Giulietta Boukhobza, a refugee from Libya, met with Yale students at the Slifka Center to recount her family’s forced exodus from Libya and impart advice for the younger Jewish generation. She emphasized that her experiences were not unique and that they were lived by thousands of other Jewish people who confronted ethnic cleansing in the Arab world during the mid-1900s. The Six-Day War was a “boiling point for simmering persecution” against Jewish Libyans, Baker-Butler added. Like many other Jewish children in Libya, attending Arab schools was not an option for her. In the streets, she watched as men sexually harrassed Jewish women who chose not to comply with standards of clothing.

Source: Libya Today December 05, 2022 06:46 UTC