While Islamic antisemitism has increased in the wake of the Arab – Israeli conflict , there were riots against Jews in Middle Eastern countries prior to the foundation of Israel , including unrest in Casablanca , Shiraz and Fez in the 1910s , massacres in Jerusalem , Jaffa , Safed and Hebron in the 1920s , pogroms in Algeria , Turkey and Palestine in the 1930s , as well as attacks on the Jews of Iraq and Tunisia in the 1940s . As Palestinian Arab leader Amin al-Husseini decided to make an alliance with Hitler 's Germany during World War II , 180 Jews were killed and 700 were injured in the Nazi-inspired riots of 1941 known as the Farhud . Jews in the Middle East were also affected by the Holocaust . Most of North Africa came under Nazi control and many Jews were discriminated against and used as slaves until the Axis defeat . In 1945 , hundreds of Jews were injured during violent demonstrations in Egypt and Jewish property was vandalized and looted . In November 1945 , 130 Jews were killed during a pogrom in Tripoli . In December 1947 , shortly after the UN Partition Plan , Arab rioting resulted in hundreds of Jewish casualties in Aleppo , including 75 dead . In Aden , 87 Jews were killed and 120 injured . A mob of Muslim sailors looted Jewish homes and shops in Manama . During 1948 there were further riots against Jews in Tripoli , Cairo , Oujda and Jerada . As the first Arab – Israeli War came to an end in 1949 , a grenade attack against the Menarsha Synagogue of Damascus claimed a dozen lives and thirty injured . The 1967 Six-Day War led to further persecution against Jews in the Arab world , prompting an increase in the Jewish exodus that began after Israel was established . Over the following years , Jewish population in Arab countries decreased from 856,000 in 1948 to 25,870 in 2009 as a result of emigration , mostly to Israel
pogroms in Algeria
1934 Constantine Pogrom
History of antisemitism