@vivify saidThis information is easily available. Why do you ask these elementary questions?
What deliberate actions are being taken to push Jews away? By whom?
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From Claude AI:
Q: After the 1948 War of Independence in Israel, is it true that many other Arab states made an effort to move Jews out of their country? If so what exactly did they do to move Jews out?
A: Yes, this is well documented — after 1948, roughly 850,000 Jews left or were forced out of Arab and other Muslim-majority countries over the following two decades, in what's often called the Jewish exodus from Arab lands. It's worth noting historians debate exactly how coordinated this was — some sources point to explicit Arab League-level planning, while others emphasize it as a wave of similar but separately-enacted national policies driven by shared anti-Zionist sentiment after 1948. Either way, the methods governments used were fairly consistent across countries.
Here's what actually happened, country by country:
Legal and economic measures
• Iraq (1950-51): Iraq passed a law permitting Jews to emigrate only if they renounced their Iraqi citizenship — a one-way door. This coincided with a wave of bombings targeting Jewish institutions in Baghdad in 1950-51 (a controversial episode still debated as to responsibility), which accelerated departures. Iraq's Jewish community, one of the oldest in the world, was reduced from about 150,000 to a handful within a few years.
• Egypt: Citizenship laws restricted nationality in ways that left many Jews (along with Greeks, Italians and other minorities) effectively stateless, since Egyptian nationality law required Arabic as a mother tongue. This became the pretext for mass expulsions, especially of Jews holding French or British passports. After the 1956 Suez Crisis, Gamal Abdel Nasser's government ordered many Jews expelled outright and confiscated their property; Egypt's Jewish population fell from around 40,000 in the late 1940s to about 4,000 by 1957, and only a few hundred by 1970.
• Libya, Algeria, Syria, Yemen: Similar patterns of property confiscation, exclusion from professions and public sector jobs, and revoked or restricted citizenship rights made ordinary life increasingly untenable.
Violence and intimidation
• Pogroms and riots: Violent attacks against Jewish communities broke out in multiple countries around 1945-48 — including the Farhud in Baghdad (1941, technically pre-dating 1948 but setting the pattern), and riots in Egypt, Libya, Syria, and Aden (Yemen) that killed dozens and destroyed synagogues and property.
• Arrests and asset seizures: Jews suspected of "Zionist activity" — often a pretext applied broadly — were arrested, and the Arab League reportedly called on member states in 1946 to seize the property of such suspects to help fund opposition to Zionism.
Direct expulsion orders
Formal, government-ordered expulsion was actually the exception rather than the rule in most countries — most departures resulted from a mix of legal pressure, economic strangulation, and violence rather than a single expulsion decree. The clearest exceptions:
• Egypt under Nasser explicitly ordered the expulsion of Jews holding foreign nationality after 1956.
• Iraq and Yemen are cited as cases where the authorities more directly "chose to get rid of" their Jewish populations through coordinated legal and administrative pressure alongside the citizenship-renunciation mechanism.
• Syria took a different approach for a time — rather than expelling its remaining ~4,000 Jews after 1948, the government effectively held them as a hostage community, restricting emigration until Hafez al-Assad finally permitted their departure in 1992.
Where they went
About two-thirds of the roughly 850,000 who left ended up in Israel, with most of the remainder resettling in France (especially North African Jews) and other Western countries. Israel's government responded by adopting mass-absorption policies aimed at accommodating hundreds of thousands of new immigrants within just a few years, which roughly doubled the country's Jewish population in that period — though this is itself remembered as a difficult and sometimes harsh integration process (many Mizrahi and Sephardi Jewish immigrants were initially housed in transit camps and faced discrimination from the existing Ashkenazi-dominated establishment).
This history is now formally marked in Israel by an annual commemoration day (November 30), established in 2014, and is frequently invoked in debates about the framing of "refugees" on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, since it's often raised as a parallel population displacement to the Palestinian refugee exodus of the same period.
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@Rajk999 saidTheir Philistine ancestors were settled in the Gaza area by Imperial Egypt around 1200 BCE.
Palestinians did not have a homeland in Israel. They lived under the Ottoman Empire. It was an Ottoman Caliphate. Then after WWI it became part of the British Empire. Palestinians lived under the British. Both Arabs and Jews up to 1948 lived under the British. They had no country or homeland.
It wasn't part of Israel.
@Rajk999 said
This information is easily available. Why do you ask these elementary questions?
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From Claude AI:
Q: After the 1948 War of Independence in Israel, is it true that many other Arab states made an effort to move Jews out of their country? If so what exactly did they do to move Jews out?
A: Yes, this is well documented — after 194 ...[text shortened]... nt to the Palestinian refugee exodus of the same period.
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Egypt: Citizenship laws restricted nationality in ways that left many Jews (along with Greeks, Italians and other minorities) effectively stateless, since Egyptian nationality law required Arabic as a mother tongue. This became the pretext for mass expulsions, especially of Jews holding French or British passports. After the 1956 Suez Crisis, Gamal Abdel Nasser's government ordered many Jews expelled outright and confiscated their property; Egypt's Jewish population fell from around 40,000 in the late 1940s to about 4,000 by 1957, and only a few hundred by 1970.
Sounds like Claude AI is critical of governments who punish those who won't assimilate to the country they live in and refuse to use the official language.
Do you agree with this Rajk?
@AThousandYoung saidJews moved into the Land of Canaan aka Palestine at around 1500BC.
Their Philistine ancestors were settled in the Gaza area by Imperial Egypt around 1200 BCE.
It wasn't part of Israel.
@AThousandYoung saidClaude has no bias unless it is fed into it as a loaded question or programmed to suit an specific outcome. I have done nothing like that. I included the question as well.
[quote]Egypt: Citizenship laws restricted nationality in ways that left many Jews (along with Greeks, Italians and other minorities) effectively stateless, since Egyptian nationality law required Arabic as a mother tongue. This became the pretext for mass expulsions, especially of Jews holding French or British passports. After the 1956 Suez Crisis, Gamal Abdel ...[text shortened]... to the country they live in and refuse to use the official language.
Do you agree with this Rajk?
@Rajk999 saidThe most recent instance of Jewish expulsion given in your post is from the 1950's.
This information is easily available. Why do you ask these elementary questions?
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From Claude AI:
Q: After the 1948 War of Independence in Israel, is it true that many other Arab states made an effort to move Jews out of their country? If so what exactly did they do to move Jews out?
A: Yes, this is well documented — after 194 ...[text shortened]... nt to the Palestinian refugee exodus of the same period.
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By your post, this means that Jewish ethnic cleansing has long been over; correct?
@Rajk999 saidI didn't ask you if Claude was biased.
Claude has no bias unless it is fed into it as a loaded question or programmed to suit an specific outcome. I have done nothing like that. I included the question as well.
I quoted Claude and asked if you agreed with the quoted statement which YOU chose to post.
The statement stated that when Egypt expelled Jews it was because the Jews refused to assimilate. This parallels modern refugees refusing to assimilate into the countries they are living.
@AThousandYoung saidCan you respond in a positive manner. It helps along the discussion. Rather than say what it is not, say what, where it is. Thanks.
Gaza is not in Canaan. Palestine is not Canaan.
@AThousandYoung saidWhy must anyone be forced to assimilate into a backward barbaric religion and culture?
The statement stated that when Egypt expelled Jews it was because the Jews refused to assimilate. This parallels modern refugees refusing to assimilate into the countries they are living.
What exactly are modern refugees being forced to do regarding assimilation?
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@Rajk999 saidMuslims and Hispanics are being hunted down and expelled or killed by the government in the USA for refusing to assimilate and speak English and you are cheering them on every step of the way.
Why must anyone be forced to assimilate into a backward barbaric religion and culture?
What exactly are modern refugees being forced to do regarding assimilation?
@AThousandYoung saidLooks like Palestine or Israel.
Notice where the Canaanites lived back then
https://crossriverwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/images-602.jpeg
@AThousandYoung saidYou are equating what Egypt did here :
Muslims and Hispanics are being hunted down and expelled or killed by the government in the USA for refusing to assimilate and speak English and you are cheering them on every step of the way.
Egypt: Citizenship laws restricted nationality in ways that left many Jews (along with Greeks, Italians and other minorities) effectively stateless, since Egyptian nationality law required Arabic as a mother tongue. This became the pretext for mass expulsions, especially of Jews holding French or British passports. After the 1956 Suez Crisis, Gamal Abdel Nasser's government ordered many Jews expelled outright and confiscated their property; Egypt's Jewish population fell from around 40,000 in the late 1940s to about 4,000 by 1957, and only a few hundred by 1970.
with the US or ICE expelling illegal immigrants?