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In 1948 some 900,000 Jews lived in Iraq, Yemen and other countries. Almost all of them were violently forced out.

Iraqi historian Omar Mohammed, known for his Mosul Eye blog, now an NGO, is known for documenting life in his city under ISIS rule.

The Tomb of Jonah was not presented to him as a Jewish site, Iraqi historian Omar Mohammed says.

Prior to the Farhūd, Jews and Arabs had more than two millennia of peaceful coexistence in Iraq.

Illustrative: Jewish families flee Arab rioting in Jerusalems Old City in August 1929. (Public domain) Palestinian Arabs gather at the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, in an anti-Zionist demonstration on March 8, 1920, prior to the Nabi Musa holiday on which violent rioting took place. (Public domain) Illustrative: Then-British Home Secretary Winston Churchill on a visit to the British Mandate of Palestine in March 1921, nearly three decades before it became the Jewish state. (Churchill Museum) The...

Popes Iraq Trip Must Highlight Precarious Situation of Assyrian Christians | Opinion Bradley Martin , Executive director, Near East Center for Strategic Studies On 3/12/21 at 7:30 AM EST On Monday, Pope Francis ended his trip to Iraq where he preached a message of peace and religious tolerance over a four-day period. In this first-ever visit by a pope to the country, the pontiff sought to bring global attention to Iraqs ancient and battered Christian community. Pope Francis m...