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
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
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
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
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
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
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 and the Palestinian ‘cause’ Nazism continues to inspire the Palestinians. Lyn Julius May 31, 2023
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
