1947 anti-Jewish riots in Aden
| 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 / 12.800°N 45.033°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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| Background |
| Antisemitism in the Arab world |
| Exodus by country |
| Remembrance |
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The Aden riots of December 2–4, 1947 targeted the Jewish community in the British Colony of Aden. During the civil war phase of the 1948 Palestine war, 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.