Anti-Jewish discrimination in Iraq goes back to the 1930s There is a myth that the troubles afflicting Jewish community in Iraq began with the 1941 Farhud and the backlash to the creation of the state of Israel. Here is documentary evidence that anti-Jewish discrimination dated back to the 1930s. In fact, persecution began in the 1930s with the rise of Nazi influence. In September 1934 dozens of Jewish clerks were dismissed from their posts in the government. Some 300 more senior clerks were sacked in 1936. A year earlier the Ministry of Education established an unofficial numerus clausus on Jewish...