Serge Trifkovic, in his book The Sword of the Prophet wrote about the Jewish Refugees from Arab lands as follows:

    As the nineteenth century neared its end, the frequency of anti-Jewish violence increased, and many were executed on charges of apostasy. Ritual murder accusations against the Jews became commonplace in the final decades of the Ottoman Empire. The danger for Jews became even greater at the time of the partition of Palestine in 1947. In Iraq, the cleansing commenced in 1941, during the festival of Shavuot, when 180 Jews were murdered in a farhoud [progrom] in Baghdad. The Syrian delegate at the United Nations, Faris el-Khouri, warned: "Unless the Palestine problem is settled, we shall have difficulty in protecting and safeguarding the Jews in the Arab world. This was a self-fulfilling prophecy: Over 1,000 Jews were killed in the ensuing anti-Jewish rioting in Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Syria and Yemen, triggering the mass exodus of Jews from Arab countries. In the early 1940s there were close to 1 million Jews throughout the Arab world. There are only a few thousand left today, mainly elderly. Some 600,000 went to Israel; those from North Africa to France or Canada, and others to the United States, Australia, and South America. The number of Jewish refugees from the Arab world exceeds the number of Palestinian refugees from the time of Israel's founding.