World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries

World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries (WOJAC) was an international advocacy organization, created in 1975,[1] representing Jewish refugees from Arab countries. The World Organization of Jews from Arab Countries was created to make certain that any "just settlement of the refugee problem" recognizes those Jews who were forced to flee from lands where they had lived for centuries.[2]

Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries
Communities
Mizrahi (Yemenite Jews) Sephardi (Spanish and Portuguese Jews)
Background
Jews under Muslim rule Ottoman Old Yishuv Antisemitism in the Arab World The Holocaust in Libya Farhud Zionism Arab–Israeli conflict 1948 Arab–Israeli War Suez Crisis Six-Day War Algerian War
Main events
Magic Carpet (Yemen) Ezra and Nehemiah (Iraq) Lebanese exodus Egyptian exodus Moroccan exodus Operation Yachin Pied-Noir (Algeria) Day of Revenge (Libya) Exodus of Iran's Jews
Resettlement
Template HIAS • Mossad LeAliyah Bet • JDC Mizrahi Jews in Israel Iranian • Iraqi • Kurdish • Moroccan Syrian • Turkish • Yemenite Transition camps Immigrant camps Development towns Austerity North African Jews in France
Advocation
Remembrance Day JIMENA JJAC WOJAC The Forgotten Refugees
Related topics
Musta'arabi Maghrebi Jews

The WOJAC functioned for approximately 25 years (from 1975 until 1999). WOJAC's aspiration was to operate in the national arena, to counterbalance the claims of the Palestinian leadership on the right to the land and on the refugee question.[3]

The monograph "The Case of the Jews from Arab Countries: A Neglected Issue, published by WOJAC, 1975" by Maurice M. Roumani[4] was used in preparation of the first International conference on the subject organized by WOJAC in 1975 in Paris. The English version of the monograph subsequently appeared in four editions , the last was 1983, and translated into French and Spanish and parts of it in Hebrew, in 1977.