The “legacy media” refuses to tell you one of the greatest immigration stories — and what it says about battles taking place in the United States today. I explain in the latest episode of They Stand Corrected.
You’ll hear from two survivors of The Farhud, one of many horrific pogroms against Jews across Arab and Muslim nations in the 20th century. Major news organizations don’t bring these up. Few who work for and run these news agencies even know this history, which refutes the world’s most popular myth.
Survivors built a successful, modern nation rather than passing down a permanent sense of aggrieved, entitled victimhood. Without understanding this, there’s no understanding today’s Middle East or the misguided battle over a pro-Islamist terror radical who wants to stay in the United States.
Speaking to the USC Shoah Foundation, Ruth Pearl, who was 6 during the Farhud in Iraq, recalled:
“Tanks started to spray bullets… One probably inches from my mother who was holding my baby sister… My father said, ‘We'll go downstairs one by one.’ I was getting understanding of strategy here, that they don't want us to be killed more than one at a time.”
Steve Acre climbed a tree and saw hordes of people with swords and rifles screaming in Arabic, “Cut the throat of the Jews.”
“I just couldn't understand… What the hell did I do at nine years old they would kill me?… That whole evening and night, fires are all over. And still, screams (of) people being murdered and raped.”
This is reality. It’s history. Jewish survivors fled to the one place they could, becoming by far the largest population in Israel. The number of Jewish people who lost everything in Muslim nations’ pogroms is much larger than the number of Arab people living under British-mandated Palestine who lost land during Israel’s war for survival.
Amazingly, Israel’s founders chose democracy — at a time when doing so was rare. Israel is one of the world’s oldest democracies. This is the place that pro-terror “protesters” want you to loathe. People like Mahmoud Khalil from Columbia University, who has led a group engaging in horrible behaviors. I’ll discuss the disastrous coverage of his case on the episode coming out this week.
It’s time to tell the media: You have it backward.
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