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| | Founded by the [[Arab]] cousins El-Issa in 1911. (Though the two were Arab Christians, yet, it's important to bear in mind, many Arabs were heavily influenced by the surrounding Islamic culture. Such is the later case with Nazism admirer Michel Aflaq one of the founders of the [[Ba'ath]]. In addition, the masses they catered to were more of the [[Islam]]ic faith, being Palestine's most prominent newspaper moreso on the 1920s. It also followed the line by Islamic figure the [[Mufti al-Husseini]]). | | Founded by the [[Arab]] cousins El-Issa in 1911. (Though the two were Arab Christians, yet, it's important to bear in mind, many Arabs were heavily influenced by the surrounding Islamic culture. Such is the later case with Nazism admirer Michel Aflaq one of the founders of the [[Ba'ath]]. In addition, the masses they catered to were more of the [[Islam]]ic faith, being Palestine's most prominent newspaper moreso on the 1920s. It also followed the line by Islamic figure the [[Mufti al-Husseini]]). |
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| − | It worked with and was mouthpiece for [[Mufti al-Husseini]]. 1920s-1930s.<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/plb/1931/02/16/01/article/10/?e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI--------------1] The Palestine Bulletin, 16 February 1931 "Falastin and the Mufti."</ref><ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1935/04/21/01/article/7/?e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI--------------1] The Palestine Post, 21 April 1935</ref> | + | It worked with and was mouthpiece for [[Mufti al-Husseini]]. Especially 1920s-1930s.<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/plb/1931/02/16/01/article/10/?e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI--------------1] The Palestine Bulletin, 16 February 1931 "Falastin and the Mufti."</ref><ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1935/04/21/01/article/7/?e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxTI--------------1] The Palestine Post, 21 April 1935</ref> |
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| | Two other incidents in April added to Yishuv anxiety. In Jaffa, citrus-owner. Samuel Tolkowsky complained that Government permission for the reappearance of Falastin, which had been closed down by the Turks for incitement to race-hatred in April 1914, could only be a source of discouragement to 'moderate' Arabs and an official invitation to 'extremists'.</blockquote> | | Two other incidents in April added to Yishuv anxiety. In Jaffa, citrus-owner. Samuel Tolkowsky complained that Government permission for the reappearance of Falastin, which had been closed down by the Turks for incitement to race-hatred in April 1914, could only be a source of discouragement to 'moderate' Arabs and an official invitation to 'extremists'.</blockquote> |
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| − | Highlighted violent Arab anti-Jewish attacks incited by [[Haj Amin al-Husseini]] were 1920-21, and the [[1929 Hebron massacre]]. Most of those victims were non-Zionist ultra-orthodox pious Jews.<ref>Michael J Cohen: "Britain's Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917-1948",↵(Routledge, Feb 24, 2014), [https://books.google.com/books?id=DLPpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA216 p. 216]. | + | Highlighted violent Arab anti-Jewish attacks incited by [[Haj Amin al-Husseini]] were 1920-21, and the [[1929 Hebron massacre]]. Most of those victims were non-Zionist ultra-orthodox pious Jews.<ref>Michael J Cohen: "Britain's Moment in Palestine: Retrospect and Perspectives, 1917-1948", (Routledge, Feb 24, 2014), [https://books.google.com/books?id=DLPpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA216 p. 216]. |
| | 'In 1929, as in 1920, the historical community of Orthodox, non-Zionist Jews bore the brunt of Arab attacks – this time in the towns of Hebron'.</ref><ref>Ritchie Ovendale: "The Origins of the Arab Israeli Wars" (Routledge, 2015), [https://books.google.com/books?id=XM_MCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA71 p. 71]. 'In Hebron a community of non-Zionist Jews was wiped out'.</ref> | | 'In 1929, as in 1920, the historical community of Orthodox, non-Zionist Jews bore the brunt of Arab attacks – this time in the towns of Hebron'.</ref><ref>Ritchie Ovendale: "The Origins of the Arab Israeli Wars" (Routledge, 2015), [https://books.google.com/books?id=XM_MCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA71 p. 71]. 'In Hebron a community of non-Zionist Jews was wiped out'.</ref> |
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| | He kept a regular correspondent in Berlin who persisted in sending sympathetic articles about the achievements of the Nazi regime. The newspaper'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." The Jaffa (based) Falastin, which criticized Mussolini, supported Hitler, as did almost all other newspapers.</blockquote> | | He kept a regular correspondent in Berlin who persisted in sending sympathetic articles about the achievements of the Nazi regime. The newspaper'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." The Jaffa (based) Falastin, which criticized Mussolini, supported Hitler, as did almost all other newspapers.</blockquote> |
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| | + | Writer:<ref>[https://sarahhonig.com/2015/10/29/another-tack-husseinis-legacy-still-looms-large/ Another Tack: Husseini’s Legacy Still Looms Large] S. Honig, Oct 29, 2015</ref> |
| | + | <blockquote>Arab journals Falastin and Al Difa'a publish every week articles with a racial tendency and frequently reproduce large portraits of various leaders of the [[Third Reich]]. They do not even try to conceal the fact that they have become pupils of the Ministry of Propaganda in Berlin.</blockquote> |
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| | ==1960s== | | ==1960s== |