The Islamic Ethnic Cleansing of the Middle East's Jews

One cannot make the argument in good faith that Israel is "colonial". It can only be made by deciding, in advance, that certain people don't count.

A famous photo of Yemenite Jews traveling by foot to Israel in 1949.

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by Matt Field
June 10, 2026

The German ambassador to Egypt works out of a house that used to belong to a Jewish family. So does the Swiss ambassador. So does the American one. The homes were confiscated in 1956, when the Egyptian government declared, in a proclamation read aloud from the minarets of Cairo and Alexandria, that all Jews were Zionists and enemies of the state.

The families were given one suitcase. They signed documents “donating” everything else to the government. Then they left. The houses are still there; the families are not.

This is where the argument about Israel begins — not in Europe, but here.

There is a story told about Israel with remarkable confidence in universities, at the United Nations, in the opinion se…