought in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003.
The triumph of the ‘dhimmi’
The 451st Iraqi Jew to be dismissed
What do the 1941 Farhud and Sarona have in common?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.