Posted on 12/24/2024 9:50:00 PM PST by Uncle Miltie
A landmark study published Monday in the United States and Israel has uncovered that the value of property confiscated from Syria's Jewish community exceeds $10 billion in contemporary terms. The research also documents that the once-thriving community has dwindled to just four known Jewish residents in Syria today.
The comprehensive findings come from Justice for Jews from Arab Countries (JJAC), a Jewish-American organization, following an exhaustive six-year investigation. The study is part of a broader research initiative, with findings on ten additional Arab countries scheduled for release in the coming months.
According to the JJAC, Jewish communities had established deep roots across North Africa and the Middle East over thousands of years, with their presence predating Islam by a millennium. The organization notes that the mass exodus of these Jewish populations from eleven countries in the 20th century stands as one of the largest forced displacements of modern times.
The study documents Syrian Jewry as one of the region's most ancient communities, with verified Jewish presence in Aleppo and Damascus extending back 2,500 years. The community developed extensive international commercial networks, establishing trading and banking relationships reaching as far as India.
The post-World War II era marked the beginning of intensified persecution of Syria's Jewish communities. They endured widespread property confiscation, severe restrictions on movement, systematic economic marginalization, violent attacks, and sustained government harassment. These pressures precipitated a dramatic demographic decline.
From a population of approximately 50,000 Jews at the century's start, numbers fell to roughly 30,000 by Israel's establishment. Within a decade, only 5,000 remained. By 1991, the community had virtually disappeared, with reports indicating only one hundred Jews still in Syria. The overwhelming majority sought refuge in Israel.
The research methodology incorporated comprehensive evidence of Jewish economic status, combining written documentation, interviews with community leaders and experts, and analysis of previous evaluations. A thorough assessment of all economic sectors revealed that Syrian Jewish assets valued at $200,167,458 in 1947 would equate to $10,692,545,656 in current dollars.
JJAC emphasized that achieving genuine peace in the Middle East depends on confronting historical facts and ensuring justice prevails. They stress that any meaningful reconciliation in the region must incorporate the complete historical narrative, particularly the experiences of Jewish communities from Arab nations and Iran.
Probably correct but this going back in history and reckoning wrongs is problematic. Where do you draw the lines? How many generations? What properties? If it is well documented and recoverable maybe, but “my grandfather lost his fruit stand when he had to flee”, “we left our family’s silver teacups”, and “grandma used to live there” may be too much. At some point everyone has to accept the world used to suck a lot worse than it does now in order to make it suck less in the future.
They were clearly from wealthy families, and also exceptionally kind and intelligent.
One was from Venezuela, the other from Iran.
The Iran Catastrophe would occur just a couple years later.
The Venezuela Catastrophe started about 20 years later.
I still wonder if they got out in time and were able to preserve at least some of their family assets.
You mean the arabs ought to accept Israel’s existence?
The way Israel is rolling up land in the Golan, there will soon be quite a bit more Jews settling in Syria, or at least that part of Syria.
Gawd.
Don’t blame Israel, it was the Neocons (particularly Skunk Cabbage) that led the effort to remove Assad, starting in 2011. Israel is now forced to take care of itself.
Whatever.
Not surprising. Syrian Jews are the most enterprising and successful of nearly all Jews. Go to Jamaica Estates and Rego Park, Queens, etc, and you’ll find Syrian Jews with mega mansions and Lambos. The children and grandchildren of those who had $10 billion taken from them, came to the U.S. and remade massive fortunes. They should write books on how they do it.
Apple’s founder was a Syrian Jew..
Jobs. I don’t think his dad was wealthy. Could be wrong about that.
There are crazy anti-semites, pro-Putin, pro-China freaks infested here. “BobL” is one of the worst.
Yeah, some people are not worth the effort to refute and properly document their anti-semitism.
You can smell them a thread away.
Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco, California, on February 24, 1955, to Joanne Carole Schieble and Abdulfattah "John" Jandali (Arabic: عبد الفتاح الجندلي). Abdulfattah Jandali was born in a Muslim household to wealthy Syrian parents, the youngest of nine siblings.
“There are crazy anti-semites, pro-Putin, pro-China freaks infested here. “BobL” is one of the worst.”
PLEASE provide links to me being an ‘anti-semite’, or ‘pro-Putin (as opposed to wanting the war to end), or pro-China.
If not, please explain why you are making this claim to the mods and JR.
I don’t need a link.
All I need is you to say you aren’t.
I will take you at your word.
And I made no claim of this to mods or JR.
“There are crazy anti-semites, pro-Putin, pro-China freaks infested here. “BobL” is one of the worst.”
I think JR is perfectly capable of deciding if your post, above, is a personal attack, regardless of your denial.
We’ll see what he says, and hopefully you’ll have some time think about what you’re posting here.
I said this:
“ All I need is you to say you aren’t.
I will take you at your word.”
I notice you didn’t respond.
We’ll see what JR has to say.
Ok Bob.
Merry Christmas.
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