He posted on social media last week, hailing the historic role of Iraqi Jews in society, sharply criticizing the abuses they faced before being expelled from Iraq.
"They were old pacifists who loved Iraq and its people; merchants, writers, artists, people of high taste," Sheikh Ali said in a statement Twitter
"They were accused, cheated, attacked, bribed, their possessions confiscated, their homes seized and thy were expelled from their home country," he said.
Jews had been in Iraq from the time of Nebuchadnezzar until the 1950s.