The Forgotten Refugees: The Jewish Nakba

When the world discusses Middle Eastern refugees after 1948, one story dominates the conversation.But there was another mass displacement that reshaped the region forever.In this episode, Avi Kaner examines the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of more than 850,000 Jews from countries across the Middle East and North Africa following the creation of the State of Israel.From Baghdad, where Jews once made up roughly one-third of the city’s population, to Cairo, Aleppo, Tripoli, and Sana’a, ancient Jewish communities that had existed for centuries, and in some cases millennia, rapidly disappeared.The episode also explores the expulsion of Jews from Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter in 1948, the destruction of synagogues under Jordanian control, and the return of Jews to their homes after the 1967 Six-Day War.A story about forgotten refugees, historical memory, sovereignty, and the reshaping of Israel itself.