

While for millennia Jews lived with unbroken continuity in the land of Israel, many Jews also lived in neighboring countries, predating the birth of Islam and the Arab conquest, occupation and colonization of the region. You may have missed this, since the squelching of speech for pro-Israel voices on college campuses is no longer of media interest. She was prevented from speaking of her ancestry for Mizrahi Heritage Week.


In another effort to shut down the truth of the Jewish people, a few weeks ago an Israeli Mizrahi speaker was “cancelled” by anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian forces at the United Kingdom’s Warwick University. The Palestinians reject the ancestry of any Jews-European or Mizrahi-in the region, and certainly did not welcome any of them back home. Surely neither Mizrahi Jews nor Palestinians would embrace Hill’s bizarre connection-especially since most of the 850,000 post-1947 Mizrahi refugees were forced by Arabs from their homes in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Morocco, Iran and Egypt.
