Mohamed Ali Eltaher

Mohamed Ali Eltaher [ali al-Taher] was an Arab "Palestinian" Islamic zealot pro-Jihad, antisemitic writer and journalist, born in Nablus in 1896, where he received his primary education. He worked as a journalist for several newspapers, including Fata al-Arab, published in Jaffa, and Suriya al-Janubiya, published in Jerusalem . Al-Taher served as the director of telegraph and post in Nablus , before moving to Cairo in 1920. He was among the first journalists to make noise against the British Mandate's intention to establish a Jewish state in Mandatory Palestine. He then moved to Egypt and propagated there.

1930s

ElTaher was an associate of the Grand mufti’s and has been linked to facilitating relations between the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and German Nazi agents.

In 1936 Cairo, appeared a publication of an antisemitic pamphlet by the "Young Muslim Association." The leaders of the Cairo community sued the association's president, Ali al-Taher. Distribution of the pamphlet was halted.

In Cairo he had published "Al-Shabab" [The Youth] paper from February 1937 until April 1939.

Mohamed Ali Eltaher / Ali al-Taher. (Aboul-Hassan, born in 1896 in Nablus, died 1974 in Lebanon) had published "Al-Shabab" [The Youth] paper from February 1937 until April 1939. In the Oct.26.1938 issue, it states "الله ولي أهل فلسطين الذين لا...

In the Oct 26, 1938 issue, it states "Allah is the guardian of the people of Palestine who have neither Hitler nor a nation for them."

The Islamic Mein Kampf

Islamic Mein Kampf

The 1937 brochure Islam and Jewry (Arabic: Islam wa-l-Yahud) is a 31-page text published in Cairo on August 18, 1937, and widely distributed at the Bloudan Conference of 1937 in Syria.

The historical designation of the text as the foundation or forerunner of an "Islamic Mein Kampf" stems primarily from the research of German political scientist and historian Matthias Küntzel. In his work documenting Nazi Germany's ideological influence on the Middle East, Küntzel argues that the brochure served a purpose analogous to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf by establishing a foundational, text-based blueprint for modern Islamic antisemitism.

Key Details & Context

• The Publisher: The pamphlet was published and popularized by the prominent Palestinian-Egyptian journalist and author Mohamed Ali Eltaher.
• The Ideological Link: Historians view the text as a critical turning point in the region, as it combined select anti-Jewish episodes from early Islamic history with 20th-century Western antisemitic conspiracy theories.
• Haj Amin al-Husseini: It provided a formal ideological framework for Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who used the text to protest the British Peel Commission's 1937 proposal to partition Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states.
• Contents: The brochure notably promoted specific anti-Jewish sayings (hadiths), including an eschatological passage about the "stones and trees" that would later appear in the 1988 founding Hamas Charter.

Mobilization and Motivation of Muslims

The 1937 document was strategically deployed to motivate the Arab public to forcefully reject the Peel Commission's partition plan through specific framing mechanisms:

• A New Narrative Flow: The brochure was the first major modern text to synthesize a direct historical line between the 7th-century theological conflicts involving Muhammad in Medina and the 20th-century political conflict over land in Mandatory Palestine.
• Religious Framing: By shifting the argument away from a territorial or political dispute, the text reframed geopolitical opposition to a Jewish state as an absolute, eternal religious obligation for all Muslims.
• The Nazi Connection: The distribution of this pamphlet at the Bloudan Conference directly coincided with the onset of covert logistical and financial links between Nazi Germany and the Grand Mufti, Amin al-Husseini. It acted as an ideological vehicle, blending European antisemitic conspiracy theories with selective Islamic scripture for mass public distribution.

Nazi SS Muslims

In WW2 it was used in motivation for the Mufti's SS Moslems recruits.

Influence on Later Islamist Writers

The ideological framework established in Islam and Jewry laid the direct groundwork for subsequent Islamist theoreticians, most notably Sayyid Qutb, the leading intellectual of the Muslim Brotherhood.

In the 1950s, Qutb published his seminal essay, Our Struggle with the Jews (Arabic: Ma'rakatuna ma'a al-Yahud). Historians note that Qutb adopted and expanded the core premise of the 1937 pamphlet: portraying Jews not merely as political opponents in Palestine, but as an cosmic, unchanging existential threat to Islam that has operated continuously since the 7th century. This specific lineage of thought—running from the 1937 pamphlet through Qutb—effectively institutionalized Western-style conspiratorial antisemitism within mainstream Islamist ideology, a trajectory that culminated in the inclusion of these identical concepts in the 1988 Hamas Charter.

1947

On October 3, 1947, the Mufti's Arab Higher Committee issued an appeal to all Arab states to declare a total strike in protest against the Partition. A propagandist author writes: "A huge rally by Islamic forces held in Cairo was addressed by Muhammad Ali al-Taher, who called for the Jihad in defense of Palestine. This was the first public call to use force to rescue Palestine. On the same day, the Supreme Guide, al-Banna, called for an oath of sacrifice for Palestine in Cairo's mosques and declared his readiness to organize a holy Jihad."

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

Lord Peel to 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."