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Since Zionists love to bring it up, what should we make of the fact that a lot of Muslim-majority countries became more hostile towards their Jewish minority populations after 1948? (hexbear.net)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_world

In 1948 and the years following, many countries in MENA became significantly more hostile to their Jewish minority populations. Most of the time this occurred in the form of pogroms and riots in Jewish neighborhoods, rather than official government action, although there were some instances of that too. As far as I can tell the worst cases of this were in Morocco, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq.

Between 1948 and 1978, about 650,000 Jews moved from Muslim-majority countries to Israel, and although not all of them were driven out by antisemitic violence, certainly some of them were. The debate over the relative importance of "pull factors" vs "push factors" is ongoing.

Zionists like to bring this up as a gotcha and ask things like "why doesn't the pro-Palestine side ever talk about giving Jews who were pushed out of Morocco a right to return there? Expulsion didn't just happen to Palestinians"

As far as I can tell we haven't really come up with a good answer to this, so maybe we should formulate one.

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

It was an awful and criminal action to expel Jewish people from the Arab states and kingdoms bc of the actions of Zionists.

It's part of the long, complicated, sordid history of Zionism. I get the impression that Zionists don't bring it up much because it also leads to an investigation of the horrible treatment of Middle Eastern and North African Jews by the Ashkenazi Zionist power structure.

All that said; It's completely irrelevant to Zionism and the genocidal occupation of Palestine. The actions of foreign states do not bear on the action of the Zionist state and it's violence against Palestinians. "They did it first!" is not a justification for genocide, and saying "We did a genocide because they did it first" speaks to the depravity of the person making the argument.