In ‚Operation Ezra,‘ Canadian Jews helped Yazidis fleeing Islamic State persecution – “Jews have been persecuted for centuries, and they showed a lot of solidarity and compassion as they were able to relate to us,” said Jamileh Naso, president of the Canadian Yazidi Association. | JNS.org

(May 3, 2023 / JNS) Ayad Alhussein, 13 years old at the time, was reunited last November with family in Winnipeg. The boy had escaped five years of captivity by the Islamic State after he and his family were captured in Iraq. Three more years followed before he was granted entry to Canada.