I samband med att Israel blev självständig 1948 drevs omkring 800.000 judar ut från arabländerna. De måste vanligen lämna allt de ägde bakom sig, fly och starta ett nytt liv. Många flydde till Israel men inte alla.
Flyktingarna fick ingen internationell hjälp och har inte ens erkänts av FN.
Som jämförelse kan nämnas att för de arabiska flyktingarna från Palestinamandatets område bildade FN ett eget flyktingorgan som fungerar ännu idag efter mer än 70 år.
Israels nya FN-ambassadör Gilad Erdan kommer att ta upp frågan i FN.
UN must recognize Jewish refugees from Arab countries – opinion (Gilad Erdan, Jerusalem Post)
"You won't hear their stories in European Union meetings or see their photographs exhibited in the hallways of the United Nations. Their names cannot be found anywhere among the thousands of UN resolutions discussed and passed over the last seven decades. There is no special day dedicated to their communities or to their memory. They are the 850,000 Jewish refugees expelled from Arab countries and from Iran following Israel’s creation.
For international bodies such as the UN, they are forgotten refugees. But for us Israelis, their struggle will go on.
There is no argument over the facts: In a display of anger, after failing to prevent the November 29, 1947, UN Partition Plan and the subsequent creation of the State of Israel, Arab countries waged war not only on the newly established Jewish state but also against the peaceful and thriving Jewish communities that lived among them.
Entire communities from Morocco to Iraq, from Egypt to Syria, Lebanon, Iran and more were effectively wiped out. Along with them thousands of years of Jewish heritage, history and culture was erased, too..."
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