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Mansour was born in Iraq and survived the Farhud massacre, a 1941 pogrom in which 120 to 180 Iraqi Jews were murdered, 1,500 Jewish-owned businesses and homes were looted and an undetermined number of Jewish women were raped. His niece said a greater awareness was needed of the experiences of Jews in Arab countries at the time of the Holocaust. “I feel it is especially important that it should be acknowledged and taught in Arab countries,” she said, “because everything that happened in the Farhud happened again on October 7.” Mansour’s family were caught in the midst of the riots....

It was always going to be unlikely that Shlomo Mansour , 86, the oldest hostage in Gaza, would survive his ordeal at the hands of Hamas. His friends and relatives feared that he was physically frail. Point of No Return has featured his story, because he was the link between 7 October and the Farhud pogrom in Iraq. He survived the Farhud pogrom as a young child, before his family moved to Israel. The Jerusalem Post reports his passing, announced by Kibbutz Kissufim: Update: It now appears that Shlomo Mansour was murdered on 7 October and his body dragged into...

Israeli lawmakers on Monday advanced a government proposal to designate June 1 as a day to commemorate the Farhud, the 1941 pogrom in Iraq coordinated by Palestinian leader Haj Amin al-Hussein. The Commemoration Day for the Farhud Events Bill, sponsored by Likud Party lawmaker Ofir Katz, was approved for first reading and will be discussed by the Knesset Education, Culture and Sports Committee ahead of future votes. Katz’s bill calls for the pogrom to be commemorated in educational institutions across the Jewish state in order to preserve the memory of the events and the victims and pass it on to...

On CNN, Apr 11, 2024, with Abby Phillip, Pro Nation of Islam Hitler-fan Farrakhan - Melina Abdullah, Islamist bigot, 'naturally,' refused to denounce Oct 7. She went on about "75 years ago" and even stated "a state that was founded on G". Nevermind that the --Arab on Jews-- massacres and the genocidal calls of Itbakh [Adbakh] al Yahud began over 100 years ago: in 1920 [*], 1921, 1929 [*], then some 3 years after Arab-Palestine's leader, al-Husseini the Mufti rushed to offer help for the Nazi regime barely 2 months with Hitler ascend to power, that 1936-9 terror with the...

THAT BLOODY ANTI-JEWISH GENOCIDAL 'RED HAND': NAZI-ARAB FAHOUD POGROM 1941 OR 2000 RAMALAH LYNCHING * Noted Those who wore red pins—which bear an eerie resemblance to the bloody hands of a Palestinian Arab who had participated in the lynching of two Israelis at the start of the Second Intifada in 2000 in an iconic photograph of that awful moment—in support of an immediate ceasefire, was doing at the Oscars this year* And: Bloody hands, bloody fools. That symbol the Hollywood glitterati sported is rooted in the horrific lynching of two Israeli men by a Palestinian mob..* Oct 7 'reliving the...

The Arabs in Mandatory Palestine went together like peanut butter and jelly for NAZISM.Morris, Benny. ”1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War.” United States, Yale University Press, p. 21.* The Palestinians, Khalil al-Sakakini, a .. Jerusalem educator, jotted down in his diary, ”rejoiced [as did ‘the whole Arab world’] when the British bastion at Tobruk fell .. to the Germans.” * One of the first public opinion polls in Palestine, conducted by al-Sakakini’s son, Sari Sakakini, on behalf of the American consulate in Ierusalem, in February 1941 found that 88 percent of the Palestinian Arabs favored Germany and only...

On the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, June 1-2, 1941 (5701 on the Hebrew calendar), the Muslim residents of Baghdad carried out a savage pogrom against their Jewish neighbors. In this pogrom, known by its Arabic name al-Farhoud, about 200 Jews were murdered and thousands wounded. Jewish property was plundered and many homes set ablaze. Within a week, the British ousted the pro-Nazi government of General Rashid Ali, which had seized power in a coup d’état two months earlier, and restored the legal Iraqi government. That government appointed a commission of inquiry into the pogrom, which determined that the Nazi propaganda...

1948 Jewish population: 150,000 2001: Approximately 1001 The 2,700-year-old Iraqi Jewish community has suffered horrible persecution in modern-day Iraq. In June 1941, the Mufti-inspired, pro-Nazi coup of Rashid Ali sparked rioting and a pogrom in Baghdad. Armed Iraqi mobs, with the complicity of the police and the army, murdered 180 Jews and wounded almost 1,000. Additional outbreaks of anti-Jewish rioting occurred between 1946-49. After the establishment of Israel in 1948, Zionism became a capital crime. In 1950, Iraqi Jews were permitted to leave the country within a year provided they forfeited their citizenship. A year later, however, the property of...