Hi,
We, Israel, declared our independence in 1948. My grandparents, as well as Atzva grandparents, joined the Jews already here in this Kibbutz Galuyot.
The term Kibbutz Galuyot means Gathering of Israel, and it came from the bible. Where Moses and other propehts talked about the People of Israel exile and then gathered back again to their country.
My grandparents came from eastren Europe (you can read their story here and here). Atzva grandparents came from India (Cochin to more accurate) and Maroco/ Algeria.
You can say that my grandparents, like almost everybody who lived around them (and was not slaughtered), ran away from Europe after the Holocaust for the fear of being murdered (yes, even after the Holocaust just like in Kielce pogrom) and a place they will not be procecutated for being Jews.
The myth about the Jews in Arab countries was that they had full citizens’ responsibilities and rights. That might be true in some places in some times, but Jews were murdered in Arab countries for being Jews: Tritl,
1934 Constantine riots , Farhud,
1945 anti-Jewish riots in Egypt, 1945 anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania, and more along the years.
As the country of Israel was founded, the attacks became more and more violent, pushing many of them forward to Israel. The number of Jews living in Arab countries has reduced dramatically, leaving just a few of them.
About half of us the Jews living now in Israel and the rest around the world, most of them in USA, and some big communities in French, Canada, UK, Argentina, Russia, Australia, Germany and Brasil.
The countries that had a big Jewish community before WWII are now mostly empty of Jews: Poland, Hungary, Czech, Slovakia, Arab countries,
So when people around the world call the Jews to leave Israel and go home? Where is this? To the same country, we have been hunted and murdered during history? To the same places antisemitism is raising and it is not safe for us to live in.
Take Care
Gad
My reserve duty team, they, their parents or grandparents have gathered from all around the world
Where are your Jews? Middle Eastern Jewry 1948-today (Source: Reddit.com/Isr) (except the content, the music had creeped me. It was the soundtrack of the scene from Requiem for a dream that made me faint for the fast time).