Omar Mohammed (Mosul Eye) on ISIS, the Farhud and Iraq’s Erased Jews

For three years, historian Omar Mohammed secretly documented life under the Islamic State as the anonymous blogger Mosul Eye. He speaks with Pamela Paresky about growing up under Saddam Hussein, the Jewish history Iraq erased, the 1941 Farhud, reporting from inside ISIS-held Mosul, and why he believes antisemitism is the thread that runs through every jihadist movement. Omar Mohammed is a senior research fellow at the George Washington University Program on Extremism, where he leads the Antisemitism Research Initiative. His book, Mosul Eye: A Scholar’s Clandestine War Against ISIS, is out now. 📖 Full transcript: coming soon 📚 Mosul Eye: A Scholar’s Clandestine War Against ISIS: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1510785674?... 🌐 Omar Mohammed at GWU: https://extremism.gwu.edu/omar-mohammed Listen on Apple Podcasts: [URL] Listen on Spotify: [URL] Quillette is an independent platform for free thought. Subscribe: https://quillette.com As an Amazon Associate, Quillette earns from qualifying purchases. CHAPTERS 0:00 Growing up in Saddam’s Mosul 3:00 What Saddam’s Iraq taught about Jews 8:00 The fall of Mosul to ISIS 12:00 Discovering Mosul’s erased Jewish history 16:00 Finding the Jews of Mosul 20:00 The Farhud 26:00 “Good Jews” and “bad Jews” 29:00 Sectarian war and a murdered professor 39:00 Why he says every terror group is antisemitic 41:00 “The moral compass of any society is its Jews” 43:00 Writing Mosul Eye under ISIS 46:00 Who was reading Mosul Eye 49:00 Nearly caught 53:00 How Mosul stopped obeying ISIS 1:03:00 Western support for Hamas and Hezbollah 1:09:00 The “reassignment” of Jews 1:16:00 Khaybar 1:17:00 Studying antisemitism online 1:21:00 Where to find Omar Mohammed