The expulsion that backfired: When Iraq kicked out its Jews

Times of Israel ^ | 5-31-2016 | Edwin Black

[pabianice]

Most American Jews’ religion is Liberalism, not Judaism.

[SkyDancer]

Okay, thanks for that.

[Cronos]

The Nutzis racism failed their own distorted racist logic — they hated the Jewish race and yet allied with their Semitic cousins, the ARabs. They hated Poles and Russians but allied with other Slavs like Bulgarians, Croats and Slovaks. They talked up their “Aryan race” yet slaughtered the fellow Aryan Roma (Gypsies).

[Cronos]

After the Bar Kochba revolt in the 2nd century, many Jews went to Iraq. Iraq was the center of Jewish (and one of the centers of Christian) learning. The Baghdadi Jews later in the 1800s also set up many businesses in India

By removing the Jews, as the article points out, the IRaqi government hamstrung itself.

[Cronos]

And more than 50% of our citizens voted for Obama (he's at the most half-Kenyan -- most of the Christians in Kenya disown his policies)

The people of Jewish origin in the US are disproportionately based in the big cities on the east and west. I would guess that they voted in line with their local communities -- so a person of Jewish origin in rural Texas would have been a non-Obama

[Cronos]

well, while I agree that expulsion of Jews in modern societies has been detrimental in general, your post is incorrect

How was Pharoanic Egypt affected economically and socially after the expulsion of the Israelites? The dates are vagues, but assuming around 1100 BC, there was no decay

Then medieval England -- the Edict of Expulsion in 1290 expelled the entire jewish population of England (which was about 2000 souls) but this was about 0.2% of the population (population of England approximating 1 million in the 13th century) -- the economy was primarily rural and this expulsion of lenders didn't affect the economy

The expulsion from Spain did affect the Spanish economy because the world economy had progressed.

The Expulsion of Jews from Russia in the 1800s and moving them to the Pale of Settlement did badly affect Russia

And the expulsion from Arab lands was a deathblow to those lands

The reason is the level of sophistication of the economies and the role of Jews in those economies.

[Cronos]

True, it is a miracle, but you must also remember other communities/nations that survived such tragedies. Listing them in order of lengths of dispossession:

1. Assyrians - since the collapse of Assyria in circa 700 B.C., the Assyrian people have been under Babylonian, Medean, Persian, Macedonian, Seleucid, Parthian, Sassanid, Roman, Ummayad, Fatimid, Timurid, etc. rule and they had survived -- that is, until the aftermath of the 2003 gulf war
   
2. Armenians - persecution under the Timurids, Turks, Soviets etc
3. Zoroastrians - chased out of Persia by the Arab Moslems
4. Mangalorean Catholics - near-genocide by the Moslem Tipu sultan
5. Poles - 123 years without a nation
6. Kurds

[Fiji Hill]

well, while I agree that expulsion of Jews in modern societies has been detrimental in general, your post is incorrect How was Pharoanic Egypt affected economically and socially after the expulsion of the Israelites? The dates are vagues, but assuming around 1100 BC, there was no decay

If the departure of the Israelites was no big deal, why did Pharaoh change his mind and try to get them back?

Then medieval England -- the Edict of Expulsion in 1290 expelled the entire jewish population of England (which was about 2000 souls) but this was about 0.2% of the population (population of England approximating 1 million in the 13th century) -- the economy was primarily rural and this expulsion of lenders didn't affect the economy

They may have been small in number, but they must have been missed, since they were invited back later.

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Operation Paperclip was almost all dedicated to grabbing German scientists, engineers, and technology. I do not think they were concerned with finding the Nazi government leaders/war criminals. There were other groups doing that work.