Remembering the Jewish refuges

On 30 November, the new date to mark the Annual Commemoration of the Exodus of Jewish Refugees from Arab countries and Iran, over 100 people came to the Jewish Museum in London. The event was organised by the Board of Deputies and Harif, the UK Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa.

It is important to remember this event, both from a family perspective and because we are constantly bombarded with the messages about Palestinian refugees. This is just one side of the story: almost 1,000,000 Jews were forced from Arab and Islamic  lands with an estimated $4.4 billion of wealth confiscated and over 100,000 square kilometres of Jewish owned land seizes by the governments of these countries (roughly 5 times the size of Israel), the refugees allowed only one suitcase each when leaving. And all of this happened after the world was realing from the events of the holocaust.

Note: I wanted to put up a brief clip about this, but you tube doesn't seem to want me to find it, so I've put it in the comments section below.