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The Arab special committee had set aside $25,000 for its campaign in South America. To this purpose, it produced material in the local languages and established an Arab Office in Rio de Janeiro. Issa Nakhla and Akram Zuaiter acted as roving ambassadors in North and South America in 1947. Nakhla had already gathered experience in public diplomacy during his student years in London prior to WWII, where he worked at the Arab propaganda office under Izzat Tannous. Zuaiter was a committed nationalist and militant who had joined the Arab Revolt (1936-39). After fleeing Palestine, he allegedly worked as a liaison for the Mufti with the Germans and was involved in the 1941 pro-Nazi coup of Rashid Ali al-Gaylani in Iraq. The special committee also dispatched two delegations to Latin America, one chaired by Akram Zuaiter and the other by Mustafa Khalidi, a professor at the American University in Beirut. In Brazil, Zuaiter’s delegation attended the Pan-American Conference and met with notable members. They also held a rally for the Arab community in Brazil, where they promised to conserve the Arab character of Palestine.</font></blockquote></ref> <font size=1>(another Mufti's associate, of the AHC, later Palestine Arab Delegation and Council for the Muslim Congress, glorified Hitler in the early 1950s while there in his ''America y Oriente,'' corresponded with Canadian Fuhrer Adrien Arcand, spent most of his career years engaging in hate, Holocaust denial -- publically at least since Nov 1972 at UN -- working with neo-Nazis and such).</font> "Arab propagandists appealed to anti-Semitic sentiments to raise sympathy for their cause."<ref name=arablobby-1944-7/>
The Arab special committee had set aside $25,000 for its campaign in South America. To this purpose, it produced material in the local languages and established an Arab Office in Rio de Janeiro. Issa Nakhla and Akram Zuaiter acted as roving ambassadors in North and South America in 1947. Nakhla had already gathered experience in public diplomacy during his student years in London prior to WWII, where he worked at the Arab propaganda office under Izzat Tannous. Zuaiter was a committed nationalist and militant who had joined the Arab Revolt (1936-39). After fleeing Palestine, he allegedly worked as a liaison for the Mufti with the Germans and was involved in the 1941 pro-Nazi coup of Rashid Ali al-Gaylani in Iraq. The special committee also dispatched two delegations to Latin America, one chaired by Akram Zuaiter and the other by Mustafa Khalidi, a professor at the American University in Beirut. In Brazil, Zuaiter’s delegation attended the Pan-American Conference and met with notable members. They also held a rally for the Arab community in Brazil, where they promised to conserve the Arab character of Palestine.</font></blockquote></ref> <font size=1>(another Mufti's associate, of the AHC, later Palestine Arab Delegation and Council for the Muslim Congress, glorified Hitler in the early 1950s while there in his ''America y Oriente,'' corresponded with Canadian Fuhrer Adrien Arcand, spent most of his career years engaging in hate, Holocaust denial -- publically at least since Nov 1972 at UN -- working with neo-Nazis and such).</font> "Arab propagandists appealed to anti-Semitic sentiments to raise sympathy for their cause."<ref name=arablobby-1944-7/>
* In 1956 Zuaiter meets Issa Nakhleh about his propaganda in South America.<ref>Akram Zuaiter's Diary: Hopes for Unity and Pains of Division 1949-1965 (Part One). Akram Zuaiter, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 202, p. 284.<blockquote>
... And it influenced the situation of other Arab countries, so we came out to the conclusion that Arabism, in its federal sense that aims at the establishment of a single Arab state, is suffering a lot today in Syria, Iraq, Sudan and Egypt, and that the independence of those countries began to crystallize in its fragmented conditions, in a very dangerous way. 4/1/1956 Mr. Issa Nakhla visited me, and told me about the efforts he is making in South America, and about the expatriates’ inaction and negligence.</blockquote></ref> Nakhleh began his hate campaign there around 1953 via his ''America Y Oriente'', glorifying Hitler, spreading libels.<ref>Anti-Jewish Activities l in the Argentine, ''Daia'', 1958. [https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/anti/ANTI-JEWISH%20ACTIVITIES%20OF%20THE%20ARABS%20IN%20ARGENTINE%20APRIL%201958.pdf PDF] [https://www.bjpa.org/search-results/publication/18118]. <i>Chapter V The Arab League In Argentina.</i></ref>
Later on, Zuaiter had various positions by [[Jordan]] and was Sec.-Gen. of the [[Islamic]] Conference which convened in Jerusalem in 1959.<ref>Asian and African Studies: Vol. 10, No. 3. 1975. p.262</ref> At the time under [[Jordan]]ian occupation.
Later on, Zuaiter had various positions by [[Jordan]] and was Sec.-Gen. of the [[Islamic]] Conference which convened in Jerusalem in 1959.<ref>Asian and African Studies: Vol. 10, No. 3. 1975. p.262</ref> At the time under [[Jordan]]ian occupation.