The Ethnic Cleansing of Jews in the Middle East and North Africa

The Decline of Jewish Communities

• 📉 Jewish communities across North Africa and the Middle East have experienced a dramatic decline, nearing extinction outside of Israel.
• 💡 Historically, Jews faced discrimination but had opportunities; however, the rise of Nazism and the establishment of Israel led to significant upheaval.
• 🌍 Arab nationalism, Nazi propaganda, and anti-semitism fueled state-sanctioned repression and violence, leading to mass displacement and subjugation.

Devastation of Communities

• 🏘️ Jewish communities, some existing for millennia, faced total legal and physical assault, resulting in looted homes, desecrated synagogues, and plundered assets.
• 🇩🇿 In Algeria, the Jewish population dropped from 150,000 to fewer than 100.
• 🇪🇬 Egypt's Jewish community, once 80,000 strong, now has fewer than 10 Jews, with the government continuing to promote or tolerate anti-semitism.
• 📚 Egyptian state-run media and textbooks perpetuate anti-semitic tropes, misrepresent the Holocaust, and stereotype Jews.

Persecution in Yemen

• 🇾🇪 The Houthi militia in Yemen, an Iranian proxy, is targeting the remaining Jewish population.
• ⚠️ The Houthi movement is designated as an entity of particular concern for severe religious freedom violations.
• 👤 Yemen's Jewish community, once 55,000, now has only one Jew remaining, Levi Marhabi, who has been imprisoned since 2016 for attempting to take a Torah scroll to Israel.
• 💔 Levi Marhabi has reportedly faced mistreatment, including withheld food, beatings, solitary confinement, and electrical shocks, due to his Jewish faith.
• 🗣️ The Houthi slogan explicitly includes "curses upon the Jews."