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According to legends, the history of the Jews in Yemen goes back to the time of Israel's King Solomon and the Arab Queen of Sheba.

This story ends in these Easter days.

The last Jews of the once flourishing community were forced to leave their homes by the Shiite Houthi rulers.

For centuries, the Jews in Yemen lived peacefully with and next to their Muslim neighbors, despite numerous forms of discrimination, with whom they shared many customs and traditions, from the kitchen to the headscarf.

As in many parts of the Muslim world, the majority of Yemeni Jews were specialized urban artisans such as silversmiths or shoemakers.

The spice trade benefited from their international connections.

Under the empires of the Ottomans and later the British, however, many pious Jews used the new freedom of movement to emigrate to the Promised Land, where they maintain their special culture to this day.

With the collapse of the Empire east of Suez and the establishment of Israel, Jews in Yemen - as everywhere in the Arab world - were subjected to furious persecution.

It led to the “Jewish Nakba”, which is of course never mentioned in progressive and anti-Israeli circles today, although as many or more Jews fled or were expelled from Arab countries as Arabs from Israel during the War of Independence.

49,000 of the approximately 50,000 Yemeni Jews were flown to Israel.

There remained those who could not even persuade disenfranchisement, humiliation and persecution to give up their homeland.

Until the Houthi came.

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The Houthi motto: “God is great!

Death to the USA!

Death Israel!

Damn the Jews!

Victory for Islam! ”- are often given the honorary title“ rebels ”in the local media, although they are simply theocrats who want to establish a state of God based on the Iranian model.

The fact that the last three Jewish families living in Yemen - a total of 13 people - were forced to leave the country may seem like a small, almost negligible tragedy in the context of the humanitarian crisis there.

Not to mention the millions who fled Syria before Bashar al-Assad, who, like the Houthi, is a client of Iran.

Tehran theocrats and their willing helpers

But it is precisely the pettiness of this "madness of separation" (to quote Achille Mbembe), which cannot tolerate even 13 mostly elderly Jews in the area that has been reconquered for the true faith, that it is the Tehran theocrats and their willing helpers, including Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza are serious with their eliminatory anti-Semitism.

They must be stopped.