The Blasts of Baghdad (1950 – 1951) and Attitudes of Iraq Government and The Zionist

The Blasts of Baghdad (1950 – 1951) and Attitudes of Iraq Government and The Zionist

Section: Article
Issue
Vol. 6 No. 21.1 (2026): Al-Hamdaniya Conference
Pages
790-767

Keywords:

Terrorism, Zionism, Baghdad, bombings, Mordechai Ben-Porat

Abstract





And because it was difficult to convince the members of the Jewish community in Iraq to immigrate to The Zionist entity, the Zionists found no way but to practice violence against them, claiming that those behind that violence were Muslims, and the purpose of that was to make them feel insecure, and that they were unwanted people from the rest Iraqis. Accordingly, Baghdad witnessed a series of explosions during the period (1950-1951), which followed the issuance of legislation to withdraw Iraqi citizenship from Jews, and the Iraqi security forces were unable to detect the perpetrators of the incident until the majority of the Jewish emigrated. At a time when The Zionist entity tried to absolve its members of this stigma, the Iraqi government issued sentences against the Zionist terrorists who committed those bombings, sentences that are not commensurate with the gravity of the crime.





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Essa Fadel Nazzaal

college of Arts/Department of History/University of Mosul

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