Why is Judaism not practiced in Middle Eastern countries other than Israel?

Answer 1

Answer 1

Until not long ago, there were large Jewish communities in every Middle Eastern country. Because of persecution, they found it necessary to leave most of those countries.

Answer 2

Many of the larger Jewish communities in the Arab World such as Iraq or Morocco constituted hundreds of thousands of Jews. These Jewish communities experienced a great amount of friction with the Muslim majorities in their countries during the Colonial and Post-Colonial Periods. The arrival of the colonizers into the Arab World led to a separation between the Jews and Christians and the Muslims. European Jews and Christians of esteem from Europe began to educate and modernize the Jewish and Christian communities in the Arab World. This brought the Jews and Christians more in line with the colonial governments than with the indigenous Arabs. Jews in the Arab World began to become more regimented and modern. They eventually left the Arab World en masse after the independence of the Arab countries, due to a multiplicity of factors including: pogroms, executions, Anti-Semitic laws, and Anti-Zionist sentiment. (It is important to note that even though many Jews from the Arab World ended up going to Israel, they did not support Zionism as a political movement prior to that point on account of the antagonism it would cause and because many of them held that creating such a state would be blasphemy.)