Welcome to the Aliyah Organization!

We are committed to educating the public about the descendants of the Assyrian-deported Israelite tribes who still live mostly in the Middle East. These are the Alawites, the Alevis, the Alians, the Bektashis, the Druze, the Khaksaris, the Shabaks, the Yarsanis and the Yezidis, all denominations of core Median Judaism. There are tens of millions of Median Jews in the Middle East and beyond. We aim to ensure their official recognition in Israel as full Jews with full immigration rights under Israel’s Law of Return as well as safeguard their immigration to Israel.

Latest posts

Federalism in Syria is an American Interest

Is federalism in Syria an American interest? Yes, because any absence of federalism will be synonymous with instability. Syria is highly multiethnic and not much more than half of the population belongs to the Sunni Arab majority. The current regime represents almost exclusively Sunni Arabs to the exclusion of everyone else. Furthermore, there is danger…

Open Letter to Reza Pahlavi

I am writing to you as someone enormously sympathetic to your cause. However, I will be blunt about where you fail. I agree with you that removing the monstrous mullah regime is a moral imperative. However, it appears to me that you are a little naive about the prospects for liberal democracy in Iran and…

The American-European Rift

While good diplomacy is exoteric and idealist on the surface and esoteric and interest-driven below the surface, this distinction appears to have collapsed in both the United States and the European Union. In the US interests are overtly – and it could be argued even brutally –  articulated without an exoteric surface layer. In Europe…

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