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Mosby

(16,295 posts)
Sat Jan 12, 2013, 01:07 PM Jan 2013

Yemeni Jews Threatened with Extinction

A dwindling, tiny Jewish community in the northwestern Yemeni province of Ammran is threatened with extinction amid continued immigration of its members due to increasing harassment and persecution against them and a lack of security.

Of the hundreds of families who used to live in the town of Raida in Ammran province, some 37 miles northwest of the Yemeni capital Sana’a, only four families remain. While some members of these families are already living outside the country, mainly in the United States or Israel, many of those who remain are considering immigration.

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Yemeni Jews complain of widespread discrimination and increasing harassment and aggression from the tribal society surrounding them.

“Whenever you go, they call you ‘Jew,’ or ‘Zionist.’ Sometimes children throw stones at our houses and adults harass our women,” he said, attributing some of the harassment to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

http://www.yementimes.com/en/1641/report/1837/Yemeni-Jews-Threatened-with-Extinction.htm

couple more years there will be no more indigenous Jews in Yemen, Egypt or Iraq, at what point can we retire the bullshit talking point that Muslims accept Jews living in their lands?

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Yemeni Jews Threatened with Extinction (Original Post) Mosby Jan 2013 OP
Blatant Racism. zellie Jan 2013 #1
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