Thread by @mishtal

The myth of coexistence. When people say the Jewish people lived together with Muslims and Christians before Zionism - it is a horrific distortion of the truth. It is a lie that shapes people's opinion in such a way they can never see the real picture.

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Throughout the Middle East & North Africa there were restrictions on how Jews could practicise Judaism. Jews were debarred from certain jobs & denied citizenship.

There were also forcible conversions, massacres and destruction of property.

A 'short' list just from the 1800s:

1800 Yemen - Jewish orphans forced to undergo education in Islamic ways
1805 Algeria - 200-500 Jews are massacred
1807 Morocco - Massacre of Jews
1811 Algeria - Head of Jewish community decapitated

1811 Syria (contemporary description) - 'there is scarily an instance of a Jew enjoying the riches he acquires - these people are always taken off in the last moment'
1815 Algeria - Eight Jews burnt at stake
1818 Algeria - massacre, 17 young Jewish girls abducted

1830 Algeria - violent mob attack on Jewish communities
1834 Tzfat - Killing and raping of Jews, burning homes and Synagogues
1834 Morocco - Jewish women publicly decapitated for refusing to convert to Islam
1838 Tzfat - Another three days of attacks on the Jewish community

1840 Damascus - blood libel, Jewish notables arrested for ritual sacrifice. Jewish community attacked
1841 Middle East (contemporary description) 'in the east Jews have long been exposed to cruelty, persecution & oppression'.
1844 Egypt - violent mob attack on Jewish communities

1847 Lebanon - pogrom
1847 Jerusalem - pogrom
1848 Syria - violent mob attack on Jewish communities
1850 Syria - violent mob attack on Jewish communities
1850 Morocco - Jews still had to walk barefoot when passing a Mosque

1854 Jerusalem (contemporary description) 'Nothing equals the misery & sufferings of Jews at Jerusalem, Turks & Arabs are their masters in every respect'
1857 Tunisia - a Jew executed for insulting Islam. His head tossed around like a ball. Jews paid to retrieve the head.

1860 Iran - Jews accused of 'mocking' - some have ears & noses cut off as punishment
1860 Egypt - Jews rendered stateless
1862 Lebanon - violent mob attack on Jewish communities
1863 Iran - Attack on Jews for 'insulting' the Prophet Mohammed
1864 Morocco - 500 Jews are massacred

1866 Iran - forcible conversion to Islam, when international pressure intervenes, a mob kills 18 Jews, burning two alive
1869 Tunisia - pogrom - 18 Jews massacred, homes, stores and synagogues burnt
1870 Algeria - widespread attacks on Jewish communities

1870 Egypt - violent mob attack on Jewish communities
1871 Egypt - violent mob attack on Jewish communities
1873 Egypt - violent mob attack on Jewish communities
1877 Egypt - violent mob attack on Jewish communities
1874 Lebanon - violent mob attack on Jewish communities

1875 Morocco - 20 Jews killed by a mob
1875 Syria - violent mob attack on Jewish communities
1876 Jaffa - pogrom
1877 Egypt - pogrom
1880 Yemen - situation so bad 1000s, whole communities, walked to Jerusalem

1880 Hebron and Jerusalem: Severe restrictions still in place over when and where Jewish people could pray.
1881 Algeria - Pogrom
1882 Algeria - more attacks on Jewish communities
1882 Egypt - violent mob attack on Jewish communities

1890 Morocco - Jews still being sold as slaves
1890 Egypt - pogrom
1890 Syria - violent mob attack on Jewish communities
1891 Egypt - violent mob attack on Jewish communities
1892 Iran - fatwa issued if Jews refuse to abide by 'Jewish restrictions'. Forcible conversions occur

1892 Iran - 2 Jews killed, the relatives that searched for them also killed. Please for an investigation were ignored
1847 Jerusalem - pogrom
1896 Algeria - Jewish women and girls sold in public square.
1897 Algeria - Synagogues and Jewish homes ransacked and pillaged

1897 Libya - Synagogues are ransacked and Jews are murdered
1898 Algeria - Anti Jewish riots
1898 Tunisia - Anti Jewish riots

When discussing Zionism, BDS and any future peace agreement, aren't these facts just a little too widespread, violent and oppressive to simply ignore or even worse - pretend they never happened?

Don't accept lies. #Zionism #Israel #truth