In his March 18, 2018 column in the London-based Saudi Al-Sharq Al-Awsat daily, journalist Hussein Shubakshi wrote about the situation of the Jews who had lived in the Arab countries.
He noted that they suffered discrimination and prejudice, despite the fact that they were “pillars of the economy and of culture and art in their countries.”
For example, they were accused of treachery and their property was seized in order to prompt them to emigrate.
Presenting examples of several prominent Jewish families that left Iraq, Syria and Egypt and went on to prosper elsewhere, Shubakshi points out that this was a loss to the Arab societies and economy.
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