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broolyn13, Ok, more whataboutism, and history. Why not. Understandably you know more about this
than i, but like i said it's good to be going over old and relearning more. Up at 1am. Couldn't sleep.

Jewish exodus from the Muslim world

The Jewish exodus from the Muslim world was the migration, departure, flight and expulsion of around 900,000 Jews from Arab countries and Iran,[1] mainly from 1948 to the early 1970s, though with one final exodus from Iran in 1979–80 following the Iranian Revolution. An estimated 650,000 of the departees settled in Israel.[1]

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[INSERT: Why "mainly from 1948? Oh, that's right, 1948 is the year Zionist Israel declared independence! Of course, Arab persecution of Jews in their countries apparently intensified then. Was it because of the birth of the stranger in their midst? And Palestinian exodus. And subsequent wars. Umm. .

History of Israel.

The late 19th century saw the widespread consolidation of a Jewish nationalist movement known as Zionism, as part of which aliyah (Jewish return to the Land of Israel from the diaspora) increased. During World War I, the Sinai and Palestine campaign of the Allies led to the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. Britain was granted control of the region by League of Nations mandate, in what became known as Mandatory Palestine. The British government publicly committed itself to the creation of a Jewish homeland. Arab nationalism opposed this design, asserting Arab rights over the former Ottoman territories and seeking to prevent Jewish migration. As a result, Arab–Jewish tensions grew in the succeeding decades of British administration.

In 1948, the Israeli Declaration of Independence sparked the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, which resulted in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight and subsequently led to waves of Jewish emigration from other parts of the Middle East. Today, approximately 43 percent of the global Jewish population resides in Israel. In 1979, the Egypt–Israel peace treaty was signed, based on the Camp David Accords. In 1993, Israel signed the Oslo I Accord with the Palestine Liberation Organization, which was followed by the establishment of the Palestinian National Authority. In 1994, the Israel–Jordan peace treaty was signed. Despite efforts to finalize the peace agreement, the conflict continues to play a major role in Israeli and international political, social, and economic life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Israel ]
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A number of small-scale Jewish migrations began in many Middle Eastern countries early in the 20th century with the only substantial aliyah (immigration to the area today known as Israel) coming from Yemen and Syria.[2] Few Jews from Muslim countries immigrated during the period of Mandatory Palestine.[3] Prior to the creation of Israel in 1948, approximately 800,000 Jews were living in lands that now make up the Arab world. Of these, just under two-thirds lived in French- and Italian-controlled North Africa, 15–20% in the Kingdom of Iraq, approximately 10% in the Kingdom of Egypt and approximately 7% in the Kingdom of Yemen. A further 200,000 lived in Pahlavi Iran and the Republic of Turkey.

The first large-scale exoduses took place in the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from Iraq, Yemen and Libya. In these cases over 90% of the Jewish population left, despite the necessity of leaving their property behind.[4] Between 1948 and 1951, 260,000 Jews immigrated to Israel from Arab countries.[5] The Israeli government's policy to accommodate 600,000 immigrants over four years, doubling the existing Jewish population,[6] encountered mixed reactions in the Knesset; there were those within the Jewish Agency and government who opposed promoting a large-scale emigration movement among Jews whose lives were not in danger.[6]

Later waves peaked at different times in different regions over the subsequent decades. The peak of the exodus from Egypt occurred in 1956 following the Suez Crisis. The emigrations from the other North African Arab countries peaked in the 1960s. Lebanon was the only Arab country to see a temporary increase in its Jewish population during this period, due to an influx of Jews from other Arab countries, although by the mid-1970s the Jewish community of Lebanon had also dwindled. Six hundred thousand Jews from Arab and Muslim countries had reached Israel by 1972,[7][8][9][10] while 300,000 migrated to France and the United States. In Israel, the descendants of the Jewish immigrants from the region, known locally as Mizrahi Jews ("Oriental"; lit.?'Eastern Jews') and Sephardic Jews ("Spanish Jews"), constitute more than half of the total population of Israel,[11] partially as a result of their higher fertility rate.[12] In 2009, only 26,000 Jews remained in Arab countries and Iran,[13] as well as 26,000 in Turkey.[14] By 2019, the total number of Jews in Arab countries and Iran had declined to 12,700,[15] and in Turkey to 14,800.[16]

The reasons for the exoduses are manifold, including pull factors, such as the desire to fulfill Zionist yearnings or find a better economic status and a secure home in Europe or the Americas and, in Israel, a policy change in favour of mass immigration focused on Jews from Arab and Muslim countries,[17] together with push factors, such as persecution, antisemitism, political instability,[18] poverty[18] and expulsion. The history of the exodus has been politicized, given its proposed relevance to the historical narrative of the Arab–Israeli conflict.[19][20] When presenting the history, those who view the Jewish exodus as analogous to the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight generally emphasize the push factors and consider those who left as refugees, while those who do not, emphasize the pull factors and consider them willing immigrants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_world

But that's all then isn't it. LOL You certainly cherry picked your Arab countries. Interestingly, for me, it does appear matters got worse in some of the four Arab countries you picked when Israel was born in Palestine, 1948. With the exodus of Palestinians, persecution of Jews in those countries you picked worsened. First, your cherries picked:

Jews in Islamic Countries: Iraq
[...]
In 2020, the U.S. State Department reported that as of 2019, there are fewer than six adult members in the Baghdad Jewish community. It was estimated there were 70 to 80 Jewish families in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. There are possibly more, but some Jewish families are afraid to publicly acknowledge their religion for fear of persecution and practice their faith in secret. Other Jews may have converted to Islam.
P - Many Jewish homes were seized by the Iraqi state before 2003, and Jewish schools, shops and synagogues across the country are mostly crumbling from lack of maintenance.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jews-of-iraq

Jews in Islamic Countries: Syria
[...]
The report cited the Jewish Chronicle’s conclusion that no Jews were known to be living in Syria. The Jerusalem Post, however, reported that four Jews remained in Damascus (two women and two men) after the president of the Jewish community died in September 2022.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jews-of-syria

Jews in Islamic Countries: Lebanon

When Christian Arabs ruled Lebanon, Jews enjoyed relative toleration. In the mid-50’s, approximately 7,000 Jews lived in Beirut. As Jews in an Arab country, however, their position was never secure, and the majority left in 1967.
[...]
In addition to the estimated 70 Jews living in the country, the State Department reported in its 2020 report that another 5,500 registered Jewish voters living abroad have the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
P - “The Ministry of Interior delayed the verification of the results of the Israeli Communal Council’s election of members that occurs every six years, according to the State Department. “The council has repeatedly submitted requests to change its government-appointed name to reduce stigma, with no success. The council blames its official name in part for the difficulties experienced with renewals every six years.”
P - “It is not taboo to be Jewish here,” Paul Taber, an associate professor of sociology at the Lebanese American University, told Al Jazeera in 2014. “But it is difficult, and that’s largely because of the the political climate in the region, especially the current policies of the Israeli state, such as the war in Gaza and settlements in the West Bank.”7
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jews-of-lebanon

Saved the largest population of Jews in the Middle East outside of Israel for last.

Jews in Islamic Countries: Iran
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The community leaders quickly assembled a group of two rabbis and four prominent young intellectuals and set off to meet with Ayatollah Khomeini in the Iranian city of Qom. After the group congratulated the Ayatollah on his victory over the Shah in the recent revolution, the Ayatollah gave a long monologue concluding by comparing Christianity, Islam, and Judaism and saying that they are the only religions that are truly descended from heaven. The Ayatollah stated that in the Qur’an Moses’s name is mentioned more times than the name of any other prophet. The discussion concluded with Ayatollah Khomeini claiming that “we recognize our Jews as separate from those godless, bloodsucking Zionists.” This was the answer that the Jewish community leaders had been looking for,
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Today, Iran’s Jewish population is the second largest in the Middle East, after Israel. Although there are active Jewish communities all around the country, Tehran’s community is the most significant.
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Today, there are 100 synagogues in Iran, 31 are in Tehran, 20 of which are active. Since 1994, there has been no rabbi in Iran, and the beit din does not function.4 The city has two Jewish kindergartens and a 100-bed capacity Jewish hospital. At the entrance to Sapir Hospital, there is a sign in Hebrew and Persian that says, “Love thy neighbor as yourself.”
P - The Islamization of the country brought about strict control over Jewish educational institutions. Before the revolution, there were some 20 Jewish schools functioning throughout the country. Most have been closed. Five remain in Tehran. Jewish principals have been replaced by Muslims. In Tehran, there are still three schools in which Jewish pupils constitute the majority. The curriculum is Islamic, and Hebrew is forbidden as the language of instruction for Jewish studies. Special Hebrew lessons are conducted on Fridays by the Orthodox Otzar ha-Torah organization, which is responsible for Jewish religious education. Saturday is no longer officially recognized as the Jewish sabbath, and Jewish pupils are compelled to attend school on that day. Jewish students who attend public school are required by the government to spend two to four hours a week on religious studies administered by the Jewish community.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jews-of-iran

*Let me return to the home in Poland where my family lived for generations before pogroms forced them to flee. Let the Aborigines return to the homes you stole from them and let the Native Americans return to the homes we destroyed.*

I think you would be freer to travel to Poland than most Palestinians in Gaza can travel to their homeland. Check:

Gaza Strip explained: Who controls it and what to know
The Hamas attack that has killed hundreds was launched from one of the most densely populated and impoverished strips of land in the world.
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Human Rights Watch likened the conditions in Gaza to “an open air prison,” referring to the restriction of movement Israel enforces on Palestinians there. Israel prohibits Palestinians from entering or leaving the area “except in extremely rare cases, which include urgent, life-threatening medical conditions and a very short list of merchants,” according to B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group.
P - Israelis, Jewish settlers and foreigners are not subject to those restrictions and are free to travel in and out of Gaza. Over the years, Israel has gradually closed land-border crossings from Gaza into Israel except for one — which is open only to Palestinians with Israeli-approved permits. Egypt sporadically closes its land-border crossing for months on end, which is often the only way people in Gaza can gain access to the rest of the world.
P - By limiting imports and nearly all exports, Israel’s 16-year blockade has driven Gaza's economy to near-collapse,...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/gaza-strip-controls-s-know-rcna119405

40 Miles From Auschwitz, Poland's Jewish Community Is Beginning to Thrive
By Yardena Schwartz / Krakow
February 27, 2019 11:00 AM EST
https://time.com/5534494/poland-jews-rebirth-anti-semitism/