Oujda and Jerada pogroms
The pogroms of Oujda and Jerada of 1948 were anti-Semitically motivated pogroms by substantial parts of the Islamic majority population in French Morocco , which took place from June 7, 1948 to June 8 of that year.
They were directed against the Jewish communities in the cities of Oujda and Jerada in northeast Morocco.
In these events, 42 Jews were killed by Muslims and an estimated 150 others injured. The pogroms were a reaction to the civil war in Palestine , in the course of which one wanted to show solidarity with the Arab Palestinians .
Later, in a secret operation by the Mossad called Operation Jachin, around 80,000 Moroccan Jews were removed from the country between November 1961 and spring 1964. Canada was the country that received large numbers of these people, second only to Israel.
See also
- Expulsion of Jews from Arab and Islamic countries
- Cairo pogroms
- Tripoli Pogrom 1945 and Tripoli Pogrom 1948
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrew G. Bostom: The legacy of Islamic antisemitism: from sacred texts to solemn history . Prometheus Books, 2008, p. 160 (accessed March 6, 2011).
- ↑ Bernard L. Vigod: Jews in Canada , p. 6