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Compensation for Jewish Refugees from Arab World
(JTA) - Justice for Jews From Arab Countries was launched Monday to publicize the "historical truth" of Jewish refugees from Arab countries, said former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke. Roughly 865,000 Jews were forced to flee Arab and Muslim lands because of hostility surrounding the formation of the State of Israel - more than the estimated number of Palestinian refugees (750,000) who fled from Israel during the 1948 War of Independence. The new group was created by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the American Sephardi Federation, and the World Jewish Congress.