Why did over 800,000 Jewish people leave Muslim countries during the 1940s?

Question

Why did over 800,000 Jewish people leave Muslim countries during the 1940s?

Answer 1

the Zionists were "Advertising" around the world about a "Golden" country fit for Jews. soon the Jews from the Arab/Islamic World took them up on their offers!

however we now know that they were Lies bc instead of Peace like they had in the Muslim countries, they are now facing war!

Answer 2

Only chiming in here to say "lupines1961"  YOU GO JEWISH GIRL! (never thought I, daCat would agree with a wolf LOL *grin*)

She is your #1 grade A "Best Answer" collect your 10 points!

Would you like to know how I know she is Jewish...?

And not, say, Arab?

Because she fights with logic and facts instead of hatred and propaganda!

ISRAEL FOREVER and EVER and EVER and EVER!

Answer 3

Dhimmi Jews leave Dar al-Islam because life so so perfect among Muslim neighbors, Jew hearts swell, think they in al-Jannah.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jannah

Infidels want too much.

Imam not understand. Why dhimmi need  land?

Answer 4

Jewish exodus existed in other Arabic-speaking countries, including Yemen, Libya, Syria, Egypt, Algeria and Jordan.

Yemen. Yemeni persecution of Jews prompted a trickle of Jewish emigration to Palestine from the third quarter of the nineteenth century on. Heykal Pasha's speech merely added momentum to the longstanding Yemeni policy of discrimination against and degradation of Jews, based on a particularly pedantic interpretation of the Islamic law. A bribe from the American Joint Distribution Committee to Yemen's ruler, Imam Ahmad ibn Yahya, led to his agreeing to the mass exodus of Jews to Israel in 1949-50 by airplane via Aden, an operation known as "On Eagle's Wings" (or, in journalistic lore, "Magic Carpet"). The Jews of Yemen, relying on their own means, sufferng losses of life and deprivations, traversed the desert to Aden by foot and on donkeys. There, the Jewish Agency lodged them in camps and eventually boarded them onto planes that took them to Israel. In this way, some 50,000 Yemeni Jews reached Israel during the two-year period.

We lack information about the Yemeni government's decision-making process. But this case provides the clearest example of Jews' being persecuted and expelled for reasons having to do with Islamic law.

Libya. In Libya, as in Yemen, the exodus of the Jews began even before Heykal Pahsa's declaration at the United Nations. Attacks on Jewish quarters in Tripoli and other cities occurred in 1945, leading to a death toll the British put at 130 Jews.24 In other words, Jews began leaving Libya three years before the establishment of Israel and seven years before Libya gained independence. Their departure turned into a mass exodus as soon as Israel gained independence and the gates opened to Libyan Jewry. As in Iraq, internal policy appears to be the reason both for the Jews' expulsion and for later rhetoric inviting them back.

Syria. In Syria, too, the majority of Jews departed before independence in 1946, and long before Heykal Pasha's statement and the establishment of Israel. As in Yemen and Libya, crude pressure on the Jews of Syria-such as the 1947 pogrom in Aleppo and the rape and murder of four Jewish girls who allegedly tried to smuggle themselves out of Syria-caused a substantial emigration.

While Syria is distinguished from other Arab countries by the fact that its legislation does not manifest discrimination against Jews, Heykal Pasha's policy was indeed applied there, too. The government seized control of Jewish property in Syria on the basis of emergency legislation and gave it to Arab refugees. Thus, Palestinians were settled in Damascus's Jewish ghetto, while the Alliance Israélite Universelle School, finished 1n 1939, became a school for Palestinian children. A diplomat at the French embassy in Damascus intervened with the Syrian authorities about this school and was told that the Syrian Jews had to provide room for the Arab refugees, the latter having been expelled by their Palestinian co-religionsits.25

Egypt. In some cases, the execution of the Arab plan of expulsion extended over a period much longer than that of the military hostilities. In Egypt, the expulsion reached its climax only after the overthrow of the monarchy by disgruntled army officers back from the Palestinian battlefield. In Algeria, which did not attain independence until 1962, the expulsion took place later yet.

Jews in Egypt faced acute problems in the 1940s but these did not set their mass departure in motion. Rioting against Jews occurred in November1945, then resumed in June-November 1948,26 the latter time inspired by the war with Israel. An amendment to the Egyptian Companies Law dated July 29, 1947, required that 40 percent of a company's directors and 75 percent of its employees be Egyptian nationals, causing the dismissal and livelihood of many Jews, 85 percent of whom did not possess Egyptian nationality.27 A letter to the editor of Akhir Sa'a in 1948 offers some insight into the predicament of Egyptian Jews:

It would seem that most people in Egypt are unaware of the fact that among Egyptian Muslisms there are some who have white skin. Every time I board a tram I hear people pointing at me with a finger and saying "Jew," "Jew." I have been beaten more than once because of this. For that reason I humbly beg that my picture (enclosed) be published with the explanation that I am not Jewish and that my name is Adham Mustafa Galeb.28

This testimony rather directly refutes the fine rhetoric of Heykal Pasha about Jews' enjoying "all rights of citizenship."

Cairo was slow in carrying out the plan proclaimed by its own diplomat, Heykal Pasha; only during and after the Suez Crisis of 1956 did Egyptian Jews leave in substantial numbers. At that time, the Egyptian Nationality Law was amended to prohibit "Zionists" from holding Egyptian nationality,29 Army Order no. 4 then confiscated property of individuals and associations;30 and supervision, imprisonment, or expulsion followed. The amendment to the Nationality Law of 1956 defined the term Zionism as "not a religion but the spiritual and material bond between those defined as Zionists and Israel."31 A furthur ministerial decree in 1958 indicates that all Jews between the ages of ten and sixty-five leaving Egypt would be added to the list of persons prohibited from reentering the country.32 Clearly, these decrees had little to do with the Arab refugees of a decade earlier.

Algeria. In Algeria, no significant Jewish emigration occurred until the summer of 1961, and then nearly the entire population was gone within the year.33 Algeria's independence from France was the key event here; Jews were no longer welcome after the French depature. The Algerian Nationality Code of 1963 made this clear by granting Algerian nationality as a right only to those inhabitants whose fathers and paternal grandfathers had Muslim personal status in Algeria.34 In other words, although the National Liberation Front in Algeria was known for its slogan "A Democratic Secular State," it adhered to strictly religious criteria in granting nationality.

Jordan. No Jews lived in Transjordan in 1946 (when it became an independent state), as a result of Winston Churchill's 1921 decision in favor of "preserving [the] Arab character" of Transjordan35 and the resulting British policy forbidding Jews from settling there. Legislation passed in 1954 declared that only non-Jews coming from the former British Mandate of Palestine were entitled to Jordanian citizenship.36 What is so striking about Jordan is that although it lacked a Jewish population, it still shared in the general Arab trend of excluding Jews. Further, it actively discriminated against Lebanese and Syrian Jews.37

http://www.meforum.org/article/263

Answer 5

Ms. I think you got some good answers.  What a shame the haters have to hide them away.

Seems they can't handle the truth.  Easier to use multiples to give enough thumbs down to erase the intelligent perspective.

This is the real bad on this site.  the few that want to hide  or erase any answer they don't want others to see.

Answer 6

"Jewish Agency" forced them to leave their country for occupy Palestine...!

The Jewish Agency for Israel (Hebrew: הסוכנות היהודית לארץ ישראל, HaSochnut HaYehudit L'Eretz Yisra'el), also known as the Sochnut or JAFI, served as the pre-state Jewish government before the establishment of Israel and later became the organization in charge of immigration and absorption of Jews from the Diaspora.

Today, JAFI partners globally with United Jewish Communities, Jewish Federations across America, the communities of Keren Hayesod-United Israel Appeal, the Spirit of Israel, and many supporting donors to create change and invest in the Jewish future.

The Jewish Agency for Palestine

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The Jewish Agency for Palestine took over from the Zionist Commission in 1923 to represent and administer the Jewish community during the period of the British Mandate of Palestine, which lasted between 1921 and 1948. It received official recognition in 1922. During the Mandate Period, the Jewish Agency for Palestine was a quasi-governmental organization that served the administrative needs of the Jewish community. Its leadership was elected by Jews from all over the world by proportional representation.

The Jewish Agency was charged with facilitating Jewish immigration to Palestine, land purchase and planning the general policies of the Zionist leadership. It ran schools and hospitals, and formed the Haganah, which became the Israel Defense Force after Israeli independence. The British authorities offered to create a similar Arab Agency but this offer was rejected by Arab leaders.

The Jewish Agency was raided by British Troops in 1946 under Operation Agatha in retaliation for a number of attacks against British forces, however the Haganah did not attack British forces directly. These were largely carried out by Etzel, better known as the Irgun. The Jerusalem headquarters of the Jewish Agency was bombed by agents of the Grand Mufti Haj Mohammed Amin al-Husseini in early 1948, with great loss of life. During the subsequent siege, the Agency moved its headquarters to Tel Aviv.

On May 14, 1948, the Jewish Agency for Palestine, under its leader David Ben Gurion, became the Provisional government of Israel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Agen...

Answer 7

They were made to.

Nowadays muslims in some countries just murder the people they want out of the way - just as they are doing to African muslims in Darfur the Arab muslims want them gone - or dead.

Answer 8

I'm not sure if Bravo Sierra is being sarcastic or not.

First of all, some Muslims are "baby killers" as you wonderfully put it. Do you want me to give you the link to the news report about the palestinian sniper who admitted to intentionally targeting and killing a 10 month old jewish baby?

And the grand mufti of jerusalem WAS an ally of hitler, his troops DID kill jews at his command. there are pictures with the 2 of them together.

and lastly, there is evidence that mohammed al-dura was hit from the palestinian side. france 2 was in a lot of trouble for tha and is being sued. thanks to france's **** reporting, everyone blamed israel.

Answer 9

Because they had enough of the Arabs!

Answer 10

Jewish people left the arab countries during the second world war (in the 40's) because Arab leaders have repeatedly made clear their animosity toward Jews and Judaism, Jewish people where foreced to leave, for example, on November 23, 1937, Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud told British Colonel H.R.P. Dickson: "Our hatred for the Jews dates from God's condemnation of them for their persecution and rejection of Isa (Jesus) and their subsequent rejection of His chosen Prophet." He added "that for a Muslim to kill a Jew, or for him to be killed by a Jew ensures him an immediate entry into Heaven and into the august presence of God Almighty."

When Hitler introduced the Nuremberg racial laws in 1935, he received telegrams of congratulation from all corners of the Arab world. Later, during the war, one of his most ardent supporters was the Mufti of Jerusalem.

Jews were never permitted to live in Jordan. Civil Law No. , which governed the Jordanian-occupied West Bank, states explicitly: "Any man will be a Jordanian subject if he is not Jewish."While Jewish communities in Islamic countries fared better overall than those in Christian lands in Europe, Jews were no strangers to persecution and humiliation among the Arabs. As Princeton University historian Bernard Lewis has written: "The Golden Age of equal rights was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause, of Jewish sympathy for Islam.After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the exodus of approximately 711,000 (UN estimate) Arab refugees (see the Palestinian Exodus), the creation of the state of Israel, and the independence of Arab countries from European control, conditions for Jews in the Arab world deterioted.The United Nations Resolution on the partition of Palestine in November 1947 and the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948 led to anti-Jewish actions in Arab countries. At the same time, several Arab countries began to take a severe attitude against Jews who operated Zionist activities within Arab borders, further encouraging Jewish emigration to Israel.Arab pogroms against Jews appeared to spread throughout the Arab world, and there were intensified riots in Yemen and Syria in particular. In Libya, Jews were deprived citizenship, and in Iraq, their property was seized. As a result, a large number of Jews were forced to emigrate and they were not allowed to take all their property.

Answer 11

I feel a sense of deja vu . I'm sure that you have posted this question before ?

       Many people left . their reasons are varied . One can emphasise one  reason more than another  depending on what side of the fence you sit . Did they jump ?  or where they Pushed ? The property they left behind !  The property they have taken ! But they are locals aren't they ?  But they act like colonialist  don't  they ? Constantly regurgitating events from more than sixty years ago is non productive.

     The antagonist are so in-trenched  that a solution to this conflict is no where in sight.

      I suggest that the only way to resolve this is to abandon Zionism. Unify the region with Jerusalem as the capital. Call it Palestrail or Istine or something . Nobody is the  "Chosen " person. We are all equal  &  desire ultimately to live in peace.

      But unfortunately , the war must continue in order to eventually sit down at the table from a position of strength

EDIT :

Why do supporters of the Entity keep claiming that those with opposing views have multiple accounts ? Is this a crude attempt to discredit the opposition ?

   Lets assume , for arguments sake , that all Jews support the entity & all Muslims oppose it. there are 1.5 billion Muslims & only 14 million jews worldwide. Jews are outnumbered by 100-1 !! It may appear that there are multiple accounts when in fact there is just more opposition , a fact which the likes of   Felix C  care not to accept.

Answer 12

Hi Ms Miche

It looks like there is something wrong with the water there in Canada.

Or did you get much older than you used to be?

You keep asking the same question in different formats.

You get the same answers:

They were deceived, cheated, promised with the land of milk and honey, the land of dreams, Muslim helped them to go back to the promised land after thousands of years as refugees, Muslim helped them to end their Diaspora. What else?

Love and Peace

Your Rabbi...: for ever

Opps, You asked again because it was deleted . Okay then.

Answer 13

because in 1948, Israel was declared as a country, so the Muslim countries kicked out all of their Jewish citizens.

Answer 14

simple answer...

israel!

the jews country was founded ,1948..

the jews came to their country

Answer 15

what leanard said. and the british and world gave israel back to jews. read this link. it long whati wrote, but it should help    

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...

Answer 16

The Muslims were not nice! They have some serious issues with hospitality, hostage taking, torture and murder. While the Muslims were very hostile to Jews, many times they also prevented them from leaving their countries. Death penalties were often incurred if Jews stayed, or if anyone tried to leave.

IRAN: Throughout the 19th century, Jews were persecuted and discriminated against. Sometimes whole communities were forced to convert. During the 19th century, there was considerable emigration to the Land of Israel, and the Zionist movement spread throughout the community.

The Islamization of the country brought about strict control over Jewish educational institutions. Before the Islamic revolution, there were some 20 Jewish schools functioning throughout the country. In recent years, most of these have been closed down. In the remaining schools, Jewish principals have been replaced by Muslims. In Teheran there are still three schools in which Jewish pupils constitute a majority. The curriculum is Islamic, and Persian is forbidden as the language of instruction for Jewish studies. Special Hebrew lessons are conducted on Fridays by the Orthodox Otzar ha-Torah organization, which is responsible for Jewish religious education. Saturday is no longer officially recognized as the Jewish sabbath, and Jewish pupils are compelled to attend school on that day.

Jewish businessman Ruhollah Kakhodah-Zadeh was hanged in prison without a public charge or legal proceeding, apparently for assisting Jews to emigrate. Jews who apply for a passport to travel abroad must do so in a special bureau and are immediately put under surveillance. The government does not generally allow all members of a family to travel abroad at the same time to prevent Jewish emigration. Jews live under the status of dhimmi, with the restrictions imposed on religious minorities. Jewish leaders fear government reprisals if they draw attention to official mistreatment of their community.

On the eve of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, 80,000 Jews lived in Iran. In the wake of the upheaval, tens of thousands of Jews, especially the wealthy, left the country, leaving behind vast amounts of property. The population of Iranian Jews can only be estimated due to the community's isolation from world Jewry.

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IRAQ: By World War I, Jews accounted for one third of Baghdad's population. Today, approximately 35 Jews live in Baghdad.

In June 1941, the Mufti-inspired, pro-n**i coup of Rashid Ali sparked rioting and a pogrom in Baghdad. Armed Iraqi mobs, with the complicity of the police and the army, murdered 180 Jews and wounded almost 1,000.

Iraqi Government passed a special bill permitting their emigration in 1951. The Iraqi Jews were mostly wealthy and the local authorities gave them special privileges. When the Jews learned about the special permit they had been given, thousands arrived in Baghdad and gathered in registration centers where they registered for immigration to Israel.

According to Iraqi law, the Jews had to sell their property and liquidate their businesses before they could leave. Many sold large properties for ridiculous sums in order to win the right to immigrate.

Waiting in Baghdad was a tense and difficult period. Some 50,000 Jews signed up in one month, and two months later there were 90,000 on the list. This mass movement stunned the Iraqi Government, which had not expected the number of immigrants to exceed 8,000, and feared that administrative institutions run by Jews might collapse.

Some 130,000 Jews arrived in Israel in Operation Ezra and Nechemia.

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SYRIA: In 1944, after Syria gained independence from France, the new government prohibited Jewish immigration to Palestine, and severely restricted the teaching of Hebrew in Jewish schools. Attacks against Jews escalated, and boycotts were called against their businesses.

When partition was declared in 1947, Arab mobs in Aleppo devastated the 2,500-year-old Jewish community. Scores of Jews were killed and more than 200 homes, shops and synagogues were destroyed. Thousands of Jews illegally fled Syria to go to Israel.

Shortly after, the Syrian government intensified its persecution of the Jewish population. Freedom of movement was severely restricted. Jews who attempted to flee faced either the death penalty or imprisonment at hard labor. Jews were not allowed to work for the government or banks, could not acquire telephones or driver's licenses, and were barred from buying property. Jewish bank accounts were frozen. An airport road was paved over the Jewish cemetery in Damascus; Jewish schools were closed and handed over to Muslims.

Syria's attitude toward Jews was reflected in its sheltering of Alois Brunner, one of the most notorious n**i war criminals. Brunner, a chief aide to Adolf Eichmann, served as an adviser to the Assad regime

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YEMEN: 1905 – Imam Yahya decrees Jews cannot raise their voices during prayers, brush against Muslims in the street, build houses higher than Muslims.

1922 – Orphan Law reintroduced by Imam Yahya: orders forcible conversion to Islam of all Jewish orphans under thirteen, even when the mother was still alive.

In May 1949, when the Imam of Yemen agreed to let 45,000 of the 46,000 Jews in his country leave, Israeli transport planes flew them "home" in Operation Magic Carpet.

The Yemenite Jews, mostly children, were brought to Israel on some 380 flights.

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MOROCCO: 1790 – Pogrom in Tetouan: All Jews stripped naked, many women raped, most homes ransacked.

1815 – Jews of Mogador ordered to pay sudden jizya poll-tax. Those who pay punched on the forehead after turning over coins, those who refuse thrown in dungeon.

1834 – "Suleika affair": Jewish woman from Tangier refuses to convert and marry a high-ranking official. She is executed in Fez.

1884-1888 – 307 Jews murdered over four years by Muslims, yet no Muslims put on trial.

1948 – Jewish Population approximately 285,000. Israel established. French officials ban aliyah of Moroccan Jews to Israel. Muslim riots in Oudjda and Djerada kill scores of Jews, wound 150.

1956-1961 – 18,000 Jews smuggled out of Morocco.

1957 – Exit visas for Jews abolished.

1958 – Morocco joins Arab League, forbids any Jewish emigration. Number of Jewish officials in government deliberately decreased. All Zionist activity forbidden.

1960 – Many Jewish schools nationalized.

1961 – On the occasion of Egyptian President Nasser’s visits Casablanca, Jews beaten and arrested.

1961-1964 – 80,000 Jews leave on chartered planes and ships in return for "compensation" to Moroccan government from Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.

2000 – 6,000 Jews remain in Morocco; an estimated 600,000 Moroccan Jews and their descendants live in Israel.

Answer 17

They managed to live in Muslim countries for centuries, but since the Zionist project started in Palestine, all other Jews were leaving to their promised land !

There are still many Jews who live peacefully in Arab countries were the majority of Muslims are...

Why cant you figure yet who started troubles there???

Do you know when did Jews have their golden ages ? Yes! During Islamic rule in Spain (Andalusia) !!!

Who brought Jews back to Palestine after their war with Romans? Yes! That was Omar Bin Khatab, the great Muslim leader!

Probably in Jewish radical schools, they don't teach history well, otherwise you wouldn't be putting this question!

Answer 18

they were expelled;

dont you know the quote "the enemy of my enemies are my friend".  that was the arab view during ww2, so they allied with the n***s.

Answer 19

As noted above, the reasons were varied, some voluntary, some involuntary, and despite the rant by Sierra that I hope folks will report, I imagine it WAS particularly difficult to live in countries that were huge fans of the n***s.

Thanks to someone else for bringing me a smile to start the day. The people who go on and on about Palestinian Arabs who moved 60-plus years ago are saying it's not productive to regurgitate events from 60-plus years ago as they do so daily.  The people who post the same questions about "Palestine" daily in the Israel section insult the original poster for asking the same question more than once.  That's some good material!

It's a good idea though!  Israel was founded 60 years ago.  Get over it and stop regurgitating how thousands of people had to relocate in great-grandma's generation.  It has a travel section because thousands of peopel want to travel there.  There is no reason to travel to the terrorist entity nearby.  Where people blow themselves up to protest what they ought to have got over 60 years ago.

The stuff above about the UJA is also nonsense.  That much I know from firsthand experience.  The UJA did wonderful work in the U.S. and in Israel.  Providing money to help immigrants survive is hardly forcing them to leave their home countries.  If Hamas was paying people to move to Gaza, I would not be tempted, much less forced to relocate.

Answer 20

the Muslims forced them out by gun point