1948: When Iraqi Jews found out that they were doomed
Middle East • May 2011 • Views: 541
Perhaps the most comprehensive book on the topic of Iraqi Jews being forced to move to Israel is Moshe Gat’s “The Jewish Exodus from Iraq, 1948-1951.” Here is his description of a seminal event that showed that Iraq’s Jews - who were an important part of Iraqi society and had explicitly distanced themselves from Zionism as early as the 1930s in order to prove their loyalty and to integrate as well as possible - were doomed anyway.