At one time Baghdad, Iraq had a thriving Jewish population. Over the decades, anti-semitism drove the Jewish population out – often through violent dispossession. The synagogue in Baghdad became home to many artifacts of immeasurable historical value belonging to Jewish People who fled. In 1985, Saddam Hussein looted them. In 2003, the US military discovered them in a flooded basement of the Secret Police and brought them to the United States for restoration. Virtually no Jewish people remain in Iraq and the government is still officially at war with Israel.

These archives are scheduled for return, not to the Jewish People who owned them, but to the nation that stole them. This is wrong historically, legally, and morally. We are asking you to help us write to your representatives in the US government to reverse this decision and return these valuable Jewish treasures to their rightful owners and not the government of Iraq.

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