http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=9512

Transfer

We talk about his life in Iraq. “When I was in secondary school in Basra in the 1940s around a third of the students in my class were Jewish.

Later, when Israel was created in 1948, the Israelis did a deal with the Iraqi government to transfer the Iraqi Jews to Israel.

“Half a million were transferred. The Iraqi government got a £5 commission for every ticket they sold to an Iraqi Jew to go to Israel.

“Today the young generation in Israel aren’t taught about their roots in the Arab world, even though their grandparents may have come from there.”