'Memory is a form of resistance': President Herzog commemorates the Farhud

<img align='right' src='https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_720,w_1280/723776' alt='PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog commemorates 85 years since the Farhud. (photo credit: HAIM ZACH/GPO)' title='PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog commemorates 85 years since the Farhud. (photo credit: HAIM ZACH/GPO)' /><br />The Farhud marked the beginning of the end of a cohesive Jewish community in Iraq. Ten years later, in 1952, under the code name Operation Ezra and Nehemiah, the bulk of Iraqi Jewry left for Israel.<br />