@bariweiss
And u kno what many in my queer community tell me? “Don’t send me this stuff it’s triggering” code for “ I am pro Hamas” I did not stop and was then called a “bully” — amazing Jews who fight back are “ bullies” Dara Horn spot on w her chilling book “ people love dead Jews”
I’m sick to my stomach
For years I tried to educate my progressive friends about Islamic hatred of Jews by writing and sharing my family history often met with “ yes but” — I never imagined the Savage Sadistic Indoctrinated
Brutality of oct 7 2023 would get a free pass I am
I'm not ok
I’m in Israel
On A Wider Bridge delegation
I’ve been posting photos of Kfar Aza and The Nova Massacre site
I will keep posting
I am not ok as my friends in USA want me to be “ careful” whatever that means
I am not ok
Seeing faces of dead peace activists
Thousand
Would Syria send aid to Israel? No . will Israel help in earthquake efforts yes .Will it change Jews being despised for being alive .No . does that matter. No gotta do the right thing . Wrapping my head round that .
This is what a Lone Soldier looks like — His father and I grew up stateless in Japan with our parents after Nasser cancelled all passports of Jews so proud of nephew Benjamin Wahba your
#JewishPride
shines so high 💙🇮🇱
#IDF
#Aliyah
@John_Hudson
Most of Egypt’s Jews JEWS WERE EXPELLED IN 1956 And those out of the country with Egyptian citizenship had passports cancelled We became stateless
For 20 years
Unbelievable
Egypt’s 75000 Jews were already kicked out with only one suitcase of clothes -and all possessions stolen - all dignity lost — my paternal family were Egyptians longer than many who came from other MENA regions the Wahbas were “ proud Egyptian Jews” till cancelled
Wow. Sisi to Blinken during their meeting: "You said that you are a Jewish person... I am an Egyptian person who grew up next to Jews in Egypt. They have never been subjected to any form of oppression or targeting and it has never happened in our region that Jews were targeted"
My grandfather Eli Wahba from Mansoura never imagined the day when he with long lineage as proud Egyptian Jew would end with ethnic cleansing
#OutOfEgypt
My grandfather a proud Egyptian Jew never thought he would need a passport - when Egypt kicked him out after generations upon generations of his family once farmers in the Delta and he a businessman in Mansoura he became a stateless Jew given papers one way out died in peace as
I grew up in an intensely Jew hating environment in international Catholic school in Kobe Japan for foreigners it made me a stronger Jew // at eight when my favorite nun stood me in front of the huge hall crucifix of Jesus w banner in Latin saying “ King of the Jews”
“ look”
So many of us Jews are witnessing so many of our friends actually side with Hamas by spouting a moral equivalence between Israel’s struggle to EXIST and the Islamist Resolve to destroy Israel and think “ from the river to the sea” is a freedom chant — and how Jews are paranoid
My parents engagement photo June 1946 Bombay India— they met at her parents home on a Shabbat he fell in love knew she was the one - She was not so sure but family said it is time and you will get to love him - Fortunately she did — Moussa Wahba and Katie (Khatoun) Sherbanee “ it
Dont tell me how good life was for Jews in Arab lands we were legalized inferiors controlled by persecution oppressive codes of law—my parents lived it in Iraq n Egypt now Jew-free
@John_Hudson
There were no Jews left to live next to
Egypt’s 75000 Jews were kicked out and all possessions stolen — with only one suitcase of clothes — did Blinken correct him?
We were in Iraq for 2500 years ( pre Islam) in Egypt all over the MENA - someone called me a liar - about my lived history as an Egyptian Iraqi Jew - the ignorance the antisemitism the need for HISTORY CLASS
The rubbish the NYT promotes — the contortions of antiZionism — SABRA GIRL has nothing to do w the massacre by the Lebanese Christian militia — she is a hardy breed am Israel chai 🇮🇱♥️✡️
It was wonderful seeing MOSSAB at Tikva UC Berkeley with Students last night and it is on Vimeo the whole event with the most 🤮manipulative academic ( CUNY) Mark Lamont Hill ( Mr Al Jazeera)
When a Jew like Peter Beinart opens his mouth advocating an Israel-free Middle East i am doubly grateful for Arab Zionists, the UAE, Abraham Accords allies,my birthplace India’s support and All allies of Jewish Liberation from every tradition n tribe🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
To my former “feminist”friends no this does not “happen in war” they raped terrorized and killed her at a Peace Music Rave and then took her dead body to parade it defile it some more ( a piece of her skull was left behind at the festival ).
I don’t attend synagogue as regularly as I used to - here in Marin County too many rabbis “ suffer existential angst” over Israel instead of listening to the prayers and understanding the world’s Resistance and Ambivalence to our one country that we desperately need to support 🇮🇱
A Jew could not take a Muslim to court A Jew had to hide when it rained or be killed for the Jew would pollute earth should rain touch him before reaching the ground A Jew may never have his head higher than a Muslim- Jewish women had to bare their face as they were considered
What’s wrong w this mentality: “I’m an Iraqi Egyptian jew”
“ wow cool “
“ yeah we (Jews) were forced out and kicked out …”
“Well now you being Islamophobic”
Hamas vowed from day one to annihilate Israel and now “ …the whole country has been traumatized, because the founding of the state of Israel was intended to protect against such pogroms …until October 7, it was believed to be protected…”
@nasdaily
@ysabellahazan
@Nuseir
Yassin
am sharing widely
Your honesty and soul warms my broken heart
We have to coexist and with more like more like you there can be an Arab Palestine next to a Jewish Palestine/israel
Grandfather Eli Wahba ✡️zl -in Mansoura — before Nasser before Egypt’s Jews were expelled with one suitcase of clothing
#EgyptianJew
— From Egypt to the maabarot to Ashdod 🇮🇱
I have had some personal moments with non Jewish acquaintances biased against Israel in trying to reach them got silence from some and worse ; “triggering do not share w me “ with due respect …”
Cannot watch visuals video or photos “ don’t want to scar my psyche”
I’m furious
Did You know “between 1956 and 1961 Moroccan Jews were prohibited from emigrating to Israel. In the three years following the lifting of that ban, a further 80,000 Jews left Morocco for Israel.”and this was in a good-to-the-jews country
Baghdad 1937 my mother eldest Khatoon ( Katie) and sibs Aziza (Elaine) n Menache ( Maurice) Sharbani at a wedding — 5 years later traumatized but survived the Farhud June 1941 massacre “ our pogrom” Mom said
82 years ago today began straight 48 hours of terror screams as massacre of Jews in Baghdad erupted on June 1 1941 —the UN 8 years ago recognized “Farhud Day”
I do not expect
non Jewish friends to be as impacted as I am by Oct 7 -
I DO expect them to refrain from idiotic unempathic “ I want you to have your light back” comments. My “ light” is ever present as I manage to host events do my life and continue to educate against
I have written my
@TimesofIsrael
blogs for years all informed by my history as a stateless Mizrahi Jew for 20 years and trained as a psychotherapist and a lifetime lived as a liberal — Today I understand why so many of us Jews cannot bear the thought of giving up our membership
@EinatWilf
💯%correct 💔
I know — as a Mizrahi Jew who grew up stateless I always understood this fatal flaw in the indoctrinated Arab mind and told I’m “ extreme”— in my much smaller voice than yours I have been trying to educate Anti-Zionism is our era’s Antisemitism. Yes you have been
“Even before the Farhud we were sitting ducks,” my mother explained. “There was nowhere to go, there was no Israel then… we had no choice but to keep quiet to stay alive.” learn and remember the horror today is 81 years …the sentiments have not changed and Iraq is Jew free
Never “easy” being a Jew in Iraq but this was pre 1941
#Farhud
— mom her sis and bro living a childhood in large intact old ( goes back 2500 years )Jewish community — despite cloud of prejudice fear on streets of Baghdad never imagined the pogrom - they survived
#BabylonianJews
i've been unfollowed and unfriended for being a "mizrahi supremacist" which is pure rubbish i began my activism in the 80's telling the Mizrahi story to my antizio jews buying the "why should palestinians pay for europes sins" -we jews all jews are indigenous. to israel
In Kobe Japan in mid 1950’s I’m the little one on the right — we were Jewish girls in Japan on the Port City Flower Parade Israel /Jew float of many floats representing the International Community — I was a stateless Iraqi/Egyptian Jew — the girl in middle a child of Polish
Everytime I share my blogs
@TimesofIsrael
there are people who try to refute my personal history of stories of my mother surviving the
#Farhud
in Baghdad and daily humiliations of Jews and my father’s entire deeply rooted Egyptian family’s expulsion from their native land with
AMPLIFY THIS FACT
Most Mizrahi Jews were forced to flee our ancient communities including my family from Iraq and Egypt MOST were settled in Israel most of us are ISRAELIS TODAY
important to remember my family story and amplify where Jews were "sitting ducks" —June 1, 80 years the 1941 massacre since my mother fled the screams the terror and she thrived by surviving and speaking it
Continued — I grew up literally psychologically dying to turn Ashkenazi Today I see Ashkenazi young people wishing they were Mizrahi No Worries it’s just trends and styles —we are all turning into ONE in Israel ( with our UNIQUE histories) we are JEWS
#AmIsraelChai
@TPrincato
Oh I grew up stateless in Japan I know a lot about not having a passport and survival and if only the Arab states saw Palestinians as their people instead of concretely weaponizing them as human ammo they would have been able to share 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
I’ve been writing for years — here’s one —Jews being free makes anti-Jewish racists everywhere mad. And in the region, it drove Arab nations mad. It was anything but normal for Jews to be sovereign, even on a tiny bit of land. So we were ethnically cleansed from all over the
Baghdad 1940 - Right before the
#Farhud
my mom and Granny and sibs on the right her little brother in Iraqi army outfits; “we Jews always trying to show our loyalty wanting equality …”the 4 of them escaped the Massacre ran rooftops from mobs in midst of gunfire and screams
I am feeling sick - heartsick gut sick-THEN the allies didn’t bomb the tracks to Auschwitz the people claimed they “ didn’t know” what the Nazis were doing in Germany NOW Everyone knows WHAT HAMAS DID — Hamas rules Gaza
The world must react instead of pretending they don’t know
One big reason Jews as a People ( in the face of thousands of years of periodic Jew hatred pogroms massacres persecution ethnic cleansing and genocide RISE EVERY TIME despite mumbles that we “ cling to victimhood” is the furthest thing from the truth — we rise we are
Once fringe now normalized the Israel hate is very real on campus - when Jew hate RISES ( and it has risen) it reaches every arena —we need to SPEAK UP AND OUT
When it comes to Jews we need to have our focus and protect Israel without Israel we are virtually stateless despite passports it’s a lesson Jews love to forget
As an Iraqi Egyptian Jew who grew up stateless in Catholic schools in India and Japan and rest of family in tents and tin shacks in Israel do I understand racism and prejudice ? BIG YES is every single country on earth infected with all types of it YES -singling out Israel NO
I wish my dad could see this — our lives were cruelly impacted by his expulsion from Egypt and consequent inability to do business w Arab countries ( his contacts were no longer doing biz w Jew) I LOVE THIS! Am Israel Chai💙💯🕎💙✡️💙🇮🇱💋💋💋
My mom 1939 or 1940 shortly before the Farhud ( June 1941 Pogrom )— at home in Baghdad with her arm on brother’s shoulder “ he’s in Iraqi uniform we were always showing we were patriotic Iraqis”
#FarhudRemerbrance
In 1981 SAN Francisco State mandatory ethnic refused to allow me to represent Mizrahi or any Jews) — when i explained bout my family he said “ So, your family left Russia and Poland for Egypt and Iraq?”
#AbrahamAndSarah
✡️🇮🇱✡️
Remembering The Farhud After October 7th | Rachel Wahba | The Blogs
Even before the Farhud we were sitting ducks,” my mother explained. “There was nowhere to go, there was no Israel then… we had no choice but to keep quiet to stay alive.”
my mom Khatoun( Katie) right Granny/ Masouda n sis Aziza (Elaine)n little bro Menashe( Maurice) in IRAQI Army uniform in Baghdad year or so before the Farhud -mom:“ we (Jews) were always proving our Iraqi-ness” — yeah it didn’t work✡️💔🇮🇱💙
#MizrahiHeritageMonth
#JewishPride
NOPE. THERE IS NO EXCUSE NO MORAL EQUIVALENCE and this line of thinking keeps Palestinians in the miserable rut you APOLOGISTS support —your hate on Israel is no different than anti Jewish arguments re the Holocaust, Pogroms in Jewish Quarters in Arab lands and denial of how we
You can and should condemn the killing of civilians. You can argue there is no justification for such violence. But to call the attack “unprovoked” is not just dishonest but dehumanizing—as if to say the daily violence and oppression Palestinians face is an acceptable norm.
✡️June is Farhud Rembrandt month - the beginning of the end of Iraq’s Jews’ 2500 year history ; here my mom n fam in Baghdad playing Taouli ( backgammon)
Passports “ cancelled” in 1950’s mom Iraq dad Egypt — Jews rooted in ancient native lands pre- Islamic Conquest ethnically cleansed in 1950’s
#MizrahiJews
My family and all Jews from Iraq and Egypt were forced out after thousands of years presence in the 1950’s — about 900,000 Jews Mizrahi (and Sephardi who fled the Spanish Inquisition into ancient Jewish communities all over the MENA )were ethnically cleansed within a decade from
To the person wondering “ if Egypt is so great why didn’t Israelis go there instead of ‘Palestine’” — We Egyptian Jews now in Israel did in fact “go” and live in Egypt for thousands of years PREDATING Islam btw , and then Arab Nationalism via Nasser confiscated our nationality
#JewishPrivilege
is growing up stateless for 20 years, parents with no passports kicked out of Egypt and Iraq,a mother traumatized by the Farhud,my having to be placed in catholic missionary schools bent on converting me and how Hitler would get to heaven before any Jew