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two years before his death, he told the reporter, "We denounced the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine but the government closed us down while Zionist organisations continued to function freely". In another interview, he stated that there was no discrimination against Jews in Egypt prior
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that were one of the communities that comprised the rich and diverse mosaic of Egyptian Jewry. Karaite Jews were simultaneously multilingual and highly integrated in the Egyptian community at that time; most families spoke French and Arabic at home and sent their children to bilingual schools. Some
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In 1934, Darwish returned to Egypt and started his career as a labour lawyer and political organizer. Together with two other Egyptian Jewish activists - Ahmad Sadiq Sa'd and Raymond Douek- he cofounded a new secret Egyptian communist organization and a magazine known as
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arrested and jailed all known communist activists, including Darwish. He remained in prison for 6 years, during which he was frequently beaten and tortured. After his release, he became a secretary for the
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and activist. During his years of political activism, he was frequently accused of communist subversion and imprisoned, spending around 10 years of his life in jail. Of
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and other health, educational and political reforms such as voting rights for women and expansion of civil liberties. WCNL later turned to the "
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primarily on French and British Jews and those who were suspected of having ties to Israel" and that it wasn't until after the
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Darwish was born in 1910 to the Jewish Egyptian jeweller Moussa Youssef Farag Darwish. His family belonged to the minority
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began. He claimed that "sequestration wasn’t a general rule applied to all Jews, but a measure imposed
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Beinin, Joel (February 1989). "Labor, Capital, and the State in Nasserist Egypt, 1952-1961".
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Workers on the Nile: Nationalism, Communism, Islam and the Egyptian working class, 1882-1954
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that the majority of the 10,000 Jews who had stayed behind began to leave.
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Darwish graduated from a prestigious French high school in Cairo, l'
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was established, many Egyptian Jews began to worry and the
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Darwish views on Zionism, Jews in Egypt and Jewish exodus
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He was one of the few from the 367: 365: 272:"Youssef Darwish: The courage to go on" 257: 162:In 1958, the former Egyptian president 499: 420: 325: 319: 362: 235:is Youssef Darwish's granddaughter. 145:Workers and Peasants Communist Party 152: 109: 27: 13: 131:movement that demanded ending the 14: 598: 537:Egyptian people of Jewish descent 155:), which then split into CPE and 123:In 1946, Darwish co- founded the 542:Egyptian prisoners and detainees 55:establishment of Israel in 1948 517:Converts to Islam from Judaism 475: 454: 414: 393: 1: 582:20th-century Egyptian lawyers 557:University of Toulouse alumni 489:(in Arabic). 7 December 2019. 250: 207:to 1948. But as the State of 60: 577:Jewish anti-Zionism in Egypt 45:background, he converted to 7: 238: 133:British occupation of Egypt 10: 603: 587:Egyptian magazine founders 421:Beinin, Joel (July 2006). 375:; Zachary Lockman (1998). 302:"The struggle for justice" 464:. 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Arabic
Egyptian
labour lawyer
communist
Jewish
Islam
Karaite
establishment of Israel in 1948
Karaite Jews
University of Toulouse
Toulouse
French Communist Party
Al Fajr Al Jadid
Arabic
trade unions
labour unions
Workers Committee for National Liberation
anti-imperialistic
British occupation of Egypt
nationalization
Suez Canal
Workers and Peasants Communist Party
Arabic
HADETU
Gamal Abdel Nasser
International Association of Democratic Lawyers

Sadat
Algeria
Czechoslovakia

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