The Real Nakba | CAEF Bulletin, Dec 07, 2025
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November 30th was the Memorial Day for Jewish Exiles from Arab lands
Ivan Bassov, in the Times of Israel, November 29,2025 describes the real Nakba.
“Israel formalized November 30 as the national Jewish Refugee Day — Yom HaPlitim in Hebrew — in 2014. Every year, Jewish communities in Israel and throughout the world mark the expulsion and flight of nearly a million Jews from Arab countries and Iran. The memory is well-preserved; the events are well-known; the commemorations are established. What has been missing is not remembrance, but terminology — the willingness to call this day by the name that fully captures the scale and meaning of what happened. If the Middle East has known a true Nakba, a genuine catastrophe characterized by the destruction of entire communities and the erasure of ancient civilizations, then it is the Jewish expulsion from the Arab world. November 30 should be officially designated, or at least widely nicknamed, the Nakba.”
Give Citizenship to the “Palestinian Refugees” in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan
“Until 1948, about 900,000 Jews lived in Arab and Muslim countries—Morocco, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Algeria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Libya, Iran and more. They suffered persecution, threats to their lives, antisemitic harassment, confiscation of property, laws restricting movement and speech, anti-Jewish legislation, and even the stripping of citizenship. Since Israel's founding, the Islamic world has effectively become Judenrein, and its ancient Jewish communities destroyed. These Jews were never recognized by the U.N. or anyone else as refugees. My family shed the mantle of refugeehood, built full lives in Israel, raised six children, and educated us to work hard and be productive citizens of the young state. Life was hard—many lived in tent camps under harsh conditions—but they kept their heads down, learned Hebrew, found work, and raised their children on the right path.”
End the charade that Arabs who left, fled, or were exiled, from Mandatory Palestine, and blame the Jews for the plight, are “refugees.” By any legitimate definition of refugee, those stuck in limbo land, without recognized citizenship status, in camps run by the UNRWA, are hostages to their cousins who use them to beat Israel, to build a victimhood narrative and to forever denigrate Israel. No other people have their own refugee support agency that refuses to settle them in any land, other than to claim “ownership” to land in Israel, nor has any other people “inherited refugee status” even after 5 or more generations. UNRWA’s chosen mandate is to refuse to settle Arabs and thus keep them in a permanent state of “exile” which benefits UNRWA financially and ideologically, aided by every other Arab country. One really must ask why no Muslim or Arab country has offered permanent citizenship status to the belligerent and neglected “Palestinian” Arab refugees.
Read Anat Berko, August 26, 2025, in the Investigative Project on the eternal Palestinian refugee boondoggle.
DARA to Canadian Senate: Antizionism is a crisis in Canadian health care.
Doctors Against Racism and Antisemitism presented a thorough and chilling submission to the Senate Committee on Human Rights, November13, 2025.
Canadian Taxpayers fund Extremist anti-Israel group, demonizing Israel. Now documented by Honest Reporting Canada, December 2, 2025.
A new rule in Ontario legislature requires unanimous support for any flag raising
Recommended Reading
Read Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz in Israel365News, November 28, 2025, Israel tests its readiness for mass Aliyahamidst rising antisemitism.
Read Zasin De Villem November 30, 2025, in Future of Jewish Substack, on the difference between Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism. Read about the grievance, identify and injury as moral authority.
Read David E. Firester, December 22025 in Future of Jewish Substack, with valid arguments for putting quotation marks around “Palestinian,” as “There is no evidence of an ancient or medieval “Palestinian” people.”
Read Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz in Israel365News, about the Isaac Accords being led by Argentinian President Javier Milei, to deepen diplomatic, security and economic cooperation between Israel and Latin American nations,December 3, 2025.
Read Times of Israel article by Grace Gilson, December 3, 2025, about rabbis and Jewish leaders calling for removal of UN official, Reem Alsalem, UN rapporteur on violence against women and girls who has denied the rape of Israeli women and girls on Oct 7th, 2023.
Read Barry Shaw's Substack on Israel’s readiness for a mass exodus of Jews from western countries due to rising antisemitism, November 29, 2025.
Recommended Viewing
Watch ILTV story on US move to list Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
Watch Unpacked, explaining that Jews Can Be Antistemitic. It is no more excusable if coming from someone with Jewish heritage.
Watch Yasmine Mohammed with Dalia Ziada, who serves as the Washington, D.C. Coordinator for the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP), an Egyptian Muslim writer and political analyst. Ziada addresses Middle East conflicts and her journey in rejecting the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic extremism.
Watch JTV, shown on Israel365News, present a video of the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks who saw the danger to the West by not sharing values, responsibilities and identity, radical individualism and mass migration.
Watch Imam Mohammed Tawhidi give testimony against the Muslim Brotherhood in Canada, and call for its being listed as a terrorist entity along with all affiliates.
Watch StandwithUs Canada’s video on antisemitism at Canadian universities, How did we get here?
Words Matter, by Richard Sherman
In a letter to the Editor of The Guardian, a notoriously biased left wing UK newspaper, Richard Sherman challenged their claim that “words matter” when the editorial line seems to neglect or reject words of reason and truth about Israel.
Khaled Abu Toameh, Palestinian Affairs Correspondent & Analyst, stated recently:
“As long as Hamas is standing on its feet, there's no future for the Gaza Strip, I told a delegation of US law-enforcement officers, including Sheriffs and FBI agents. I pointed out that many Palestinians are afraid to speak out against Hamas or the Palestinian Authority for fear of being labeled collaborators with Israel.”
Advocacy and Action
Read CAEF Letter to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights as part of the overall submission from the Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation regarding Bill C-9.
Read Letter from Richard Sherman, Florida, to the Cornell Sun, explaining Zionism, the core precept of Judaism, in response to a student of Near East Studies, who ignorantly abuses Zionism.
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