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Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, has informed the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, that he intends to present a draft resolution requiring the international body to hold an annual commemoration for the hundreds of thousands of Jews exiled from Arab countries due to the creation of the State of Israel.
While Israel officially commemorates the expulsion of Jews from Muslim states on November 30 each year, Erdan says the UN does not mark the event at all, but that it invests a great deal of resources in displaced Palestinians.
Ambassador Gilad Erdan at the United Nations headquarters in New York
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“The establishment of the Jewish state was one of the most important decisions made by the UN. Arab leaders chose to reject this decision and instead launched a widespread attack on the State of Israel and the thriving Jewish communities that lived within. [the Arab world]”Erden wrote to Guterres.
A Jewish family leaving Yemen in 1949
(Photo: Israel National Photo Collection)
“While the UN deals extensively with ‘Palestinian refugees’, it completely ignores Jewish refugees from Arab countries. It is outrageous to see the UN mark a special day and devote many resources to the issue of ‘Palestinian refugees’, while abandoning and ignoring hundreds of thousands of Jewish families deported from Arab countries and Iran, “Erdan said in his letter.
Erdan also called on the UN to launch a global research project on the deportation of Jews from the Arab world and to support the study of the issue in various UN forums.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
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“I urge you to re-examine the UN’s approach to the issue and begin by sharing the story of 850,000 Jewish refugees deported from Arab countries and Iran in all forums of the organization,” Erdan wrote.
“Furthermore, the organization should promote an in-depth investigation into the tragedy of the Jewish refugees. Only after correcting this historic injustice can the UN really begin to achieve its goals.”
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