Canadian MP and former justice minister Irwin Cotler proposed a motion in the
Canadian Parliament on Thursday for formal government recognition of 850,000
Jews “forcibly displaced and exiled from Arab countries since the declaration of
the State of Israel in 1948.”
Cotler has played a prominent part in a
campaign being led by Israel’s Foreign Ministry aimed at bringing international
recognition to the plight of hundreds of thousands of Jews who fled the Arab
states due to state-s
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