Comments on: Iranian Jews in Loyalty Test http://blog.z-word.com/2008/12/iranian-jews-in-loyalty-test/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Mon, 21 May 2012 15:23:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: Engage: Gaza Round Up « The New Centrist http://blog.z-word.com/2008/12/iranian-jews-in-loyalty-test/#comment-2917 Engage: Gaza Round Up « The New Centrist Sun, 04 Jan 2009 15:36:49 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=764#comment-2917 [...] Iranian Jews demonstrate their ‘loyalty’ to the regime, here. [...] […] Iranian Jews demonstrate their ‘loyalty’ to the regime, here. […]

]]> By: Mordechai http://blog.z-word.com/2008/12/iranian-jews-in-loyalty-test/#comment-2823 Mordechai Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:20:09 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=764#comment-2823 The Yemenite Jews protested Israel's war too: http://www.sabanews.net/en/news172467.htm Here's some background to the remaining Jewish community in Yemen & reaction to the recent murder of a Jew in Yemen: http://www.forward.com/articles/14855/ The Yemenite Jews protested Israel’s war too:
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news172467.htm

Here’s some background to the remaining Jewish community in Yemen & reaction to the recent murder of a Jew in Yemen:
http://www.forward.com/articles/14855/

]]> By: Some things worth reading on the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza « Engage - the anti-racist campaign against antisemitism http://blog.z-word.com/2008/12/iranian-jews-in-loyalty-test/#comment-2803 Some things worth reading on the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza « Engage - the anti-racist campaign against antisemitism Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:33:55 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=764#comment-2803 [...] Iranian Jews demonstrate their ‘loyalty’ to the regime, here. [...] […] Iranian Jews demonstrate their ‘loyalty’ to the regime, here. […]

]]> By: Fabian from Israel http://blog.z-word.com/2008/12/iranian-jews-in-loyalty-test/#comment-2801 Fabian from Israel Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:40:44 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=764#comment-2801 You don't need to suppose much. There are several documented cases pre-1948 in which Jewish communities, previously openly pro-Zionist were cowed into declaring their loyalty to the Arab nation. An example I read recently was of the Jewish community of Syria in 1929 (as a result of the frenzy in the Arab world because of the misreporting of the Massacre in Hebron). They had to go out on the streets too and publish repudiations of Zionism in the newspapers, etc, etc. In later years they were all impoverished and expelled, anyway. But Syria was only a dictatorship. Iran is a totalitarian regime. Iranian Jews will not have even the option of leaving. You don’t need to suppose much. There are several documented cases pre-1948 in which Jewish communities, previously openly pro-Zionist were cowed into declaring their loyalty to the Arab nation. An example I read recently was of the Jewish community of Syria in 1929 (as a result of the frenzy in the Arab world because of the misreporting of the Massacre in Hebron). They had to go out on the streets too and publish repudiations of Zionism in the newspapers, etc, etc. In later years they were all impoverished and expelled, anyway.

But Syria was only a dictatorship. Iran is a totalitarian regime. Iranian Jews will not have even the option of leaving.

]]> By: Robbins http://blog.z-word.com/2008/12/iranian-jews-in-loyalty-test/#comment-2784 Robbins Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:33:14 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=764#comment-2784 Iranian Jews, like other Iranians, are not allowed to speak freely on any subject. Moreover, as Jews they need to show a special loyalty to the government or else they would be subject to charges of double loyalties in a country were such a charge carries the danger of an accusation of treason. Iranian Jews, like other Iranians, are not allowed to speak freely on any subject.

Moreover, as Jews they need to show a special loyalty to the government or else they would be subject to charges of double loyalties in a country were such a charge carries the danger of an accusation of treason.

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