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Lyn Julius

Lyn Julius is a journalist and co-founder of Harif, an association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa in the UK
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May 14, 2013
7:19 pm

This Shavuot pogrom haunts us still

Salim Fattal was just eleven when the two-day Baghdad pogrom known as the Farhud erupted on Shavuot 72 years ago, yet its memory is engraved deep in his soul.......

April 28, 2013
1:33 pm

If Gideon Levy wills it, it is a nightmare

Gideon Levy may be the most hated man in Israel, or the most heroic, but the controversial Haaretz columnist has a dream. Recently, he expressed his enthusiasm......

April 18, 2013
1:19 am

Goodbye Carmen, hello Magda

The king is dead, long live the king. Or in the case of Cairo's Jewish community - the queen is dead, long live the queen. Carmen Weinstein, 82 (or according......

April 4, 2013
12:05 am

Breaking the ‘Jew taboo’

In the week that Jews all over the world sat down to mark their biblical exodus from Egypt, an Egyptian director was struggling for the right to show a......

February 26, 2013
1:19 pm

In the Apartheid Oscars, Arab states win hands down

Roll up, roll up for Israel Apartheid Week – a global, multimedia extravaganza devoted to cementing the comparison between the new international pariah, Israel, and the old racist regime in......

February 2, 2013
1:18 am

The myth of Palestinian innocence

My organisation, Harif, aims to tell the story of 2,500 years of Jewish history and culture in what is known as the Arab world. It’s a story with......

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January 20, 2013
9:45 pm

Ideological Jew-hatred: the great cover-up

Readers of the New York Times awoke last week to hard evidence that President Morsi of Egypt was an antisemite. (So did readers of the Times of London, Deutsche......

December 19, 2012
11:55 pm

How Algeria lost its Jews

A forest of velvet bags hangs from the ceiling as you enter the special exhibition on the Jews of Algeria currently at the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaisme......

November 26, 2012
9:47 am

Hamas’ anti-Jewish war began in 1930s Egypt

Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire, but no one is under any illusions. The latest round in the Gaza-Israeli war will end in another extended lull, and......

October 29, 2012
6:32 pm

How the Left was hoodwinked about Israel

There was a time when the Left could simultaneously support Israel and the fight for Algerian independence. Not any more. So what has changed? Part of the answer lies in......

October 5, 2012
12:53 am

Why it can be ‘cool’ to suppress Mizrahi history

Arriving at Ben Gurion Airport last month, I sat next to a pleasant young American Jew on the sherut bus to Jerusalem. “What are you here for?” the young......

September 20, 2012
2:54 am

The media in disarray over Jewish refugees

Whatever else you might say about Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon’s campaign for recognition of the rights of Jewish refugees from Arab countries, he has certainly put the cat......

September 3, 2012
1:33 am

No cats in America for Hanan Ashrawi

Now we know: there is no such thing as Jewish refugees from Arab countries. You heard it from no less than Hanan Ashrawi, PLO executive member and spokesperson. Here is......

August 17, 2012
6:37 pm

Clueless in Cleveland about Jewish refugees

I must confess that I don't make a habit of reading the Cleveland Jewish News, but a commentary by Cliff Savren caught my eye the other day. Entitled "...

July 13, 2012
8:02 pm

The BBC’s talent for misrepresenting Mizrahim

A BBC website piece on a young Israeli Arab woman who won a popular Israeli TV music talent show back in April almost made me choke on......

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