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CHAPTER FOUR
 
The Zionists secured their so-called “Jewish State”. But they still needed to manufacture a Jewish majority. And so they conducted the Nakba, forcing around 750,000 Gentiles to flee.
This provoked a backlash, the Jewish Nakba – the displacement of around 850,000 Arab Jews, many of whom were left with no choice but to move to Israel.
The Mossad LeAliyah Bet and the Jewish Agency did what they could to encourage this migration – cajoling Jews into moving to the so-called “Jewish State” – downgrading Holocaust survivors to the status of “human material”, and preventing them from seeking refuge in other lands.
Their objective was chilling: To “liquidate” the Jewish Diaspora.
 
CHAPTER FIVE
 
The Arab Jews were treated with derision from the moment they arrived in Israel – sprayed with a toxic chemical, and thrown into overcrowded, unsanitary camps. Some remained in those places, which evolved into slums, while others were made to live in dangerous locales – acting as human shields. Tens-of-thousands of their children were subjected to hazardous doses of X-ray radiation. And almost all the adults were made to do hard labour – farming the worst soil, or working in one-factory towns – receiving lower wages […]“

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The ZIONISTS who HATE JEWS
Joss Sheldon
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Part 4: The Exploitation of the Mizrahim – How Joss Sheldon hijacks the history of Oriental Jews for his hate campaign

Anyone who thought that Joss Sheldon had already reached the lowest depths of rhetorical integrity in the first chapters of his work will be proven wrong in Chapters 4 and 5. Here, he ventures into one of the most complex and painful topics in Israeli social history: the flight, expulsion and subsequent integration of the Mizrahim (Jews from the Middle East and North Africa).

What, in the hands of historically reputable authors, constitutes a nuanced analysis of the causes of flight, state failure, paternalism and painful integration crises, degenerates in Sheldon’s work into a single anti-Semitic circular argument: The victims are to blame, the persecutors are exonerated, and the Zionist state is declared the diabolical mastermind behind their own suffering.

Let us dissect Sheldon’s method by examining his central claims.

1. The exoneration of the persecuting states

Sheldon describes the expulsion of around 850,000 Jews from the Arab states in a single, offhand sentence:

“This provoked a backlash, the Jewish Nakba – the displacement of around 850,000 Arab Jews […]”

With this phrasing, Sheldon pulls off a breathtaking reversal of perpetrator and victim:

• Exonerating the dictatorships: The Arab regimes – from Iraq and Egypt to Libya and Syria – are completely absolved of responsibility for state-organised pogroms, expropriations, the revocation of citizenship and executions. The expulsion of the Jews is rewritten as an ‘understandable human reaction’ (backlash) to the events of 1948.
• The erasure of chronology: Sheldon deliberately ignores the fact that state and societal anti-Semitism in many of these countries did not suddenly appear out of the blue in 1948. The bloody pogrom in Baghdad (Farhud) took place in 1941 – fuelled by Nazi German propaganda and the Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini, years before the founding of the State of Israel.
• Collective responsibility as a principle: By portraying the expulsion of Jewish civilians from Iraq, Yemen or Egypt as a ‘logical consequence’, Sheldon adopts precisely the logic of the anti-Semitic persecutors: anyone who is Jewish is personally responsible for everything that happens in Palestine.

2. Rescue as a conspiracy: The fairy tale of the ‘liquidation of the Diaspora’

To prevent the mass emigration of the Mizrahim from appearing as a rescue from imminent persecution, Sheldon must fabricate a conspiracy. He claims that the Jewish Agency and the Mossad LeAliyah Bet forced the Jews out of their home countries in order to ‘liquidate’ the Diaspora.

• The reality of emergency operations: Historical airlifts such as Operation Ezra and Nehemiah (Iraq) or Operation Magic Carpet (Yemen) were responses to imminent threats of pogroms and harassment. In 1950, the Jewish communities in Iraq and Yemen were facing economic and physical ruin. They were not ‘persuaded’ by the Jewish Agency – they fled for their very survival.
• The concealed asylum blockade: The fact that almost a million displaced Mizrahim, as well as Holocaust survivors in European DP camps, fled to Israel was due not least to the fact that Western states – foremost among them the USA and the UK – kept their borders largely hermetically sealed to Jewish refugees. Sheldon twists this global denial of asylum into a sinister Zionist plot.

3. DDT, tent camps and rationing: the logic of emergency management versus the racial myth

Chapter 5 reads like a catalogue of horrors. Sheldon lists DDT spraying, squalid camps (Ma’abarot) and forced labour to paint a picture in which Ashkenazi Jews kept their Oriental co-religionists as slaves and subjected them to biological harassment.

This is where Sheldon’s most venomous technique comes to the fore: he takes real historical hardships and strips them completely of their context.

• The miracle of logistics: Israel, which had only just been founded and had been impoverished by the War of Independence, doubled its population within a few years. There was no infrastructure, no housing and hardly any food (the era of Tzena rationing).
• The emergency shelters (Ma’abarot): The tent and barrack camps were not ‘concentration camps for Mizrahim’, but the result of a complete shortage of resources. Eastern European Shoah survivors suffered just as much under the appalling conditions in these camps as Jewish families from Morocco or Iraq.
• DDT as standard medical practice: Spraying with DDT may seem humiliating from today’s perspective. In the 1940s and 1950s, however, it was the global medical standard set by the WHO for combating typhus and typhoid fever during mass migrations. It was a necessary public health measure, not a racist act.

4. The Exploitation of Trauma: Ringworm and the Yemeni Children

Sheldon’s argument becomes particularly repugnant where he misuses real, tragic chapters of Israeli history for his hate-mongering:

• Radiation treatment for ringworm (Ringworm Affair): Sheldon mutters about “dangerous doses of radiation” for tens of thousands of Mizrahi children. What happened? Ringworm (Tinea capitis) was a highly contagious fungal infection. From the 1920s through to the 1950s, X-ray radiation was considered the only effective treatment in the USA, France, Canada and Israel. The fact that this led to cancer in some patients decades later was a dramatic long-term medical consequence – and not intentional. Sheldon turns a global medical error into a Zionist crime.
• The Yemenite Children Affair: The allegation that Ashkenazi doctors systematically stole babies from Yemenite mothers in order to give them to ‘more worthy’ Europeans. Here, too, Sheldon ignores the findings of several independent Israeli commissions of inquiry: The chaos in the field hospitals, glaring bureaucratic shortcomings and the often paternalistic and condescending attitude of many doctors led to traumatic misunderstandings and parents who were not informed. To this day, there is not a single piece of evidence to support a state-organised ‘child abduction’.

Conclusion: Historical falsification as a weapon

Joss Sheldon is not concerned with the Mizrahim. He has no interest in their culture, their history of suffering or their integration into Israeli society. For him, the Mizrahim are merely pawns in an anti-Semitic game.

He misappropriates the very real wounds and debates within Israeli society in order to morally delegitimise the Jewish state’s right to exist. By excusing the expulsion from the Arab world and portraying the rescue to Israel as a crime, he carries out the final distortion: The persecutors are exonerated, and the place of refuge is declared a prison.

Anyone who engages in such historical falsification is not practising journalism or history. They are engaging in classic propaganda. And that is precisely why we will not let him get away with it.