06/12/2026
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Before there was an Israeli occupation. Before 1967. Before Gaza. The New York Times was documenting something the modern progressive narrative has almost entirely erased: the coordinated ethnic cleansing of Jews from Arab and Muslim-majority countries.
This is what a 1948 front page looks like. The Arab League, in 1947, drafted a formal internal document recommending coordinated action against Jewish populations across member states: freezing bank accounts, designating Jews as enemy aliens, interning those deemed Zionists. ๐๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐๐ ๐ ๐จ๐๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ฐ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐.
They succeeded. Iraq had 135,000 Jews in 1948. Today, five remain. Egypt saw bombs k!ll over 70 Jews in Cairoโs Jewish quarter in 1948. Yemen saw 82 Jews mโrdered in the 1947-48 pogroms. Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Syria โ each country that had harbored thriving Jewish communities for centuries systematically emptied them out in a single generation.
The total: ๐๐๐,๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐๐ฐ๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ง ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐ฌ. Their property โ homes, businesses, bank accounts โ was seized. The estimated value in todayโs dollars: $263 billion. About 70% of those refugees resettled in Israel. They became Israelโs founding population.
The next time someone tells you this conflict started on October 7, or in 1967, or even in 1948 โ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐ฆ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฌ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐๐ง๐๐ โ show them the New York Times archive. The paper of record documented the pogroms, the expulsions, and the coordinated Arab campaign to remove Jews from their homelands decades before a single settlement was built.
๐๐ญ ๐๐ข๐๐งโ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐๐ญ๐จ๐๐๐ซ ๐ โ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ง๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐๐ข๐. ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ง๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ.
