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* In 1947, Zuaiter was sent by the Arab League to propagate in [[South America]], together with Issa Nakhleh<ref name=arablobby-1944-7>[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742384 The Arab League’s Propaganda Campaign in the U.S. Against the Establishment of a Jewish State - 1944-1947]. Rickenbacher Daniel. Israel Studies. Volume 25, Issue 1. Spring 2020. <blockquote><font size=1>... In 1944, the Arab League started planning a propaganda offensive in Western countries to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. The League’s focus of attention was the United States, where, members believed, Palestine’s future would eventually be decided and where they deemed it imperative to counter the Zionist campaign. In 1945 and 1946, it opened offices in Washington, D.C. and New York. The efficiency of these offices in undermining support for Zionism in the US was, however, hampered by infighting between Musa Alami, head of the Arab Offices, and the leader of the Palestinian national movement Amin al-Husseini. When the British relegated the Palestine Question to the UN, the Arab League and the Arab Higher Committee (AHC) were therefore ill-prepared to meet the challenge. Omar Haliq, a member of the anti-Zionist Institute of Arab-American Affairs (IAAA), devised a strategy to mobilize Catholic anti-Semitism in Latin America and Europe for their cause. As a result of these recommendations, in April 1947, the AHC sent a team of senior members, many of them experienced in the field of propaganda, to the US. Moreover, a special committee staffed by the Arab representatives at the UN and functionaries of the AHC was set up to organize a propaganda campaign focusing on South America. The strategy, however, was not successful. Most of Latin America and Catholic Europe voted for UN resolution 181 on November 29, 1947, at the UN session in Lake Success...

* In 1947, Zuaiter was sent by the Arab League to propagate in [[South America]], together with Issa Nakhleh<ref name=arablobby-1944-7>[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/742384 The Arab League’s Propaganda Campaign in the U.S. Against the Establishment of a Jewish State - 1944-1947]. Rickenbacher Daniel. Israel Studies. Volume 25, Issue 1. Spring 2020. <blockquote><font size=1>... In 1944, the Arab League started planning a propaganda offensive in Western countries to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. The League’s focus of attention was the United States, where, members believed, Palestine’s future would eventually be decided and where they deemed it imperative to counter the Zionist campaign. In 1945 and 1946, it opened offices in Washington, D.C. and New York. The efficiency of these offices in undermining support for Zionism in the US was, however, hampered by infighting between Musa Alami, head of the Arab Offices, and the leader of the Palestinian national movement Amin al-Husseini. When the British relegated the Palestine Question to the UN, the Arab League and the Arab Higher Committee (AHC) were therefore ill-prepared to meet the challenge. Omar Haliq, a member of the anti-Zionist Institute of Arab-American Affairs (IAAA), devised a strategy to mobilize Catholic anti-Semitism in Latin America and Europe for their cause. As a result of these recommendations, in April 1947, the AHC sent a team of senior members, many of them experienced in the field of propaganda, to the US. Moreover, a special committee staffed by the Arab representatives at the UN and functionaries of the AHC was set up to organize a propaganda campaign focusing on South America. The strategy, however, was not successful. Most of Latin America and Catholic Europe voted for UN resolution 181 on November 29, 1947, at the UN session in Lake Success...

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> (Nakhleh: 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 spreading libels in his ''America y Oriente;''<ref>Anti-Jewish Activities 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> had corresponded with Canadian Fuhrer Adrien Arcand; had spent most of his career years engaging in hate, Holocaust denial -- publically at least since Nov 1972 at UN<ref>Jewish Observer and Middle East Review, Volume 21, 1972, [https://books.google.com/books?id=4AENAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Nazi+extermination%22 p.7].</ref> -- working with neo-Nazis and such.<ref>'Facts,' Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1969, (Vol. 17), [https://books.google.com/books?id=4zxDAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Nakhleh+has+spoken+before+anti-Jewish+groups+in+the+United+States%22 p. 425].</ref><ref>Extremism on the Right: A Handbook, Anti Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1983, [https://books.google.com/books?id=dyEOAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Nakhleh p. 49].</ref><ref>The American Spectator, Vol. 19, Saturday Evening Club, Publisher, American Spectator, 1986, [https://books.google.com/books?id=hPUSAQAAMAAJ&dq=&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Nakhleh p.20].</ref>) "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>

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> (Nakhleh: 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 spreading libels in his ''America y Oriente;''<ref>Anti-Jewish Activities 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> had corresponded with Canadian Fuhrer Adrien Arcand;<ref>Nadeau, Jean-Francois. The Canadian Fuhrer: The Life of Adrien Arcand. Canada: James Lorimer & Company, 2011, [https://books.google.com/books?id=D630umvXNKoC&pg=PA351 p.351].</ref> had spent most of his career years engaging in hate, Holocaust denial -- publically at least since Nov 1972 at UN<ref>Jewish Observer and Middle East Review, Volume 21, 1972, [https://books.google.com/books?id=4AENAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Nazi+extermination%22 p.7].</ref> -- working with neo-Nazis and such.<ref>'Facts,' Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1969, (Vol. 17), [https://books.google.com/books?id=4zxDAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22Nakhleh+has+spoken+before+anti-Jewish+groups+in+the+United+States%22 p. 425].</ref><ref>Extremism on the Right: A Handbook, Anti Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1983, [https://books.google.com/books?id=dyEOAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Nakhleh p. 49].</ref><ref>The American Spectator, Vol. 19, Saturday Evening Club, Publisher, American Spectator, 1986, [https://books.google.com/books?id=hPUSAQAAMAAJ&dq=&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Nakhleh p.20].</ref>) "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>  

  ... 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>