Steve QJ
1 min readFeb 1, 2025

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I trust that you can see how utterly different this is, right?

There is no "Armenian homeland" that these people could possibly be moving to, there ws no concerted campaign to encourage them to move there, there was no conflict that specifically drove Jews out of Muslim majority countries, in fact, Jewish population increased in some Muslim countries at points during that period.

Again, and for the last time because it seems as if you're simply not willing to hear this, I am not arguing that push factors weren't a factor. I'm not saying that Jews weren't targeted or that this targeting wasn't wrong. I'm not arguing with the term "ethnic cleansing" to describe what happened to some Jews during that period. I'm saying that simply looking at numbers of population decreasing, without taking a holistic look at the factors that led to those declines, is braindead.

As I've already said, and again, am now saying for the last time, the Jewish population declines in Middle Eastern countries are often presented as de facto evidence of pogroms and ethnic cleansing. This is a simplistic, dishonest and manipulative framing of what happened.

Again, the person I was responding to literally included Gaza in his anaylsis of Jewish population decline. If you don't see clearly how ridiculous that is, I'm wasting my time talking to you.

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Steve QJ
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