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If your Jewish Ancestors came from Libya - Nooone - 10-12-2021
Links of Interest...
Libya’s Jewish graveyards were destroyed. They are being rebuilt online. - Israel National News
Libyan Jew: I want to scream • Point of No Return (jewishrefugees.org.uk)
RE: If your Jewish Ancestors came from Libya - Alan_Boskov - 10-13-2021
The following source makes no mention about Jew internment in these camps. But rather the internment of exclusively what the Italians referered to as "Barbarians":
https://history.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2021/04/Mingo-Senior-Thesis-Final-Draft_REDUCED.pdf
Because your informational source is of Jewish origin, it is especially important that the editor there applies oversight. Otherwise, [bold]if[/bold] this source has distorted historical facts, further publications from this, as well as from all other Jewish sources could be used by enemies of the Jewish people for tivialising Jewish news in general.
' Wrote:...The first Parliament was seated in Benghazi in 1921 and was composed of two Libyan Jews, eight Italians, eight members of the Senussi dynasty, and 51 tribal leaders...
... At Marsa el-Brega, one of the largest concentration camps in Cyrenaica, there were supposed to be 22,500 inhabitants made up of 9000 nomads from the area surrounding the camp and 13,200 tribesmen...
The only reference to Jews describes rather their collaboration with the Italian colonizers of which may be the reason for the Jewish cemetary's desecration (however, there may be further pertinent reference in the appendix sources of this document), if the desecration had taken place before the Palestinian Issue had been publicized or even after the 6-day War of which initiated the expulsion of Jews, or at least the suppression of their status, throughout the Arab-settled world following this event:
' Wrote:...According to Gray the concentration camps were a quintessentially Roman, and therefore Fascist, form of imperialism, which sought to assimilate peoples with their cultural distinctions intact into a broader imperial culture through their own slightly coerced volition. He pointed to the growing enrollment of Libyan Jews in Italian language schools in Tripoli and Benghazi as a sign that Italian colonialism was already working to that effect. 125 Gray argued that the concentration camps presented a unique opportunity for Italy to teach the Arab youth about Italian culture...