1947 anti-Jewish riots in Aden
The Aden riots of December 2–4, 1947 targeted the Jewish community in the British Colony of Aden. The riots broke out from a planned three-day Arab general strike in protest of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (II), which created a partition plan for Palestine. The riots resulted in the deaths of 82 Jews, 33 Arabs, 4 Muslim Indians, and one Somali, as well as wide-scale devastation of the local Jewish community of Aden. The Aden Protectorate Levies, a military force of local Arab-Muslim recruits dispatched by the British governor Reginald Champion to quell the riots, were responsible for much of the killing.
| 1947 Aden riots | ||||
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| Part of Spillover of the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine | ||||
Aden from the Port of Aden, 1949 | ||||
| Date | 2–4 December 1947 | |||
| Location | 12°48′N 45°02′E | |||
| Caused by | Disputes over United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine | |||
| Methods | Rioting, melee attacks | |||
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| Jewish exodus from the Muslim world |
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| Antisemitism in the Arab world |
| Exodus by country |
| Remembrance |
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