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The Expulsion of the Jews from Muslim Countries, 1920-1970: A History of Ongoing Cruelty and Discrimination

(Institute for Global Jewish Affairs) Shmuel Trigano - Between 1920 and 1970, 900,000 Jews were expelled from Arab and other Muslim countries. Today, they and their descendents form the majority of the French Jewish community and a large part of Israel's population. In the countries that expelled Jews, a combination of six legal, economic, and political measures aimed at isolating Jews in society was instituted: denationalization; legal discrimination; isolation and sequestration; economic despoilment; socioeconomic discrimination; and pogroms or similar acts. While some say that Zionism was responsible for this development, the region's anti-Semitism would have developed even without the rise of the State of Israel because of Arab-Islamic nationalism, which resulted in xenophobia.

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