What Avi Shlaim gets wrong about the persecution of Jews in Iraq
From our UK edition
In his Spectator review of Avi Shlaim’s memoir Three Worlds, Justin Marozzi refers to the author’s claims about the 1950-51 terrorist bombings of Jewish targets in Baghdad: 'Shlaim’s bombshell is to uncover what he terms "undeniable proof of Zionist involvement in the terrorist attacks", which helped terminate the millennial presence of Jews in Babylon’. Marozzi calls these claims ‘controversial’ but he doesn’t delve into just how controversial. The charge is that Zionists attacked Iraqi Jews in order to encourage them to flee to Israel. There are several problems with this theory.
