Palestine Talks | Professor Avi Shlaim says “anti-Semitism was an European, not Arab problem” 

Why did he not continue living there? How many jews left in iraq today?

​​​​@@Anp562 In the late 1940's and early 1950's there were tensions between the Jewish community and the rest of the Iraqi people, probably because many Jews were suspected as Zionists. Meny left where they could. However, I believe that if the state of Israel was not created and the known atrocities didn't took place, his family would have stayed there. Today Iraqi Jews count no more than several thousands, and their number remained the same for 70+ years

I met many Arab Jews, and they all regret being in Israel. Arab Jews are an integral part of Arab culture, and they have been dislocated by Zionism's barbaric principles.

​@@Anp562there were also suspected false flag attacks on jewish places of worship

@@Anp562there were multiple false flag ops, I would recommend reading up on the multiple ops like that within the region. Op magic carpet a great example of coercion and false flags that would ultimately push many Yemenite Jews from their homes only to be placed within segregated camps away from other Jews purely because they were seen and considered as Arab/oriental Jews.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay / Algerian Jews Have Not Forgotten France’s Colonial Crimes A recent report neglects to mention how France forced Arab Jews to adopt the European persona of Jew as citizen and see Arabs and Muslims as others.

Yes! Nazism was the end result of the anti-Semitism that started in Europe centuries ago. If the Jewish people hated the Europeans then it would be understandable, but No! The Jewish people appear to hate the Arabic people instead!☮

​@@freegedankenzurbaukunst5613Algerian Jews are Spherdic not Mizrahi.

​@@freegedankenzurbaukunst5613yes u right

Islam existed long before europ antisemitism, read about haybar , its in the Quran

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he's a liar paid by iran

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I agree. There's no single wrong word by the professor in the whole interview. Precise words and conclusions. I learned a lot about Iraqi Jews and 1948 war. Thanks TRT.

@@jurekwilczynski4279 lies! there is no evidence that the bombimgs were by the Zionists, in fact by the time of the fatal bombing of January 1951, most of the Jews had registered to leave. Shlaim minimises the responsibility of the Iraqis for persecuting Jews, arresting and executing Jews, stripping them of their rights and stealing their property.

That he's a liar that agrees with you does neither you nor him credit. Do 30 seconds of research and you will find his story absolutely false, including regular massacres going back as far as we have records.

so false

@@CrusaderGeorgeWBushur hopeless Zionists They did live in harmony for 500 years under the ottomans wings

​@@CrusaderGeorgeWBushlol yes the ottoman empire all jews live under it happily, muslims bring back jews after they were exiled and forced to convert to Christianity by the byzantine empire, pick a book, hide your ignorance and your hate to islam

@@CrusaderGeorgeWBush stop your lies crusadeorGeorge, Europe killed Jews, may your heart fill with guilt and condemn yourself.

@@CrusaderGeorgeWBushIt’s not false, it also the case for the Islamic period of the Iberian Peninsula, and for Islamic North Africa, where many Jews fled to when they were expelled from Spain by the Christians. Your BS Fox News and AIPAC talking points have misled you.

​@@nawari.Could you please be more specific? 4:45

What's happening in Gaza is a terrorist act that terrifies the world, just like what Hitler did to the Jews. Why doesn't the world want to classify Netanyahu as a war criminal? Why doesn't the world want to classify the Israeli government as a terrorist group even though Israel is a terrorist state against all international laws?

@@nawari. How was he whitewashing his history? And do you mean his Iraqi or Israeli history?

​@@nawari.Lol.. Israel is the one whitewashing history. Most of the western media narrative is based from them. They own the media. Just because his narrative is different from what you've been told all this time, doesn't mean he lies

​@@nawari.He very clearly explained that he was one of a group of three "new historians" who had, in the 1980s, taken the opportunity of studying all the newly released official documents from the postwar period archives of Israel, the USA, Britain, the United Nations, etc, in order to establish the facts and write, for the first time, the new history that these documents revealed. Read his book and check his sources before you cast judgement.

I so agree with you.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay / Algerian Jews Have Not Forgotten France’s Colonial Crimes A recent report neglects to mention how France forced Arab Jews to adopt the European persona of Jew as citizen and see Arabs and Muslims as others.

I wholeheartedly agree .

Rony Brauman de " Medecins sans Frontieres" étaient sooniste zusdin jusqu'au jour où il a commencé à se poser des questions...

He still is a zionist pretending to be progressive and taking the crosshairs of of Jews like him onto white Europeans THATS his goal and you idiots fall for it hook line and sinker

But Arabs are not indigenous to this area. But ok, we all should do DNA-tests and go back where we came from. The land belongs to the indigenous and just to the indigenous. In Israel, in Turkey, in Australia, in America, in New Zealand, in Europe, etc.

Also there aren't Jordan, Saudi, Syria, India and Pakistan. All these countries were created at 40 s. Countries voted in UN 48 for both Israel and Paleistinians creation. These other countries were created even without votation

Do you think that socalled nonblack people are indigenous to northeast Africa?

@@SUPERDAVE-jx8mp There are 'indigenous' Africans of all skin colours, hair types and facial features - if you travel throughout the continent you encounter a vast variety of ethnic groups even within individual countries. Concepts of 'black' will be revealed as an obvious social construct of racist ideology. We are none of us indigenous - I think we need to share the land we love...

@@epona1525 Depend what you mean by 'Arab'... The Levant has been a melting pot since the stone ages. You can't go back to where your ancestors came from because human beings are all intermixed and have inhabited different parts of the globe at different period in history - populations have moved around. We'd all end up going back to Africa. 😏

My brother have you watched the documentary “return to Morocco” from Al Jazeera? It is on RU-vid. Very interesting (fellow Moroccan here!)

@@Freetoughts no I haven't. Thank you so much for letting me know! I am looking forward to watching it. 🙏

Wow mind blowing interview Can the western governments listen to this brother ? Specially Biden who is blindly following war criminals Netanyahu regime !!

@@Freetoughts I have watched it. Really wonderful, lots of memories. Thank you for suggesting it. 🙏

@@Freetoughts, I looked it up. Nothing showed up on RU-vid.

Yep. It might have something to do with the amount of money they pay in bribes - sorry, I meant lobbying, in US particularly, and other countries too.

Jews were persecuted and discriminated against in Europe at that time when nationalist European ideologies were emerging. Jewish people were very aggressively excluded from these nationalisms. Therefore the people around Herzl (the Zionists) developed the ideology of their own Jewish nation. However, the nation state was missing. That's why they wanted to found it in Palestine. No, they didn't think much about the Palestinians. They were a persecuted minority in Europe. But apart from that, they were Europeans and the normal racist view that Europeans of that time had of the rest of the world was also theirs. Incidentally, this European view has not fundamentally changed since then. Well, maybe with young people. The sheer barbarity of the Holocaust left Europeans around the world with a guilty conscience after World War II. Suddenly they wanted to see the Jews as their equals and wanted to fulfill them a wish. The fact that the Europeans themselves didn't have to give up anything to fulfill this wish made it even easier. And again they didn’t think much about Palestinians or Arabs. Regardless of their religion, Arabs simply did not play a role in these considerations; they were not important. As I already said, normal European racism.

Simple, they have the support of irresponsible war-mongering USA.

@@raibilrei Good summary, Without the access to the western media middle easterners have been demonized by Jews and Israeli propaganda. Thankfully the internet has made it possible to bypass mainstream media and show people the truth. My hope is that once today's young people eventually take over the reins of power things will befin to change.

@@Waitingformarty also USA has used Israel as a buffer against so called Arab hostility and also as a base for it's ongoing conflict with Russia. It is the biggest supplier of arms to Israel and gives billions in "aid" to them. It keeps the armaments industry in the USA and UK and other Western European countries very happy, the so called military-industrial industry. As I often say follow the money.

Perhaps some of us are unaware that he is literally pretending to be Black. As an Israelite I am fascinated by the fact that nonblack people believe that a book that starts with Genesis ie human origins is not about Black people.

My cynical reply is that very few people who aspire to power are benevolent.

thank you

Too bad it's not factual.

European community

Don't confuse Europe with the international community

The Arabs have use Palestinians as a pawn to eventually conquer Israel. It didn’t work. It will not work. It’s a tragedy that their own people could care less about them. The fact that Egypt and Jordan close their borders tells you everything you need to know.

Do you mean the several million dollars damaged the palestinians ? That's an original point of view. In which way? Let's listen.

Please, the phrase was coined by German philosophers, but don't pretend that Jews were always treated well under Muslim rule.

@@user-wx1gd9fs1kthey were treated better to the point that an jews scholar told the jews to obey the muslim even if they haram you injustice

​@@user-wx1gd9fs1khistorically there is no better protector of Jews than under Muslim rule This new found love between Jews and westerners is new and does not hold a candle to the amount of centuries of peace between Muslims and Jews prior to Zionism that does not mean there was no problems but the exception does not become the rule But in the west it does you guys bend narratives to suit your needs and then go ahead and believe your own lies

@@algilani-military Well done.

Always believed Europe was the continent that hated itself. All their civil wars and World wars. They also exported hate, crusading, Zionism, colonialism.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay / Algerian Jews Have Not Forgotten France’s Colonial Crimes A recent report neglects to mention how France forced Arab Jews to adopt the European persona of Jew as citizen and see Arabs and Muslims as others.

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Go to google news website, search for Trucknet Enterprise. There’s a Dec 27 article that describes how this Israeli company was working with those five states to create a land bridge so that goods can be delivered to Israel despite the Houthi blockade. That bridge is functioning now.

I’m certainly not interested in refuting your point. But I am wondering why you wrote that? Does it go back in history? Or is it because they aren’t taking Palestinians in now? If it’s the latter, then from my understanding, it’s because they know that if they assist Israel in clearing Gaza of Palestinians, it’s all over for them to ever go back and have their homeland. And each country does already have hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees because of all the other Israeli atrocities over the past two decades. So it seems a tough position to be in - keep them in Gaza and have so many killed? Or get them all out only for the whole population to lose their home? Neither is a good choice, but I suppose less killing is better. But where will Israel turn next to steal more land? West Bank? As if they haven’t stolen enough of that already? 😢

Go to Google News and look up: Trucknet Enterprise. Read the Dec 27 article in Times of Israel. This Israeli company is working with five Arab states to create a land bridge so that Israel continues to get goods despite the Houthi blockade.

Then, as a follow up, taken note that a few days there was a story from India about how trade unions in India are refusing to load weapons on container ships destined to Israel. Well, given the Houthi blockade, then how is it possible for any ship to get its cargo to Israel? Through the Arab land bridge. That means these five Arabs states have not only been undermining Houthi economic pressure to force Israel into a ceasefire, but they’ve also been facilitating the continued flow of weapons (and domestic goods), by way of their land bridge.

Anti-Semitism is actually a very accurate term The hatred of Europeans towards Jews stems from ancient Aryan hatred for Semites The thing is that Jews also play Anti-Semitic canards when talking about "Arab beasts"

​@@Miki-fl9ez The Europeans Jews aren't semite

@@Miki-fl9ez Not really accurate, because semites encompass all those who descend of the peoples originated in the region that today encompasses Palestine, Jordan as well as parts of Lebanon and Syria, regardless of religion, and, according to most historians, a great number of jews (mainly those of European origin and their descendants, which make up the majority of Israelis, btw) are very likely NOT semite, which not only makes the choice to broadly apply the term exclusively to jews (to the exclusion and erasure of arabs) technically wrong, but also a clearly VERY intentional political one.

@@Miki-fl9ez As to the hatred towards jews, Prof. Shlaim is absolutely correct, it stems mostly from the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages.

Ashkenazzis are extremely RACIST people

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But only God knows the truth.

To bad Biden and Trump are not.

​@@mimikhan9546But God wants us to seek it and not fear it.

Very interesting

Yes the Arab Jews were normal. Untill the European jews came. They have to much influences from the Europeans therefore they do not belong in the Middle East. The Arab Jews those who never left the Middle East belong there. The European jews are the violent variant

Exactly, but currently it is in the middle east more than Europe. History is interesting and useful but it is not when we are now. Presently who is carrying the ball in the Rugby game? It doesn't matter who had the ball ten minutes ago. 🤔🏈🏉 Right now the people who are living there hate. ...Freaking period. And this kind of forum is not going to help with this. 😢