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Former French Ambassador to Iraq Bernard Bajolet (left) and then envoy Hubert Colin de Verdiere in front of the French embassy in Baghdad, on Aug. 30, 2004. Photo by Karim Sahib/AFP via Getty Images.
The ‘scandal’ of the French embassy in Baghdad
“France has occupied a stolen Jewish property for 50 years in full knowledge of the fact," says attorney for family that fled Iraq in the 1950s and owned the property the embassy is on.
Lyn Julius
June 11, 2025
Aerial view of Baghdad, Iraq, on Aug. 27, 2011. Credit: Staff Sgt. Joshua Montgomery via Wikimedia Commons.
France sued for decades of back rent on Baghdad embassy owned by displaced Iraqi Jews
“This is a world leader in human rights, and this is what they do?” said Philip Khazzam, descendant of the property’s owners.
Mike Wagenheim
June 9, 2025
Iraqi Jews leaving Lod Airport in Israel on their way to Ma'abarot transit camps, 1951. Source: Israel Government Press Office.
75 years ago, Iraq stripped its Jews of citizenship
Baghdad estimated that 6,000 to 7,000 Jews would leave; 125,000 did.
JNS Staff
March 6, 2025
An ornate Holy Ark and its Torah scroll taken from Iraq by fleeing Jews is on display at the  Babylonian Jewish Heritage Center in Or Yehuda, Israel, and pictured here in November 2021. Photo by Israel Parker/Wikimedia Commons.
Fleeing Iraqi Jews left $34 billion behind, report says
The document is unusual for its use of forensic accounting to quantify the losses incurred by some 135,000 people who escaped persecution.
Canaan Lidor
Feb. 21, 2025
Luggage is put on trucks to take immigrants from Iraq to a transit camp at Lod Airport on May 1, 1951. Credit: National Photo Collection, GPO.il
Beware distinguished professors rewriting history
Historian Avi Shlaim is giving oxygen to the false claim that “Zionists” committed bombings in 1950 and 1951 to make the Jews leave Iraq.
Lyn Julius
Sept. 17, 2024
A seasonal sukkah on view at the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center in Or-Yehuda, Israel. Credit: Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center.
This Sukkot, Sarah Sassoon will celebrate in an Iraqi sukkah with Czech candlesticks
The Israeli writer, who comes from a prominent Iraqi family, is working on two new books about Jews of Babylonian ancestry.
Orit Arfa
Sept. 21, 2023
Torah scrolls of the Iraqi-Jewish community at the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center in Or Yehuda. Photo by Lily Shor.
The secret archive of the Iraqi Jews
The documents were rescued during the Iraq War and are now in Washington. The Baghdad regime wants them back.
Shimon Sherman
Aug. 31, 2023
The Farhud, Baghdad 1941. Credit: Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi Archive.
The Farhud and the Palestinian ‘cause’
Nazism continues to inspire the Palestinians.
Lyn Julius
May 31, 2023
Jewish refugees from Iraq leave Lod (today Ben-Gurion) Airport, 1951. Credit: GPO via Wikimedia Commons.
One man’s mission to document Mosul’s Jewish history
The Tomb of Jonah was not presented to him as a Jewish site, Iraqi historian Omar Mohammed says.
Rachel Avraham
April 2, 2023