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Lyn Julius

Lyn Julius is the author of “Uprooted: How 3,000 Years of Jewish Civilization in the Arab World Vanished Overnight” (Vallentine Mitchell, 2018).

Comparisons to the Holocaust are misleading and appalling.
Nazism continues to inspire the Palestinians.
It would raise uncomfortable questions about Arab collaboration with Nazism.
The history and memory of the Jews expelled from Arab countries has been suppressed in order to demonize Zionism.
A book on the Jews of Algeria ignores centuries of pre-colonial oppression.
The baton has been passed from those who massacred Jews in 1941 Baghdad to today’s Iraqi politicians controlled by Iran.
It is likely that the Jews Paul O’Brien meets are the type who belong to Jewish Voice for Peace, delusional liberals who are willing to trade in Jewish sovereignty for his “core Jewish values.”
It is not Haj Amin al-Husseini’s effect on the Nazis that Yad Vashem chair Dani Dayan ignores, but rather, the Mufti’s impact on the Arabs.
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $250,000 grant to rewrite the history of the Jews in the Middle East.
In the eagerness to embrace the Abraham Accords, it’s tempting to dwell on the positive points of connection between Isaac and Ishmael.
Today, any connection with slavery, however tenuous, is enough to make historical figures into non-persons. It’s time to treat the subjugation of Jews in Arab lands with the same seriousness.
The uphill struggle on the part of Morocco’s Jews to be recognized as Holocaust victims.