NAZI ARAB PALESTINE SINCE 1932
Palestine Arabs Are with Hitler in His Enmity to Jews Says Grand Mufti’s Organ but Want Hindenburg To Win.
April 1, 1932
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Should we Palestine Arabs be on Hindenburg’s side or on Hitler’s side in the German presidential elections, the “Jamea el Arabia”, the organ of the Grand Mufti, asks in an article discussing the German elections...
We Arabs, although we are not German citizens, stand to gain or lose very considerably according to whether Hindenburg or Hitler wins. It would be only natural that we should be in favour of Hitler...
Should #we Palestine Arabs be on Hindenburg’s side or on Hitler’s side in the German presidential elections, the “Jamea el Arabia”, the organ of the Grand Mufti, asks in an article discussing the German elections. Some people may wonder, it says, of what particular significance it is to...
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From Bethlehem to Paris Arab-christian Editor Goes to Get Nazi Instructions.
October 8, 1933.
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Eissa Bendak, editor of the radical Christian-Arabic bi-weekly “Sowt Es-Shaab” published in Bethlehem, has left for Paris where he will receive instructions from a group of Germans and Arabs on “conducting Nazi propaganda” in Palestine. Bendak was recently instrumental in organizing the Arab Fascist Party at Bethlehem whose object is to harass the Jews.
Eissa Bendak, editor of the radical Christian-Arabic bi-weekly “Sowt Es-Shaab” published in Bethlehem, has left for Paris where he will receive instructions from a group of Germans and Arabs on “conducting Nazi propaganda” in Palestine. Bendak was recently instrumental in organizing the Arab...
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Nazis Reveal Contacts with Arab Riot Leaders; Goebbels Gets Reports.
November 23, 1933.
A direct contact between the German Nazis and the Palestinian Arabs is revealed today in the Reichswarte, organ of the all-European Nazi organization, which is edited by the reactionary leader, Count Ernest von Reventlow. An emissary from Palestine has reached Berlin, it was learned today, and...
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French Nazi Leaflets in Haifa.
January 31, 1934.
An Arab was arrested here today for distributing Nazi leaflets in the French language. He said it had been given him by an officer of the S.S. “Smyrna,” of the Deutsche Levant Line, which had loaded oranges for Germany.
The title of the leaflet is “German Competition in Eastern Countries.” The charge is that the literature was smuggled through the Customs.
An Arab was arrested here today for distributing Nazi leaflets in the French language. He said it had been given him by an officer of the S.S. “Smyrna,” of the Deutsche Levant Line, which had loaded oranges for Germany. The title of the leaflet is “German Competition in Eastern Countries.” The...
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Arab Daily Sees 14 Moslems on New Council
June 25, 1935.
...Al Difaa. The Arab paper also reports today that “uniformed and Nazified” Arab youth troops are being formed in Palestine.
With Palestine full of conflicting rumors about the projected Legislative Council, Al Difaa, the largest Arab daily in Palestine, today reported that the Council will consist of fourteen Moslems, four Arabs and four Jews. In addition to the above number of representatives of the different...
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Arabs in Haifa Form Nazi Club; Well Financed
July 1, 1935.
Arabs in Haifa Form Nazi Club; Well Financed - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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Jewish Leaders Reported Slain by Iraqi Arabs.
October 27, 1936.
...It was reported that an Iraqi Nazi has been leading anti-Jewish riots which since last April, the Arab press recently said, have taken the lives of fifteen Jews. Two other Jews, one a Government official, were slain last Friday.
Unconfirmed reports reaching here today from Bagdad, capital of Iraq, declared that Arabs killed two Jewish leaders, Yechczkiol Marad, president of the Iraq Criminal Court and Menashe Gurdja, a well-known merchant. It was reported that an Iraqi Nazi has been leading anti-Jewish riots which since...
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The Sentinel, 25 February 1937 — Arabs Like Nazis , Says Moslem.
Berlin , Feb . 23 ( WNS ) — The Arab national movement has much in common with Nazism , the Voelkische Beobachter reports Auni Bey Hadi , leader of the Arab Independence Party and member of the Arab High Committee in Palestine , as having told its correspondent . The Nazi paper says that the Arab leader made a thorough study of Hitler s Mein Kampf while he was in a concentration camp in Palestine . He is also quoted as advising Germany to study the Arab market in Palestine because the Arabs are boycotting all goods made or sold by Jews.
Arabs Like Nazis , Says MoslemBerlin , Feb . 23 ( WNS ) â The Arab national movement has much in common with Nazism , the Voelkische Beobachter reports Auni Bey Hadi , leader of the Arab Independence
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ALL ARABS CELEBRATE PRO_PHET'S BIRTHDAY; Christians Join Moslems in Fete Unprecedented in Palestine--Hitler and Duce Cheered".
Wireless to The New York Times. May 23, 1937, Section General, Page 31.
Cheered by Palestine Arabs celebrating Mohammed's birthday
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Swastikas Fly As Arabs Mark Mohammed’s Birthday.
May 23, 1937.
Nazi flags and pictures of Hitler and Mussolini were being displayed by many Arab shops in the Old City today in connection with the celebration of Mohammed’s birthday.
Arab children thronged the teeming section’s narrow, winding streets, shouting: “Death to the High Commissioner (Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope)! Death to the Jews!”
Booklets explaining Nazi methods of forcing Jews from the Reich are being distributed freely.
Arabs in Haifa and Jaffa prepared for the birthday celebrations, scheduled for today and tomorrow, by proclaiming a work stoppage and organizing demonstrations...
Nazi flags and pictures of Hitler and Mussolini were being displayed by many Arab shops in the Old City today in connection with the celebration of Mohammed’s birthday. Arab children thronged the teeming section’s narrow, winding streets, shouting: “Death to the High Commissioner (Sir Arthur...
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German Unity Required Ousting of Jews, Hitler Asserts; Taunts Democracies on Refugees.
September 13, 1938.
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At one point he referred to Palestine: “I want the oppression of the 3,500,000 Germans in Czechoslovakia to cease…I do not wish to see a second Palestine on the frontiers of the Reich. The poor Arabs are defenseless. The Germans in Czechoslovakia are neither without defense nor abandoned to themselves.”
Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler, in the course of his speech threatening action in favor of the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia, declared regarding the Jews: “If it is asked why National Socialism today fights the Jews so fanatically, one can only answer that a foreign race, which has nothing in...
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Ziff, William Bernard. The Rape of Palestine. New York: Longmans, Green And Co., 1938. Full text of "The Rape Of Palestine By William B. Ziff (1938) (with Page Links For The Table Of Contents)". rape of Palestine / William B. Ziff. HathiTrust Digital Library. pp. 404, 413, 417-8, 430.
Nazi flags and pictures of Hitler were prominently displayed in store windows. Booklets explaining Nazi methods of forcing Jews from the Reich were distributed freely...
The shout of 'Heil Hitler' became a catchword which rang insolently over all Palestine...
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Arab “mein Kampf,” Shipped from Egypt, Put on Sale in Palestine.
January 26, 1939.
A large shipment of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” in Arab translation arrived here from Egypt today and were immediately put on sale at one shilling (25 cents) each. The Egyptian firm that published the translation was reportedly financed by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry.
A large shipment of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” in Arab translation arrived here from Egypt today and were immediately put on sale at one shilling (25 cents) each. The Egyptian firm that published the translation was reportedly financed by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry.
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Gunther, John (1939). Inside Asia. United States: Harper & Brothers, p. 528.
The greatest contemporary Arab hero is — Adolf Hitler...
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The Canadian Jewish Chronicle, Mar 31, 1939. (pp. 102-3).
To Baghdad Again.
By Roman Slobodin (J.T.A. Staff Correspondent).
EDITOR’S NOTE:
Mr. Slobodin has made an intensive study of Nazi penetration in the Near East and his disclosures of espionage activities by German agents shed light on current developments in central and southeastern Europe and cast an ominous shadow of events to come…
Jerusalem… new.. faces in cabarets in the Near and Middle East…have turned up in the night clubs of Cairo. A feminine regiment has captured the night life of Beirut, “Paris of the Middle East.”
The new girls are Nazi agents....
The German influence over the press, and particularly the Arabic press, throughout the Levant, is notable development of past months. It has been achieved largely by Nazi “co-ordination” of the advertising German commercial interests. The mechanism was laid bare in Egypt. The German Government notified German firms advertising in the Egyptian press that henceforth their ads were to be placed through a certain Nazi official. The influence over the press, obrained through the totalitarianized spending of advertising money was quickly evident in the flood Nazi and anti-British propaganda, and the support of extremist politicos.
The dealings with the press are a fair
sample of the thorough systematization of German interests serve Nazi aims. Every German in the Levant is given his place, and registered at the Hamburg office for control of Germans abroad. According to reliable reports, every German must have official permission to anything which might affect his status or present future usefulness, such changing his residence or selling land which he owns. Those coming from Germany recently have had special training for their Nazi duties.
Those living in the East before Hitler’s advent who show special aptitude are called home to take the Hamburg training course.
Agents for German products, travelling salesmen, newspaper men and students are among the most useful but bets overlooked. Anyone not fitting into the Nazi plan is summarily treated. The Syrian agent of a leading German drug house, a competent business man, was dismissed recently to be supplanted by a prominent opposition politician. There was some business justification, since the new agent might be expected to use the same rough-and-ready tactics for promoting sales that he did in politics. But this was only incidental. The real reason is fairly clear from the fact that with his help it will be possible to export German goods to Syria to be sold to pay for Nazi activities.
This is a very popular device. It serves tlie double purpose of avoiding a drain on Germany’s slender international exchange resources and making it impossible to trace cash remittances. That is one reason why it is very difficult to trace actual German financing of, for instance, terrorists in Palestine.
Strengthening of the Nazi grip on the Arab nationalist movement is promoted by bringing Arab politicians to Germany. Hamburg now competes with Mecca as a goal for Arab pilgrimage.
One of the recent visitors to the propaganda capital was Jamal Husseini, nephew and right-hand-man of Haj Amin el Husseini, former Mufti of Jerusalem, leader of the Arab revolt in Palestine, now self-exiled in the Lebanon.
Jamal Effendi visited Hamburg for ten days and returned Beirut eminently satisfied with the results of his trip.
VYING with Beirut and Damascus a centre of Nazi propaganda is Baghdad, 600 miles across the desert, capital of the independent Arab kingdom of Iraq. From the Baghdad headquarters of the Committee for Defense of the Palestine Arabs, Arab speakers are dispatched through the length and breadth of Arabia, reciting propaganda, manufactured in Hamburg, about British oppression and ”atrocities” in Palestine and Jewish designs against Arab holy places. From here, too, a flood of literature in Arabic is distributed.
There is no room even for pretense that the expense of this campaign and the big cash contributions sent to the ex- Mufti, are raised among the populace Iraq. The country, about the size Italy, is largely desert, with a scattered population of 3,500,00 consisting almost entirely of peasants and nomad Bedouin so poor they are barely able to keep themselves alive of times. Yet this waste land has suddenly blossomed with gold for the Palestine revolt.
The truth was half- revealed through the maladroitness the Baghdad headquarters in issuing two announcements, one of the amount raised in Iraq, a few score dollars, and the other of the amount forwarded to the Mufti, several thousand.
By an unfortunate juxtaposition, these two items appeared simultaneously in different columns on the same page of an Arabic newspaper. German propagandists hi Iraq have been more successful in getting next to the Government than in Hamburg..
German propagandists hi Iraq have been more successful in getting next to the Government than in Syria. In the French-mandated country, the Government is officially opposed to the Nazi-sponsored policies, and the German agents work principly, though not entirely, with the powerful and lively opposition.
But King Ghazi’s administration has on occasion condoned and even espoused Nazi efforts. A striking example is the broadcasting by the powerful Baghdad Government radio of the “news” of the official German News Agency (Deutches Nazhrichten Euro). The Baghdad station was built with British money. Yet night after night it fills the ether over all Arabia with blood-curdling tales about British atrocities in Palestine that make George Creel’s World War propaganda pamphlets read like bedtime stories for children.
A by-product of this Nazi achievement is that the 90,000 Jews in Iraq are in an extremely unhappy position, have already begun to feel the hand of persecution and. if events continue along their present course, the guarantees of minority rights in the Anglo-Iraq treaty recognizing the country’s independence may be expected to go the way of similar pledges in Europe, and the 2,000-year-old Jewish community will be in imminent peril of a pogrom.
An apparent apathy of Great Britain is one of the anomolies of the situation, here as elsewhere in the East Iraq was formerly under British Mandate. Its army was trained by British officers and equipped with British arms. The British-controlled Iraq Petroleum Company dominates the Mosul oil fields. The Royal Air Force has the reputation of being the behind-the-scenes boss of the country would seem to be easy enough for Britain to squelch at least blatant Nazi campaigning …
For the Nazi plans, Palestine is pivotal point, and the German organization, after long and careful preparation, is now operating sensationally there.
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Nazis Intensify Arab Radio Propaganda
April 14, 1940.
German radio stations, especially the one at Zeesen, have intensified Arabic-language broadcasts, aimed at fomenting anti-British feeling in the Near East. These broadcasts seek to represent the stationing of British troops in Palestine as a camouflaged attempt to give Palestine to the Jews. The...
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Hitler Will Use Mufti for Renewed Anti-jewish Campaign, Cairo Believes.
November 6, 1941.
The arrival of Haj Amin el Husseini, ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, in Berlin today is reported in the Arab press here provoking considerable interest among the Arabs. It is pointed out that this is the first visit which the exiled Mufti has ever made to Nazi Germany and it is believed that his present trip to the Reich was arranged with Hitler’s approval and with a view of utilizing it for increased anti-British and anti-Jewish propaganda.
Little doubt exists here that the ex-Mufti, during his stay in Germany, will broadcast from Berlin to the Arab world backing the German military drive which is now moving slowly towards the Middle East..
The arrival of Haj Amin el Husseini, ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, in Berlin today is reported in the Arab press here provoking considerable interest among the Arabs. It is pointed out that this is the first visit which the exiled Mufti has ever made to Nazi Germany and it is believed that his present...
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Jewish Reservation and Not Palestine Will Solve Jewish Problem, Nazi Press Says.
November 9, 1941.
The question of whether Palestine as a Jewish State can or cannot solve the Jewish problem has suddenly become an issue to which the Nazi press devotes front-page articles. The arrival of the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem in Berlin this week as well as the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration are being utilized by the Nazi press as an occasion for making the discussion of this issue more timely.
The Berliner Boersen Zeitung, in a front-page article insists that the Jewish problem must be solved not through the creation of a Jewish State but “solely through a Jewish reservation under international control.” The Nazi organ attacks Gen. Smuts, Senator Claude Papper of Florida, and others who in their messages to American Zionists on Balfour Day promised their support for the establishment of Palestine as a Jewish Homeland.
The official organ of the German army similarly discusses the question of Palestine as an eventual Jewish State and predicts that “after the war, other nations which have not as yet acted to solve the Jewish problem will be compelled to adopt no less radical solution than the one introduced by Germany.” The army newspaper praises Germany’s accomplishment in having all Jews isolated in Poland and assails the idea of settling Jews in Palestine as “nothing else but a trick of British imperialism.” Palestine will never be able to contain the world’s 16,000,000 Jews, the military organ argues.
The Voelkischer Beobachter, Hitler’s leading newspaper, in commenting on Jewish demands for Palestine says that “the Jewish influence over England is so great that the Jews and not the British statesmen will be the ones to decide the question of a projected Arab Confederation.”
The question of whether Palestine as a Jewish State can or cannot solve the Jewish problem has suddenly become an issue to which the Nazi press devotes front-page articles. The arrival of the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem in Berlin this week as well as the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration are...
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Hitler Presents Confiscated Jewish Villa in Berlin to Ex-mufti of Jerusalem.
January 2, 1942.
The German press reaching here today reports that Hitler has ordered that one of the confiscated Jewish villas in a fashionable Berlin suburb be assigned to the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem as a permanent residence. The ex-Mufti is to make his home in the villa “for the duration of the war,” the Voelkischer Beobechter states.
A number of Arabs residing in Germany have been assigned by the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda to act as staff members to the ex-Mufti in his pro-Nazi propaganda broadcasts over the German radio to Arab countries. An Arab doctor, Abu Ganima, has been assigned to the ex-Mufti to attend to his health which is reported to be much impaired ever since he made his flight from the British in Iraq.
The German radio reported last night that the ex-Mufti received in his home in Berlin a number of Japanese correspondents whom he informed of his activities aimed at provoking an Arab revolt “against the British and the Jews.”
The German press reaching here today reports that Hitler has ordered that one of the confiscated Jewish villas in a fashionable Berlin suburb be assigned to the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem as a permanent residence. The ex-Mufti is to make his home in the villa “for the duration of the war,” the...
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Hitler Prepares for Drive Through Turkey to Palestine, Washington Hears.
January 15, 1942.
Hitler’s defensive operations in Russia and Africa will probably not interfere with his long-planned, often delayed, drive through Turkey to Palestine into the Near East, well-informed circles predicted here today. The German military movement, it was explained, may simply be the frontal attack of the Nazi campaign. An attack behind the lines may also develop in the form of Arab “nationalist” uprisings...
Hitler’s defensive operations in Russia and Africa will probably not interfere with his long-planned, often delayed, drive through Turkey to Palestine into the Near East, well-informed circles predicted here today. The German military movement, it was explained, may simply be the frontal attack...
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Britain Transfers Armies from Palestine and Syria to Egypt, Nazi Radio Reports.
June 25, 1942.
..The Berlin and Rome radio stations boast that there are many Axis followers among the Arabs in Egypt, Syria and Palestine. Their broadcasts contain the usual anti-British and anti-Jewish propaganda.
The Nazi radio in Berlin today reported that British military forces in Palestine and Syria are being transferred to Egypt in anticipation of hostilities on Egyptian soil. At the same time, the Rome radio reported today that with the arrival of the Axis Libyan armies at the Egyptian frontier...
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Syria Supplies Nazis with Grain, Upsets British Food Policy in Palestine.
October 7, 1942.
The sensational assertion that Syria, which is now under the control of the United Nations, is supplying Nazi Germany with substantial wheat supplies, affecting the food situation in Palestine and in the entire Middle East, is made today in an article written by the Jerusalem correspondent of...
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Arab Legion Formed by Mufti Wiped out on the Russian Front.
February 14, 1943.
An Arab legion recruited in Europe by the former Mufti of Jerusalem under German auspices was reported today by the Daily Sketch to have been wiped out in recent battles in southern Russia.
The Germans, it was reported, had promised the legion, which was organized to fight “for the freedom of Iraq and Palestine,” that it would participate in a Nazi invasion of the Near East. It was composed of Arab students in Europe and former members of the French Foreign Legion.
An Arab legion recruited in Europe by the former Mufti of Jerusalem under German auspices was reported today by the Daily Sketch to have been wiped out in recent battles in southern Russia. The Germans, it was reported, had promised the legion, which was organized to fight “for the freedom of...
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Frankfurt is “Judenrein,” Nazis Announce; Urge Merciless Extermination of Jews.
May 12, 1943.
...the Nazi press service reports today from Berlin that courses in the Arab language were introduced this week all over Germany for members of the Hitler Youth organization.
The German city of Frankfurt-on-the-Main, where Jews have been residing since the 13th century and which was known as a center of Jewish orthodox learning, is now completely "judenrein," the Nazi radio announced today. Also the entire province of Hesse-Nassau. The announcement was made during a...
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Tito Has “jewish Brain Trust,” Nazi Press Claims; Berlin Rallies Arabs.
June 2, 1944.
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In a broadcast in Arabic, the German radio today called upon the Arab world to combat Jewish efforts in Palestine.
Quoting Nazi newspapers published in occupied Yugoslavia, the German radio today claimed that Marshal Tito is being aided by “a Jewish brain trust” in his fight against the German forces. Listing a number of men associated with Tito in the fight for the liberation of Yugoslavia, the broadcast...
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Arab Delegation Presents “considerable Donation” to Goebbels in Berlin.
December 26, 1944.
The German news agency DNB today reported that a delegation of Arabs was received by Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, and handed over to him “a considerable donation” as an expression of “Arab friendship with National Socialist Germany.”
The check was transferred by Goebbels to the German Red Cross, the report added. In accepting it, Goebbels told the delegation that “the fight of the German forces is directed against the Jewish world and Anglo-American imperialism, both of which are traditional enemies of the Arab world.”
The German news agency DNB today reported that a delegation of Arabs was received by Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, and handed over to him “a considerable donation” as an expression of “Arab friendship with National Socialist Germany.” The check was transferred by Goebbels to the...
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American Christian Palestine Committee. (1946): The Arab War Effort: A Documented Account. p.7.
There were a number of strong pre-war Arab - Nazi organizations — the Iron Shirts (led by Fakhri al-Barudi of the National Bloc, member of the Syrian Parliament to this day); the League for National Action (headed by Abu al-Huda al-Yafi, Dr. Zaki al-Jabi and others); the An-Nadi al-Arabi Club of Damascus (headed by Dr. Said Abd al-Fattah al-Imam); the “Councils for the Defence of Arab Palestine” (headed by well - known pro-Nazi leaders, such as Nabih al-Azma, Adil Arslan and others); the “Syrian National Party” (led by the Fascist Anton Saada, who escaped during the war to the Germans and was sent by them to the Argentine). The National Bloc, the principal party in Syria, and more particularly the Istiqlal group (headed by Shukri al-Kuwatli, now President of the Syrian Republic) had for many years been openly pro-Nazi. Before the war, Baldur von Schirach, leader of the Hitlerjugend, visited Syria on a special mission and established close contact with these circles and with the Arab youth organisation
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Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Volume 93, Part 11, United States Congress, 1947, pp.2819-2821
The Leaders of the So-Called Arab Higher Committee Should Be on Trial at Nuremberg, Not Accredited to the United Nations
EXTENSION OF REMARKS or HON. ADOLPH. J. SABATH of illinois
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Monday, June 9, 1947
Mr. SABATH.
Mr. Speaker, the decent people of America learned with horror a few weeks ago that the so-called Higher Arab Committee, headed by the notorious collaborator with the Nazis, Haj Amin El-Hussein, the Mufti of Jerusalem, has been accredited to the United Nations Assembly,
I would have thought the Mufti's blood-stained record is known to all. I have in my own files a copy of a carefully documented statement showing his war record of active collaboration with the Axis, which was presented to our State Department more than a year ago his sins Forgiven.
It now appears, however, that not only will the Mufti not face trial for his war crimes in company with his accomplices in international crime and race murder, but that he is to be welcomed back into the family of nations, his sins forgotten and forgiven. The Mufti was one of those who enthusiastically... horrible Hitler plan for killing off all Jewish people.
But, fortunately for world morality, not everyone has forgotten. I have received, and I believe that every Member has received, a copy of a brilliant study of the Arab Higher Committee and of the self-appointed Arab spokesmen, and the Mufti, prepared by the Nation Associates, thoroughly documented, and presented briefly and concisely.
Under permission to extend my remarks, I now insert in the RECORD the first nine pages of this document, and urge Members to look at their own copy and see there the reproduction of photo graphs of the Mufti with Hitler, with Himmler, with his storm troops, and copies of official Nazi documents proving the Mufti's blood guilt:
THE ARAB HIGHER COMMITTEE of PALESTINE
The Political Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations decided on May 7, 1947, without a dissenting vote, to invite the Arab Higher Committee to testify before it on the Palestine question.
The invitation was extended after an as surance from the delegation of the United Kingdom that the Arab Higher Committee represents a considerable portion of the Arab population of Palestine. Moreover, a special sitting of the General Assembly was convened, under pressure of the Arab states, in order to issue the invitation in a form which would invest the Arab Higher Committee with the same diplomatic status as the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the internationally recognized representative of the Jewish people.
It is important, in view of the extraordinary emphasis placed on the testimony of the Arab Higher Committee, to examine its origin, its membership, its leadership and its purpose.
COMMITEE APPOINTED BY AEAB LEAGUE
The Arab Higher Committee of Palestine is a creature of the Arab League comprising Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Transjordan, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen.
The head of the Arab Higher Committee is the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, a full partner of the Axis before and during World War II, and an escaped prisoner of war who has found asylum in the Palace of the King of Egypt.
The Arab Higher Committee, representing the six Arab parties of Palestine, came into existence in 1936. A year later it was established that the Mufti and his associates in the Arab Higher Committee were responsible for the 1936 riots which took a toll of hundreds of British. Jewish, and Arab lives. Accordingly, the Palestine Government in 1937 declared the committee illegal and ordered it disbanded. Some of its members were arrested and sent to Seychelles.
Others, including its chairman, the Mufti of Jerusalem escaped to Syria, whence they continued to direct Arab operations. During his exile in Syria, the Mufti even succeeded in liquidating most of the Arab leaders of Palestine who opposed him and his policies.
Until 1943, the Arab Higher Committee had no formal existence. The Mufti, in the interval, had moved from Syria to Iraq, where he organized the revolt against the British in 1941. When that failed, he fled to Germany and there played his role as Axis ally in the war against the United Nations.
In 1943, a number of prominent Pales tinian Arabs made an effort to establish an Arab Higher Committee but were prevented from achieving their purpose by followers of the Mufti who had remained in Palestine during the war and who feared that, in the absence of the Mufti, the new body would oust them from leadership.
In 1944, however, the effort to establish an Arab Higher Committee was given stim ulus when the Arab states, under British incentive, began to form what has now be come known as the Arab League. In Sep tember of that year, political leaders from neighboring Arab countries came to Palestine to urge Palestinian Arabs to agree among themselves on the composition of an Arab Higher Committee. These attempts again met with failure, due in every instance to the opposition of the followers of the Mufti who were hopefully awaiting his return from Germany and his resumption of leadership.
A temporary truce was established in 1944 when Musa el Alami, a mild supporter of the Mufti, was recognized by the Arab League as the sole representative of Palestinian Arabs, pending the formation of a Palestine Arab Higher Committee.
A few months after VE-day, when the Husseini family, to their great astonishment, found that the British were reluctant to try the Mufti as a war criminal, they were em boldened openly to demand the return of the Mufti and his aides to Palestine. In this they were joined by the Arab states and the Arab League.
In November 1945, the Foreign Minister of Syria, Jamil Mardam, headed an Arab del egation to Palestine, the sole purpose of which was to solve the problem of setting up an Arab Higher Committee. The Husseini family finally agreed to the establishment of an Arab Higher Committee on the promise that the Arab League would induce the British to release Jamal Husseini, nephew of the Muſti, from his internment in Rhodesia as a pro-Axis leader.
Assurance was also given to them that the chairman ship of the Arab Higher Committee would be held open for the Mufti on his return, and that the vice chairmanship would be assigned to Jamal Husseini. When most of the seats had also been assigned to the Husseini family, the Arab Higher Committee was established.
Leaders of the other Palestine Arab parties attacked the formation of the committee on the ground that it was unrepresentative. The Arab press demanded the holding of elections. No notice, however, was taken of these objections. Soon after its formation, however, the committee was boycotted even by some of its own members and was again dissolved.
In February 1946, Jamal Husseini was re leased by the British and permitted to return to Palestine. He immediately reestablished the Arab Higher Committee and enlarged it to include some 29 members. But two-thirds of the membership was assigned to the Mufti's representatives or supporters of his policies. Again this action was opposed by the leaders of the five other Palestine Arab parties. Ten members of the Arab Higher Committee split with it and formed another group known as the Arab Higher Front, leaving the Arab Higher Committee to the exclusive possession of the Husseini family.
In June of 1946, the Mufti escaped from his forced residence in Paris and reached Egypt. The Arab League, meeting then in Bludan, Syria, entered into negotiations with the Mufti and, soon thereafter, took things into its own hands and appointed the present membership of the Arab Higher Committee, establishing the Mufti as chairman; his nephew, Jamal Husseini, as vice chairman;
Dr. Hussein Khalidi as secretary general; and Emil Ghouri and Ahmad Hilmi as members.
THE ARAB LEAGUE'S RELATION TO PALESTINE
The Arab League was established in February of 1945 and its principal function to date has been to demand the independence of Palestine and the ending of Jewish immigration, and in general, to prevent the implementation of the Palestine Mandate.
In 1945, the member states of the Arab League adopted the following resolution on Palestine: "At the end of the last war, Palestine, like the other Arab states detached from the Ottoman Empire, was liberated from Ottoman domination. Having become autonomous, she was no longer dependent on any other state.
"The Treaty of Lausanne proclaimed that her fate would be settled by the interested parties. But if Palestine has not been able to order her own destiny, it is nevertheless true that it is on the basis of the recognition of her independence that the Covenant of the League of Nations in 1919 settled her status. "Her international existence and independ ence therefore cannot de jure be questioned any more than can the independence of any other Arab country. "If, for reasons beyond her will, her independence has failed to materialize, this circumstance cannot constitute an obstacle to the participation of Palestine in the work of the council of the League.
"The State signatories of the present Covenant consider that, under these conditions and by reason of the special circumstances involving Palestine, until that country can exercise all the effective attributes of her in dependence, it behooves the Council of the League to designate an Arab representative from Palestine who will participate in its Work." The existence of the Arab League was officially registered at the organizing conference of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945.
The League was the culmination of more than 4 years of effort which had been encouraged by Anthony Eden, then Foreign Secretary of Great Britain.
THE LEADERS OF THE ARAB LEAGUE
Since the opening of the Extraordinary Session of the United Nations on Palestine, all pretenses have been dropped as to the role of the Mufti of Jerusalem as Chairman of the Arab Higher Committee and the man who gives it orders.
The titular recognition accorded the Mufti is further strengthened by the list of delegates named by the Arab Higher Committee to represent it before the Political Committee of the United Nations. In a message addressed to the Secretary General on May 4, 1947, from Cairo, the headquarters of the Mufti, Hussein Khalidi presented the following names: Emil Ghouri, Rajai Husseini, Henry Katan, Wasef Kamal, Isa Nakhleh, Rasem Khalidi.
Of this list, Emil Ghouri alone is a member of the Arab Higher Committee. Of the five other members, one is a cousin of the Mufti, and two—Wasef Kamal and Rasem Khalidi–are notorious for their long-time association with the Mufti in his Axis activities.
THE DOSSIER OF THE MUFTI AND AIDES
Haj Amin el-Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem
Haj Amin el-Husseini has a long-time record of complicity with terrorism. Responsible for the Arab riots in Palestine in 1920, he fled to Transjordan to escape a 10-year sentence of imprisonment, returning only after complete amnesty had been granted.
In 1922, he became the Mufti of Jerusalem and later the President of the Supreme Moslem Council, during which period he had at his disposal more than 100,000 pounds a year.
The Shaw Commission, appointed by the British Government to investigate the 1929 riots, attributed to the Mufti a share in the responsibility for these riots, in which 133 Jews were killed and 239 wounded. No action was taken to curb his activities, with the result that in 1936 he again was responsible for new attacks upon the Jews of Palestine. At the same time, he caused the assassination of hundreds of prominent Arabs, including 24 leading Palestine Arabs who refused to accept his leadership.
The captured files of the German High Command in Flansburg at the war's end reveal that the Arab riots of 1936 in Palestine were carried out by the Mufti with funds supplied by the Nazis. The report states: "Only through funds made available by Germany to the Grand Mufti, of Jerusalem, was it possible to carry out the revolt in Palestine."
Following his escape from Palestine to Syria and later to Iraq, he and his henchmen were directly responsible for the anti Jewish pogrom in which almost 400 Jewish men, women and children were stabbed or brutally clubbed to death in the streets of Bagdad. An investigating committee appointed by the legitimate Iraq Government, following its restoration after the revolt in 1941, declared that the causes of the disturbance, "are, in the opinion of the investigating committee, Nazi propaganda emanating from the following sources:
(1) the German League; (2) the Mufti of Jerusalem and his henchmen who followed him to Iraq. This man was accorded enthusiastic reception in Iraq and has turned it to his own use to disseminate many-sided Nazi propaganda. His influence on government and army circles became so strong that he could give orders to his group to set to work to spread anti-Jewish and anti-British propaganda among all classes of the population."
In Iraq the Mufti's first undertaking was to organize the Iraqi revolt with Jemal el Husseini, now vice chairman of the Arab Higher Committee, as his chief of staff.
After the failure of the Iraqi revolt, the Mufti escaped to Tehran and found refuge in the Japanese embassy. From there he escaped to Italy. In October of 1941, he conferred with Mussolini, Ciano, and Dino Alfieri.
From Rome he communicated with Balkan Moslems under Italian rule in Yugoslavia and Albania. In November 1941, he went to Berlin. The Nazis established a special office for him in Berlin entitled, "Buro des Grosmufti," with branches organized later in other parts of Germany and Italy. His activities included propaganda, espionage, organization of Moslem military units in Axis-occupied countries and in north Africa and russia, establish ment of Arab legions, of an Arab brigade and organization of fifth-column activities in the Middle East, including sabotage and parachutist expeditions.
In the course of his propaganda work, the Grand Mufti had at his disposal not only the German-controlled radio, but radio sta tions in Bari, Rome, Tokyo, and Athens. In addition, he was responsible for sending to the Middle East various propaganda publications in Arabic.
His espionage service extended throughout the Middle East. He had a Suboffice in Geneva linking him to Egypt and Turkey, and another in Istanbul, branching out all along the Syrian-Turkish frontier in Mersine, Alex andretta, Antioch, Adana, and Diarbekr.
These stations received information directly from the Mufti's agents in Palestine, Syria, and Iraq, and maintained close contact with members of the German Intelligence in Turkey.
In Athens the Mufti established a para chutist and sabotage school for Arabs. In The Hague, under his direction, Arab Students Were trained in Wireless trans mission, high explosives, and demolitions.
The Mufti's agents were parachuted into Palestine, Syria, and Iraq. A number of them were caught by the British. On a number of occasions these agents, with the help of local Arabs, cut telephone and pipe lines in Transjordan and Palestine and sabotaged railways and bridges in Iraq.
Another of the Mufti's accomplishments was the organization of Moslem military units. He attempted to recruit for the German military command some 500,000 soldiers from Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. In Asiatic Russia, he collaborated with Moslem Russian Quislings and White Russian traitors whom he helped to form pro-Axis legions.
In 1942, he started to organize Axis Arab legions from among Arab students in Ger many and Arab prisoners of war who followed him to Germany. His legionnaires wore the German uniform with Free Arabia patches On their shoulders.
After the Jewish Brigade had been recognized by Winston Churchill in 1944, the Mufti, on November 2, with the consent of Ribbentrop, called upon all Arabs in Germany hailing from Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, and Syria to join the Arab Brigade.
Accepting a proposal of the Japanese that he broadcast to Moslems in the South Pacific and India, the Mufti recorded numerous broadcasts which were beamed to India, Indonesia, and Java.
On September 3, 1941, Maj. Gen. Erwin Lahousen, one of the top officials of the Abwehr, whose secret diary was among the captured German documents, wrote: "The Grand Mufti, who left Iraq to go to Iran, is currently in connection with the Abwehr II (sabotage division of the Abwehr). According to reports from Tehran he is safe with the Japanese envoy." A year later, on June 2, 1942, Lahousen wrote in his secret diary: "The Italian national, Captain Simen, took part in discussions with the Grand Mufti concerning the utilization of the connections with the Grand Mufti for the purpose of Abwehr II, in order to demonstrate the solidarity of the Axis Powers."
A month later, on July 13, 1942, Lahousen made the further entry in his secret diary: "A meeting between the chief of the Abwehr" (Admiral Canaris, who was also Hitler's representative in arranging for the Franco revolt against the Spanish Republican Government), and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem took place in the apartment of the chief. I (Lahousen) took part in the discussion. The Mufti made an offer to the chief that the followers of the Arabian Freedom Movement, which was led by him, as well as the followers of the former Iraq Prime Minister, Kailani(leader of the Iraqi revolt against Britain), were to be used for purposes of sabotage and sedition in the Near East in accordance with the purposes of Abwehr II."
WASEF KANAL
Wasef Kamal, member of a well-known Nablus family and a teacher by profession, is notorious for his extremist propaganda among his students and for his association with the Istakiil Party during the disturbances in Palestine in and after 1936. He was a member of the National Committee in Nablus and played a role in the organization of the 1936 riots.
Arrested in that year, he soon escaped to Transjordan and later to Iraq. An ally of the Mufti, he played an important role in the Iraqi rebellion of 1941 against the British.
From Iraq, he escaped to Turkey. During the first part of the war he remained in Turkey as an agent of the German Secret Service from which he received a salary. In 1943 he went to Italy and Germany where he served as one of the closest collaborators of the Mufti. He returned to Syria in April 1946.
He was one of the few Arab leaders excluded from the amnesty of November 1946, because he is regarded as dangerous.
In April 1947, Wasef Kamal was appointed by the Arab Higher Committee as a member of a propaganda delegation to the United States. Having arrived in this country, he is in attendance at the sessions of the United Nations.
RASEM KHALIDI
Rasem Khalidi, member of a well-known Jerusalem family and a former Palestine Government official, has been one of the closest collaborators of the Husseini family, and particularly of the Mufti.
In 1936. at the outbreak of the Axis-sponsored Palestinian Arab uprisings, he was a member of the most intimate inner circle of Haj Amin el-Husseini.
In 1937, after the dissolution of the Arab Higher Committee, he was a member of an underground committee which directed Arab terrorism in Palestine. After his arrest in 1938, he fled to Syria and then to Iraq, where he joined the Mufti in organizing the Iraqi rebellion of 1941. After its failure he fled to Ankara and thence to Italy and Germany.
In the midst of the war, in 1943, he served as an announcer on the Axis-Arabic radio station in Athens. Since 1944 he has been a member of the Mufti's personal entou rage, first in Berlin and later in Paris.
In July 1945, he returned to Egypt and in November 1946 was included in the Palestine Government's amnesty. Although permitted to return. to Palestine, he preferred to remain in Egypt. Most recently, the United States Consul refused to grant him a visa to the United States because of his activities in Nazi Germany.
EMIL GHOURI
Emil Ghouri, a member of the Arab Higher Committee, has long been active in extremist politics in Palestine. After the dissolution of the Arab Higher Committee in 1937, he was exiled and moved to Egypt and Iraq.
In Iraq, he worked with the Mufti as a member of his Foreign Relations Committee in charge of propaganda. A report of the British General Service of Intelligence, on December 1, 1941, listed Emil Ghouri as one of a group "who are responsible for propaganda, intrigue, and subversive activities in side and outside Iraq."
Ghouri was permitted to return to Pales tine in 1941 on condition that he would not engage in politics. This condition, however, has not been met. He has been a member of each of the three Arab Higher committees named since 1941, and is the political editor of the Husseini daily, Al Wahda. He is the organizer and political leader of the underground Arab army, and is alleged to be one of those responsible for internal terror against Arab opponents of the Mufti and Arabs who sell land to the Jews.
He advocates that all Jews who came to Palestine since 1918 be regarded as for eigners and be deprived of rights in an independent Arab Palestine.
JANAL HUSSEINI
Jamal Husseini, nephew of the Mufti and for many years his right-hand man, has been the head of the Palestine Arab party, the Mufti's party, since 1935. He was the
closest assistant of the Mufti in organizing the 1936–39 Arab rebellion. In 1939 he joined the Mufti in Bagdad and organized the pro-Axis fifth column in Iraq which culminated in the Iraqi rebellion.
He fled from Bagdad en route to Tehran, but was captured there by the British before he could make good his escape. He was placed in internment in Rhodesia as a dangerous pro-Axis leader. There he spent 4 years until he was finally released in February 1946 and allowed to return to Palestine owing to the pressure of the Arab League.
Five months ago, in January 1947, at the Mufti's request, three of his aides in the Axis adventure were added to the Arab Higher Committee. These were Izzat Dar waza, Is'haq Darwish, and Muin el Madi. The latter was the head of the Mufti's espionage onice in Turkey, while the former two operated in Germany and Athens.
Today, unquestionably the center of activity of the Arab Higher Committee is in Cairo, with the Mufti playing a game which he hopes will bring about his recognition by the Arab states as the Palestine Arab government-in exile.
The extent of the alliance of the Mufti and his aides with the Axis is presented in the following pages in photographs and photo static copies of documents found among the papers of the Mufti in his villas and offices in Germany at the war's end, and among the official papers of the Nazi government.
Most, if not all, of these documents are now in the possession of the State Department of the United States.
The record shows that the chairman of the Arab Higher Committee and his principal representatives were involved in an active partnership with Rome and Tokyo, with the Moslem quislings of the Balkans and the Soviet Union, with Axis representatives in the Middle East, and with Vichyites in the French territories of north Africa.
The documents prove, moreover, that due to the insistence of the Mufti, the exterination program of the Nazis was carried out even in those satellite countries which were willing to permit the rescue of the Jews.
It is to these men, whose acts establish their place among the worst of the Axis war criminals, that the United Nations has accorded the honor of appearing in behalf of the Arabs of Palestine.
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Heard in the Lobbies.
By Milton Friedman. The Canadian Jewish Chronicle. Oct 12, 1956. Page 13.
Secret German foreign policy documents, captured in Berlin in 1945, have just been released to the press. Among them is the complete record of the reception of Saudi's special envoy by Hitler at the Rerghof in 1939. The envoy was Khalid al Hud. Hitler told him that the Arabs and Germans had the same enemy: The Jews. Hitler discussed "Palestine and conditions there, and he then stated that he himself would not rest until the last Jew had left Germany."
Khalid al Hud replied that “the Prop_het Mohammed, who, apart from having been a religious leader, had also been a great statesman, and acted in the same way. He had driven all the Jews out of Arabia." Later in theconversation, Hitler referred to the affection "which he had always had for the Arab world..."
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Morris, Benny. (2008). 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. United States: Yale University Press, p. 21.
One of the first public opinion polls in Palestine, conducted by al-Sakakini’s son, Sari Sakakini, on behalf of the American consulate in Jerusalem, in February 1941 found that 88 percent of the Palestinian Arabs favored Germany and only 9 percent Britain in WW2.
Benny Morris demolishes misconceptions and provides a comprehensive history of the Israeli-Arab war of 1948This history of the foundational war in the Arab-Israeli conflict is groundbreaking, objective, and deeply revisionist. A riveting account of the military engagements, it also focuses on...
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Herf, Jeffrey. (2009). Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World. United States: Yale University Press, p. 138-1939
August 15, 1942, Colonel Frederick O. Sharp and Captain Lawrence C. Thaw sent a report to the New York office of the War Department's Military Intelligence Division for the Near and Middle East, North Africa , and India about the "Attitude of the Moslem World toward the United Nations." ...
The Thaw-Sharp memo... "The majority of the Arabs in Palestine are fiercely anti-Jewish, generally distrustful of Great Britain and deeply resentful of the Balfour Declaration. While the moderates agree that the present is hardly the time to quarrel over the Jewish question, the radicals, who form a majority, see in the approach of General Rommel an ideal opportunity to murder all Jews and seize their property. Tales are current throughout Palestine of the planned division of Jewish property."
This groundbreaking history connects Nazi Germany’s Arabic-language propaganda during World War II to anti-Semitism in the Middle East in the decades since.Jeffrey Herf, a leading scholar in the field, offers the most extensive examination to date of Nazi propaganda activities targeting Arabs...
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Saturday Review. (1970). Vol. 53. United States: Saturday Review Associates, p. 4.
"We Arabs supported Hitler to get the British out of Palestine and to keep the Jews from taking it over - and that was our big mistake..."
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Elie Kedourie (Professor of Politics Emeritus), "Arabic Political Memoirs and Other Studies", Psychology Press, 1974, p.189
Shuqayri began to be active in Palestinian Arab politics in the early 1930s ... whether or not they were politically wise—Shuqayri was expressing the attitudes and feelings of his countrymen... He describes the great excitement with which they used to listen to German and Italian broadcasts, how he would follow during the night the military communiqués, marking on a map the places being occupied by the victorious Germans and meet his friends the following morning to discuss triumphs exceeding those of the previous day: 'Our sympathies were with the Axis powers being led by Hitler from victory to victory, and with our sympathies went our prayers for the victory of Germany and her allies, and defeat for Britain...
First Published in 2005. This book constitutes the continuation and complement of a work, The Chatham House Version and Other Middle-Eastern Studies, published in 1970. Both works are concerned with certain themes prominent in recent middle-eastern history, namely the influence of great-power...
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PLO Official: We Supported the Nazis in WWII.
Elad Benari, Israel National News, Dec 19, 2013.
Former political bureau head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) removes any doubt over Arab support for Nazi Germany. If anyone has had doubts about the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) support for the Nazis, recent remarks by one of its leaders should make things clearer. In an interview with Russia Today TV on December 7, Farouq Qaddoumi, the former political bureau head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), said that Arabs were “enthusiastic supporters” of the Nazis during World War II. The remarks were translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
"I don't think it would be wrong to say that we were enthusiastic supporters of Germany," Qaddoumi said in the interview, when asked by the interviewer, "Were you sympathetic with Nazi Germany in WWII? " The interviewer, seeking to clarify, then said, "You supported Hitler and his people." Qaddoumi replied, "Germany, yes. This was common among the Palestinians, especially since our enemy was Zionism, and we saw that Zionism was hostile to Germany, and vice versa." ...
Former political bureau head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) removes any doubt over Arab support for Nazi Germany.
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Grand Mufti Husseini Asked Hitler to Help with Arab ‘final Solution’.
Los Angeles, July 22 (JTA) -- Haj Amin al-Husseini, the notoriously anti-Jewish grand mufti of Jerusalem, sought Adolf Hitler’s help for an Arab version of the “Final Solution” to the Jewish problem, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The center made the statement after analyzing documents uncovered at the United Nations Archives in New York.
The mufti wielded considerable power as both the religious and nationalist leader of Arabs in Palestine and beyond during much of the British mandatory period.
He fled to Nazi Germany in late 1941 and started a systematic drive to extend the Nazis’ anti-Jewish policies and methods to the Arab Middle East, anticipating an Axis victory.
One significant aspect of the find, said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Wiesenthal Center, is that it counters the longstanding argument among many Palestinians that while they had no part in Hitler’s persecution of the Jews, they are paying the price for his crimes.
“The documents, in fact, show that the dominant leader of the Palestinian Arabs wanted to do to the Jews of the Middle East what Hitler was doing to the Jews of Europe,” Hier said.
After participating in a short-lived pro-German coup in Iraq, Husseini arrived in Berlin on Nov. 6, 1941, and over the next few months sent Hitler 15 drafts, proposing an official declaration by Germany and Italy on the Middle East.
In one of the French-language drafts, annotated in Arabic in the mufti’s handwriting, he urged inclusion of the following statement: “Germany and Italy recognize the illegality of the ‘Jewish Home in Palestine.’
“They accord to Palestine and to other Arab countries the right to solve the problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries, in accordance with the interest of the Arabs and, by the same method, that the question is now being settled in the Axis countries.
“Under this agreement, no Jewish immigration into the Arab countries should be permitted.”
‘FIGHTING THE JEWS WITHOUT RESPITE’
At that time, the extermination of the Jews was already in full swing in the conquered Soviet territories, so there is little doubt what the mufti meant by solving the Jewish problem “by the same methods” employed by the Axis, Hier said.
Husseini had a chance to press his points with the fuhrer personally during a 90-minute meeting in late November 1941, which the mufti recorded in his own handwriting in a diary.
Hitler, according to the diary, assured the mufti that the Jews were his foremost enemy.
“Primarily, I am fighting the Jews without respite, and this fight includes the fight against the so-called Jewish National Home in Palestine, because the Jews want to establish there a central government for their own pernicious purposes,” the Nazi leader said.
“It is clear that the Jews have accomplished nothing in Palestine, and their claims are lies. All the accomplishments in Palestine are due to the Arabs and not the Jews,” he said. “I am resolved to find a solution for the Jewish problem, progressing step by step without cessation.”
While “our common enemies are Great Britain and the Soviets,” said Hitler, “behind them stands hidden Jewry, which drives them both.”
Despite these heartfelt assurances, Hitler put off the mufti’s pleas for an official Axis declaration of support for the Arabs. The right time for such a statement, Hitler said, would be after his armies conquered the Soviet Union’s southern Caucasus region, probably in 1942, opening the road to Iran and Iraq.
As it turned out, the Red Army successfully defended the southern Caucasus against the Nazi onslaught.
CONTINUED FIGHT AGAINST JEWS.
Husseini remained in Germany throughout the war, met again with Hitler, with SS leader Heinrich Himmler, and apparently with Adolf Eichmann, and “toured” some of the main extermination camps as guest of their commandants.
In 1945, the government of Yugoslavia under former partisan leader Marshal Iosip Tito sought to indict him as a war criminal for his role in recruiting 20,000 Moslem volunteers for the SS, who participated in the killing of Jews in Croatia and Hungary.
He escaped from French detention in 1946 and continued his fight against the Jews, from Cairo and later Beirut, where he died in 1974.
The documents detailing Husseini’s petitions and meeting with Hitler were found in the mufti’s villa in Germany in 1945. They were transmitted to the United Nations Archives, with copies and some of the documents also held by the U.S. National Archives in Washington and the archives of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The U.N.-held documents were researched over a month’s period by Mark Weitzman of the Wiesenthal Center’s New York office.
Why weren’t the documents discovered earlier? “It’s a matter of what to look for and where to find them,” said Weitzman, pointing out that incriminating documents on the wartime service of Kurt Waldheim, the Austrian president, also lay undiscovered for decades in the same archives.
The Husseini family continues to play a role in Palestinian affairs, with Faisal Husseini, whose father was the mufti’s nephew, active as the leading spokesman for the Palestinian cause.
Haj Amin al-Husseini, the notoriously anti-Jewish grand mufti of Jerusalem, sought Adolf Hitler’s help for an Arab version of the “Final Solution” to the Jewish problem, according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The center made the statement after analyzing documents uncovered at the United...
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Nazi Palestine: The Plans for the Extermination of the Jews in Palestine
Klaus-Michael Mallmann & Martin Cüppers; Krista Smith, trans.
Enigma Books in association with U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2010
Review.
By Rachel Simon – August 31, 2011.
Based primarily on German archival sources and archives in the USA, Britain, and Israel as well as published books and articles, this study focuses on German and Arab plans and cooperation during World War II aimed at the extermination of the Jews of Palestine. The authors examine in detail the main initiators and participants of these plans and the special organizations which were established for this purpose, including Muslim units within the German war machine. The study also examines the relations between Germans and Arabs and the rivalry between the two main Arab collaborators with Germany for this purpose and for ultimately achieving mastery over the Arabs: the Palestinian Hajj Amin al-Husayni and the Iraqi Rashid Ali al- Kaylani. This is a very important study regarding German-Arab collaboration during World War II against the Jews in the Arab world in general and in Palestine in particular. Still, the English language edition could have been improved by providing English citations for works originally written in English (e.g., by Winston Churchill) or non-German works for which an English translation exists (e.g., by Tom Segev). The index shows poor knowledge of the structure of Arabic names. Bibliography, illustrations, index, notes.
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Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
by Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz. Yale University Press, 2014.
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During the 1930s and 1940s, a unique and lasting political alliance was forged among Third Reich leaders, Arab nationalists, and Muslim religious authorities. From this relationship sprang a series of dramatic events that, despite their profound impact on the course of World War II, remained...
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A groundbreaking account of the Nazi-Islamist alliance that changed the course of World War II and influences the Arab world to this day
During the 1930s and 1940s, a unique and lasting political alliance was forged among Third Reich leaders, Arab nationalists, and Muslim religious authorities. From this relationship sprang a series of dramatic events that, despite their profound impact on the course of World War II, remained secret until now. In this groundbreaking book, esteemed Middle East scholars Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz uncover the complete story of this dangerous alliance and explore its continuing impact on Arab politics in the twenty-first century.
Rubin and Schwanitz reveal, for example, the full scope of Palestinian leader Amin al-Husaini’s support of Hitler’s genocidal plans against European and Middle Eastern Jews. In addition, they expose the extent of Germany’s long-term promotion of Islamism and jihad. Drawing on unprecedented research in European, American, and Middle East archives, many never before written about, the authors offer new insight on the intertwined development of Nazism and Islamism and its impact on the modern Middle East.
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War Was a “jewish War” and Germany Was Not Arab Enemy Husseini Tells Inquiry Committee.
March 13, 1946.
Charging that the war was a “Jewish war,” and asserting that “Germany was not our enemy, and, therefore, we had no interest in the war,” Jamal Husseini, leader of the Palestine Arab Party, today opened the Palestine Arab’s case before the Anglo-American inquiry committee.
Husseini, who was recently permitted to return to Palestine, after having been exiled for nine years for anti-British and anti-Jewish terroristic activities...
Charging that the war was a “Jewish war,” and asserting that “Germany was not our enemy, and, therefore, we had no interest in the war,” Jamel Husseini, leader of the Palestine Arab Party, today opened the Palestine Arab’s case before the Anglo-American inquiry committee. Husseini, who was...
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Arab Leaders’ Aid to Nazis During War Disclosed by Christian Palestine Committee.
January 21, 1947.
A campaign to acquaint the American people with the “imminent dangers and anti-democratic implications of the British policy of appeasement toward the Arab world whose present leaders were among Hitler’s most fanatic supporters during the war,” was announced by Dean Alfange, chairman of the...
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Arab Agents Recruiting Pro-nazi Refugees in Italy to Fight Against Jews in Palestine
February 22, 1948
Arab agents are today recruiting mercenaries to fight against the Jews in Palestine from among the Yugoslav Ustashi and Chetniks and the Ukrainians, Albanians, Circassians (former inhabitants of the northwestern area of the Caucasus) and other groups here who were on Hitler’s side during the...
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Former Moslem Members of S.S. Division Recruited by Egypt for Fighting in Palestine.
July 28, 1948.
Several hundred former members of the Nazi Prinz Even, Division, recruited by Egyptian authorities in Austria as farm workers, immediately upon their arrival in Egypt Joined the Arab Legion of Transjordan and departed for the Palestine front to fight against the Jews, the Socialist newspaper...
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Several hundred former members of the Nazi Prinz Eugen Division, recruited by Egyptian authorities in Austria as farm workers, immediately upon their arrival in Egypt Joined the Arab Legion of Transjordan and departed for the Palestine front to fight against the Jews, the Socialist newspaper Welt Am Abend reported today.
The newspaper charged that Dr. Ismail Hassan, Egyptian representative in Austria, toured the U.S. zone several weeks ago and succeeded in obtaining exit visas for the several hundred, most of whom were Bosnian Moslems and held the rank of major to the Prinz Eugen Division. The disclosure of the identity of the men followed the capture of several of them by the Israeli forces, Welt Am Abend stated.
Several hundred former members of the Nazi Prinz Even, Division, recruited by Egyptian authorities in Austria as farm workers, immediately upon their arrival in Egypt Joined the Arab Legion of Transjordan and departed for the Palestine front to fight against the Jews, the Socialist newspaper...
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Rabbi Miller Warns Against Arabs Spreading Anti-semitism in U.S.
October 21, 1955.
A warning against attempts by Arab propagandists to promote anti-Semitism in the United States was issued today by Rabbi Irving Miller chairman of the American Zionist Council, representative body of the entire Zionist movement in this country. Rabbi Miller charged that the attempts by Arab propagandists to “stimulate anti-Semitism in the United States” is designed “to distract public attention from the Egyptian Government’s decision to acquire armaments from the Communist bloc for aggression against the State of Israel.”
Rabbi Miller cited recent public statements and press interviews published in this country, wherein the Egyptian Premier Col. Nasser “has charged the American Jewish community with wielding an undue share of influence over United States’ policy in the Middle East.” Referring to Col. Nasser’s use of the term “world Jewish conspiracy,” Rabbi Miller said it is “painfully reminiscent of Nazi propaganda against the Jewish people before and during the last war.”...
A warning against attempts by Arab propagandists to promote anti-Semitism in the United States was issued today by Rabbi Irving Miller chairman of the American Zionist Council, representative body of the entire Zionist movement in this country. Rabbi Miller charged that the attempts by Arab...
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U. S. Zionists Charge Arab States with Using Nazi Propaganda Methods.
March 20, 1956.
Psychological warfare on the Nazi pattern is being waged daily against Israel and the West by the Arab states, it was disclosed here today in a report published by the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs. Only toward the Soviet Union do the Arabs speak with approval and friendship, the...
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Cairo’s Anti-jewish Propaganda Rises; Assumes Nazi-like Pattern.
July 11, 1960.
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The experts on such Cairo propaganda noted that the style of the new campaign suggested that a number of former Nazis who fled to sanctuary in Egypt and who are reported to be working for the Nasser regime are the specialists responsible. The experts stressed that since the Jewish populations in the Arab countries are relatively small, the goals of the Nazi-style propaganda barrages could be presumed to be for more than purely local consumption.
Experts on the anti-Israel propaganda blasts of the regime of President Nasser of the United Arab Republic reported today that the campaign is emerging into a clearly anti-Semitic pattern reminiscent of Nazi Jew-baiting during the Hitler era. The style was set more than a month ago by Nasser...
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Top Nazis Direct from Cairo Neo-nazi Activities Throughout the World
December 1, 1960
Top Nazis who fled the collapsing Third Reich to Cairo to become advisers to President Nasser of the United Arab Republic have established a special headquarters in Cairo which directs neo-Nazi activities throughout the world, according to a documented report published here today. The report was...
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Israel Worried over Rocket Developed by Nasser; Built by Germans.
November 7, 1961.
Israeli circles expressed grave concern today over reports that Egypt, with the help of a West German scientist at Stuttgart, has developed a rocket similar to the Nazi V-2 rocket which Hitler used to “buzz-bomb” London near the end of World War II. Egypt, according to the reports, has already...
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Recall of Arab Delegate from U.N. is Sought; ‘saluted’ Tacuara.
December 3, 1962
A move for the recall by Saudi Arabia of its permanent representative to the United Nations, Ahmad Shukairy, was under way here today, with Arab diplomats heading the drive. The desire for Shukairy’s removal from the UN scene, long contemplated by more moderate Arabs here, gained heavy impetus here this weekend after the official Saudi Arabian spokesman declared openly a “salute” to the anti-Semitic Tacuara movement in Argentina and proposed that UN “adopt” the Tacuara movement.
Shukairy’s “salute” to the Tacuara movement was voiced Friday before the General Assembly’s Special Political Committee which is currently debating the Arab issue. Lucio Garcia del Solar, Argentine representative in the committee, immediately objected to the Shukairy “salute,” telling the United Nations that his people and Government reject everything that Tacuara advocates.
Embarrassed Arab diplomats, annoyed for many years by Shukairy’s intemperate attacks against Israel and Jews, let it be known that they are asking the Saudi Government to take Shukairy away from the UN. Some of the Arab diplomats apologized personally not only to Argentineans here but also to other Latin Americans, volubly assuring all that they felt Shukairy had gone much too far in his anti-Israeli drive by endorsing an open neo-Nazi movement like Tacuara.
A sharp protest against Shukairy’s endorsement of Tacuara was received here today by Dr. Leopoldo Benites, of Ecuador, chairman of the committee in which Shukairy called for the “adoption” of Tacuara. The protest came from Label A. Katz, president of the International Council of B’nai B’rith, who visited Argentina last summer and probed into the neo-Nazi movement there.
“Never in the history of the United Nations” Mr. Katz wired Ambassador Benites, “has any delegate had the audacity to make the kind of outrageous proposal offered by Mr. Ahmad Shukairy when he recommended that the racist Tacuara be “adopted by the United Nations.”
A move for the recall by Saudi Arabia of its permanent representative to the United Nations, Ahmad Shukairy, was under way here today, with Arab diplomats heading the drive. The desire for Shukairy’s removal from the UN scene, long contemplated by more moderate Arabs here, gained heavy impetus...
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