Before 1948: Eva, Iraq

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[@zaidal-hindawi1784]

I’m so sorry to hear what happened to this poor woman when she lived in Iraq. So sad that she was driven to leave her home. She speaks the truth and unfortunately the truth hurts sometimes.

[@gabinator3343]

I am a Catholic originally from Iraq and my grandfather's best friends were Jews until they they were forced to leave because of the government

[@adamcowan7018]

This is interesting....I wonder what the relations were between Christians and Jews in iraq

[@mariama8939]

Love from an Iraqi Christian to all Iraqi Jews! ❤️

[@kusimashelachem7197]

Hi thanks.

[@reenajoubert]

❤️

[@Tamutu-1]

You sold us to the nazis in the farhud. I will carry my grandparents story to my children and my grandchildren. Never to forget what you people did to us. Farhud 1941

[@victorshikhman]

Corey, very few of these stories are known. The Jews who fled are already older, in their 60s and 70s. You can record a few videos, but is anyone working to preserve these stories in large quantity? Is any university in Israel running such a project? We continue to spend so much money on Holocaust investigation, education, memorials... Is anyone doing something to preserve the memory of 2500 years of Jewish life in Arab lands? In another 30 years the refugees will be gone and the Arabs will say that life for the Jews before Israel was great.

[@snakey934Snakeybakey]

***** could you plz send me the link?

[@semsemeini7905]

Victor Shikhman LOL well said. In Egypt it was an Egyptian who did a documentary. No Jew bothered.

[@tylerburns6894]

Victor Shikhman And you'll use these stories to make it seem like life for the Jews living amongst Muslims was always horrible. Either way it wouldn't be completely true. It's just your propaganda vs theirs. Both sides are right and both sides are wrong. That's a fact.

[@itsnotatoober]

Tyler Burns please. We all saw the video. The lady was very fair. Who do you think you're fooling? Go home idiot.

[@sharvit]

Yes there is www.bjhcenglish.com Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center goo.gl/maps/f4o3nwnQXyGneaJz5 I have been there couple of times and would very recommend visiting. Today most of the Israeli kids visiting this museum as part of their school education program. My grandparents are jewish Iraqi refugees who escaped to Israel as well and they used to tell similar stories.

[@dalaffarhan2895]

As an Iraqi, Unfortunately all what did she say is true.

[@justalittlebitoflove6520]

Dalaf Farhan :( I think that palastenians are paying the price of other arab countries hate on jews, I am 16 I don't know about any of these but my parents never told me anything about it

[@kusimashelachem7197]

Baraa Yasir What she says is true. My grandparents all came from Baghdad. And They use to tell me stories simular to what she says. Also my grandparents were not Zionists, Nuri said cancelled their citizenship. Confiscated their property, fired Jews from public offices and told them if you won't leave on your own we will deport you by force.they didn't want to go Israel they wanted to stay in Iraq. They went there cause they didn't have another choice.

[@moonori4595]

@@kusimashelachem7197 This is true. I am an Iraqi and I have an Iraqi Jewish friend and his family didn't want to go to Israel in fact they stayed as long as they could until some people announced they were going to hang them. So they fled to Israel reluctantly.

[@ziyad8619]

Question plz.. Who is farhoud which eva spoke about ?

[@alitemimi6045]

And a fake iraqi spotted

[@fabre97150]

wow what a story !, i understand more why jews left arabs countries

[@TheIaluma]

@Davis - This lady's story doesn't add up man , she help a Jews family who does not speak Hebrew only speaks Arabic but does not know their names! That's very very fishy here to m,e . The guy asked her do you know their names, she said No! How do you help some one escape from Iraq to Israel without knowing their names? She then said it took them 1 year before they can escaped and she said "I was just a girl not grownup yet! You were just a girl? but can help grown up escape to Israel? Sounds like made up story with holes all over it.David you what know about Iraq Jews read a book written by one, that is a book title: "Ben-Gurion's Scandals " BY Naeim Giladi still alive living in the USA today. Migrated from Iraq to Israel (he got bad experience in Israel) and then USA.Painful truths about the Zionist rape of Palestine and deliberate planting of anti-Semitism in Iraqi Jewish communities during David Ben-Gurion's political career to persuade Iraqi Jews to immigrate to Israel. The Zionists' goal was to import raw Jewish labor from the Middle East to farm the newly-vacated lands and fill the military ranks with conscripts, to defend the stolen lands.

[@semsemeini7905]

Not a lie at all. I had to flee Egypt in 1956, so did my dad's uncles / aunts / cousins have to flee Iraq in 1950 and Sudan in 1967.

[@semsemeini7905]

Liar. 130,000 Iraqi Jews had to flee Iraq between 1950 and the 1970s; my family included. You are a historical revisionist.

[@idontspeakminecraft1475]

And ppl really tell us to come back........

[@jewswhoswingssnakes923]

אביטן הודיה It would be insane to go back to those hellholes.

[@SolomonsSeals]

Eva shares how life was like for Jews in Iraq before 1948

[@sabrinealk4422]

I am an Iraqi girl from Baghdad by origin we are Jewish. We had to leave Iraq in 1991. Absolutely terrible things have happened. However, there are many sweet and beautiful Muslim Iraqi people. I get the idea that Muslims are portrayed as a beastly monster to the Jews and the Jews are portrayed as a monster to the Muslims. This is a strategy that Hitler also used to exterminate the Jews. It's time to break this down!

[@abdullahwesam4286]

Hello from Baghdad… as we growing, our parents told us about what happened to the jews and whenever we hear the farhood story we got sad emotions I’m really sorry about what happened to jews on my land and I hope one day we can make iraq a safe place for u and for all people Much love and respect

[@f4wnz132]

Sabrine, It is safe to say there are bad people in every group, no matter the group. Politics and propoganda are music to the ears of the naive, and there are plenty of them. It is also safe to say that Iraq was not the same after the Jews left. It was a great loss to the culture and diversity that Iraq was known for.

[@sabrinealk4422]

@@f4wnz132 Political propaganda was once very effective in fighting certain groups. With globalization and technological developments, this has become difficult. In every place and society you have good and bad people. Of course there are also cases where evil predominates and vice versa.

[@f4wnz132]

@@sabrinealk4422 I liks to think that in Iraq, currently, the good dominates evil at the moment. Please take a moment to watch Drew Binsky, a Jewish travel vlogger who has a few episodes in Iraq. I know you left in 91, so I thought you might like to see the development and, in other instances, falls of modern day Baghdad.

[@sabrinealk4422]

@@f4wnz132 Yes I believe that too, most Iraqis really have a big heart and I am proud of that! Thank you very much for this recommendation, but I had already seen it. I follow everything Baghdad and Iraq related. My parents have Jewish origins, but they distanced themselves from the faith in the 1970s. We fled Iraq because of the Gulf War not because we were oppressed.

[@ofrikalif4938]

For those who wonder about the blonde one being in Iraq which is an arab country, I am an Iraqi jew, have no relatives from europe or America and when I was a child I had a blonde hair and some of my Iraqi friends have a non- dark hair color. Having a light colored hair among Iraqi jews isn't common neither rare.

[@Just_Nunu]

Yeah a lot of people tend to be suprised when they see blonde iraqis

[@ForTheWitness]

hey I’m Iraqi Muslim from Nasiriyah

[@mosaka1471]

Come back home we lost enough indigenous people

[@lilscorpio02]

As a Muslim, I am so sorry you went through this, Eva. This is horrific and I never knew of the persecution of Jews in Iraq.

[@ShemmyVaknin]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhud

[@azeezfadhil5564]

I live right now in baghdad I donot hate jews I would never do that my father never tought me that and I will never teach my child that I hope to visit Israel even in last day of my life and meet the Iraqi jews and set in coffee shop and drink tea or chaie

[@marokaisrael]

search about dudu tassa he is iraqi jewish singer from israel god bless you brother

[@محسنمحمد-د5ش]

this makes me so sad we palestinians only hear the stories of our refugees and their suffering and i think that hearing the other sides stories would help us accepting peace

[@secretanswer2100]

Salam,I wish both sides will be more aware of the other side suffer and history, we are all humans after all.

[@siamboy596]

Though im Muslim and its really hurt breaking...

[@وردةامل-خ4ط]

jews iraq we love you so much from iraq

[@tylerburns6894]

وردة امل Are you Jewish?

[@stephanezick4658]

@@tylerburns6894 she is probably a muslim iraqi , am an atheist iraqi so her name is in arabic and 100% she wouldn’t be jewwish

[@kashoutlenox]

How can people call Jews from Iraq and north Africa colonizers? They are darker than most Palestinians I've met the palestinians are extremely white with colored eyes compared to the Jews I met in Israel.

[@y.l7455]

Because palestines are arabs and not native to Israel's land unlike the Jews.

[@kashoutlenox]

@@y.l7455 Amen

[@RedSparrow_FREEDOM]

To all Iraqi Jews my love

[@noammkw3770]

wow this needs to go viral

[@MrCoonson]

I know a similar story from my own familly so i´m pretty sure it´s not a lie, it´s even very similar to the stories i´ve been told at home.

[@emcalagha7060]

That time not only Jews faced problems all Iraqi faced problems from 1917 start the problems till today and is depend on she was unlucky because she faced this dilemma , some Jews till today living in Iraq and some of them reject to live in Palestine and they left Iraq to Europe or USA because they don't believe in Zionism , the Zionism create the problems for Jews in Iraq to make them scary and fled to Palestine

[@MrCoonson]

Not true. Zionism didnt create the problems for the jews in Iraq.

[@MrCoonson]

I cant talk for all iraqi jews but my family were kicked out of their home by the military and only survived because of their muslim neighbours. They had no money and no place to stay and that was before 1948 in Bagdad. There was no zionist influence there. Israel was the only place They could go after being homeless because the state of Israel picked them up and brought them there. That was the reason why my grandparents are zionists now. Not because they believed in IT before, just because of the iraqi actions in the second world war.

[@emcalagha7060]

My friend , they lived 2600 years in Iraq without problems , the Zionist Theodore start his plan in the end of 19 century , and when Britain occupied Iraq they help the Zionist to start the plan and make it real by the help of Iraqi which their loyalty to Britain , We Iraqi have no problem with Jews or any peoples , you as Iraqi origin if i meet you Ill be happy and even hug you and invite you to eat kubba and pacha or dolma ask your grandfathers about this iraqi foods

[@MrCoonson]

I prefer my kubba with bamya :)

[@wingedbull1257]

Everything She said Is True 100%.

[@anon-iraq2655]

WingedBull1 not to mention the brother killing for an orange, common and the blonde jew girl? iraqi jews are one of the darkest ethnicities in iraq

[@semsemeini7905]

anon-iraq LOL my grandfather was Iraqi. Very light skinned. My grandmother was Iraqi. Dark skinned like this lady. So was my father.

[@wingedbull1257]

Semsem Eini look the destruction they brought to Iraq, Nothing but destruction and Stealing, is fine to steal but do some work build the country, what is their excuse now? Saddam is gone and Now we have mullah million times worst.

[@dachsenmachsen4498]

hahahaaha good joke:)

[@drbluewine]

actually no ..... for example she said that she was born in 1966 and then she mentioned that she saw how they killd Nouri AlSaeed ! , which he had been killed in in 1958 after the bloody republic revolution , which she could only saw if she had a time machine!!

[@hipretty]

This woman is beautiful!!! OMG I loved hearing her story!!! You can see her truth in her eyes. For all the people picking her apart, claiming she said she wasn't allowed to go to school...but then "contradicted herself" because she went, and that she is a liar!! Pay attention people!!! She didn't change her story. She clearly says @ 2:21 and they didn't let me study in Iraq or develop my studies (or what we would say "further her studies") obviously at one time. Because when Corey asks "Because you are Jewish or because you are a woman?" She replies "Because I am Jewish." Cory asks "Was it not allowed for Jews to study?" And her answer is for all who claim she contradicts herself: "Yes, THERE WAS A TIME when Jews were NOT allowed to study...Jews had to have their own schools...and THEN... there was a time they let the Jews study in the University. But it depends on what era, every era there were different rules." Obviously she went on to go to University when the rules changed. She didn't contradict herself, she clearly admitted both situations existed at different times.

[@moonori4595]

I am Iraqi and I have an Iraqi Jewish friend. All Iraqis I know regret this point in our history and it's true.

[@ZakirHussain-oz9su]

This is the first time am hearing such gory information of how some Muslims treated others. Very bad. Have no words to express..except to say sorry. Nothing much, but still needed to be said

[@scriptaman2888]

all western critics that demand humanity from israel, for once silence and learn what it means to live in the middle east

[@tylerburns6894]

scripta man Thats not what it means to live in the Middle East.

[@tylerburns6894]

scripta man Humanity should be demanded regardless of what life is like in the Middle East.

[@xelio9050]

scripta man You are ignorant you should be silent you dont know anything its best you dont speak, Israel has enough help from America to defend and attack from anything.

[@Exocrotic-yn2ck]

Lol fool Israel made worse not only that they are the key reason that jew moved to Israel because Israel bombed them and accused the iraqis

[@philipschaffer9414]

I am the descendant of European Jews who fortunately left Europe before the Holocaust happened

[@zeevkeane6280]

Iraqi here. She is right a lot of the sasson family even got the “sir” from the queen for serving in Iraq (they obviously were Iraqis), the Iraqi parlement actually was established by an Iraqi Jewish. I’m an Iraqi who lives in Canada, Iraqi people loved Jewish people for the longest part. I remember my great grandfather even didn’t let the police do anything to the Jewish people who lived near them at the time (called akd al khshalat). It’s just politics, here in Canada Iraqis and Jews 99% of the time get together very well. Nothing but love, Shalom from Iraq 🇮🇶🇨🇦❤️🇮🇱(Dar al salam)

[@stephanezick4658]

Dar al salam 😂😂😂

[@treksta2009]

@@stephanezick4658 Yo please let's not mock brother min fadhlak I'm israeli temani bevaqasha -_-...

[@aryankud191]

I'm from Iraqi Kurdistan, I think not all Jewish lived as this lady, in my city Jewish was very rich, they made good and jewelry, how they became rich while they didn't live in a safe. I have a relative, she was jew, she married with a Kurdish Muslim guy, we saw her as a Kurd, she lived peace until she died

[@elidrissii]

Great authentic accent. She even trills her R's. It would be cool if modern Hebrew sounded more like this.

[@ibrahimsued4906]

What's the original Het like? Softer like English 'H' or more trilled like 'kh', 'ch' ? I heard it was originally softer than today. I hate the silenced modern 'Hei'.

[@fusionvision7013]

@Orthodox Fox you must be one of the biggest idiots alive. Hebrew was revived in the late 19th century by a (more or less) Lithuanian Jew named Eliezer Ben Yehuda. It had been dead for millennia before since it only was spoken to read the Torah (similar to Latin for Christians). So, yes, he was an Ashkenazi Zionist, but guess what, all people speaking with that accent THAT LIVE IN ISRAEL are Zionists as well. Why are they Zionists? Since they live in Israel. That simple. Overall, if u understand that Jews come from different areas in the Diaspora, you'll understand that, based on the language they spoke, the accent will be different. No one is forcing Israeli kids to speak French-influenced Hebrew.

[@danielsmith4979]

What an interesting insight into the lives of iraqi jews prior to 1948 I hope that someone contacts her and she gets to know what happened to them I think the history of iraqi jews is probably one of the most interesting I have come across its good to know that there were good arab Muslims just as there are not so good ones who are willing to help you out no matter your religion or stance

[@tamarac.1735]

Thanks for sharing, her eyes said a lot :( I heard a lot of stories like that from Algeria to Afghanistan, but in Middle-East violence reach another level that (hopefully) our Western generation could not understand. Only terrorism (DAESH/ISIS/Hamas) gave us a little perception about what they are capable of & what this lady saw in '60s.

[@tylerburns6894]

T. Cantara Daesh and ISIS are the same thing. Hamas is something completely different.

[@lb7034]

What I see in her eyes is endurance and perseverance to continue along the road leading to the end of servitude, belittlement, and humiliation in her birth country that betrayed her aspirations and those of her family. A volatile society that could respect you and tolerate you one day , and turn against you another day, just because. As a Tunisian Jew that also fled i felt every word she said as if it weighed 100 kg each. The society was not as treacherous towards us as it had been in Iraq, but I tremble to the thought it could have happened today as radicalism is much more prevalent

[@Iditsl]

I am also a Jew from Tunisia. My parents had to flee in 64 because there were rumors that Jewish Jewellers were trafficking gold. My father's workshop was famous, he even had official commissions, but he saw his friends disappearing one by one leaving no traces and he knew he was in danger. We had to leave for France in a hurry. We had lost everything and my father died of grief one year after. We never received any help from a refugee committee, only from Jewish charities. In our childhood we were often hungry and cold, twelve people living in a 2 room flat with no bathroom. And we came from the "benign" Tunisia. I can't imagine the plight of Iraqis, Libyans or Syrians. As opposite from Palestinians we were obliged to leave, it was not temporary, we didn't wait for our neighbours to be slaughtered so we could take back our possessions and steal theirs. Another difference with the Palestinian "refugees" instead of becoming terrorists and subversive criminals, we studied. We became doctors, lawyers, engineers and high ranking civil servants. I can't understand how the world can choose the side of these savages in the conflict. They never did any good to the rest of humanity, they only brought war, terrorism, subversion and destruction. We, on the other hand behaved like good citizen wherever we wandered.

[@JM-nb9ci]

@@Iditsl T'as tout dit!

[@abdulazizalazzawi8480]

iraqi treasury minster in 1920s and 1930s was a jew

[@zaidal-hindawi1784]

His name was Haskiel and was probably the best treasury minister Iraq ever had.

[@sylviasolomon2241]

The same in morroco .

[@1q1q1q981]

wow! just wow

[@donjoe8068]

Yo Corey, great video man such an awesome project that you are doing with these questions, massive credit to you for the idea and taking such action. I have also heard similar stories from my grandparents who fled Iraq in the 1950's. Does anyone know what efforts were ever made to help the Jews living in Arab states during this time? I cannot understand why there is such solidarity and support for Palestinians yet undoubtedly there was nowhere near as much support (if any) for the Jews persecuted at the hands of the Arabs as this lady accurately describes. Is it sheer anti-semitism? Or perhaps it is the fact that todays modern media has more platforms to reach audience today mixed with political agenda?

[@oremfrien]

+Don Joe _Does anyone know what efforts were ever made to help the Jews living in Arab states during this time?_ First, you have to realize that Israel was extraordinarily weak, having barely won the Independence War. However, there were, as far as I understand, portions of the Israeli government that were actively trying to airlift people out of the Arab Countries, provided they could get to a neutral country, like Iran or Turkey. Jewish groups in both the US and Israel put pressure on the Iraqi Regime to lift their ban on Jewish emigration (which was active from 1946-1950), which led to the mass exodus of 80% of Iraqi Jewry from 1950-1952. Within Israel, huge refugee camps, call Ma'aborot were set up while Israel collected the funds to start housing the Jewish refugees. The Ma'aborot were operational from 1950-1957. _I cannot understand why there is such solidarity and support for Palestinians yet undoubtedly there was nowhere near as much support (if any) for the Jews persecuted at the hands of the Arabs as this lady accurately describes._ Support from who? The international community cared about the Arab Refugees since the Arab States in the United Nations kept going on about them and lying while discrimination against their Jewish population continued. The lying still goes on. Turkey tried to turn the Synagogue of Edirne into a museum and was defeated by public opinion, so Turks use this as "demonstrating that they are opening a new synagogue". Jews in Iran have one Ayatollah-certified representative in the Majles so Iran can deny that Jews are state prisoners. It's sick, but most countries do not want to seriously investigate Muslim treatment of minorities. _Is it sheer anti-semitism? Or perhaps it is the fact that todays modern media has more platforms to reach audience today mixed with political agenda?_ It is, in my view the rise of Postnationalism and Postmodernism, which value victimhood over resilience. Since the Jews are resilient and take care of their own, they are not worth pandering to, while perpetual victims, like the Palestinians under UNRWA, need to be coddled. This derives from the Edward Said and Noam Chomsky vision of the world in which only the West has the ability to influence people and the method of that influenced has been an oppressor-oppressed relationship. The oppressor is, de facto, morally culpable because they have power and the oppressed is necessarily morally non-culpable since their will is simply at the hands of the oppressor. No matter how horrible the actions of a Non-Western group are, it MUST be that those actions are a result of a Western action. (This is why Chomsky denies the Armenian, Cambodian, and Rwandan Genocides -- these would go against his worldview that "oppressed" Non-Westerners are incapable of having motivations that do not derive directly from Western oppression.) This view of the world is promulgated throughout Left-Wing circles and has become part of their belief system. Said's contribution, that Islam was the religion of the Non-Western people and, therefore, similarly morally non-culpable has been the most pernicious aspect of this belief as regards criticism of Islam and the actions of Muslims.

[@mesr9446]

Don Joe At the time of the creation of the Israeli state, a British backed monarch was ruling Iraq. Nouri said was an obedient puppet and took orders from the Brits. It is no wonder that he would kick the Jews out Bc the British were the ones who struck a deal with the Zionists and promised them land in 1917. So in order to build the Israeli state they had to force out the Jews from Iraq and threaten them if they don't leave. Nouri said was hated by the majority of Iraqis and that's why the 1958 revolution happened. Before all of this though my parents told me that thousands of Jews coexisted with the muslims and the Christians. Iraq had been a land of many religions and people had religious tolerance. Sadly, things have changed for the worst in Iraq.

[@الدكتورالشيخابادجانهالأنصاريال]

hi jewsh of iraq 🙌🙋🌹

[@fabre97150]

what i retains and which summarized the situation between jews and arabs is this quotation "the are people who can be so good to you, so friendly bu if they mad that's it"

[@laimfthmoment3603]

I’m from Iraq and a Muslim but I want some real Iraqi jews to come back to Iraq

[@moonori4595]

YES I AGREE! I am from Hillah

[@shaboki802]

our father in iraq dreamed to come back to israel for years, now when we are here why would we go back

[@hani1163]

@@shaboki802 I understand how you feel I'm Iraqi Muslim and me and my family wish to stay here in Britain forever. But not because we hate Iraq or our inherence it's just to dangerous there right now for everyone the government is ruining everything. However, I do hope peace comes to Iraq where all Iraqis can live there together again without fear and danger and just peace 🇮🇶

[@mizrahiwithattitude2733]

u hear the story and u really think any jew with a working brain would step a foot in iraq

[@vonesuatra438]

Wow. Much respect to her.

[@user-zg3nb1mk5b26]

מה שהאשה הזו מעידה לגבי האכזריות של המוסלמים , כך סיפר אברהם סיני (מוסלמי שהתגייר) שהיה בשורות החיזבאללה , אותם תיאורים לנערות צעירות . תת חיות זה תיאור קטן בשבילם .

[@Allah-does-not-exist]

אין יהוה

[@silverscrew]

Poverty and, consequently, lack of education is the biggest evil in the world.

[@ef2718]

and malevolence oriented education

[@llaease]

why ask about 1948? ask prior to this date, Balfour Declaration (dated 2 November 1917) .

[@amixofeverything]

***** There is a really good book on Muslim treatment of non-Muslims by Bat Ye'or titled Islam & Dhimmitude. She also mentions that in Yemen, I don't remember the exact decade, but Jews were forced to scrub the sidewalks of Sana'a for Muslims on Shabbat.

[@Edivars]

some muslims and arabs always try to justify their hate against the other. if isn't the Nakba, is the Balfour Declaration. I wonder if those Iraqis who massacred Jews in the 20'-30'-40 ' knew about Zionism and Lord Balfour

[@tylerburns6894]

Realyisraeli Arabs AND Muslims? That statement just discredited any point you could possibly make.

[@kassidymiller3223]

How old do you think she is? 🤣

[@deemcghee-piepie3089]

People are just EVIL!!

[@ntm3970]

i am so sorry :(((((( this is awful!!!!! im iraqi and i wish this never happened! iraq would have been a more beautiful and diverse place had the jewish iraqis stayed. so sorry

[@nazrieabdurrahman8747]

every where.... every nation got this issues....iraq is controlled by secular regime..... but like i said....everynation got its own problem....

[@tvmystery261]

nice info

[@pf7307]

Great video

[@hausofdownboots]

Incredible, dont let history be erased!!

[@AbdulHameed-rx8ok]

It is very sad... fascism in Arab land....oppressing a community is against Qurhan...In Qurhan ALLAH told: I respect ADAM'S CHILDREN so you should respect each other...

[@thebabymomo2709]

Iraqi Muslim here. Growing up my parents and grandparents always taught us that there was no difference between the religions and we were all one. In fact, my father who is now 70, his best friend from birth is Iraqi Jewish. It is important to say that although there are bad arabs, there are also good arabs and this is just like any other place in the world. After all, Iraq is the cradle of civilisation and the true Iraqis would never treat Jews like this. Politics and corruption is what ruined us. It’s not just the Jews that fled, Muslim and christian Iraqis fled too. Anyone who was a good person fled as they would have been targeted. It’s also important to say that there is a big difference between Judaism which is respected and welcomed and Zionism which is not.

[@cecil123]

Except they weren't attacked for being Zionists, but for being Jews. Only now do Muslims claim they only hate the Zionist Jews. Back then they hated all Jews. Save the deflection for some other idiots.

[@y.l7455]

You are so funny. Zionism is the idea that Jews have the right for their own country in their homeland. Zionism was a big part of Judaism all the 2,000 years of our diaspora but for now Zionism is irrelevant since it has already achived it's goal. But still we, the Jews, always pray for Jerusalem and always remembered and will remember that Israel is our homeland.

[@aborami4743]

Oh my God . So sad for her

[@abbygirl1993]

omg...such horror.

[@mosaka1471]

Iraqi jews r one of the indigenous iraqis there should be a plan to bring them back home, this is a must. It was a colonizers, and foreigners decision to start the whole thing of sending them out. Unfortunately Iraqis r emotional and everything she said is true.

[@easybehave]

Nothing was a new storie. War is cruel, go ask some russian, french and chesk what happen in WW I and WW II. Not only jew, every nation suffer during war.

[@mikeletterst9882]

I was born in Baghdad Iraq and I do not recall experiencing any of the things she mentioned. We lived amongst Muslims and there was no such thing as discrimination until the farhoud incident. I am not denying that there were cases of mistreatment and violence influenced by certain political ideologies. However, to generalize and make assumptions about Iraqi Arabs is absolutely disgusting and ethnocentric. My family and I stayed in Iraq till the early 70s and we would've continued to live there if it wasn't because of the restrictions and limitations placed by the Ba'ath party. We lived with Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians and we never felt out of place. It is unfortunate to see certain people make ridiclous comments about millions of people and assume preposterous things about them because of the action of certain corrupt politicians who are deeply influenced by certain countries. Anyways, I kindly ask you to speak to more Iraqi Jews and get a better perspective about the truth. Our world doesn't need more hatred and poisonous ideaologies that will contribute to more pain and suffering.

[@user-rawi]

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[@mesr9446]

Mike Letterst Love from an Iraqi Muslim ! I'm also from Baghdad. The history of Jewish Iraqis have always interested me and my father has told me many stories about the past. He says that many Jews were merchants and some were one of the wealthiest in Iraq. My grandfather worked with a Jewish merchant in Shorja Baghdad and praised the Jewish man's sincerity in work. We still own a closet that a Jewish carpenter built in my grandfathers house! The once Jewish presence and influence in Iraq can be felt by many Iraqis today. Iraq's political history saddens me and I'm not proud of Iraqis silence even though I know the Baathist part ruled by fear and placed spies everywhere. But I still feel like our people should have done more should have resisted the tyrannical regimes and overthrew them before America would in 2003. From an Iraqi to an Iraqi, I'm sorry for what happened.

[@darkthought784]

jews of iraq still in kuwait with arabic name ;)

[@darkthought784]

@Mizrahi With Attitude that's what u think ' cohen write to kuwaiti women in twitter "shut up u jews" !

[@AlphaOmega888]

Oh my God.. a REAL SEMITE for once.. WOW! I thought they were extinct. Real Semites still live - Syria, Lebanon and some Egypt and Israel.

[@snakey934Snakeybakey]

tripleincome33 LOL!

[@tylerburns6894]

tripleincome33 No, the Zionists are the ant Semites. Jews are Semitic.

[@derekaitken]

Semite refers to language not race.

[@francisorih396]

i heard stories about jews from iraq being forced to leave Iraq in order to populate Palestine with jews. same with jews from other countries. anyone has more info about that?

[@marksimons8861]

I had heard that the Jews of Iraq, and especially Baghdad, spoke a different version of Arabic from their neighbours. On the whole, I have found Iraqi Jews to be very successful and brainy. That probably accounts for why they are considered by many to be European Khazars despite their long presence in Mesopotamia.

[@jeanluchageboutros581]

Iraqis also murdered their christian population, lol. Every government should hold special treatment laws for its minorities. Lebanon's laws and demographics are made to protect its religious diversity, I don't understand why other countries don't have that

[@noammkw3770]

and look at lebnon... in the civil war they used to stop people at checkpoints and if they were jewish, christian, druze they would get executed on the spot

[@jeanluchageboutros581]

@@noammkw3770 well that was true but the civil war assumed equal power. A lot of checkpoints murdered muslims on the spot too. My parents are christian and they tell me about the time they could pass a checkpoint but when they looked on their right, the driver was blown in the head

[@MilIMeta]

0:47 She is (probably) talking about Mottis father!

[@tyronef1798]

Incredible

[@MarkTwain-zp1fq]

What a great oomah! God shall punish them for all this

[@BerlinerOmar]

@anas suhail ;; this is her side of the Story ,, there are other Videos in this Channel of other iraqi jews who tell Different Story a positive one ...

[@18roselover]

Wow moses bullshit gud news .Now you can pull out your grandfathers NAZI uniform I/m sure it still fits you perfectly.

[@roeypolin5174]

?

[@puttytat007]

I find it odd she helps a girl and her family when she was very young planning it for a full year and she didn't even know the girls name. Everything she said is in doubt, at least for me it is. There are so many lies here. :(

[@tamarac.1735]

+puttytat007 No comment, I'm really sorry for you.

[@puttytat007]

Tamara Cantara I feel sorry for you.

[@alanaronald244]

Damremont18 Not so much blind, but absolutely in denial. Well said.

[@tylerburns6894]

Damremont18 Theres nothing going on in Algeria today besides a few protests.

[@JoseAntonio-tt2mb]

Ela fala com sotaque de árabe .

[@barashibarashillc7060]

מענייו

[@allawishodaa2206]

No No No No

[@umarm6044]

bit stupid to say 66 when war happened lol obviously gunna be conflict

[@sofim3071]

only a woman!!! you are not serious baby

[@husseinal715]

Im arab myself and I can say that muslims can be barbaric but not on that degree. a man killed his brother for stealing an orange? Really? Nuri said died in 1958 and she says that she was born in 1966. Iraqi jews before 1948 lived in Iraq just like other people from different religions, christians, yezidi, cahak, manaden..

[@kassidymiller3223]

She said she came to Israel in 1966, by whcih time she was already old enough to have studied at the university. The Farhud happened in 1941, long before the state of Israel was established, and Muslim Iraqis also massacred the Assyrian minority in 1933. Did you honestly just use the Yezidis as an argument for Iraqi tolerance?

[@xelio9050]

Son of Mountain I would like to remind you that Kurdistan is in Iraq thus Kurds are Iraqis thus you are insulting yourself and your relatives you racist lowlife.

[@moonori4595]

@@xelio9050 Kurds are just whiter Iraqis but are afraid to admit it.

[@moonori4595]

@Mizrahi With Attitude They pretty much are light skinned, not blonde hair or anything but they usually are white skinned

[@moonori4595]

@Mizrahi With Attitude Yeah that's true too mostly Syrians and Lebanese

[@jimgreen6363]

are the arab bad?

[@tylerburns6894]

Jim Green Not all of them of course not

[@xelio9050]

Jim Green Im from Iraq you can be my friend, you can ask the people I met in video games over the times and became friends with how I behave and you can judge by spending time with me lol, never generalize a people I love how your question is so innocent but you made the very very wise decision of asking and being patient and not believing everything before going on a rant and talking bad about all arabs.

[@اسدالرافدين-ك9ي]

The Iraqis love the Jews and the Jews and the muslims were his brother because with the establishment of Israel and its occupation of Arab land the relationship has endad and we love the Jews of Iraq because they are the sons of my country but they must leave Israel because iraq will liberate Palestine as our ancestors Babylonians Assyrians and sumerians

[@dogbert52]

1941 massacre = 7 years before the founding of israel. Learn history.

[@abdullahwesam4286]

@@dogbert52 it was all about politics, the Iraqi minister was supported from hitler, because of that he was showing jews to iraqi as a people who have to die cause they do evil things, he was bombing in baghdad saying jews did that and jews did that and because of that there was a hatred growing up against jew leading to 1941 farhood As iraqi i deny what happened before not only me ask any one from iraq about this tragedy! We hope one day we’ll live in peace with our brothers from all religions and nationalities

[@y.l7455]

​@@abdullahwesam4286 - Go back to Iraq! - You massacred us there. - It was politics... Nice logic.

[@iwantyou9944]

big liar

[@iwantyou9944]

you angry now hahaha

[@snakey934Snakeybakey]

my family is from Iran. my grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles have stories similar to this.

[@iwantyou9944]

go to hell you and iran

[@snakey934Snakeybakey]

zarqawe how rude, LOL!

[@dachsenmachsen4498]

+Beni Habibi aha

[@stroke_of_luck]

She is a great storyteller. I don't believe it, but it was a great story

[@poseidonz195]

+Steven Demonnin its true im from iraq and i my dad tell the same story

[@poseidonz195]

+Steven Demonnin and im muslim

[@tylerburns6894]

Poseidon Z I wanted to find a Muslim to ask this question... You believe everything she said was true? or some of it?

[@xelio9050]

Tyler Burns I wish I knew the answer lol im a muslim from Iraq but I gotta ask my grandpa about this to verify.

[@derekaitken]

Why do you think she is lying?

[@jimgreen6363]

why no 1 love the jews why?

[@thegreenlantern9709]

This women is laying, you can notice that from the contradiction in her speech, I am Iraqi and I had a grandfather who was born in 1920 and died in 2016, he was a well known judge for a period of time and a political activist, he was conscious about every thing happening in the country at his time, he told me stories about the time when the rule in Iraq was by the Royal family in the 20's till it became Republican and till Sadam came the Jews lived harmoniously and peacefully with the Muslim, they had all their rights, and he told me that they were known to be wealthy and respected merchants(the majority of them) he told me they were good friends with the Muslims and evIbiderybody who really read about the history of Jews in Iraq will tell you the same .

[@kassidymiller3223]

How many Jews are the in Iraq today then? If their lives were so "harmonious" why did most of them flee in 1950?

[@Exocrotic-yn2ck]

​@@kassidymiller32231.mousl jew lived harmoniously with arabs. 2. 50s was the revolution everything was messed up everyone was getting killed brutally 3. Israel is responsible for 90% of the attacks to terrify they and make them join Israel 4.the wars with Israel severed the ties between both

[@derekaitken]

Your grandfather is a liar.

[@Khaled91]

I want to believe you woman, but please don't lie to us. You would've become a millionaire if half those stories were true.