The Second Exodus: How 850,000 Jews Were Erased From the Arab World

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In 1948 there were 38,000 Jews in Libya. Today there are none. Across the Arab world, some 850,000 Jews — communities that predated Islam by a thousand years — were driven out, dispossessed, and denationalized in barely three decades. Most of the world has never heard the story. Dr. Henry Green, founder of Sephardi Voices and emeritus professor at the University of Miami, has spent more than fifteen years recording the testimonies of those who lived it. In this conversation with Ben Chertoff, he traces how the Jews of Baghdad, Benghazi, Cairo, Casablanca, Aleppo and beyond went from flourishing — at one point Jews were 35–40% of Baghdad — to gone: the Farhud, the rise of the Mufti, Nazi propaganda in Arabic, the great rescue operations, the ma'abarot transit camps, and the long erasure of an entire refugee history. Henry explains why this exodus was left out of the textbooks, what justice might look like, and why his new work puts a forensic dollar figure on what was taken — work he carried to the UN in Geneva in September 2025. And he closes with the story of a young Hillel president who found her own grandparents in the Sephardi Voices archive and wept. Guest: Dr. Henry Green — founder, Sephardi Voices; emeritus professor of Religious & Judaic Studies, University of Miami. Co-author of Sephardi Voices: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from the Arab Lands (2021, with Richard Sternberg) and author of new work, The Forgotten Exodus of Arab Jews, presenting a forensic valuation of seized Jewish assets. * The scale of the exodus: From 150,000 to 3 Jews in Iraq, 38,000 to 0 Jews in Libya * Indigeneity and antiquity — the Talmud written in Babylon; "I'm a Babylonian Jew" * Life as dhimmi under Islam vs. persecution in Christian Europe * The Farhud (1941 Baghdad pogrom) and Nazi reach into the Arab world * Baghdad's golden age — Jews 35–40% of the city; the Zilkha banking family * The rescue operations: Magic Carpet (Yemen) and Ezra and Nehemiah (Iraq) * The ma'avarot transit camps and the dominant Ashkenazi diaspora narrative * Antisemitism vs. anti-Israel * The Abraham Accords and Morocco's reckoning * Recognition, justice, and reparations; the case taken to the UN in Geneva, September 2025 Notable quotes * "Libya in 1948 had 38,000 Jews. Today there are zero." * "I'm a Babylonian Jew." / "How can I deny that I'm Iraqi? I've been there for 3,000 years." * "I have no Jews. I only have Moroccans." — the King of Morocco * "Why would a million people leave in 30 years? That is ethnic cleansing." * "You can't talk about one refugee story without the other."

Follow the Money: How the Muslim Brotherhood Bought a Seat in America's Schools | With Dr. Charles Asher Small

In 2012, Dr. Charles Asher Small pulled an all-nighter at Stanford, started googling a Yale administrator, and stumbled onto a money trail that became one of the most consequential antisemitism research projects in the West. The founder of ISGAP — which he launched in 2003 alongside Elie Wiesel — joins Ben Chertoff to lay out what he found: an estimated $100 billion in undisclosed Qatari money flowing into American universities, $10 billion to Cornell, $1.3 billion to Texas A&M, a K-12 curriculum in 8,000 American classrooms that erased Israel from the map, and a campus-to-City-Hall pipeline that runs all the way to the mayor of New York. We also press him on the hardest question: where the documented paper trail ends and connect-the-dots begins. * ISGAP: https://isgap.org [https://isgap.org] — publications free to the public. * "Follow the Money" project — Qatar / Muslim Brotherhood university funding research. * DETERRENT Act — federal bill (passed the House, before the Senate) lowering the foreign-gift disclosure threshold from $250K to $50K. * New (May 2026) ISGAP report — "Institutional Capture: Qatar Foundation International": https://isgap.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/QFI-US-Report.pdf [https://isgap.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/QFI-US-Report.pdf] — published the day after this taping; documents $65.3M across 220 K-12/education programs (2009–2025). * (00:00) - — Cold open:** "$10 billion to Cornell" — the white-sheets vs. keffiyehs analogy. * (00:47) - — Who is Charles Small & what is ISGAP:** 23 years tracing Qatar's money into American universities. * (01:16) - — The 2012 discovery:** A Yale administrator, a Stanford all-nighter, and the thread that became "Follow the Money." * (03:26) - — 2003 & Elie Wiesel:** Co-founding ISGAP at the UN — "a time of a great emergency." * (05:14) - — Mamdani, SJP & what the Muslim Brotherhood actually is:** From a Bowdoin chapter to City Hall; the Protocols at the core of the ideology. * (08:25) - — Why the West keeps missing it:** The "failure of imagination" and the 50-year strategic goal. * (11:17) - — Inside "Follow the Money":** $3 billion → $18 billion → $100 billion; the Qatar–Muslim Brotherhood oath. * (16:59) - — How the research works:** Texas A&M's $1.3B contract, Georgetown, and $10B to Cornell — all open-source. * (19:29) - — Columbia reported $0:** The disclosure laws on the books since WWII that no one enforces. * (22:26) - — The 300% statistic:** Soft power, correlation vs. causation, and a university's "sacred responsibility." * (26:23) - — The DETERRENT Act:** Where the federal investigations stand now. * (28:15) - — K-12 capture:** Brown's "Choices" curriculum in 8,000+ American classrooms. * (31:19) - — How campus ideas filter into society:** Edward Said, and the chilling parallel to the 19th-century academy. * (33:59) - — The Columbia teach-in, 10 days after October 7:** When gender-studies professors called the massacre "justified." * (38:18) - — The Red-Green coalition & Judith Butler:** Why the radical left and Islamists converge. * (43:35) - — Soft power, silence & the Iran test:** The pogrom that the campus left wouldn't condemn. * (47:41) - — Where else the money lands:** Al Jazeera, the Qatar–CNN deal, Northwestern, social media. * (49:13) - — JVP, SJP & Neville Singham's network:** Following the money behind "Jewish Voice for Peace." * (51:41) - — Mamdani:** "Of course he knows what he's doing." * (55:40) - — Allies in the Arab world & the three centers of the Brotherhood:** Qatar (money), Turkey (command), London (laundering). * (57:13) - — How do you fight an idea?:** Lessons from defeating communism and fascism. * (01:00:43) - — What's next for ISGAP:** New reports on Canada, the UK, South Africa — and the Muslim Brotherhood terror designation. * (01:03:37) - — Where to find ISGAP's work.** * (01:04:10) - — Ben's close:** "The emergency didn't arrive by accident." Click here to view the episode transcript. [https://share.transistor.fm/s/a2cab599/transcript]

2 de jun de 20261 h 5 min

The Second Exodus: How 850,000 Jews Were Erased From the Arab World | Dr. Henry Green

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