Iraqi jews

Thousands of Middle East Jewish refugees lost est. $263 billion in assets, researchers show UNHRC

The report details how systematic state oppression, pogroms, and expulsions depopulated the nearly one million Jews of the Middle East.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
Overview of the Human Rights Council one day after the U.S. announced their withdraw at the United Nations in Geneva,
IRAQI JEWS in Israel protest their counterparts’ persecution under the Ba’ath regime. (Fritz Cohen)

Grandson of expelled Iraqi Jews sues French gov't for millions unpaid rent on house used as embassy

"Then another ten years went by, and one day it hit me - it's not just about the property, it's about human rights," Khazzam told the Post.

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
Alan Yentob, from London, Broadcaster and Television Executive poses after being made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire at an Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London. Picture date: Wednesday December 18, 2024.

Alan Yentob, British Jewish broadcaster and former BBC controller, dies at 78

The BBC director-general remembered him as a "towering figure in British broadcasting and the arts."

|ByMATHILDA HELLER
IRAQI JEWS in Israel protest their counterparts’ persecution under the Ba’ath regime. (Fritz Cohen)

'Ensuring their story is remembered': Report highlights forgotten exodus of Iraqi Jews

The report comes amid discussions on population transfers in the Middle East, following US President Donald Trump’s proposal for Gaza relocation.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Miracle discovery of Iraqi Jewish archives highlighted by new documentary

Saving the Iraqi Jewish Archives: A Journey of Identity, aims to highlight the existence of the archives and the Iraqi Jews who would like to reclaim them.

NOVEMBER 1, 2020ByDONNA RACHEL EDMUNDS
This Monument, ‘Prayer,’ in Ramat Gan, is in memory of the Jews who were killed in Iraq during the Farhud pogrom (1941) and in the 1960s.

Heritage takes center stage at 'A Stage for Arab-Hebrew Culture'

Ana Min el-Yahud (I Am from the Jews) at the Jaffa Theater blends Iraqi heritage with Israeli life

AUGUST 24, 2020ByBARRY DAVIS
A scene from ‘I am From the Jews.’ August 2020.

Grapevine May 31, 2020: Justice delayed

Cracking down on sex abuse of minors has become a priority in Australia, and thus, the Australian media was particularly interested in quickly publishing the ruling of the Jerusalem District Court.

MAY 30, 2020ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Diaspo President Reuven Rivlin and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi host a Zoom call with lone soldiers in Israel and around the world on April 7, instead of hosting them at the President’s Residence as in previous years.

Hanukkah celebration lights up Iraqi Kurdistan at prophet's tomb

Around 20 Kurdish Jews gathered in the town to celebrate the "festival of lights." Some came from Israel, but the majority were from the three provinces that make up Iraqi Kurdistan.

JANUARY 2, 2020ByTZVI JOFFRE
A fourth Hanukkah candle is lit at the Western Wall

Israel ambassador calls on UN to recognize Jewish refugees

Ambassador Danny Danon introduced the resolution at a General Assembly discussion marking 72 years since the November 29 Partition Plan.

DECEMBER 5, 2019ByOMRI NAHMIAS
THE MOSSAD saved Jews in foreign lands from North Africa to Iraq to Syria to Ethiopia

Here’s what it’s like to grow up as a Jew in Iraq

“It was hard being Jewish because I felt like, if you’re Jewish, you don’t really have anywhere to belong to,” she said.

OCTOBER 4, 2019ByBEN SALES/JTA
Boy wearing a kippa

Iraq’s former PM Maliki joins chorus against U.S.-Iran policy

Maliki was the leader of Iraq during a period of intense sectarianism, when pro-Iranian forces were largely seen as increasing their hold on Baghdad.

MAY 11, 2019BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki

High Court: No compensation for Jews killed in 1941 pogrom in Iraq

The Knesset could resolve the issue.

MARCH 10, 2019ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
A PHOTO of displaced Iraqi Jews in 1951. The government hopes to give a voice to the story of the millions of Jewish refugees

After ISIS, Mosul finally values its Jewish heritage

Since ISIS attacked the diversity of the Iraqi community, diversity is now valued far more consciously, and this trend’s most surprising consequence is related to the Iraqi Jews.

MARCH 1, 2019ByJUDIT NEURINK
AWARD-WINNING photographer Eddy van Wessel captured Mosul’s Jewish quarter: Hebrew inscriptions on the wall, near the Great Mosque of al-Nuri. (Eddy van Wessel)

Baghdad hangings: When Jews were snatched and accused of spying for Israel

Daoud Ghali Yadgar was only 21 years old when he was snatched and accused of spying for Israel.

MARCH 1, 2019ByILANA STUTLAND
IRAQI JEWS in Israel protest their counterparts’ persecution under the Ba’ath regime. (Fritz Cohen)