Why Jewish Refugee Day matters

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Did you know 2014 has been proclaimed the Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People? Eyes glaze at yet another demonstration of ingrained UN bias. The UN has passed more than 100 resolutions in support of Palestinian refugees. Not one resolution mentions a greater number of Jewish refugees who fled Arab countries at around the same time.

That’s one good reason why my organisation, Harif, will be marking Jewish Refugee Day, in solidarity with 870,000 refugees driven out of Arab countries.

A bill designating a special Day in the calendar has just passed its first reading in Israel’s Knesset. The Knesset is wavering over the date — will it be February 17, the date in 1948 when the Arab League drafted restrictions on the “Jewish minority of Palestine” — the lives, property and legal status of their Jewish citizens? Or will it be November 30, the date in 1947 when riots began to break out against Jews in Aden, Syria and Bahrain in protest at the UN Partition Plan?

Harif is plumping for February 17. Israel’s celebrity storyteller Yossi Alfi, the voice of a government campaign to document stories and claims from Mizrachi Jews, will be the star at our commemoration of Jewish Refugee Day.

http://www.thejc.com/comment-and-debate/comment/115590/why-jewish-refugee-day-matters

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1. New York Times May, 1948

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[R. Daneel Olivaw]

2. "The UN has passed more than 100 resolutions in support of Palestinian refugees."

How many of those resolutions has Israel ignored...seeing how the Nakba took place in what became Israel?

Don't get me wrong. Nobody should be forced out of the place that they call their home.

Nobody.