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2024-12-10 12:07:00 UTC - HELPFUL
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The details of the 1941 Farhud are well documented. 150-180 Jews were murdered. The Jewish community fled Iraq & those who stayed faced discrimination & were forced to leave in 1951: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-farhud Prof. Avi Shlaim is known by leading historians as a misleading 'new historian': https://israel-academia-monitor.com/2023/09/07/the-new-historian-prof-avi-shlaim-falsifies-history-again/ https://www.commentary.org/articles/jonathan-leaf/avi-shlaim-anti-israel-revisionist-history/
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