Justice for Jews from our countries has had one primary objective since its founding, which is to ensure that the rights of Jewish refugees are on the international agenda as a matter of law and equity.
When we meet, as we have, with members of Parliament in Europe and South America and elsewhere, the question is, what do we want? Do we want money? Is this about compensation? We say no, this is not fundamentally an issue about money; this is fundamentally an issue about recognizing the historic injustice to one population of refugees.
Our only request, our only demand as it were, would be that in any Middle East negotiations, if Palestinian refugees are on the table, as they should be and they will be, then Jewish refugees must also be on the table for discussion.
What's the solution? I can give you any number of potential solutions that have been proferred by experts over the last 65 years—and there are solutions. That's another thing we should remember. There are not only problems inherent in the refugee issue, there are also potential resolutions of the issue. But that's not for me to decide, that's for the interlocutors themselves to decide.
Our only suggestion is that it be on the table as a legitimate issue that today affects close to 50% of the population of Israel, who are either themselves Mizrahi Jews, or descendants of Jews who were forced and displaced from Arab countries.