Beth HaDerech; Messianic Jewish Congregation, Toronto, Canada

Jewish Naqba النكبة /Catastrophe (Videos)

I would like to recommend the below videos, which gives us some history regarding the pogroms and other atrocities incurred by Jews residing in Muslim countries. Jewish people living in Muslim countries were never treated as equal, but as sub-humans, as “second-class citizens” under state-sponsored discrimination and actively persecuted by Islamic militants apart from the government. Those Jews from New York, Los Angeles, and Montreal are not unfamiliar with Persian, Syrian, Moroccan, and even Yemenite Jewish culture and history. Yet, most others still appear to be rather ignorant of their existence, let alone their histories, which which has paralleled their own. Some people tent to think that Jewish people in Muslim countries had an easy life, compare to those in Europe. Think again. In the 1940s, close to a million Jews from Arab countries were expelled from lands in which they had lived for 3000 years. They lost [...]