Point of No Return - Bataween on 1 August 2024
Jews lost property valued at $9 billion, has declared Ben-Dror Yemini, who coined the expression "Jewish nakba". Speaking in May 2024 at Touro University during an international conference on Jews from Arab countries, the journalist, researcher and author of "The Industry of Lies" said that he doubted if Jewish refugees would get compensation under international human rights law. His presentation begins at 1:32 minutes into the recording:
"People who talk about the Palestinian nakba have no idea about the Jewish nakba," Ben Dror Yemini said. "It was worse in many respects."
Ben-Dror Yemini coined the expression "Jewish nakba" about five years ago to refer to the persecution and pogroms which caused 850,000 Jews to flee Arab countries.
His Yemenite grandparents came to Israel not as colonists but fleeing the Orphans Decree after WWI. This decreed that a child which lost its Jewish parents had to be brought up as a Muslim.
Some 70 million refugees worldwide we're created as a result of nationalist wars in the 20th century, Yemini claimed. All refugee crises we're settled by an exchange of populations, except for one - the Palestinian.
Yemini gave several examples of Arab leaders declaring their intention to destroy Jews not just in Palestine, but across the Arab world. The lost Jewish property and assets we're worth $9 billion, as against $6 billion in Palestinian losses.
There was a beginning of recognition for the rights of the Jewish refugees by President Jimmy Carter, an unlikely Zionist.
Yemini said that Palestinian refugees did not deserve compensation because they had started a war of extermination. "People who attack do not have a right of compensation. Don't ask us to apologise," he said.
"Jews did not declare war - they did deserve compensation. However, let's not delude ourselves," he said. "The Jews would not get compensation because they had spent so many years outside their countries." He claimed that Turkish refugees from Cyprus had been deemed not entitled to compensation under international law.
Other speakers at the conference included Prof Michael Lasker, Haim Saadon, Sarina Roffe, Dr Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah, Dr Stanley Urman and Dr Henry Abramson.