The history of the
Jews
Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...
in
Mauritania dates back to the time of the fall of the Jewish state in 70 CE,
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Joanna Sloame, Jewish Virtual Library when they spread across Roman North Africa. Many Jews have entered the modern day country of Mauritania as tourists or visitors.
History
After 429 CE, during the rule of the Romans and the Vandals, Jewish communities flourished in Mauritania. The Byzantines gained control of Mauritania in 534 CE, following which a series of restrictive laws were passed that infringed upon the rights of Jews,
Donatists,
Arians
Arianism ( grc-x-koine, Ἀρειανισμός, ) is a Christological doctrine first attributed to Arius (), a Christian presbyter from Alexandria, Egypt. Arian theology holds that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who was begotten by God t ...
, and other religious dissenters.
In January 2020, the Mauritanian foreign affairs ministry official Mariem Aouffa was forced to resign after posting an
antisemitic tweet that dismissed a French anti-slavery activist as a "Jew" and an "enemy of the Muslim religion".
According to the Mauritanian abolitionist activist
Abdel Nasser Ould Ethmane, many Mauritanians believe that discussions of
slavery
Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave—someone forbidden to quit one's service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as property. Slavery typically involves slaves being made to perf ...
and abolitionism are due to an "influence from the worldwide Jewish conspiracy."
See also
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Foreign relations of Mauritania#Israel
References
External links
Mauritania Jews Were Here
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Jews and Judaism in West Africa