Justice for Jewish refugees from Arab Lands
by Justice for Jewish refugees from Arab lands Thursday, Mar. 20, 2008 at 7:18 AM

The forgotten refugees

Justice for Jews from Arab Lands


The 900,000 Jews kicked out of Arab lands are the forgotten refugees of the conflict in the Middle East

Appearing in Geneva before the United Nations Human Rights Council on March 18, 2008, will be Regina Bublil Waldman, a Jewish refugee who fled Libya in 1967, in fear of her life.
Celebrating her heritage, Mrs. Waldman will be testifying wearing her grandmother' s Libyan wedding dress. At the same time, she will be "mourning" the loss of her heritage, as in 1948, there were 36,000 Jews living in Libya. Today, there are none left.
Mrs. Waldman will share traumatic and painful experiences from her native country:

-She was 6 years old when her madrassah teacher asked: "If you have 10 Jews, and you kill five of them, how many Jews do you have left to kill?
-She will testify, how, as a teenager, during the 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and the Arab world, her Libyan neighbors took to the streets shouting, "Edbah el Yehud!" (Slaughter the Jews!).

Mrs. Bublil Waldman will be representing Justice for Jews from Arab Countries (JJAC), which seeks rights and redress for Jews displaced from Arab countries.
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Justice for Jews from Arab Countries (JJAC) is a coalition of 77 Jewish communal organizations operating under the auspices of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the American Sephardi Federation in partnership with the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, Anti-Defamation League, Bnai Brith International, the Jewish Public Council for Public Affairs and the World Sephardic Congress.

Justice for Jews from Arab Countries (JJAC)
15 West 16th Street - 6th Fl. - New York, NY 10011 - USA
Phone: 917-606-8262 Fax: 212-294-8348 info(at)justiceforjews.com

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