Editing Antisemitism in Islam (section)

=====Iraq=====
{{Main|History of the Jews in Iraq}}
In March 1940, General [[Rashid Ali]], a nationalist Iraqi officer forced the pro-British Iraqi [[Prime Minister of Iraq|Prime Minister]] [[Nuri Said Pasha]], to resign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/scottjc/coup.htm |title=Iraqi Coup: The Coup |access-date=2007-10-19 |last=Scott |first=James C. |date=9 August 2001 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024000835/http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/scottjc/coup.htm |archive-date=24 October 2007 }}</ref> In May, he declared [[jihad]] against Great Britain, effectively issued a declaration of war. Forty days later, British troops had [[Anglo-Iraqi War|defeated his forces]] and occupied the country. The [[1941 Iraqi coup d'état]] occurred on 3 April 1941, when the regime of the Regent [['Abd al-Ilah]] was overthrown, and [[Rashid Ali]] was installed as Prime Minister.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/scottjc/introduction.htm |title=Iraqi Coup: Introduction |access-date=2007-10-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024000840/http://www.csus.edu/indiv/s/scottjc/introduction.htm |archive-date=24 October 2007 }}</ref>

In 1941, following [[Rashid Ali]]'s pro-[[Axis Powers|Axis]] coup, riots known as the ''[[Farhud]]'' broke out in [[Baghdad]] in which approximately 180 Jews were killed and about 240 were wounded, 586 Jewish-owned businesses were looted and 99 Jewish houses were destroyed.<ref>Levin, Itamar (2001). ''Locked Doors: The Seizure of Jewish Property in Arab Countries''. (Praeger/Greenwood) {{ISBN|0-275-97134-1}}, p. 6.</ref>
[[File:Farhud mass grave.jpg|thumb|[[Mass grave]] of victims of the ''[[Farhud]]'', 1941]]
Iraq initially forbade the emigration of its Jews after the 1948 war on the grounds that allowing them to go to Israel would strengthen that state, but they were allowed to emigrate again after 1950, if they agreed to forgo their assets.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/iraqijews.html |title=The Jews of Iraq |access-date=2007-10-17 |last=Bard |first=Michell |year=2007 |encyclopedia=[[Jewish Virtual Library]] }}</ref>{{better source needed|date=June 2022}}