Munif al-Husseini

Munif Al-Husseini will start the publication of an Arabic daily in Jerusalem with Jamal Al-Husseini as editor-in-chief, according to the Arab paper “Ul Yarmuk.”

Arab 'anti-Semitism.'

We knew quite well, that the official leaders of the Arabs of the country and their journalists hate "Zaion" and the Jewish settlement in Israel in general. The causes and reasons are known. They are not in any case showing hostility towards the Zionists and the Jews in Israel, they would repeat and emphasize that they are free from hatred of the Jewish-people, from anti-Semitism. On the contrary, they would boast at every opportunity of their rights, related to the love of the Jewish-people in the past, and as if their hatred in the present did not apply to the Jewish community, the events in Germany came and revealed the true face of this Semites. Three daily newspapers in [Eretz-Yisrael] Palestine, which reflect the opinions of Arab leaders and the active political class: 'Falastin' - فلسطين, 'Al-Jami'a al-Arabiyya' - الجامعة العربية and 'Al-jamā'ah al-islāmīyah' - الجماعة الإسلامية. To begin with, there was a difference in the attitude of these newspapers towards the persecution of the Jews in Germany. 'Falastin' wrote several times against the persecutions, although in a very lukewarm tone, the two Muslim newspapers drowned from the first moment any small comment about opposition to the persecution of a people — in case they did not forget to attach such a comment — in a flood of harsh words, slander and justification of the persecution of the Jews. And the next day, 'Falastin' also followed them. The crown of Arab anti-Semitism in the events of Germany goes without a doubt to the Mufti newspaper: 'Al-Jami'a al-Arabiyya.' This newspaper supported Hitlerism in the past, because fascist nationalism is its ideal. It always repeated the slogan: we support Hitler and only one thing will violate our joy. With his victory, his rule will increase the flow of Jewish immigration to Israel. And here Hitler came to power, terrible persecutions took place against the Jews of Germany, and 'Al-Jami'a' immediately sided with the Nazis to protect them from the "false [sic] Jewish" propaganda. Almost every day, original and translated articles appear in this newspaper fighting the news about "so-called persecutions", (الاضطهاد .) All the world's newspapers and German government laws are false, and only a denial of the Nazis' are credible to the editor of 'Al Jamiah'. Several times he claimed in main articles from the government on the "insult" of the German consuls in Jerusalem and Jaffa at the hands of the Jews, and "establishes" in connection with this the inferiority of the Jewish race in comoarison to the Germans. And it was not enough to pit the Arabs against the Jews, but he began to pit the Jews against the Germans in Palestine. In the issue of May 16, he writes in this vein: There has been a German diaspora in Palestine for decades.... And in his speech about the Jews in Germany he writes (ibid.) "The Nazis rose up against the German Jews, who spread..." And the editor of 'Islamiya' writes simply (on May 22): "When Hitlerism appeared, the Arabs cheered and rejoiced, saying: A blow from heaven in the hands of others." … Well, the 600 thousand Jews in Germany are the 600 thousand ancestors of German communism! Is it just ignorance here? And are there any ignorance here at all? But between 'Al-Jami'a' and 'Islamiyah' there is a difference of opinion on one point: according to the former, Hitler caused a loss to Palestine by increasing the aspiration and immigration to the land, whereas the latter account of the owner of 'Islamia' is of great win to all "seekers of justice: "First of all, the strongest Jewish community in Europe must be torn to pieces, and in any case, Jewry in general is weakened. Second, there is no doubt that Hitler's ideas will also spread to other countries, according to the "Law of the Spread of Contagious Diseases," and Jewry will be destroyed there as well. And third, now the end will come to the rule of England and France in the world. Italy has already risen and Germany is now standing beside it. Well, looting of systems, a new equilibrium, and here is a convenient opportunity for "those seeking justice." The main "demander of justice" of "Islamia" removed all veils here: his ambition - the destruction of Jewry. Of course, 'Falastin' needs no lesson in anti-Semitism and hatred of the Jews from its Muslim friends. It stands on the 'height' of place and time. All the conspiracies and lies that the anti-Semites in the world have concocted from time to time in relation to the Jews are chewed up every day in this newspaper and are presented to the reader with the addition of a well-known "Palestinian spice". The newspaper tries to publish any news that contains any "denouncing" of Hitler's opponents, and concludes (May 4): "We did not doubt it at all, since the Jewish newspapers began to widely spread their abundant lies [sic] about the persecution of Jews in Germany, because they are false [sic] in their information, and criminals in their signature on the German people, who gave modern culture so much philosophical science and art." Of the small Arab newspapers, 'Mir'at Al-Sharq مرﺁة الشرق - ' was the only one, which expressed human sorrow for the persecution of the Jews in Germany, but demanded a price for this expression: renouncing the Balfour Declaration! For anyone who knows the heads of the strata in the Arab camp, there is no surprise in the 'anti-Semitic' revelation of the Arab newspapers. We know it..! However, what is interesting about this whole phenomenon is that in the same pages where these Muslim Arabs are standing alongside Hitler, who declares to the world that his plan is to place the Jewish community, which has lived in Germany no less than during the days of Islam on earth, outside of any civil law — in those pages, the Arabs of the country are literally "scream bloody murder" on persecution of their brothers in North Africa! And those Muslim Arabs, who see themselves as being persecuted in several places, have no desire to listen to the moans of other persecuted people. We have known satisfied and complacent nations that out of kindness are deaf to the suffering of weak and persecuted nations and communities. But even in such times there is no such uniform chorus, of those who rejoice in persecutions, who rejoice in profligacy, insolence and rudeness, as the chorus of the Arab oppressors. It's nothing but the political hatred for Zionism caused the logic of these journalists to go crazy! On the one hand, France and Italy claim that they respect every religion in general and Islam in particular, and all the rumors about the persecution of Muslims in Tripoli, Barqah, Tunis and Morocco are false; On the other hand, Hitler claims that the expropriation of the Jews from German life is a fundamental clause of a new plan. And how do the Arab-Muslims want to be believed if they deny France, Italy and Hitler together? The persecuted of France and Italy — they are persecuted on the verge of denial by these governments, while the persecuted of Hitler — who he, his government and his aides confirm the persecutions every day in speeches, laws and deeds — are not persecuted?! What is this logic? Here the real value of the fugitive talks about justice, about war against imperialism and the like like Husseini, Farooqui and El Issa stands out. They shout at the oppressor, as long as they do not have the strength to oppress. And from here there is only one and only conclusion regarding Eretz Yisrael: the Arab leaders are already Hitlerites in idea, and woe and woe to the Jewish community in Israel if they are given power. The 'anti-Semitic disclosure' regarding the events in Germany should be used as a political document for us in any political negotiations about the regime in Israel. This is for the outside.

And on the inside: have the owners of the "spiritual center" and those who are complacent with a Jewish minority in Israel learned a lesson from the events in Germany and the reaction of the Arab leaders in Israel?

Emil Ghuri, Issa Nakhle and Munif al-Husseini as well as Izzat Tanous, the permanent representative of the refugees to the UN; all four of them are old Palestinian businessmen who have been close to the mufti since before 1948.