Naeim Giladi

Naeim Giladi was an Iraqi Jew who became an anti-Zionist activist and author. He was born in Hillah, Iraq, to a wealthy and influential family. He joined the underground Zionist movement at age 14, without his parents' knowledge, and was involved in smuggling Iraqi Jews out of the country to Iran, where they were then taken to Israel. He was arrested and jailed by the Iraqi government in 1947, when he was 17 years old. He escaped from prison and traveled to Israel, arriving in May 1950. He became disillusioned with Zionism and Israel, and claimed that the Zionist agents had carried out false flag attacks against Iraqi Jews to encourage them to emigrate. He also denounced the discrimination and racism he faced as an Arab Jew in Israel. He left Israel in 1968 and moved to the United States, where he became a citizen in 1973. He wrote an autobiographical article and historical analysis titled "The Jews of Iraq", which later formed the basis for his self-published book Ben-Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews. In his book, he accused the Zionist leaders of being responsible for the deaths of thousands of Jews in Iraq, Europe, and North Africa. He also criticized the Israeli occupation of Palestine and supported the Palestinian right of return. He died of cancer on March 6, 2010, in Queens, New York.