He offered all those residing in the West Bank – Jews and Palestinians alike – access to arbitration from Israel’s supreme court. . ... It went on to seize huge swathes of the West Bank as “state lands” – meaning for Jews only – on the pretext of military..…

In the mid-13th century CE, Iraqi Jews fled from major Jewish centers like Baghdad as Mongol captured those areas; many moved north and west into Kurdish areas, joining the vibrant Jewish communities there. . As Jews poured from the land of Israel into Kurdish areas, David Alroy, an..…