The “Farhud,” Arabic for pogrom or violent dispossession, gripped Iraq’s 2,600 year-old Jewish community during WW2. Inspired and encouraged by the Nazi regime, Iraqis committed acts of horrific violence for two days against Baghdad’s Jews as British forces watched on.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:37 The Holocaust came to Iraq
01:31 Jewish history in Iraq
02:41 British appointment of King Faisal
03:52 Jewish life under King Faisal
04:48 Jews scapegoated for British theft of Iraqi oil
06:01 Arab immigrants from Palestine spread antisemitism
06:44 Haj Amin Al-Husseini and Hitler
06:56 Iraqis adopt antisemitic Nazi ideology
08:28 Britain returns to Iraq
09:25 The Farhud (pogrom, violent dispossession)
10:05 What did Iraqi Jews do for the rest of WW2?
10:29 Post-WW2 riots, pogroms, extortion, confiscation of property, and boycotts
11:27 Hundreds of thousands of Jews emigrate from Iraq penniless
12:12 Jewish emigration devastates Iraqi economy
12:34 Iraqi Jewish community and Israel

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