tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30075287.post1697993677291633958..comments2023-10-30T00:44:26.707-07:00Comments on DemoCast: The ethnic-cleansing of Arabic Jews to be considered in British ParliamentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30075287.post-33947421431270420182008-07-21T23:26:00.000-07:002008-07-21T23:26:00.000-07:00Has "Forgotten Voices" ever been shown on mainstre...Has "Forgotten Voices" ever been shown on mainstream TV in the UK ?<BR/>If not why not ! I have just watched it on your site, this is a story that needs to be broadcast to the general public, it is amazing and tragic.<BR/>Best Regards<BR/>Richard ScornerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30075287.post-51641617340143909632008-06-25T15:41:00.000-07:002008-06-25T15:41:00.000-07:00Fleeing Arab Lands: 'They left no Jewish community...<B>Fleeing Arab Lands: 'They left no Jewish community intact'</B>- Jerusalem Post<BR/><BR/>Like the nearly 900,000 Jews who left - or were forced from - Muslim countries shortly after Israel's independence, Prof. Yom-Tov Assis (head of the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East) says his family "left behind property, left behind wealth. We left behind everything." <BR/><BR/>From Lebanon, Assis moved to Turkey, and then to London, before making aliya in 1971. Ever since, the medieval scholar has had to disabuse people of what he calls "the fallacy of Jewish happiness under Muslim rule." That's the assumption that the "Golden Age" in Andalus (Muslim Iberia and North Africa), from the mid-700s to the mid-1100s, was both idyllic and common to Islamic rule in other times and places. Not only is that not the case - although Jews were generally better off under Muslim rule through the 10th century, there were large-scale pogroms in the 11th century - but, as Assis points out, it also disregards the fallout from the invasion of the Almohads, who "destroyed Jewish life" in the latter part of the 12th century. <BR/><BR/>"They left no Jewish community intact. There were many who were killed, many who were forcibly converted to Islam, many who had to escape - including the family of Maimonides, and other famous families," Assis says. "So to suggest that there was no persecution of Jews under Muslim rule is absurd."<BR/><BR/><I>http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1213794275808&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter</I>DemoCasterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15943737729085386897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30075287.post-75930004670097085792008-06-23T20:12:00.000-07:002008-06-23T20:12:00.000-07:00after seeing this, I am ready to petition the UN t...after seeing this, I am ready to petition the UN to allow a Right of Return to all Middle Eastern Jews!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com