Rachel Wahba

Social media enabled Mizrahi activists to amplify our stories. And yet, too many people are mystified, what is a Mizrahi Jew? And what exactly happened, did something happen that emptied the Arab nations of its Jews? Do we have a word for the forced exodus of one million Jews from Arab lands in the 1950s -1960s? Both Nishul and Yom HaGirush speak to dispossession – the massive rip-off of all assets, nationality, and everything familiar from most of the million Jews from nativ