Islamic antisemitism is alive and well among all too many Muslims, and it drives continuing acts of violence against and hostility toward Jews. Can anyone imagine any Western country deporting innocent Muslims only because they are Muslims? Of course not. But the Houthis get away with it, while Islamic supremacists are busy screaming “Islamophobia” everywhere in Western countries whenever human rights abuses committed by Muslims are pointed out.
Despite the Houthis’ link to Iran, Biden took the group off the Foreign Terrorist Organization and Specially Designated Global Terrorist lists.
“Almost all remaining Jews in Yemen deported – Saudi media,” by Tzvi Joffre, Jerusalem Post, March 29, 2021:
The last three Jewish families in Yemen were deported by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, leaving only four elderly Jews in the country, after heavy pressure by the Houthis, the London-based Saudi daily Asharq Al-Awsat reported over the weekend.
The families, totaling 13 people, told Asharq Al-Awsat that they were now searching for a new home. The families had resisted leaving their home, but finally agreed to leave after the Houthis made their departure a condition for the release of Levi Salem Marhabi, a Jew who was captured by the Houthis about six years ago.
“They gave us a choice between staying in the midst of harassment and keeping Salem a prisoner or leaving and having him released,” one of the deported Jews told Asharq Al-Awsat. “History will remember us as the last of Yemeni Jews who were still clinging to their homeland until the last moment.”
Marhabi was arrested by the Houthis for helping a Yemeni Jewish family move an old Torah scroll out of the country. Despite a court ruling that he was innocent and should be released, he was reportedly held as a bargaining chip, according to the daily…..
gravenimage says
Yemen: Iran-backed Houthis deport the nation’s last three Jewish families, only four elderly Jews left
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I suppose they were lucky to be deported and not murdered.
My editor at the Jewish paper I worked on in college had been involved in helping Yemeni Jewish refugees settle in Israel in the 1970s–this was one of a series of rescues of Yemeni Jews, beginning with “Operation Magic Carpet” in the 1950s.
These refugees spoke nothing but Arabic, but were–understandably–terrified of the Muslim Arab translators. So her group mostly made do with phrase books, a kid who had studied Arabic in high school, and gestures (and the refugees’ Arabic was so ideomatic that standard Arabic was of limited use in any case).
But the main thing she took away from the experience was how grateful the refugees were to be safe and surrounded by people who welcomed them.
Infidel says
Hopefully, Israel evacuates these last Jewish families out of Yemen. I wonder why the 4 elderly Jews chose to remain: hopefully, they’re not like that one guy in Kabul who refused to join his family in Israel
That’s the silver lining in all this. Hopefully, one day, non-muslim countries do likewise to muslims, like Burma did
gravenimage says
Agree–I hope these last Jews come to safety in Israel.
ElderlyZionist says
Thank goodness they got out alive.
mortimer says
Where are all the outraged activists shouting that YEMEN IS A BIGOTED APARTEID STATE !!!
The activists insult Islam and Muslims by their LOW EXPECTATIONS … the activists don’t apply a high ethical standard to Islam … so by implication they are saying that Islam is bigoted and vicious towards ‘others’ and THAT’S OK.
The Leftists don’t mind when Muslims remove human rights and civil liberties or expel people from their home country on the basis of religion.
gravenimage says
Good point, Mortimer. *Crickets*…
Alfredo says
Sadly too many Westerners suffer from a terminal case of suicidal naivete. The Western elites are importing incompatible and willfully maladapted people while crying “Islamophobia” whenever there is yet another attack by Islamist fanatics as is the case now in Mozambique.
What these people suffering from terminal willful blindness don’t realize is that the real reason Antisemitism is still a deadly virus in the Islamic world is found in the Qur’an Surah 47:4.
Ken says
Any idea how one can donate some money to these families? Albeit a very small amount.