Letters to the editor
Jews Displaced from Arab Countries
Clint Mooney, Calgary
Volume 28 Issue 7, 8 & 9 | Posted: September 18, 2014
The Editor:
I have just sent an article re Jewish migration to you. (See "Forced Migration of Jews" under the Features tab)
I wanted to check my figures which I had cited from memory. I think they are roughly correct. This article says 856,000 Jews were displaced from Arab countries over the next years following the creation of the State of Israel – without compensation for property, by the way – and most went to Israel and were absorbed.
The Editor:
I have just sent an article re Jewish migration to you. (See "Forced Migration of Jews" under the Features tab)
I wanted to check my figures which I had cited from memory. I think they are roughly correct. This article says 856,000 Jews were displaced from Arab countries over the next years following the creation of the State of Israel – without compensation for property, by the way – and most went to Israel and were absorbed.
Post-war Jewish immigration from Europe is not specifically addressed in the article but numbers cited for the Jewish population in Israel in 1948 are 716,678, with at least 253,000 being Israeli born, 70,000 being previous Arab-country immigrants, and 393,000 being from Europe and America, i.e. there was a significant Jewish population in Palestine already, and a significant European immigration, but an even more significant immigration from Arab countries in the following years.
These are roughly the figures that I have always heard – not well enough known, for sure.
Anyway, you can cite whatever you want from my letter. The persecution of Jews in Arab countries continued: witness the article that I sent you from the AJC re Libya. Again, no compensation! Jewish refugees absorbed. Not things that Arabs seem to do.
Clint Mooney, Calgary