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One quote from his 1955 book, The Arabs, is widely quoted in whole or in part: This wholesale exodus was due partly to the belief of the Arabs, encouraged by the boastings of an unrealistic Arabic press and the irresponsible utterances of some of the Arab leaders that it could only be a matter of weeks before the Jews were defeated by the armies of the Arab states and the Palestinian Arabs ...
Schectman wrote numerous books and articles dedicated to Jewish and world history, human migrations, population transfer and refugee issues. In later years he also wrote a biography of the late Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini. In his 1961 book Star in Eclipse: Russian Jewry Revisited, he provided an account of the Babi Yar tragedy.
World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries (WOJAC) was an international advocacy organization, created in 1975, [1] representing Jewish refugees from Arab countries.The World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries was created to make certain that any "just settlement of the refugee problem" recognizes those Jews who were forced to flee from lands where they had lived for centuries.
The diaspora has spread further, with many refugees building lives in Gulf Arab countries or the West. After fighting stopped in the 1948 war, Israel refused to allow refugees to return to their ...
But the protests continued, reaching fever pitch in 1933, as more Jewish immigrants arrived to make a home for themselves, the influx accelerating from 4,000 in 1931 to 62,000 in 1935.
In 2012, a special campaign on behalf of the Jewish refugees from Arab countries was established and gained momentum. The campaign urges the creation of an international fund that would compensate both Jewish and Palestinian Arab refugees, and would document and research the plight of Jewish refugees from Arab countries. [321]
UNRWA was established in 1949 by the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to provide relief to all refugees resulting from the 1948 conflict; this initially included Jewish and Arab Palestine refugees inside the State of Israel until the Israeli government took over this responsibility in 1952.
Zayna Elkarra, a 16-year-old Palestinian American student in San Francisco, visited family in Gaza for the first time in summer 2023. She has since lost more than 100 relatives in the Israeli ...