Fattah al-Imam

Said [Saeed] Fattah al-Imam [سعيد فتاح الإمام], founder of the al-Nadi al-Arabi (The Arab Club), later to be vehicle for advancing Nazi goals in Syria, educated in Berlin, in 1936, Imam travelled twice to Nazi Germany, once even meeting personally with Hitler to try to talk him in to shipping arms to the Arab Palestinians and Syrians so they could use them to fight off the British and the French. After failing first in getting a statement from Hitler, the mufti did not give up, and had sent Imam in December 1937, who brought a letter to the Goebbels Propaganda Office a recommendation by the mufti, which ended with the words "Heil Hitler!".

Baldur von Schirach (the leader of the Hitler Youth from 1931 to 1940, and from 1940 to 1945, the Gauleiter [district leader] and Reichsstatthalter [Reich governor] of Vienna) met with iconic Arab nationalists like Shukri al-Quwatli and Said Fattah al-Imam, who had visited Berlin in 1936 and met with Hitler.

"In addition to Imam, six other medical doctors and lawyers, among them `Abd al-Latif al-Bisar from Tripolis, were suggested by the consulate to be invited to the conference."

"In early 1937, Imam had met a high-ranking German personality in Basra where he had received the offer of financial support. This support was supposed to flow via the commissioning of German goods, which were to be sold in Syria to the profit of the club. The local Syrian representative of the German company Telefunken was suggested as a candidate to handle this trade. In addition, the editor of Les Echos de Syrie, George Phares, was said to have clandestinely distributed bandages carrying the swastika, which had provoked French suspicions about an assumed German propaganda offensive. According to the German report, Phares had apparently acted on behalf of the British consul to fuel German—French tensions."

Iron shirts

"In the early 1930s, Nazi Germany's anti-Semitic policies evoked a widespread, positive response among Arab nationalists across the Middle East." "During this decade, a plethora of political organizations and paramilitary youth movements modelled on Fascist and Nazi organizations sprouted up in the Arab world. In Iraq, there was the al-Futuwwa, a youth organization modelled on the Hitler Youth, and the influential, pan-Arab, Fascist al-Muthanna Club, both openly supportive of the Nazis..."

"In December 1937, the high-ranking Nazi officer, Baron Baldur von Schirach, arrived in Damascus and held a lengthy meeting with Said Fattah al-Imam, head of the Association of Graduates of German Institutes and Universities in Syria. He asked him for military support to form Arab militias to fight the Zionists in Palestine. Von Schirach expressed a keen interest in a paramilitary organization that had briefly appeared on the streets of major Syrian cities, dubbed the "Iron Shirts." Founded by Fakhri al-Baroudi in partnership with Dr. Munir al-Ajlani in March 1936, the organization eventually grew to include approximately fifteen thousand members, most of whom were based in Damascus and Aleppo.

The idea came to Dr. Munir al-Ajlani shortly after his return from studying law at the Sorbonne in the early 1930s, after witnessing the rise of Hitler's Brownshirts and Mussolini's Blackshirts on the streets of Berlin and Rome."

1948: before the war of independence

Imam was the Secretary of the Propaganda Committee of the Palestine Liberation Society in 1948, before Iarael's war of Independence, such as May/1948.

1949?

A Syrian man named Imam is said to have visited Europe in 1949 in order to buy weapons and recruit people for the fight. One of the countries that the man - probably Said Abd al-Fattah al-Imam - is said to have visited was Sweden.

See also

• Hassan Salameh
• Fawzi el Kutub
• Yusuf Abu Durra
• Akram Zuaiter
• Darwish Al-Miqdadi
• Munif al-Husseini
• Fuad Isa Shatara
• Joseph Francis (journalist)
• Fuad Saba
• Emil Ghuri
• Yaqub al-Ghusayn
• Fawzi al-Qawuqji
• Abu Ibrahim al-Kabir
• Wasef Kamal
• Mamdouh Al-Maidani

• Nazism at Arab Palestinians

References

"The Mufti.. concocted a new kind of antisemitism that combined traditional Muslim antisemitism, like the anti-Jewish verses you find in the Koran, with the Nazi antisemitism that demonised Jews... His whole ideology was antisemitic and from the very beginning he targeted Jews, not Zionists."

The difference between lies and reality is sometimes just a color on a map

W. Ormsby-Gore as he was preparing the royal commission report, "Though I knew there was ill-feeling between Jews and Arabs, I had not realized the depth and intensity of the hatred with which the Jews are held by the Arabs..."

"It is not Israel's settlement blocks but rather the Palestinian ideological blockade that constitutes the biggest barrier to peaceful arrangements . The Jew-hatred in this region must no longer be played down as a kind of local custom ..."

The only tweet (July 2014) on the Twitter account of the late American Elan Ganeles - murdered by Arab-Islamist "Palestinian" on Feb 27, 2023 hy"d: "I think you're always going to have tension in the Middle East, when there's [are] people who want to kill Jews, and the Jews don't want to be killed, and neither side is willing to compromise."