Nazism by Palestinian Arabs 1932-1948: sources
‘Palestine Arabs Are with Hitler in His Enmity to Jews Says Grand Mufti’s Organ...’
JTA, March 31, 1932.
http://pdfs.jta.org/1932/1932-04-01_081.pdf
https://archive.is/JCXm8
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‘Police Guard German Palestine Consulates As Hoisting of Swastika Disturbs Palestine Jewry.’
JTA. March 21, 1933.
[http://pdfs.jta.org/1933/1933-03-21_2504.pdf]
https://www.jta.org/archive/police-guard-german-palestine-consulates-as-hoisting-of-swastika-disturbs-palestine-jewry
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(Arab newspapers in Mandatory Palestine, before being controlled by the Brits during the war).
“Noble (sic) Hitler” — says Falastin.
The Palestine Post, 22 May 1933.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1933/05/22/01/article/42
From:
Erlich, H. (2002). The Middle East Between the World Wars (Heb.). Tel Aviv: Open University, p. 81
https://books.google.com/books?id=6B0CcmTaVuAC&pg=PA81
Al-Difa’s newspaper had long published translated excerpts from Hitler’s Mein Kampf’s book. He kept a regular correspondent in Berlin who persisted in sending sympathetic articles about the achievements of the Nazi regime.
The paper’s editor, Ibrahim al-Shanti, called on Arab youth (in an article from June 1, 1934) to “learn from Hitler’s actions and imitate them in order to achieve similar national achievements.”
“Also the Jaffa ‘Falastin’ who criticized Mussolini admired Hitler, and so were the other newspapers.”
El Karmel, [Karmil] May 14, 1933 : “Will an Arab Hitler appear among us to awaken, unite and lead us to lead us to fight and defend our rights?”
‘Falastin’, January 5, 1936:
“It is very easy to explain our youth’s sympathy for the fascist idea.”
‘Falastin’ April 29, 1939, does not hide his admiration for Hitler in quoting him, when the speech shocked the world.
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(Sep 1938, ‘Falastin’ Arab newspaper, reacting to Hitler’s speech, describes dictatorship as against [sic] Jewish so-called control. Cited in:)
The Palestine Post, 16 Sep. 1938.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1938/09/16/01/article/23
FALASTIN DEFINES DICTATORSHIP PAPER DOUBTS HITLERS SINCERE CONCERN
Writing in its Tuesday’s issue, ‘Falastin’ devoted a leading article to the theory that Palestine was in the forefront of world affairs, and that the position in Palestine had become more grave in view of Herr Hitler’s speech at Nuremberg.
The paper expressed doubts as to whether the German Fuehrer was really and sincerely concerned with Arab rights or merely championed them in order to the Democracies. The reference to Palestine in Herr Hitler’s speech showed, the paper added , how parlous the situation here really was.
‘Falastin’ then explained that a dictatorship was really a State which had freed itself of Jewish influence, while democracies were countries which still bore that onus.
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(Mufti, March 1933, already knocking on German door).
Cohen, M. J. (2014). Britain’s Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917-1948. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, p.407.
https://books.google.com/books?id=DLPpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA407
Steininger, R. (2018). Germany and the Middle East: From Kaiser Wilhelm II to Angela Merkel. Germany: Berghahn Books, p.46.
https://books.google.com/books?id=Wm58DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA46
Helmreich, W. (2017). The Third Reich and the Palestine Question. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, p.85.
https://books.google.com/books?id=Ph8xDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA85
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(Joseph Francis to establish Arab Nazi Party 1933).
Lewis, B. (1999). Semites and Anti-Semites: An Inquiry Into Conflict and Prejudice. United States: W. W. Norton, p. 147.
https://books.google.com/books?id=zjkiAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA147
Black, E. (2010). The Farhud: Roots of The Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust. Washington, DC: Dialog Press. Ch. 12. ‘The Arabs Reach for the Reich.’
https://books.google.com/books?id=f9LrEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT385
(https://archive.org/details/farhudrootsofara0000blac p.231).
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(Jamal Husseini ordering Protocols-forgery and Mein Kampf)
Pierre Van Paasen, ‘A MARGINAL NOTE.’
The Sentinel, 15 June 1933.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/cgs/1933/06/15/01/article/26
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‘From Bethlehem to Paris Arab-christian Editor Goes to Get Nazi Instructions.’
JTA. October 8, 1933.
[http://pdfs.jta.org/1933/1933-10-08_2663.pdf]
https://www.jta.org/archive/from-bethlehem-to-paris-arab-christian-editor-goes-to-get-nazi-instructions
‘Nazi Propaganda Drive in Zion.’
JTA. November 23, 1933.
[http://pdfs.jta.org/1933/1933-11-23_2700.pdf]
Eissa el Bendak, newly appointed member of the Arab Executive’s administrative bureau, will direct a propaganda.
https://www.jta.org/archive/nazi-propaganda-drive-in-zion
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‘Arabs Use Swastika in Fight for Trade of Jews in Holy Land.’
JTA. August 14, 1934.
[http://pdfs.jta.org/1934/1934-08-14_2923.pdf]
https://www.jta.org/archive/arabs-use-swastika-in-fight-for-trade-of-jews-in-holy-land
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‘TROUBLES IN GERMANY.’
The Palestine Post, 16 July 1934.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1934/07/16/01/article/35/
‘The following paragraph is taken from the Arab Federation, a Jerusalem weekly in English, dated July 7. The people of Palestine have been watching the recent troubles in Germany with great interest and keen. They were astonished by the courageous quick actions of Hitler whom the Arabs admire very much.’
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‘Palestine Train Flies Swastika.’
Haifa-Damascus train flies swastika.
The New York Times, May 13, 1935 .
https://www.nytimes.com/1935/05/13/archives/palestine-train-flies-swastika.html
‘Swastikas On Haifa Train.’
The Chronicler-Spokesman, 17 May 1935
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/chroniclerspokesman/1935/05/17/01/article/50
‘Nazi Propaganda In Palestine.
Swastika Chalked on Train.’
Palestine Post, 13 May, 1935, 7.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1935/05/13/01/article/40
That a train arriving at Afuleh from Haifa, en route for Samakh, bore a swastika chalked up on one of the coaches, with an Arabic inscription beneath “Germany Over All” (”Deutcshland Uber Alles”), is a report in “Davar,” Labour daily.
When the train, which was carrying delegates returning from the Arab youth conference at Haifa, reached Afuleh station, the station-master ordered the signs to be removed, the paper adds.
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‘Swastika Decorates Palestine Train.’
The Sentinel, 6 June 1935.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/cgs/1935/06/06/01/article/65/
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‘Gates of Zion Defaced by Swastika of Arabs’.
JTA, July 18, 1935.
A Nazi swastika sign carrying the inscription ‘Heil Hitler” appeared today on the Gates of Zion in Jerusalem, opposite the tombs of the Jewish kings.
The sign was obviously painted by Arabs. Palestine police authorities are investigating the case.
https://www.jta.org/archive/gates-of-zion-defaced-by-swastika-of-arabs
The Sentinel, 25 July 1935.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/cgs/1935/07/25/01/article/3/
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‘Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” in Arabic best seller in Palestine, Iraq, Syria and other Arabic land...’
The Canadian Jewish Chronicle, Dec 4, 1936 (p.7)
https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_ApAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA4
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Rolbant, Samuel (1948). The Arabs: Politics and People. Amal Publications. p. 25.
https://books.google.com/books?id=LVsBAAAAMAAJ&q=%22led+by+Fakhri+al+-+Barudi+of+the+National+Bloc%22
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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(Teacher Hilda Wilson in Birzeit).
Segev, T. (2001). One Palestine… United Kingdom: Picador. p. 412.
https://books.google.com/books?id=nLjPzQJEAkMC&pg=PA412
There was also a great deal of sympathy for Nazi Germany among Miss Wilson’s pupils in Sir Zeit. When they were given Disraeli’s novel Coningsby to read, the children were up in arms, as Wilson had expected in advance. “But he was a Jew!” they protested about the author. Wilson tried to divert the discus-sion to the question of what makes a great man—one who influences the spirit of his generation, Wilson suggested. Most of the students, she wrote, then put Adolf Hitler at the head of their list of great men.
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Youngstown Vindicator. Jan 2, 1937.
https://books.google.com/books?id=K8ZJAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA19
Swastika Protects (sic) Girl in Holy Land.
BERLIN. Dec. 29. — (INS) — The Swastika affords better protection in Palestine than four policemen according to s German girl in Jerusalem. In a letter to her parents in Linz on the Rhine, reprinted in the National Zeittung of Essen, she commented on the danger of going out on Jerusalem streets. She said: “If the Arabs think you are a German, there is no danger. We are often greeted by Arabians we know with ‘Heil Hitler’ in the streets. When I go into Arab quarters I always wear the Swastika cross. This protects us better than three or four policemen.”
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‘All Arabs Celebrate Pr_ ophet’s Birthday; Christians Join Moslems in Fete Unprecedented in Palestine—Hitler and Duce Cheered.’
Wireless to The New York Times.
May 23, 1937.
https://www.nytimes.com/1937/05/23/archives/all-arabs-celebrate-prophets-birthday-christians-join-moslems-in.html
‘Swastikas Fly As Arabs Mark Mohammed’s Birthday.’
JTA. May 23, 1937.
[http://pdfs.jta.org/1937/1937-05-23_242.pdf]
https://www.jta.org/archive/swastikas-fly-as-arabs-mark-mohammeds-birthday
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(1937, German Consul Walter Doehle)
Cohen, M. J. (2014). Britain’s Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917-1948. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, p.404.
https://books.google.com/books?id=DLPpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA404
Palestinian Arabs in all social strata have great sympathies for the new Germany and its Führer ... [it] is probably so widespread because the Palestinian Arabs ... long for an Arab “Führer”. And because in their fight against the Jews, they sense that they share a common single front with the Germans.
‘Nazis ‘shipped arms to Palestinians.’ ‘
British National Archives unveil presence of Nazi S.S. agents in Mandatory Palestine, working closely with Palestinian leaders.
Yaakov Lappin. Ynet. May 7, 2006.
https://www.ynet.co.il/article/3248081
‘Arabs admire our Fuhrer’.
“The Palestinian Arabs show on all levels a great sympathy for the new Germany and its Fuhrer, a sympathy whose value is particularly high as it is based on a purely ideological foundation,” a Nazi official in Palestine wrote in a letter to Berlin in 1937. He added: “Most important for the sympathies which Arabs now feel towards Germany is their admiration for our Fuhrer, especially during the unrests, I often had an opportunity to see how far these sympathies extend. When faced with a dangerous behaviour of an Arab mass, when one said that one was German, this was already generally a free pass.”
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(Right-wing Zionists pulling down swastika of German consulate building).
Encyclopaedia Judaica Year Book. (1977). Israel: Encyclopaedia Judaica., p. 193.
https://books.google.com/books?id=HtQuAQAAIAAJ&q=jabotinsky+pulled+down+swastika+consulates
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‘Editor Of Nazi Daily Visiting Egypt...
Contact with Palestine Press.’
The Palestine Post, 7 December 1937.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1937/12/07/01/article/3
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(Al Difa and Falastin)
‘Goebbles Aide Greeted in Cairo by Arab Editors.’
JTA. December 9, 1937.
https://www.jta.org/archive/goebbles-aide-greeted-in-cairo-by-arab-editors
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Ziff, W. (1938). The Rape of Palestine. New York/Toronto: Longmans, Green and Co., pp. 417, 430.
https://books.google.com/books?id=gWUBAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Nazi%20flags%20and%20pictures%20of%20Hitler%20were%20prominently%20displayed%20in%20store%20windows%22
https://books.google.com/books?id=gWUBAAAAMAAJ&q=catchword
‘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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(Jaffa Arab activist reacalls:)
The Story of Muhammad Abu Sarari
By T. Arbel, Docostrory, 2000 (Heb.)
https://books.google.com/books?id=qtAvAQAAIAAJ&q=%20%20%20%22%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91%20%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9D%22
“Most of the Arabs in [Eretz] Israel were in favor of Nazi Germany.”
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(A Jew paid the Brits to have Eichmann leave. He then went on to meet Mufti’s emissary in Egypt).
Adolf Eichmann’s Secret Visit to Palestine.
Years before Eichmann was brought to Israel to stand trial, the notorious mass-murderer visited Mandatory Palestine in 1937 while disguised as a journalist.
Chen Malul | 06.11.17
https://blog.nli.org.il/en/eichmann_secret_visit/
Rubin, B., Schwanitz, W. G. (2014). Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East. United Kingdom: Yale University Press, ch. 5 Al-Husaini’s Revolt.
https://books.google.com/books?id=qCXBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT139
Eichmann, was dispatched to Palestine to meet al - Husaini . Eichmann arrived at the port of Haifa on October 2 , 1937. But despite his having a tourist visa , the British authorities restricted his stay to forty-eight hours, after which he was put on a ship to Alexandria . Eichmann went to the British embassy in Cairo but couldn’t persuade that government to change its mind.
Instead , Eichmann stayed in Cairo a while and met with the German News Agency man and al-Husaini’s representatives , who came from Jerusalem.
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Zimmermann, Moshe. Germans Against Germans: The Fate of the Jews, 1938–1945. United States, Indiana University Press, 2022, p.201.
https://books.google.com/books?id=L8VrEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA201
‘Goebbels, who wrote in 1938: “in Palestine... the Arabs admire the fuhrer as though he were holy”. ‘
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Gunther, J. (1939). Inside Asia. United Kingdom: Harper & Bros., p.528.
https://books.google.com/books?id=MvZWAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Contemporary+hero
Mon 26 Jun 1939.
“INSIDE ASIA,” by John Gunther - Trove
... ARAB AND HIS WORLD | “The Greatest Contempory Arab Hero is—Adolf Hitler”. Descendant of the race from which came Mohammed and the religion of Islam, the Arab of to-day lives in a world of rapid political changes.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12142609
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(British authorities control Arab press during the war).
Kabahā, M., Caspi, D. (2011). The Palestinian Arab In/outsiders: Media and Conflict in Israel. United Kingdom: Vallentine Mitchell, pp. 58-59.
https://books.google.com/books?id=P0YxLofSHVsC&q=%22voicing%20criticism%22
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‘Pathfinder’, Town Journal, 1940:
‘Palestine’s Arabs admire Hitler for his Jew-baiting.’
https://dfmvgb5cppcfyr.archive.ph/dS1zR/ba94b2bbffe6c926317b80eb71439431ba1c0374.png
https://www.google.com/search?udm=36&q=%22Palestine%27s+Arabs+admire+Hitler%22
https://archive.ph/p4taJ
https://web.archive.org/web/20250424043027/https://www.google.com/search?udm=36&q=%22Palestine%27s+Arabs+admire+Hitler%22
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(Shukairy for Hitler propagamda machine)
Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ..., Volume 107, Part 24, United States Congress 1961, p.5735. https://books.google.com/books?id=ijg4AQAAMAAJ&pg=SL1-PA5735&dq=#v=snippet&q=%22all%20out%20for%20Hitler%22&f=false
‘Shukairy joined the Arab Higher Committee which was also headed by the ex Mufti. Shukairy got his start in politics in the early 1930s when he belonged to a group of fanatical extremists led by the ex-Mufti. This gang cooperated with the Communists and prior to the Hitler-Stalin Pact sought in every possible way to sabotage the Allied war effort against the Nazis in the Middle East. However, when Soviet Russia joined the Allies, Shukairy’s group split with the communists, and went all out for Hitler.’
The Detroit Jewish News. Friday, February 03, 1967 (p. 9) https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1967.02.03.001/9
‘Antiwar Group Warns Public of PLO Leader Shukairy.’
‘In a letter to the editor published in Wednesday’s New York Times, Dr. Albert Simard, secretary of the Society for the Prevention of World War Three warns of the “dangerous” background and activities of Ahmed Shukairy, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization who, he said, had expressed hatred of the West. Recalling the pro-Hilter activities “highest levels of government” of Shukairy when he was associated with the notorious Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.’
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(Shukairy in his 1969 book).
Elie Kedourie. Professor of Politics Emeritus. (1964) “Arabic Political Memoirs and Other Studies, Cass books on the Middle East.” Psychology Press. pp.189-190.
https://books.google.com/books?id=pJkH06fTLD8C&pg=PA189
Another passage provides a glimpse into their state of mind during the early part of the second world war. 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 and her con-federates. . . . When the British government announced the formation of a Palestine force to help the war effort, our young men received the directive: do not join the Palestine force, and the response was quasi unanimous. . . . The activity of the Italian and German air force extended to Palestine, and in September 1940 their airplanes bombed certain targets in Tel-Aviv and Haifa. The joy and excitement produced in our circles was indescribable. An Italian bomb happened to fall in the Acre quarter where I lived, making a large crater but causing no damage. The assistant governor of Acre ... visited me to report that the British governor ... had told him jokingly that the bomb was destined for Ahmad Shuqayri. I said: This is fine; upon me and upon my enemies, O Lord!”
Encounter. (1972). United Kingdom: Encounter Limited, p.76.
https://books.google.com/books?id=3ikdAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Our+sympathies+were+with+the+Axis+powers+being+led+by+Hitler+from%22
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(The meager low percentage of 9,000 Arab Palestinians [which included some non-Palestinian Arabs] joining the Allies - paid by Jews, most desert in 1943 to help Rommel)
‘Palestinian Arab Volunteers in the British Army in WWII: A Reality Check.’
By Col (Res.) Dr. Raphael G. Bouchnik-Chen. BESA, December 9, 2019.
https://besacenter.org/palestinian-arabs-british-army/
‘Gen. Archibald Wavell, commander of the British forces in the Middle East, opposed the formation of a Jewish regiment in the British army. According to historian Marcel Roubicek, the British High Commissioner for Palestine also feared that Jewish enlistment would inflame Arab anger. To solve that problem, he made it a condition that Jews wishing to join up find an equivalent number of Palestinian Arab volunteers to join up as well.
To accomplish this, the Jews of the Yishuv offered financial compensation to Palestinian Arabs to enlist. They ultimately succeeded in raising enough manpower from both communities to permit the formation of a Jewish regiment.
The opportunity for Palestinian Arabs to join the ranks of the British Army was thus a direct outcome of the Jewish desire to render its utmost assistance to Britain in every sphere of war activity, a point Abbasi ignores.’
Hurewitz, Jacob Coleman. The Struggle for Palestine, New York 1950. Hyamson , Albert M. Palestine Under the Mandate 1920–1948 , Westport 1976, p.119. (Plunkett Lake Press, 2022
https://books.google.com/books?id=yeh8EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1719
As the war dragged on and the Arab political machine remained stalled, the Public Information Office came to relyheavily on the newspapers for recruitment. Thus almost identically worded editorials were published in the three dailies in mid-February 1942, pleading with the Arabs to enlist in the British Army.
The Arabs were reminded that their nationalist claims would carry little weight in the peace settlement unless they could point to substantial contributions to the war effort. The overtones of these editorials relating to the fact that the war was not “a struggle merely between two groups of belligerents over differences of political conceptions, but a conflict between universal social principles and the ideals of liberty and a regime of intimidation” suggested British, not Arab origin.
A barometer of the prevailing Arab attitude toward the war was the number of Arab enlistees in the British armed forces. Arab recruits approximated only one-third of the 27,000 Palestinians who volunteered for British military service by December 1942. In fact, in the anxious days of the preceding July, when it seemed likely that Rommel might actually succeed in driving the British out of Egypt, although total enlistments reached an all-time monthly peak of over 2,000, Arab figures did not exceed 117, or less than 50 per cent of their monthly average for the year. The number of Arab deserters from the British armed forces was known to be considerable in the spring of 1941, and even more numerous in the summer of 1942. Indeed, Brigadier John Bagot Glubb, a tried friend of the Arabs, later claimed that “every Arab force [except the Arab Legion of Transjordan, which he commanded] previously organized by us mutinied and refused to fight for us, or faded away in desertions” at the time of the Iraqi revolt in May 1941.
‘Nakba was result of Palestinians backing Nazis during WWII.’
Ben-Dror Yenini. Ynet, May 15, 2022.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1bpi7cl5
‘...9,000 Palestinian and Jordanian Arabs did enlist to the British Army during the war (in comparison with about 27,000 Jews). But, from the moment it became evident the Germans may pass through Egypt and reach Palestine in spring 1942, Palestinian Arabs switched sides.
About 78% of the Arab volunteers deserted the British army, often times stealing weapons for the purpose of helping the Germans fight the Jews when the time came. Additionally, a survey conducted in 1941 shows that 88% of Palestinian Arabs supported Nazi Germany, while only 9% backed the British mandate.’
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(Feb 1941 poll).
Morris, Benny. 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. United States: Yale University Press, (2008). p.21.
https://books.google.com/books?id=CC7381HrLqcC&pg=PA21
The Zionist movement closed ranks in support of the Allies in the war against the Nazis. Palestine, awash with British troops, served as a giant rear base and workshop for the Eighth Army, which engaged the Italians and Germans in North Africa. The Palestinians, reeling from the suppression of their rebellion and largely unsympathetic to Western liberal, democratic values, grimly hoped for an Axis victory. In this, they were at one with most of the Arab world. The Palestinians, Khalil al-Sakakini, a Christian Jerusalem educator, jotted down in his diary, “rejoiced [as did ‘the whole Arab world’] when the British bastion at Tobruk fell to the Germans.” 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 per-cent of the Palestinian Arabs favored Germany and only 9 percent Britain.
‘The Farhud and the Palestinian ‘cause ‘
Nazism continues to inspire the Palestinians.’
Lyn Julius. JNS, May 31, 2023.
https://www.jns.org/jns/palestinians/23/5/31/291858/
Cohen, H. (2008). Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948. United Kingdom: University of California Press, p.175
https://books.google.com/books?id=9-NKm7nTm_IC&pg=PA175
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(The CIA [predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services - OSS] , Aug-1942 report)
Herf, J. (2009). Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World. United States: Yale University Press, p.139.
https://books.google.com/books?id=YzQNSTvHv-sC&pg=PA139
Their assessment of Palestine was even more sober:
“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.”
Michael J Cohen, M.J. (2014). “Britain’s Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917-1948,” Routledge, p.429.
https://books.google.com/books?id=DLPpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA429
In August 1942, two American intelligence officers stationed in Egypt drew up an assessment of the impact of Axis propaganda in the Middle East ... the report continued that a majority of the Palestinian Arabs was fiercely “anti-Jewish” and saw in the approach of Rommel an ideal opportunity to murder all Jews their seize their property.
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(July 1942: Arabs’ “open joy”)
Cohen, M. J. (2014). Britain’s Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917-1948. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. Ch.17.
https://books.google.com/books?id=CbLpAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA3-PT253
‘On 2 July 1942, the second day of the first battle of El Alamein, the Mufti’s supporters organized a public meeting in Nablus, in order to congratulate each other on the approaching victory and to wish the Mufti a long life. Cohen reported that the Mufti’s supporters in Haifa had visited the local villages of Kabatia and Yabed, where they had met with his followers in order to plan the pillaging of Jewish villages in the Jezre’el valley, after the British retreat. By the same token, members of the opposition were filled with deep anxiety, convinced that in the event of a German victory they would be the first to suffer revenge at the hands of the Mufti’s men.
On the same day in July, Cohen reported that the Arabs had received news about the fate of the Jews in Europe with “open joy”. They expressed the hope that the Germans would conquer Palestine and “liberate” them from their Jews.’
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Letter and special report, Chef der Sicherheitspolizei to Reichsführer SS, 21 Dec. 1942, BArch,. NS 19/186:
Wawrzyn, H. (2013). Nazis in the Holy Land 1933-1948. Germany: De Gruyter, p.95.
https://books.google.com/books?id=cZ7oBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA95
Dec 21, 1942 letter, representatives of the Reich and the NSDAP in Palestine described the Arabs’ hope for a great Arab state: “Arabs in Palestine were waiting for Hitler to come to Palestine and expel all the Jews.”
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(The extend of trust in Arabs Hitler had, regarding annihilation plans)
Intermountain Jewish News, 3 April 1947.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/chncijn/1947/04/03/01/article/81/
Hitler Wanted World Jewry Exterminated.
LONDON, (.JTA).—An international agreement for the extermination of all Jews was the main provision of the peace treaty Hitler intended to dictate to the vanquished Allies, according to a Finnish physician, Dr. Felix Kersten, former medical advisor to Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler. Quoting a statement by Himmler made to him in Zhitomir, in August 1942 Dr. kersten declares in an article in the Sunday Express that “a peace conference was to be held at Nuremberg with the participation of all neutral countries. A ‘New Order’ Europe would be proclaimed by Hitler at the Conference, the convening of which would coincide with the annihilation of the last Jew in Europe. The first article of the treaty of peace between Germany and the defeated United States would be the Surcan Jews. The same demand would be made on all Latin American countries. Arabs would he entrusted with extermination of Jews in the Mediterranean.
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(Even anti-Zionist, pro-Arab General Edward Spears admitted;)
The Canadian Jewish Chronicle · Feb. 8, 1946.
https://books.google.com/books?id=OAFPAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA5
Interim Committee Will Issue Interim Report This Month. By Gerald Frank.
“Gen. Spears Testifies. Spears admitted, in reply to a question, that there were tendencies toward Nazism among the Arabs.”
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(Oct 1946: following the hanging of Nazi war criminals, the Arabic press full of praise for the dead Nazis: Ad Difaa, Al Wahda, Falastin).
The Palestine Post, 18 October, 1946.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1946/10/18/01/article/12
ARABIC PRESS ON NAZI HANGINGS. Palestine Post Reporter.
The Arabic press left its readers in no doubt of its opinion that the Nazis condemned at Nuremberg were men of great courage.
“Ad-Difaa’s” front page headline on Wednesday (the day of their execution) read ‘Nazi Leaders Await Death with Pride and Courage.’
Referring to Goering’s suicide, yesterday’s “Al Wahda” wrote: ‘Goering preferred the death his leader had chosen. He considered death by hanging a disgrace, chose his leader’s way and carried out his intention.’
Falastin’s comment was: ‘Another black page of history has been turned with the death of the Nazi leaders by hanging.’
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(1946, Edward Said on Hitler’s mufti, that he represented then the consensus [that was shortly after the war]).
Israel’s Rights as a Nation-State in International Diplomacy. (2011). Israel: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, p. 167.
https://books.google.com/books?id=wYZdOSthmdoC&pg=PA167
“Mufti, who Edward Said noted “represented the Palestinian Arab national consensus,” formed an alliance with the Nazis and spent the war years with Hitler in Berlin.’
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The American Mercury. (1953). United States: American Mercury. (Russia and the Middle East. Jules Kagian, pp. 13-17) 'Russia and the Middle East,' pp.13-14
In analyzing the motives behind this new Russian policy.
They saw in Stalin another Hitler coming to save them from the dangers of Zionism. When Hitler persecuted the Jews, Arabs rejoiced. They adorned their houses and ships with Hitler's pictures and the Swastika flag.
Although Arabs admit that the persecution of Jews by the Nazis eventually led to the creation of Israel, they believe they havd to thank Stalin twice -- for persecuting the Jews and for preventing mass migration to Israel.
Arab leaders are fond of saying that Arabs are not Anti-Semitic, since they are Semites themselves and cousins of the Jews. They say instead that they are anti-Zionists. To the average Arab, to the Palestinian refugee, and to most Arab statesmen, the distinction between a Jew and a Zionist is Immaterial. They consider Israel a Jewish state, and if Israel is their enemy the Jews are enemies too.
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(Dotan valley - Crematorium plan).
Shragai, N. (2012). The “Al-Aksa is in Danger” Libel: The History of a Lie.” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
https://jcpa.org/al-aksa-is-in-danger-libel/al-aksa-libel-advocate-mufti-haj-amin-al-husseini/
‘Report: Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti Planned Construction of ‘Auschwitz-Like’ Crematorium in Israel.’
By Shiryn Ghermezian. Oct 27, 2015.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2015/10/27/report-jerusalems-grand-mufti-planned-construction-of-crematorium-in-israel/
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(Shukairy and Jamal Husseini justify the Holocaust months after war)
Behind the British Conspiracy.
B’nai B’rith Messenger, 12 July 1946.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/bbh/1946/07/12/01/article/47
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(1947-8, Jamal Husseini spokesperson of AHC, explaining Arab objection, because of Arab race homogeneity).
Herf, J. (2022). Israel’s Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, p.239.
https://books.google.com/books?id=8YlZEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA239
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(Mid-Sep 1962, the New York Times reported on “Argentine Youths in Nazi Group Salute and Cry: ‘Hail Tacuara!’; Anti-Semitic Organization, Said to Be Growing...”, in November, Shukairy cites the NYT and promotes the neonazi group at the UN. He is denounced by Argentinian delegate and others. He tries to switch it around but no one buys it. He is sacked weeks later by his Saudi bosses).
Argentine Youths in Nazi Group Salute and Cry: ‘Hail Tacuara!’; Anti-Semitic Organization, Said to Be Growing, Asserts It Fights ‘Zionism, Capitalism and Communism’ Tells About Drills He Doubts Charges. Sept. 16, 1962. Page 30: BUENOS AIRES, Sept. 15 (AP)—The fuzzy-faced 15-year old boy flushed with pride as the roomful of teen-agers fixed their gaze on him. Standing erect, he raised his arm in the Nazi salute and shouted, “Hail Tacuara!” https://www.nytimes.com/1962/09/16/archives/argentine-youths-in-nazi-group-salute-and-cry-hail-tacuara.html
‘Facts,’ Volumes 15-17, Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, 1963, p. 424
https://books.google.com/books?id=n9c3AQAAIAAJ&q=shukairy
During his various tenures as a delegate to the United Nations, Shukairy demonstrated virulent hatred of Israel and Jews ... In 1962 at the U.N., Shukairy even went so far as to praise the militant, anti-Jewish and neo-Nazi storm-troop gang in Argentina know as Tacuara. He said: “Recently in Argentina, as was reported in The New York Times...”
Hitler’s Ghost Haunts Halls Of Assembly. New Jersey Jewish News, January 4, 1963.
https://jhsnj-archives.org/?a=d&d=A19630104-NewJerseyJewishNews-19630104-01.1.10
“Arab Spokesmen Help The Cause of Israel.”
...The ghost of Adolf Hitler haunts the halls of the United Nations.
Hitler’s shrill voice has bellowed through Ahmad Shukairy, Minister of State for UN Affairs in the Saudi Government and through Amil Al-Ghoury, another spokesman for the so-called “Palestine Arab delegation.”
Shukairy made the mistake of saluting the Tacuara movement in Argentina. Al-Ghoury helped his cause not at all by attacking what he called U. S. support of the “unlawful Zionist occupation of Palestine.”
Praise of Argentina’s fascistic Tacuara movement brought instant criticism from the Argentine and Chilean delegates, thoroughly embarrassed by this aping of Hitler’s methods in their countries.
The National Jewish Monthly, Volume 77, B’nai B’rith, 1962, p. 1
https://books.google.com/books?id=OjLnAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Removed%22
Review Of The Month.
Anti Semitism at UN.
Arab delegates spouted the most vicious kind of anti-Semitism ever heard in the halls of the United Nations during a debate on the Arab refugee issue in the General Assembly’s special political committee.
The worst statement was made by Ahmad Shukairy, of Saudi Arabia. He said, Argentina “should be saluted” because of its violently anti-Jewish youth organization, Tacuara, and added: “Tacuara has proclaimed a crusade... we propose that Tacuara be adopted by the United Nations.” This was too much even for Saudi Arabia’s king Faisal, who removed Shukairy from his UN post.
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(Genocidal Shukairy in 1967: “none of them will survive”).
Lipstadt, D. E. (2016). Holocaust: An American Understanding. United Kingdom: Rutgers University Press, p.77
https://books.google.com/books?id=mXxRDAAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PT39
https://archive.org/details/holocaustamerica0000lips/mode/1up?q=%22none+of+them+will+survive%22
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Massuah, Vols. 4-6, (Heb.), Massuah, 1976.
https://books.google.com/books?id=2xYiAQAAIAAJ&q=%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%A9%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%94%20%D7%94%D7%99%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%A8
The Arab street, which had been trained for decades to hate the British and harass the Jews, now found in Hitler, after his first victories, with the beginning of the war, the one who fulfills his wishes... The relationship between Hitler and Haj Amin determines the mood in the Arab street... The land of Israel was indeed a home front country and lived in relative peace, but the Arab street did not hide its admiration for Hitler and the Third Reich. Hitler was portrayed in the minds of the Arabs as the greatest friend of the Arab nation. They admired him for his hatred of the Jews and for the fact that he despised them and decided to exterminate them from the face of the earth. Hitler symbolized bravery and wisdom, leadership ability and certain victory.
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(Orientalist historian on the WW2 era:
“hopes of most Arabs that Britain would emerge defeated...”).
Asaf, M. (1967). History of the Arabs in E”Y Palestine. Israel: Davar. (Heb.), Vol. 3 Pt 1, pp 153-154.
https://books.google.com/books?id=70cJAQAAIAAJ&q=%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%91%20%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9D%22%20%22
In World War II.
The Arab movement was broken and shattered at the outbreak of World War II. There was a great deal of fatigue from the revolt, in which thousands of Arabs were murdered and injured, many homes and orchards were destroyed, hundreds of the movement’s activists and leaders went into exile in neighboring countries, hundreds of wealthy people fled the country and ceased or reduced their economic activities. Political indifference prevailed among the public, which implied anticipation of the results of the war and the hopes of most Arabs that Britain would emerge defeated in it.
In this atmosphere, even the leaders of the opposition, who remained in the country, saw no point in any political action, and especially after the restrictions on immigration had been to their satisfaction, this situation was very desirable for the British authorities, whose main goal was to rule Palestine during the war as a British colony in every sense of the word.
Meanwhile, the active Arab force, headed by Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, moved from Syria and Lebanon to Iraq, the seat of the German political headquarters in the Middle East (Baghdad).
The younger Arab generation at that time mostly followed the Nazi-fascist axis, which operated in two powerful propaganda arms: the Italian arm was active in Egypt, Lebanon and Syria, and the German arm — mainly in Iraq and Persia. The Arab rebels from Israel turned to the Baghdad center of the axis, its great stronghold in World War II, which also had in its heart its fierce hatred of Jews.
Then, during the war, the pan-Arab delusion arose among Arab activists and their leader Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, and his delusion was even nourished by political and military support from Italy, Germany and Iraq.
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(Palestinian Arab leader, in Jerusalem (then under Jordanian rule), in spring of 1967:)
“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...”
Saturday Review. (1970). Vol. 53. United States: Saturday Review Associates, p. 4.
https://books.google.com/books?id=hNAaAQAAMAAJ&q=%22arabs%20supported%20hitler%22
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‘PLO Official: We Supported the Nazis in WWII.’
Israel National News. Dec 9, 2013.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/175316
Former political bureau head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) removes any doubt over Arab support for Nazi Germany....
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.”
These remarks are just the latest evidence of the Arab support for Nazis and for genocide of Jews....
PLO Leader Admits Support for Nazis, Says They Saw Zionism as Common Enemy (VIDEO).
By Joshua Levitt. Algemeiner, December 18, 2013.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2013/12/18/plo-leader-admits-support-for-nazis-says-they-saw-zionism-as-common-enemy-video/
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Jordanian ex-minister: Arabs supported Hitler because he hated Jews.
By Donna Rachel Edmunds, Jerusalem Post, November 12, 2019.
His comments came days before a Jordanian researcher claimed just 400,000 Jews had been killed by the Nazis.
A former Jordanian minister has told Jordanian TV that Arabs supported Hitler during World War II because he hated the Jews.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/jordanian-ex-minister-arabs-supported-hitler-because-he-hated-jews-607485
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‘PLO Official: We Supported the Nazis in WWII.’
Israel National News. Dec 9, 2013.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/175316
Former political bureau head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) removes any doubt over Arab support for Nazi Germany....
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.”
These remarks are just the latest evidence of the Arab support for Nazis and for genocide of Jews....
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(After the war, Oct 1945, Falstin defends Nazism, protests Nuremberg Trials).
Youngstown Vindicator, Dec 28, 1945.
Jewish Press Is Censored; Arabs Free to Blast Truman.
By Malkah Raymist.
https://books.google.com/books?id=k-ZYAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA10
All these Arab statements, however, were put into the shade by a long article offering a spirited defense of the Nazi regime. “No one is entitled to judge war criminals,” says Falastin. “If the Germans had won the war, they would not have acted thus. All is fair in war.”
The Nazi leaders were “men of vision,” according to the paper, which sees Nazism as “a way of living like any other,” suiting millions and freely chosen by them.
Allied endeavors to root out Nazism are criminal, undemocratic and contrary to the freedom professed by the Allies.
The Palestine Post, 31 October 1945.
“Falastin Defends Nazism.”
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/falastin/1945/10/30/01/article/5
Commentary Magazine, March 1946 Foreign Affairs.
“The Arab League: Tool or Power?”
by Bernard D. Weinryb.
https://www.commentary.org/articles/bernard-weinryb/the-arab-league-tool-or-power/
...the Palestine Arabic newspaper Falastin, for instance, attacked the Nuremberg trials, asserting that the Allies had no right to try nazis and nazism since this was a political ideology just as democracy and socialism are.
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1948:
Palestine. (1948). United States: AZC, vol. 5, p. 31.
https://books.google.com/books?id=-gUUnEReYz0C&q=22%22%20%22Hitler's%20army%20are%20active%20with%20many%20groups%20of%20Arab%20invaders%20in%20Palestine%22
“Hitler’s army are active with many groups of Arab invaders in Palestine.”
‘Strange bedfellows.’
By Seth J. Frantzman. Jerusalem Post, May 7, 2008.
Muslim Bosnians trained by the Nazis later volunteered to fight against Israel in 1948
https://www.jpost.com/magazine/features/strange-bedfellows
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