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Oct 9, 2024, 9:41 PM

Why is the West obsessed with peace?

For months, western politicians and media have been obsessing about ‘a political solution” to the war in the Middle East. ‘We will not falter in our pursuit to peace,’ declared the UK Labour government’s statement on the first anniversary of the 7 October massacre. The...

Sep 17, 2024, 12:53 PM

What’s missing in Holocaust education? Hamas

Giving a passionate speech at the Holocaust Education Trust dinner in London recently, the British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer proclaimed that studying the Holocaust will become a critical, vital part of every single student’s identity. Not only will the Holocaust remain on the national...

Jul 5, 2024, 3:30 PM

Tell Labour about ethnically cleansed Mideast Jews

The results of the British Jewish election are in: a landslide victory for the Labour party. Will it be good for the Jews? The Jewish vote will have reflected the national trend of a swing to Labour, but many Jews remain seriously concerned over resurgent...

Apr 11, 2024, 10:41 PM

The real reason why Persian Jews became musicians

Why did the father of Danielle and Galeet Dardashti leave Iran? The mystery is unravelled in their six-episode JTA podcast, The Nightingale of Iran . The podcast tells the story of Iranian Jews through the experience of the Jewish Dardashti family, originally from the ghetto or mahaleh of Isfahan. They now...

Mar 11, 2024, 7:06 PM

Hollywood Jews are like turkeys for Christmas

The world has grown accustomed to the tiresome spectacle of Hollywood’s liberal luvvies using the Oscars as a platform to make political speeches – and Jonathan Glazer was unfortunately no exception. Glazer is the director of ‘ The Zone of Interest’, a German-language film about...

Nov 14, 2023, 10:01 PM

Jews from Arab countries have seen it all before

Families butchered like sheep. Bodies buried in the debris of homes in which pogromists had locked the families before setting them on fire. Jewish girls raped. Their breasts cut off. Most bodies, including those of young children, mutilated and their throats slit. No – this...

Sep 29, 2023, 6:28 PM

How a Jew shot to posthumous fame in Tunisia

He lived in an obscure suburb of the French town of Besançon, spending his meager busker’s earnings on food for his pet cats and dogs. Since he died in 2013, no one has combed through the shambles he left behind – thousands of cassette tapes,...

Jul 1, 2023, 1:01 AM

How a disabled Persian Jew finally found her feet

It’s hard enough being a woman in the Middle East, but what if you are also disabled? Now in her 80s and living in California, Minou Soumekh Michlin has recently published her memoir, ‘I kept walking’. She grew up in Tehran, the daughter of a...

May 30, 2023, 6:29 AM

June 1941: Bloodbath on the buses in Baghdad

The Farhud, Baghdad 1941. (Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi Archive)

For the first time, after a month of being locked up in his Baghdad home, 13-year-old Yitzhak Nathan decided to venture out. May 1941 had been an anxious period for the Jews: pro-Nazi Iraqi officers, backed by the Palestinian grand mufti of Jerusalem, had seized...

Mar 22, 2023, 4:14 PM

For the BBC, Jewish refugees remain forgotten

The BBC ‘s recent two-part documentary titled The Holy Land and us was commissioned to mark the 75th anniversary of Israel’s birth. Not unexpectedly given the BBC’s ‘pro-Palestinian’ reputation, the series did not focus on the miracle of Israel’s birth, its tremendous achievements in the...

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About Me

Lyn Julius is a journalist and co-founder of Harif, an association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa in the UK. She is the author of 'Uprooted: How 3,000 years of Jewish Civilisation in the Arab world vanished overnight.' (Vallentine Mitchell)