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Clash of Cultures
Thursday Apr 05, 2012
Justice for Jewish refugees from Arab and Muslim countries has at long last become official Israeli government policy. It has taken more than sixty years, but here at Harif, the UK Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, we are celebrating this momentous event.
No amount of grassroots campaigning could work without the official support of the Israeli government. And this week, that support came.
On Tuesday...
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Monday Mar 05, 2012
Last night in London I watched the premiere of David Kahtan’s film: Escape from Baghdad - Moshe Kahtan’s story. Moshe was the last Jew to escape Iraq before the outbreak of the Six-Day War. It was then illegal for Jews to leave the country. The film gives a moving account of Moshe’s “two years of hell” in the city of his birth – a catalogue of threats, extortion and harassment - and gives a nail-biting account...
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Sunday Dec 11, 2011
Well-done Danny Ayalon. The Deputy FM used his address in Geneva at the UNHCR as an opportunity to launch his much overdue information video. This explains that entire Jewish communities were forced to flee from Arab countries.
But has it gone far enough? Whilst the video explains in an easy-to-understand format the displacement of 850,000 Jews, and confiscation of properties, etc. What it has failed to address, on the one hand, is the...
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Thursday Dec 01, 2011
At last, the audience of predominately hostile nations at the UN heard Israel’s envoy, Ron Prosor, make a resounding comparison between Jewish and Arab refugees. He boldly confronted the Arab countries about the Jews who were forced to flee their lands but were successfully resettled in Israel, while they refused to absorb their own Palestinian refugees.
Ron stated, “as a result of the war (in 1948), there were Arabs who became...
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Thursday Oct 06, 2011
Alan Franck was one of the bystanders I gave a leaflet to when I was at the Forgotten Refugees Rally in Trafalgar Square in London last week, organised by Harif and the British Israel Coalition. Timed to coincide with the UN Durban lll travesty, the rally’s purpose was to bring attention to real racism - the ethnic cleansing and intolerance of non-Arabs and non-Muslims in Arab countries - Jews, Berbers, Kurds, Copts, Baha’is,...
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About This Blog
Michelle Huberman is the Creative Director of Harif, an Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, always keeping an eye on these...
Michelle Huberman is the Creative Director of Harif, an Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, always keeping an eye on these regions, whether political or cultural. Michelle currently lives in London.
