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The 1967 Six-Day War led to further persecution against Jews in the Arab world, prompting an increase in the Jewish exodus that began after Israel was established. [211] [212] [better source needed] Over the following years, Jewish population in Arab countries decreased from 856,000 in 1948 to 25,870 in 2009 as a result of emigration, mostly to ...
A year later, he confiscates all Jewish property and expels the Jews from Paris. 1181 The Assize of Arms of 1181 orders that all weapons held by Jews must be confiscated, claiming they have no use for them. This led to the Jewish community of England being a lot more vulnerable during anti-Jewish riots. 1182
He said, “For centuries, Jews have been persecuted, brutalized by antisemitism and violently thrown out of country after country.” He went on to list some of the nations that had “violently ...
Libyan Jews, who numbered approximately 7,000, were subjected to pogroms in which 18 were killed, prompting a mass exodus that left fewer than 100 Jews in Libya. 1968 Thousands of Jews were forced to leave communist Poland because of "anti-Zionist" campaigns during the 1968 Polish political crisis. 1970 Less than 1,000 Jews still lived in Egypt ...
On November 20, 1938, two weeks after Kristallnacht, when thousands of Jews across Germany were attacked, and Jewish businesses, homes and synagogues burned, Coughlin blamed the Jewish victims, saying that "Jewish persecution only followed after Christians first were persecuted."
The upshot is that some 2,000 European Jews converted to Christianity every year during the 19th century, but that in the 1890s the number was running closer to 3,000 per year — 1,000 in Austria-Hungary, 1,000 in Russia, 500 in Germany, and the remainder in the Anglo-Saxon world. Partly balancing this were about 500 converts to Judaism each ...
Persecution of Jews in Europe begins with the presence of Jews in regions that later became known as the lands of Latin Christendom (c. 8th century CE) [24] [25] and modern Europe. [26] Not only were Jewish Christians persecuted according to the New Testament, but also as a matter of historical fact.
As an American Israeli, I want to try to explain why, in the wake of Hamas’ barbaric attack on Israel on Oct. 7, so many Jewish people are posting a chain of horrors on social media, a flood of ...