Farhud
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Farhud refers to the pogrom or "violent dispossession" carried out against the Jewish population of Baghdad, Iraq, on June 1–2, 1941, immediately following the British victory in the Anglo-Iraqi War. The riots occurred in a power vacuum following the collapse of the anti-British government of Rashid Ali, while the city was in a state of instability. The violence came immediately after the rapid defeat by the British of Rashid Ali, whose earlier coup had generated a short period of national euphoria, and was charged by allegations that Iraqi Jews had aided the British. Over 180 Jews were killed and 1,000 injured, and up to 300-400 non-Jewish rioters were killed in the attempt to quell the violence.
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See also
- 1945 Anti-Jewish riots in Tripolitania
- 1947 Aden riots
- Antisemitism in the Arab world
- Islam and antisemitism
- List of massacres in Iraq
- Shafiq Ades
- The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism
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