My article published by @Tabletmag. I talk about how #Jews and #Muslims in #Azerbaijan have always stood together, through thick and thin, including during the #MarchGenocide of 1918 and two #Karabakh wars tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
On Nov. 10, the 44-day war between #Azerbaijan and #Armenia came to an end, as Armenia agreed to a ceasefire and to withdraw from occupied territories. For the past 30 years, Armenia had occupied 20% of Azerbaijan’s sovereign territory, forcibly displacing 800,000 #Azerbaijanis.
#Shusha is where one of our most decorated and beloved war heroes, #AlbertAgarunov, fought bravely and lost his life to an #Armenian sniper in 1992. His story is both the story of an #Azerbaijani #Jewish war hero and also the story of #Muslim-#Jewish #coexistence and friendship 
#AlbertAgarunov is buried in #Azerbaijan’s Martyrs’ Lane, the national cemetery for our war heroes. Under the direction of Azerbaijan’s President #IlhamAliyev, a street in #Baku was named after Albert and his statue was unveiled last year on the same street.
The idea of a #Jewish national hero in a #Muslim-majority country might seem strange in some places. But not here. While #antiSemitism has seen a sharp rise in many places, majority-Muslim #Azerbaijan remains one of the safest places on Earth for Jews & a close friend of #Israel.
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