Farhud
The Farhud was a pogrom against the Jews of Baghdad on 1–2 June 1941, following the collapse of Rashid Ali al-Gailani’s pro-Axis government. Iraqi soldiers and policemen, nationalist youths and other rioters participated in killings, rape and looting.[1]
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum gives 150–180 Jews murdered, about 600 injured and roughly 1,500 homes and businesses looted. It separately records the Iraqi commission of inquiry’s figure of 128 Jewish deaths. The different counts reflect distinct accounts of the same pogrom.[1]
The museum links the violence to anti-British nationalism, Nazi propaganda and the portrayal of Iraqi Jews as Zionist collaborators.[1]
The wider chronology is covered in Antisemitic violence in the Arab world before 1948.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “The Farhud”.
