Manama pogrom

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The 1947 Manama Pogrom was an anti-Semitically motivated violent pogrom by large Muslim sections of the population in Bahrain against the Jewish residents of the city of Manama .

In the wake of the civil war in Palestine from 1947 to 1948 , on December 5, 1947, part of the Muslim majority in the capital Manama initiated a bloody pogrom against the city's Jewish community. A mob ransacked Jewish homes and businesses and destroyed the Manamas synagogue. However, one could only find one Jewish woman, it was an elderly lady. She was murdered by the masses.

background

Bahrain's small Jewish community, mostly Jewish descendants of immigrants, came to the country from Iraq in the early 1900s . In 1948 there were only 600 Jews left in Bahrain.

Course of the pogrom

As a reaction to the partition plan of the United Nations of November 29, 1947, demonstrations against the Jews were called in the Islamic world for December 2-5. The first two days of the demonstrations in Bahrain included the throwing of stones at Jews, but on December 5, Muslim mobs robbed Jewish houses, apartments and shops in the capital Manama . The only synagogue in Bahrain was also destroyed. Any Jew found should be beaten. The only Jewish person found was an elderly lady who was promptly murdered by the masses.

Evictions

Over the next two decades, most of the Bahraini Jews were driven out of the country and had to flee to other countries, particularly England ; by 2006 only 36 Jews remained in the country.

Responsibility of the Bahraini state

Houda Nonoo , Bahraini Bahraini Ambassador to the United States of Jewish descent , told The Independent : “I don't think it is the Bahraines who were responsible. They were people from abroad. Many Bahraini took care of Jews in their homes. ”This view is supported by Sir Charles Belgrave , the former political advisor to the government of Bahrain - who was claimed at the time on the contractual relations with Bahrain. In a memoir, he recalls: “The leading Arabs were very shocked ... most of them, if possible, gave shelter and protection to their Jewish neighbors ... [the riots] had a surprising effect; it put an end to all aggression by the Bahraini Arabs against the Bahraini Jews. "

See also

Individual evidence

  1. a b Stillman , 2003, p. 147.
  2. Larry Luxner, Life's good for Jews of Bahrain - as long as they don't visit Israel ( Memento of the original of June 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Jewish Telegraphic Agency , October 18, 2006. Retrieved October 25, 2006. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jta.org
  3. ^ Donald Macintyre: Low profile but welcome: a Jewish outpost in the Gulf . In: The Independent , November 2, 2007. Retrieved May 4, 2010.