1947 Manama pogrom

The pogrom of Manama in 1947 was an anti -Semitic motivated violent pogrom large Muslim populations in Bahrain against the Jewish inhabitants of the town of Manama.

In the wake of the civil war in Palestine from 1947 to 1948 conducted on December 5, 1947, a part of the Muslim majority population in the capital Manama a bloody pogrom against the Jewish community of the city. A mob ransacked Jewish homes and shops and destroyed the temple of Manama. You could, however, only a Jewess find, these related to an elderly lady. She was murdered by the masses.

Background

Bahrain's small Jewish community, predominantly Jewish descendants of immigrants who arrived in the early 1900s from Iraq in the country. In 1948, only 600 Jews lived in Bahrain.

Expiration of the pogrom

In response to the partition plan of the United Nations on 29 November 1947, called for demonstrations against the Jews in the Islamic world for the December 2 to 5. The first two days of demonstrations in Bahrain saw before flinging stones against Jews, but robbed on December 5, Muslim mobs in the capital Manama Jewish houses, apartments and shops from. Furthermore, the only synagogue was destroyed in Bahrain. Every Jew who was found should be beaten. The only Jewish person that was found was an older lady who was murdered immediately by the masses.

Expulsions

Over the next two decades, most Bahraini Jews were expelled from the country and had to flee to other countries, especially England; by 2006 only 36 Jews remained in the country.

Responsibility of the Bahraini state

Houda Nonoo, the Bahraini ambassador Bahrain's Jewish origins in the United States, told The Independent newspaper: "I do not think that there are Bahrainis who were responsible. There were people from abroad. Many Bahrainis took care of Jews in their homes, " This view is of Sir Charles Belgrave, the former political adviser to the government of Bahrain -. Supported - which was claimed at that time to the contractual relations with Bahrain. In a memoir he recalls: " The leading Arabs were very shocked ... most of them, if possible, gave their Jewish neighbors a shelter and protection ... [ the riots ] had a surprising effect; put it any aggression by the Bahraini Arabs against the Bahraini Jews to an end. "