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Celebrating Assad regime’s fall, 1 of 9 Jews remaining in Syria calls on Syrian Jewish emigres to visit

www.ynetnews.com Celebrating Assad regime’s fall, 1 of 9 Jews remaining in Syria calls on Syrian Jewish emigres to visit

Ancient synagogues are still standing in Syria, although many have been severely damaged by airstrikes and looted by rebels; some internal Syrians and ex-pats are cautiously optimistic about Jewish life under the new government

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Credibility of Ynet aside, there was indeed once a thriving Jewish community in Syria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Jews
There was also one in Yemen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemenite_Jews
In that case, most of them were intentionally driven out. There were even pogroms.
- We used to have thousands. But after 1948, we exiled them all. In saudi, we have 0, and if you are Israeli, you are not even allowed to enter the country (used to be if you were jewish, straight up). In Iraq there is 100 or something. Most, if not all people here haven't ever talked to or seen a jew (Including me) but they hate them with a passion, to the point of even praising Hitler. Hopefully one day the antisemitism die out in the arab world, but it won't happen in this lifetime.
  
  In the whole Arab world there were hundreds of thousands if not millions of Jews being just regular people living their lives whereas in Europe they talked about Jews like they do about Muslims today up until they did the fucking Holocaust.
  It was never about Jews and still isn’t. It’s about colonizers stealing our land, putting us under apartheid and genociding us.
  
  Yeah, but i still think it's sad how there's a huge divide between us. I largely blame zionism, but i've heard some disgusting opinions from some arabs not about zionism itself, but about jews. Yet they hypocritically complain about us being discriminated, saying that not all of us are terrorists. Guess that just doesn't apply to jews.
  Also, عرب أخر على ليمي, كيفك :D
  
  Yeah no one likes you when you create a fascist government with the sole intent of stealing their land and killing their people.
  
  Doesn't justify supporting nazis, exiling their entire race, and discriminating against them. Hell, i'd say the exiles encouraged zionism even more.
  But i agree that Israel is horrible, but the reactions were awful too.
- Would you care to enlighten me regarding the credibility of Ynet? Been coming back to them on & off for many years and they always seem to have well written articles. MBFC also ranks them highly.
  
  It’s an Israeli source and I wanted to stop a credibility discussion before it started.
  
  Ah yes. Worried it might've been something else. Even being at war, Israel does rather well when it comes to press freedom. There are a wide variety of perspectives.
  
  They shut down Al Jazeera entirely and they murder journalists in Gaza & Lebanon systematically, they’ve killed literally hundreds since October 7 and have been doing it before. I don’t know in what world you’d consider that doing press freedom “rather well“
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and_criticism
  Al Jazeera has a long history of islamist propagandism and affiliating with terrorists.
  
  So the usual, got it. Maybe they’re hamas too? Also, no word about assassinating literally hundreds of journalists? Were they also all terrorists?
  
  Maybe they’re hamas too?
  There have been Al-Jazeera journalists who are Hamas members.
  Also, no word about assassinating literally hundreds of journalists?
  Nope. It's rather clear you aren't interested in a good faith discussion on the topic. Don't have the time or energy to put up with that right now.
  Were they also all terrorists?
  There are almost certainly some journalists who have been wrongly killed, as in any war.
- There was a lot of ugly shit happening. Part of it was unfortunately also due to Zionist psy-ops after they realized most Arab Jews didn’t want to leave their home countries.
  All that shit probably wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for the British and French doing their divide and conquer shit so well to drive a wedge between people who were living together more or less peacefully before.
  Unfortunately all the meddling worked really well.
  
  Sorry, are you blaming Jews for pogroms against Jews?

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