Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection (2002)

Name: Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2016-09-27T18:01:26+02:00
Cast: Shimon Ballas, Moshe Houri, Sami Michael

Documentary | 112 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 112 minuten

Country: Germany / Switzerland

Directed by: Samir

Stars: Shimon Ballas, Moshe Houri, Sami Michael

IMDb score: 7,8 (88)

Releasedate: 1 January 2002

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Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs - The Iraqi Connection plot

After the Jewish state was proclaimed in 1948, more than half a million Jews from all over the world moved to Israel. Nearly a quarter of them came from Iraq, the so-called Mizrahim, Oriental Jews, who had been home there for three thousand years. Many of them left not because of Zionist conviction, but because of pogroms and discriminatory legislation. Samir, son of Iraqi immigrants in Switzerland, visited a number of Iraqi Jews in Israel. His lead was the Iraqi communist party - the strongest communist party in the Middle East - of which his father was a member at the time in Iraq.