Lyn Julius
Lyn Julius is the founder of Harif, the UK Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa, and the author of “Uprooted: How 3,000 years of Jewish Civilisation in the Arab world vanished overnight” (Vallentine Mitchell).
Beware distinguished professors rewriting history
What are the reasons why 140,000 Jews living in the storied 2,600-year-old Babylonian community—the oldest Jewish diaspora—have dwindled to just three people? The vast majority of the community left between 1950 and 1951 after...
Are Jewish and Arab refugees created equal?
Following revelations that the U.N.’s Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA colluded with Hamas in Gaza, 12 countries have withdrawn or paused their funding to the agency at time of writing, with more likely to come....
The distorted ‘nakba’ narrative
Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli is an angry man. Chikli, who has a history of being outspoken, has lately turned his sights on the German government. He has complained about inappropriate comparisons between the...
Who says Morocco never persecuted its Jews?
The news that Israel and Morocco are about to “normalize” their relations has been met with jubilation in Israel—and in the Moroccan diaspora. The first direct flight has taken off for Rabat from Tel...
The Palestinian ‘right of return’ is a political weapon
The War of Return has just hit the bookstalls. Its authors, ex-Knesset member Einat Wilf and journalist Adi Schwartz, are blitzing Zoom with presentations of the main arguments in the book, which is now available...
Muslims and Jews: The ‘original grudge’ theory
In 2013, Princeton University Press published “A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day,” the first encyclopaedia on the history of relations between Jews and Muslims from the birth of...
Restoring synagogues means never having to say you’re sorry
To much fanfare last week, the largest synagogue in the Middle East was reopened in Alexandria, Egypt. Some 300 guests, including Egyptian Antiquities and Tourism Minister Khaled al-Anany, were on hand for the festive occasion.
The event...
A double whammy for the Jews of France
The sun may have been shining, but these are dark days for the Jews of France.
They have sustained a double whammy.
The first is that the murderer of Sarah Halimi, who shouted “Allah Hu Akbar”...
Well-meaning American Jews are helping import anti-Semitism
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has finally woken up and smelled the coffee.
Speaking after a 19-year-old Syrian refugee lunged with a belt at an Israeli wearing a kipah, Merkel denounced a “different type of anti-Semitism” that...
Arabs are torch-bearers for Nazi anti-Semitism
Truth be told, the virus of Nazi anti-Semitism was exported to the Arab and Muslim world as early as the 1930s. It gave ideological inspiration to Arab nationalist parties like the Ba’athists in Syria...