Veysi Dag, at The Blogs

Apr 11, 2022, 2:50 PM

Kurdiyada: How the Kurdish Days Reconnect the Kurdistani Jews with their Roots

On hired buses and private vehicles, hundreds of Jewish-Kurdish individuals and families with their children and friends from Jerusalem and its outskirts set out on their journey toward Eilat in the last week of March 2022. On our bus,...

Dec 13, 2021, 4:24 PM

Plight of Asylum Seekers at Belarus-Poland Borders

For several days, the European and international media have been reporting on the predicament of asylum seekers; straddled along the border between Poland and Belarus. Every day, streams of footage which showcase the plight of the asylum seekers, are...

Sep 21, 2021, 2:09 PM

Anti-Semitism is a synonym for Kurdophobia

The author took the photo in Jerusalem. It is about the way of Kurdish life between Euphrates and Tigris rivers in Kurdistan. It is dedicated to the Jewish communty from Kurdistan and Persia.

When the last groups of Jewish Kurds left Kurdistan for imagined Eretz- Israel in 1951, for their Kurdish neighbours in Zakho it was an unbearable loss. The Jewish Kurds were deeply-rooted and decent neighbours. The non-Jewish Kurds could not...

Sep 6, 2021, 6:54 PM

Diasporic Kurds desire a strategic change in the Kurdish-Israeli relationship

A drum; decorated with the Kurdish and Israeli flags and which is accompanied by the sounds of a shawm, has enticed a diverse crowd in the Machane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. Passers-by join a traditional Kurdish folk-dance. Subsequently, Kurdish...

About Me

The author is a research fellow at the Political Science Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working on the governance structures of the Kurdish diaspora community in Berlin and the structures of the Kurdistani Jews in Jerusalem.