by Israel Hayom Staff
Hat tip: Dr. Jean-Charles Bensoussan
850,000 Jews were expelled from their homes across the Middle East in the last century. Now, Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Dannon and Consul General Dani Dayan are demanding justice for the victims
 |
| Dani Dayan and Danny Danon. | Photo: Marc Israel Sellem |
To coincide with the commemoration of the 850,000 Jewish refugees expelled from the Middle East in the 20th century, Israel’s men in New York are doing what they can to ensure the victims are brought to Justice.
On Tuesday, The Jerusalem Post reported, UN Ambassador Danny Dannon will introduce a resolution recognizing Jewish refugees from Arab countries.
The UN discussion will coincide with the 72 anniversary of the November 29 partition plan, which recommended Israel be divided up into an independent Jewish and Arab state.
"The international community is comfortable focusing only on Palestinian refugees while erasing the story of hundreds of thousands of Jews from the history pages," Danon said told The Post. "But the State of Israel will give voice to the truth and correct the historical injustice by putting an end to the deafening silence on the part of the international community."
Giving a voice to these Jews is exactly what Israel’s Consul General in New York, Dani Dayan, did when he spoke at the International Conference in New York’s Center for Jewish History on Monday.
In a conference titled “The End of Jewish Communal Life in Arab Lands,” Dayan vowed that the confab went far beyond recapping history.
"This is not only a conference about history,” Amb. Dayan said, “This is a conference about the present and this a conference about the future of the Jewish people who continue to struggle against the most ancient hatred in history--the hatred of Jews. In addition, this conference is about the pursuit of justice for the Jews who were evicted from Arab lands and Iran."
Speakers at the conference, which included Elie Cohanim in her first public appearance as the US State Department’s newly appointed Deputy Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism, referred to some of the oldest Jewish communities outside of Israel, dating back thousands of years. During and prior to their expulsion, Jews living across the region in countries like Yemen and Iraq faced economic discrimination followed by deadly violence as a result of antisemitic blood libels.
“Indeed, this conference is part of our continuous efforts to move beyond hashtags to history and to reject the prevailing narratives (whether idealized or demonized) that reduce thousands of years of vibrant Jewish communal life in the Middle East and North Africa into talking points,” said Jason Guberman, executive director of the American Sephardi Federation.
You can read more about the initiative here.
Israel Hayom Staff
Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/12/03/israels-ny-envoys-champion-rights-of-jews-evicted-from-arab-lands/
Follow Middle East and Terrorism on Twitter
No comments:
Post a Comment