NCJWA, together with FOIWA, invites friends of Israel to a special screening of

The Forgotten Refugees

A documentary about the exodus of 900,000 Jews forced out of the Arab and Islamic Middle East

Download a brochure here.

When: Sunday, 23 October 2011, at 7pm

Where: Jewish Community Centre, Woodrow Avenue, Yokine

Donation $10.00; students $5.00

Background: Justice for Jews from Arab Countries

Justice for Jews from Arab Countries (JJAC) was launched on Sept 30, 2002, at a press conference outside the United Nations. Today, JJAC is a coalition of 77 Jewish communities and organizations in 20 countries, including Australia's Executive Council of Australian Jewry.

Their aim is :

“To ensure that justice for Jews from Arab countries assumes its rightful place on the international political and judicial agenda and that their rights be secured as a matter of law and equity."

“When the ‘refugee issue’ is discussed within the context of the Middle East, people invariably refer to Palestinian refugees, not Jews displaced from Arab countries. Neither the mass violations of human rights nor the displacement of Jews from Arab countries has ever been adequately addressed by the international community.

Beginning in 1999, research was conducted on the subject of Middle East refugees. Important new evidence was discovered on the legal status of Jewish refugees from Arab countries and the state sanctioned nature of repression that led Jews to be displaced from their ancestral places of birth.

This is a must-see documentary.