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"In 1656, all Jews were expelled from Isfahan and forced to convert to Islam because of a common belief that their Jewishness was impure."
"in 1661 they were allowed to revert to Judaism, although they were still required to wear a distinctive patch on their clothing."

[–] LaChaleurDeLaNuit@lemmy.world -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Meh, if you can call the dhimmi status a peaceful life, yeah I guess.

Anyway as soon as a Jewish state was declared, all the Arab countries attacked it, I wonder why. So now they didn't want Jews in their Arab countries, and they didn't want them in their Jewish country. So where exactly were they supposed to live?

[–] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They didn't want a Jewish colonial state to start annexing Arab land and to drive out the native Arabs, which is exactly what has happened.

[–] i3c8XHV@aussie.zone -3 points 10 months ago

I don't think the word "colonial" means what you think it means.

But just to make sure, what do you think the word colonial means?

[–] LaChaleurDeLaNuit@lemmy.world -5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean colonial? Jews are indigenous to Judea and they've never left. All the lands were either bought to Arabs or conquered after wars that the Arabs themselves started.

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Even in the first century, about half the Jews lived outside Judea and it went down from there. And it's not like they were displaced by moslems. They just left.