Zionists deny that Israel had any part in the ethnic cleansing of Iraq’s Jews in 1950 to encourage Jewish immigration to Israel. But a core aspect of their exodus is omitted: the role of the Israeli airline, Near East Air Transport

In “Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab Jew,” Avi Shlaim declares his identity clearly as an Arab Jew — an Arab by culture, history, and geography and a Jew by faith. His identity was destroyed by Zionism and by the Ashkenazi European Jews.