𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒 𝐑𝐄𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐈𝐍 𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟖: 𝐉𝐄𝐖𝐒 𝐁𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐋𝐈𝐌 𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐒 - 𝐁𝐄𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐒𝐑𝐀𝐄𝐋 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐄𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐎𝐍𝐄
Before there was an Israeli occupation. Before 1967. Before Gaza. The New York Times was documenting something the modern progressive narrative has almost entirely erased: the coordinated ethnic cleansing of Jews from Arab and Muslim-majority countries.
This is what a 1948 front page looks like. The Arab League, in 1947, drafted a formal internal document recommending coordinated action against Jewish populations across member states: freezing bank accounts, designating Jews as enemy aliens, interning those deemed Zionists. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐨𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐉𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞.
They succeeded. Iraq had 135,000 Jews in 1948. Today, five remain. Egypt saw bombs k!ll over 70 Jews in Cairo’s Jewish quarter in 1948. Yemen saw 82 Jews m∗rdered in the 1947-48 pogroms. Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Syria - each country that had harbored thriving Jewish communities for centuries systematically emptied them out in a single generation.
The total: 𝟖𝟓𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐭𝐨 𝟏 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐦 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬. Their property - homes, businesses, bank accounts - was seized. The estimated value in today’s dollars: $263 billion. About 70% of those refugees resettled in Israel. They became Israel’s founding population.
The next time someone tells you this conflict started on October 7, or in 1967, or even in 1948 - 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛 𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 - show them the New York Times archive. The paper of record documented the pogroms, the expulsions, and the coordinated Arab campaign to remove Jews from their homelands decades before a single settlement was built.
𝐈𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟕 - 𝐢𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰.
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