« Iraqi Jews in Israel, especially the generation educated in Iraqi high schools, remained loyal to Iraqi culture. […] Even when Jewish writers reconstruct painful moments in the history of the community, like the Farhud, many mention the Muslim neighbors that assisted them during those dreadful times. Their nostalgia for Iraq derives from the Iraqi education system that cultivated Arab and Iraqi nationalism, from the relationship of neighborhood and commerce between Iraqi Jews and Muslims, and from the ability, even after so many years, to commemorate these elements. », Orit Bashkin, « A Note from the Jewish Past — A Comparison between Iraqi Refugees in Arab States Today and Jewish Iraqi Migrants in Israel », juillet 2008 [lire en ligne].
