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Noah Beck—Jews From Muslim Lands: The Forgotten Refugees of 1948:
June 20 was World Refugee Day, dedicated to nearly 60 million people worldwide who were forcibly displaced by conflict or persecution. One group of refugees rarely acknowledged is the Jews who were indigenous to Muslim lands but compelled to flee around the time when the State of Israel was established.
A Google search for “1948 refugees” produces about 6 million results. All but a few (at least through page six) are about the Palestinian Arab refugees, as if they were the only refugees of 1948. But it is estimated that from the beginning of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War through the early 1970s, up to 1,000,000 Jews fled or were expelled from their ancestral homes in Muslim countries. 260,000 of those refugees reached Israel between 1948 and 1951 and comprised 56% of all immigration to the fledgling state. By 1972, their numbers had reached 600,000.
In 1948, Middle East and North African countries had considerable Jewish populations: Morocco (250,000), Algeria (140,000), Iraq (140,000), Iran (120,000), Egypt (75,000), Tunisia (50,000), Yemen (50,000), Libya (35,000), and Syria (20,000). Today, the indigenous Jews of those countries are virtually extinct (although Morocco and Iran each still has under 10,000 Jews). In most cases, the Jewish population had lived there for millennia.
Few know this history because the Jewish refugees of 1948 were granted citizenship by the countries to which they fled, including Israel. By contrast, many Muslim countries refused to integrate the Palestinian refugees, preferring to leave them as second-class citizens in order to maintain a domestic demographic balance and/or a political problem for Israel.
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Hosea 4: 11-15
Harlotry, wine and new wine take away the understanding. My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner’s wand informs them; for a spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they have played the harlot, departing from their God. They offer sacrifices on the tops of the mountains and burn incense on the hills, under oak, poplar and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters play the harlot and your brides commit adultery. I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot or your brides when they commit adultery, for the men themselves go apart with harlots and offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes; so the people without understanding are ruined. Though you, Israel, play the harlot, do not let Judah become guilty; also do not go to Gilgal, or go up to Beth-aven and take the oath: “As Yahweh lives!”
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His Name is Yahweh explains why the Name of God, Yahweh, is so important. It’s available in eBook format and in paperback. It’s also available for free in PDF format.
- God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘Yahweh, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This [Yahweh] is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.” (Exodus 3: 15)
- “Therefore behold, I am going to make them know—this time I will make them know My power and My might; and they shall know that My name is Yahweh.” (Jeremiah 16: 21)
- “Behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch; and He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land. In His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is His name by which He will be called, ‘Yahweh our righteousness.’” (Jeremiah 23: 5-6)
- Yeshua said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am.” (John 8: 58)
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What about people who came to faith in Yahweh through the Name Jesus?
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Hosea 4: 6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
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US citizen killed in Egypt identified as Jewish student
Kerry returns to Israel for talks with PM after Abbas meeting
Palestinian PM’s security escort collides with Israeli car
Report: Kerry to announce convention of Amman peace summit
Obama urges dialogue instead of violence in Egypt
Chief rabbi candidate Stav slams ‘corrupt politicians’
Iran’s Rouhani vows to balance hardline, reformist demands
Assad’s forces launch offensive in Homs city
Inside the IDF combat unit: Monitoring Hezbollah
French Jewish vigilante group comes out of shadows
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Killed in Egypt: Idealistic Jewish College Student
Kerry Extends Diplomacy – Possible Sign of Progress
Haniyeh to Abbas: Don’t Negotiate with Israel
Kerry’s Meetings ‘Positive’, Say Officials
Most Israelis Don’t Believe Peace is Possible
B’nai Brith Distances Itself from Shalit Criticism
Release of Libya Terror Suspect Raises Questions
Edward Snowden’s Father Sets Return Conditions
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The Times of Israel
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Jewish college student stabbed to death in Egypt protests
Abbas tells Kerry Israeli goodwill gestures insignificant, says PA official
Abdullah tells Kerry Israel’s actions undermining peace
Kerry, Netanyahu hold late-night talks in Jerusalem
Danon emerging as Netanyahu’s main foil
Boycott effort in London council falls flat
‘The flames have started to creep up on Nasrallah’
In Arab Israel, a battle over Christian conscription
Gaza’s Tel Aviv attack teaches a lesson in communications
Freedom-of-religion crusader ‘wacky, impolitic — and right’
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Obama Bringing Mother-in-Law Along on $100 Mil African Vacation
100% of Tea Party Groups Targeted by the IRS
Obama’s New Libyan Gov Releases Planner of Benghazi Attack
UK: Muslim brothers jailed for life in yet another sex slavery case
Ha’aretz Columnist: ‘Benjamin Netanyahu Was Right’ on Iran
Netanyahu: Peace Agreement Won’t Eliminate ‘Wild Defamation of Jewish State’
When Helen Keller Confronted the Nazis
My Promise to the ‘Lion of Judah’
In Egypt, Skepticism over Religion in Politics
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Amir Taheri: Farewell, Ataturk—Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the Turkish republic, adopted the Latin alphabet, purged Turkish of Arabic words and brought mosques and religious endowments under state control. For decades, Turkey’s Islamists tried to undo as much of Ataturk’s “reforms” as possible but failed because a majority of Turks would not vote for a party with an Islamist agenda. Erdogan solved that problem by uniting some 20 different Islamist groups into a new party that made no mention of Islam. His Justice and Development Party (AKP) won three successive general elections on a platform of fighting corruption and ensuring economic growth.
Hillel Fradkin and Lewis Libby: Erdogan’s War on Ataturk’s Legacy—Erdogan hopes to bulldoze the modern legacy of Ataturk, amend Turkey’s constitution to create a presidency more powerful than even Ataturk ever held and then restore the glory of Ottoman Turkey and the caliphate that once bound the Sunni Islamic world together. Erdogan and his AK Party’s leadership invoke their neo-Ottoman aims regularly.
Nicole Bibbins Sedaca: Syria: Religious Civil Wars Last Longer—Syria is experiencing a religious civil war in which combatants identify with different faith traditions. In Religion and International Relations Theory, Monica Duffy Toft notes that religious civil wars last an average of 105 months. Non-religious civil wars last an average of 81 months. Religious civil wars are twice as likely to recur: 26% of the time compared to 12% for non-religious wars. Religious civil wars are twice as deadly to noncombatants as civil wars in which religion is peripheral.
Majid Rafizadeh: Beheading for a ‘Free’ Syria— “Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar.” This chant, meaning “God is great” in Arabic, is repeatedly heard in this barbaric and savage video clip (below). Amidst a crowd of men standing on a small hill, while women and children watch behind, are three kneeling men – supposedly supporters of Assad’s regime – who are beheaded by a large knife. In the background, someone exclaims, “This is the punishment of the Shabiha.” Sabiha, a militia group, has been unleashed by Assad’s regime as a tool for cracking down and suppressing his opposition. After the gruesome beheading, in which one of the detached heads falls to the side, another rebel yells, “Place the head of that dog straight.” In Middle Eastern Muslim culture, calling someone a dog is considered a grave insult. The beheading by the Islamists, who appear to be imported from another country and are supposedly connected to the Jabhat Al-Nusra front, is a reference to Islamic Sharia law.
Steve Apfel: Return of the yellow star—Nothing is new beneath the sun. King Solomon the wise discerned that everything existed from the beginning, so that ‘new’ things are really very old things, manifestations of eternal concepts; like the badge of shame that Jews have been made to wear. To many the yellow star, inset with Jude, Juif, or Jood, brings to mind the Holocaust. Yet the idea and its applications predate Hitler’s Third Reich by a millennium or two. Already in medieval times Jews were compelled to identify themselves by wearing badges of sorts. That opened up all kinds of possibilities, beginning with treating Jews like the pestilence. Isolate them, concentrate, deprive and deport them, or kill Jews on demand, as the need might be.
Meredith Jessup: Obama WH demands military chaplains perform same-sex marriages—According to a policy statement released by the administration yesterday, President Barack Obama “strongly objects” to provisions in a House defense authorization bill that would prohibit the use of U.S. military property in same-sex marriages and protect military chaplains who refuse to perform gay marriage ceremonies against their religious beliefs. Arguing that the measure’s “overbroad terms,” the Obama administration claims such a measure “is potentially harmful to good order and discipline.”
Dan Margalit: Pinpointing the PM’s position— Either Netanyahu is truly ready for a Palestinian state, or he is bluffing, convinced that the Palestinians will walk away from the negotiation table first.
Boaz Bismuth: A country about to explode— The Tahrir revolution had many objectives, but one of them — commonly known as democracy — was above them all. But throughout their struggle to achieve this lofty goal the secular youth, who began the revolt, granted control of the government to the military — and later, at the ballot box, to the Muslim Brotherhood.
David M. Weinberg: Is Netanyahu planning a unilateral move?— The music coming from the Prime Minister’s Office in recent weeks is anomalous. Prime Minister Netanyahu has been making uncharacteristically passionate statements about the diplomatic process; statements that go beyond the expected chatter about Israel’s desire to engage the Palestinians and negotiate a two-state solution. One gets the sense that Netanyahu is desperate for diplomatic movement; that he has bought into the left-wing argument that the status quo is unsustainable; and that he is preparing to launch a unilateral Israeli initiative to concede significant parts of Judea and Samaria.
Elliott Abrams: Kerry, Jerusalem, and the Palestinian concessions— U.S. Secretary of State Kerry is about to visit Jerusalem again, seeking to get negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization restarted. News reports make it clear that the Palestinians are seeking various concessions as the price of returning to the negotiating table, including some prisoner releases (of prisoners convicted of violent crimes) and a partial freeze of construction in the settlements. The United States appears to be pushing in the same direction, asking Israel to take these steps so that talks can begin.
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Blessings in the Book of Revelation is a book that you need to read, especially now. There are blessings throughout the Scriptures but Revelation is the only book in the Bible actually containing a specific blessing for reading it. It’s repeated twice, once at the beginning and again at the end. This is the reason that I believe Revelation should be the first step toward studying biblical prophecy. Though not easy to do, Revelation can be broken down and understood by anyone, not just the academic elite. So, Revelation’s blessings are for everyone. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
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Other Books by Neil Snyder
- Stand! is a suspense novel that exposes the lies, corruption, and greed underlying the theory that man-made CO2 emissions are responsible for global warming. Professor Wes Carlyle and Karen Sterling, his research collaborator, carefully scan the audience for their would-be attacker—a member of the enviro-gestapo who has been following them for days. Wes spots his man in the back of the room leaning against the wall. Suddenly, another man in the audience steps forward and moves toward Karen at a menacing pace. With a vicious stroke, he swings a billy club at her head. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- What Will You Do with the Rest of Your Life? deals with a question that every Christian has to consider: what should I do with my life? Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
- Falsely Accused is a true story about a young woman who was accused of committing a double homicide. It’s about a travesty of justice, and it reveals Yahweh intervening in the life of a believer to rescue her from danger in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. Everyone will enjoy the book, but young people in particular need to read it because the mistakes made that led to the problem could have been avoided. They were the kinds of mistakes that young people are prone to make. As they say, forewarned is forearmed. Click here to order the eBook. Click here to order the paperback.
