Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands: The Jewish Nakba
A century ago a young woman with her three children, was forced to flee in haste from Yemen. Her husband died, and her children were to be taken by force by the authorities to force them to Islam. This was in accordance with the “orphans decree” that was imposed in those years in Yemen. That woman was my grandmother. She did not know she was a refugee. She did not know that exactly in those years millions were forced to leave their home districts. Those were the days of the collapse of empires. It led to the creation of nation-states. Minorities became unwanted. Expulsion of populations on a grand scale took place in those years. This happened mostly after World War I and World War II .Among the tens of millions were also Arabs and Jews. This is the background to the “Palestinian Nakba”, just as it is the background to the “Jewish Nakba”.
Ben-Dror Yemini is a jurist, researcher, speaker and a senior journalist with the Hebrew daily Yediot Aharonot. During the last ten years Yemini conducted much research about anti-Israeli propaganda. His latest best-seller, “INDUSTRY OF LIES“, was published in many languages. Yemini gives lectures at a lot of leading universities and parliaments. His articles are published in many leading newspapers around the world.
Yemini was a peace activist for many years, he supported all the peace initiatives. Yemini argues that the INDUSTRY OF LIES is one of the main problems of the free world, and that the anti-Israeli propaganda is becoming a real threat to free thought and to the freedom of speech, and one of the biggest obstacles to reconciliation and peace.
