Yaakov C Lui-Hyden
1 min readApr 24, 2024

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You don't have time to read but tell me to read.lol. Well, you can start with what happened to the Jews in the Quran that once made up the majority of Medina and why there are no synagogues there. Or those hadiths that Hamas used in their original charter. Or that in 1695 census Jerusalem was majority Jewish and Christian...and 2500 settlements in all of Palestine were measured in the census and there were barely any Muslims. Or the Ottoman census in the mid 1800s that showed major towns were Jewish, again prior to Zionism. Or you can ask the Jews who fled the whole Middle East that make up the majority of Israel's population. Or my own family that fled a pogrom in 1517 in Hebron Palestine to move onto Beirut and eventually Europe. There are thousands of accounts and historical records. Heck you can even look at Maimonides who had to flee Spain and Morrocco even after being a crypto Jew , and ending up becoming the Doctor to the Sultan of Egypt. It was not universally bad and it was better than what we faced in Europe- and some places like Central Asia and the Caucaus antisemitism was almost non-existent. But don't confuse your whitewash fantasy with history. https://www.jns.org/who-says-that-morocco-never-persecuted-its-jews/

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Yaakov C Lui-Hyden
Yaakov C Lui-Hyden

Written by Yaakov C Lui-Hyden

Yaakov is a world traveller and is accused of being an Australian. Published several novels. He writes about travel, writing, geopolitics and trading.

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