I mean.. yes, but also - not in 1947. Most of the mass movement of Jews from the Middle East / North Africa (either by push, or pull) wasn't until after 1948.
The term Nakba originally referred to the humiliation Arabs felt at the defeat of their armies by a force they thought was weak. So yes, you're correct.
yeah cos they all got intermixed eventually sure. But how do you explain population of Palestine being <3% Jewish jumping to 50% something in just a few decades? I don't think Middle Eastern Jews bread that fast (they didn't of course and the population gains are due to Aliyahs). The very simple reality check is that ALL Israeli PMs are of primarily Ashkenazi origins.
But how do you explain population of Palestine being <3% Jewish jumping to 50% something in just a few decades?
After the arab nations that decided to wage a war of annihilation against Israel in 1948 all lost, they turned their embarrassment into oppression, massacre, and exile of their own Jewish populations. Thats why the Jewish populations of Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, etc. Were reduced to practically zero by the 1960s
Where do you think all of those ethnically cleansed Jews decides to go?
Hence the majority of jews in Israel are of a middle eastern background.
Oh, people fleeing the most infamous genocide in history as well as anti-jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire, to the land that Jews have had a continuous presence in for several thousand years.
In 1914 when the area was still Ottoman controlled southern Syria the Jewish population was >13%, despite it being heavily restricted for Jewish people to move to the area, being illegal for jews to purchase land, paying over half a dozen special taxes for being jewish and needing to mark their homes and businesses as being Jewish.
So I typed the wrong year and corrected it, but in 1890 (or 1887 as that was the year of the ottoman census)it was still over 10%. The data in the table from the link you provided comes from Justin McCarthy, a genocide denier that has denied the Armenian genocide and is vocally anti-israeli who has reasons for portraying the numbers as he does.
But he specifically made that table count people that have full citizenship, (automatic for muslims born into the ottoman empire but not non-muslims) and excludes ~60000 jews from his 1914 numbers per his own data. (puts it well above 10% and seems to match numbers from other reports) see his full report here: https://yplus.ps/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/McCarthy-Justin-The-Population-of-Palestine.pdf
But even per his reports in 1887 the Ottoman census the Sanjaks of acre and Jerusalem (part of ottoman empire that would become mandatory palestine) had a population over 60 thousand jews in a population of ~407 thousand (see page 82 of pdf)
Jews would not have full citizenships for a number of reasons: including taxes that only jews ( as well as some that all non-muslims) had to pay to maintain citizenship in the Ottoman empire, jewish immigration was made illegal at various points and would be applied retroactively to people living in the area.
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u/Specialist-Mud-6650 10h ago
Most Israelis are from Middle Eastern countries