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===Jewish Exodus From Arab and Muslim Countries=== | ===Jewish Exodus From Arab and Muslim Countries=== | ||
Nazi incitement in Arabia and Arab colonized lands throughout the rest of the MENA region, compounded by the re-establishment of Israel in 1948 resulted in an Arab axis aggression against both the '''newly reborn Jewish state and the Jewish communities in their midst'''. After the resulting 1948 Arab–Israeli War, about 700,000 Jews residing in other parts of the Middle East were expelled or fled from their countries of residence, and were subsequently dispossessed of nearly all of their property. The majority of these Jewish refugees made aliyah to '''Israel''', or immigrated to France and the United States. By the Yom Kippur War of 1973, most of the Jewish communities throughout the Arab World, as well as Pakistan and Afghanistan, were practically non-existent. A total of 800,000–1,000,000 diaspora Jews left or fled from their homes in the Arab world, or were driven out in the Jewish exodus (1948-1972). As of today, less than 4,500 Jews live in the Arab world. In total, of the 900,000 Jews who left Arab and other Muslim countries, 600,000 settled in the '''new state of Israel''', and 300,000 migrated to France and the United States. <ref>"Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_Arab_and_Muslim_countries, accessed 12 June 2021.</ref> | Nazi incitement in Arabia and Arab colonized lands throughout the rest of the MENA region, compounded by the re-establishment of Israel in 1948 resulted in an Arab axis aggression against both the '''newly reborn Jewish state and the Jewish communities in their midst'''. After the resulting 1948 Arab–Israeli War, about 700,000 Jews residing in other parts of the Middle East were expelled or fled from their countries of residence, and were subsequently dispossessed of nearly all of their property. The majority of these Jewish refugees made aliyah to '''Israel''', or immigrated to France and the United States. By the Yom Kippur War of 1973, most of the Jewish communities throughout the Arab World, as well as Pakistan and Afghanistan, were practically non-existent. A total of 800,000–1,000,000 diaspora Jews left or fled from their homes in the Arab world, or were driven out in the Jewish exodus (1948-1972). As of today, less than 4,500 Jews live in the Arab world. In total, of the 900,000 Jews who left Arab and other Muslim countries, 600,000 settled in the '''new state of Israel''', and 300,000 migrated to France and the United States. <ref>"Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_Arab_and_Muslim_countries, accessed 12 June 2021.</ref> | ||
==Emigration== | |||
===Palestinian Diaspora=== | |||
*Palestinian individuals have a long history of migration. For instance, silk workers from Tiberias are mentioned in 13th-century Parisian tax records. However, the '''first large emigration wave of Arab Christians out of Palestine''' began in the mid-19th century; factors driving the emigration included economic opportunities, avoiding forced military service, and localized conflicts such as the 1860 civil conflict in Mount Lebanon and Damascus. | |||
*Since the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Palestinians have experienced several waves of exile and have spread into different host countries around the world. In addition to the more than 700,000 Palestinian refugees of 1948, hundreds of thousands were also displaced in the 1967 Six-Day War. | |||
*After 1967, a number of young Palestinian men were encouraged to migrate to South America.[ | |||
*Besides those displaced by war, others have emigrated overseas for various reasons such as work opportunity, education, and religious persecution. In the decade following the 1967 war, for example, an average of 21,000 Palestinians per year were forced out of Israeli-controlled areas. The pattern of Palestinian flight continued during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. | |||
*According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the number of Palestinians worldwide at the end of 2003 was 9.6 million, an increase of 800,000 since 2001. | |||
*The issue of the '''Palestinian right of return''' has been of central importance to Palestinians and more broadly the Arab world since 1948. It is the dream of many in the Palestinian diaspora, and is present most strongly in '''Palestinian refugee camps'''. In the largest such camp in '''Lebanon''', Ain al-Hilweh, '''neighborhoods are named for the Galilee towns and villages''' from which the original refugees came, such as '''Az-Zeeb, Safsaf and Hittin'''. Even though 97% of the camp's inhabitants have never seen the towns and villages their parents and grandparents left behind, most insist that the right of return is an inalienable right and one that they will never renounce. | |||
*It is estimated that more than 6 million Palestinians live in a global diaspora. The countries outside the Palestinian territories with significant Palestinian populations are: | |||
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*Jordan 3,240,000 | |||
*Israel 1,650,000 | |||
*Syria 630,000 | |||
*Chile 500,000 (largest Palestinian community outside the Middle East) | |||
*Lebanon 402,582 | |||
*Saudi Arabia 280,245 | |||
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*Egypt 270,245 | |||
*United States 255,000 (the largest concentrations in Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles) | |||
*Honduras 250,000 | |||
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*Guatemala est. 200,000 | |||
*Mexico 120,000 | |||
*Qatar 100,000 | |||
*Germany 80,000 | |||
*Kuwait 80,000 | |||
*El Salvador 70,000 | |||
*Brazil 59,000 | |||
*Iraq 57,000 | |||
*Yemen 55,000 | |||
*Canada 50,975 | |||
*Australia 45,000 | |||
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==The Israel Genealogy Research Association Online Records== | ==The Israel Genealogy Research Association Online Records== | ||