< ! -- Deleted image removed : While antisemitism has increased in the wake of the Arab – Israeli conflict , there were pogroms against Jews prior to the foundation of Israel , including Nazi-inspired pogroms in Algeria in the 1930s , and attacks on the Jews of Iraq and Libya in the 1940s . In 1941 , 180 Jews were murdered and 700 were injured in the anti-Jewish riots known as the Farhud . Four hundred Jews were injured in violent demonstrations in Egypt in 1945 and Jewish property was vandalized and looted . In Libya , 130 Jews were killed and 266 injured . In December 1947 , 13 Jews were killed in Damascus , including 8 children , and 26 were injured . In Aleppo , rioting resulted in dozens of Jewish casualties , damage to 150 Jewish homes , and the torching of 5 schools and 10 synagogues . In Yemen , 97 Jews were murdered and 120 injured
Farhud
Farhud
Antisemitism in the Arab world