Comment by runarberg
3 days ago
My understanding of this history is that the Arab Jews weren’t exiled in the same manner as Palestinians from Palestine. But rather these were mostly a series of voluntary exoduses with post-hoc discrimination (though some were no doubt pushed out under threat of violence). As I understand it Iraq banned Jewish emigration in an effort to prevent Zionists from getting an ethnographic majority in the newly independent Israel. It was this ban on emigration which stripped the Arab Jews of their possessions as well as their citizenship. A human rights violation without a doubt, but not the same crime as the terror campaign Israelis did against Palestinians in the Nakba nor the same crime of exiling a large part of the population and not granting them the right of return.
However unlike Israel, these neighboring countries have all reversed their discriminatory policies, and I think some have even offered reparations (I think all offer the right right of return; but few have taken the offer)[1]
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The Wikipedia article you posted confirms my understanding of this, that there were indeed people pushed to leave because of violence and discrimination, but most people still left voluntarily.
Note that the article I posted is an example of a person who’s family was pushed out, but returned recently many decades later.
This is very different from the terrorism and expulsion of Palestinians out of Palestine, which was exclusively a violent affair.
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