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| − | A Feb 1937 report Noted Muslim <b>Awni Abd al-Hadi</b> (leader of the <i>Arab Independence Party</i> and member of the <i>Arab High Committee</i> in Palestine) stating: ‘Arabs Like Nazis.’<ref name=awni-1937>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/cgs/1937/02/25/01/article/92 The Sentinel, 25 February 1937 — Arabs Like Nazis , Says Moslem]</ref><blockquote>
| + | In Jan 1937, noted Muslim <b>Awni Abd al-Hadi</b> [Auni Bey Abdel Hadi] [عوني عبد الهادي] (leader of the <i>Arab Independence Party</i> and member of the <i>Arab High Committee</i> in Palestine) stated: ‘Arabs Like Nazis.’<ref name=awni-1937>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/cgs/1937/02/25/01/article/92 The Sentinel, 25 February 1937 — Arabs Like Nazis , Says Moslem]</ref><blockquote> |
| − | Arabs Like Nazis , Says Moslem | + | Arabs Like Nazis, Says Moslem |
| − | Berlin, Feb. 23 (WNS) — The Arab national movement has much in common with Nazism, the Voelkische Beobachter reports Auni Bey Hadi, leader of the Arab Independence Party and member of the Arab High Committee in Palestine, as having told its correspondent. The Nazi paper says that the Arab leader made a thorough study of Hitler's Mein Kampf while he was in a... camp in Palestine. He is also quoted as advising Germany to study the Arab market in Palestine because the Arabs are boycotting all goods made or sold by Jews.</blockquote> | + | Berlin, Feb. 23 (WNS) — The Arab national movement has much in common with Nazism, the Voelkische Beobachter reports Auni Bey Hadi , leader of the Arab Independence Party and member of the Arab High Committee in Palestine, as having told its correspondent. The Nazi paper says that the Arab leader made a thorough study of Hitler's Mein Kampf while he was in a... camp in Palestine. He is also quoted as advising Germany to study the Arab market in Palestine because the Arabs are boycotting all goods made or sold by Jews.</blockquote> |
| | + | Months later, on July 18, 1937, his political instigation led to bloody violence in Baghdad, 30 Jews were injured, shops looted.<ref>[http://pdfs.jta.org/1937/1937-07-19_289.pdf Scores of Jews Reported Injured, Shops Looted After Baghdad Arab Demonstrations], ''JTA'', July 18, 1937.<blockquote> |
| | + | Jerusalem, July 18. (JTA) -- Scores of Jews were injured in Baghdad, Capital of Iraq, thirty so seriously they were sent to hospitals, and many Jewish shops were pillaged, after mass demonstrations against Zionism, according to reports received here today. |
| | + | All Jewish shops in the city had been closed throughout the day because of the demonstration, called to protest Partitioning of Palestine and led by Auni Bey Abdul Hadi, Militant Palestinian Arab Nationalist.</blockquote></ref> And: <ref>Mallmann, Klaus-Michael., Cüppers, Martin. Nazi Palestine: The Plans for the Extermination of the Jews in Palestine. United Kingdom: Enigma Books, 2010. [https://books.google.com/books?id=8JiqNpE-Lz4C&pg=PA39 38-39].<blockquote>According to the German consul in Jaffa, Timotheus Wurst, in late March 1936 the Muslim Palestinians were "deeply impressed by fascist, particularly National Socialist, teachings and views. National Socialism, with its anti-Jewish notions, has struck a chord among the Arabs of Palestine... battle against Zionism. Among the Arabs, fascism and National Socialism have in many cases become the standards against which all other political systems and teachings are measured, and, in the eyes of many Arabs, Adolf Hitler is without a doubt simply the most important man of the 20th century. Our Führer's popularity is so great that there can hardly be a single Arab, even the lowliest peasant, who doesn't know the name of Hitler." |
| | + | Like the Boy Scouts, the Istiqlal Party in particular has "embraced the National Socialist theses to the greatest extent. |
| | + | The Istiqlal Party organ, The Defense, has a markedly National Socialist orientation." |
| | + | One year later, the Völkischer Beobachter printed an interview with the party's president, Auni Abd el-Hadi. |
| | + | In the interview, he admitted proudly that while he was interned by the British he had thoroughly worked through the English translation of ''Mein Kampf''.</blockquote></ref><blockquote>In the interview, he admitted proudly that while he was interned by the British he had thoroughly worked through the English translation of ''Mein Kampf''.</blockquote> |
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| | Months later, on July 18, 1937, his political instigation led to bloody violence in Baghdad, 30 Jews were injured, shops looted.<ref>[http://pdfs.jta.org/1937/1937-07-19_289.pdf Scores of Jews Reported Injured, Shops Looted After Baghdad Arab Demonstrations], ''JTA'', July 18, 1937.<blockquote> | | Months later, on July 18, 1937, his political instigation led to bloody violence in Baghdad, 30 Jews were injured, shops looted.<ref>[http://pdfs.jta.org/1937/1937-07-19_289.pdf Scores of Jews Reported Injured, Shops Looted After Baghdad Arab Demonstrations], ''JTA'', July 18, 1937.<blockquote> |
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| | Istaqlal's nationalist '''Awni Abd Al-Hadi''', who mentored, employed Ahmad Shukeiri,<ref>Mattar, Philip. Ency. of the (Arab) Palestinians. Facts on File, 2005, p. 447:</ref>, as Istiqlal's president, he visited Germany in 1939, meeting Nazi officials.<ref>Hirszowicz, Lukasz. "Nazi Germany and the Palestine Partition Plan." Middle Eastern Studies 1, no. 1 (1964): 40–65. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4282102]; Hirszowicz, Łukasz. The Third Reich and the Arab East. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2016. [https://books.google.com/books?id=BTV6DQAAQBAJ&pg=PT59]; Various. Routledge Library Editions: History of the Middle East. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2021. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXg-EAAAQBAJ&pg=RA12-PA34 34].<blockquote> | | Istaqlal's nationalist '''Awni Abd Al-Hadi''', who mentored, employed Ahmad Shukeiri,<ref>Mattar, Philip. Ency. of the (Arab) Palestinians. Facts on File, 2005, p. 447:</ref>, as Istiqlal's president, he visited Germany in 1939, meeting Nazi officials.<ref>Hirszowicz, Lukasz. "Nazi Germany and the Palestine Partition Plan." Middle Eastern Studies 1, no. 1 (1964): 40–65. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4282102]; Hirszowicz, Łukasz. The Third Reich and the Arab East. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2016. [https://books.google.com/books?id=BTV6DQAAQBAJ&pg=PT59]; Various. Routledge Library Editions: History of the Middle East. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2021. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXg-EAAAQBAJ&pg=RA12-PA34 34].<blockquote> |
| | On July 15th, 1937, Dr. Grobba, German envoy at Baghdad, met the then Premier of Iraq, Hikmet Suleiman, who expressed the hope that the Germans would do everything in their power to frustrate the plans of the Royal Commission. This step by a leader who was attacked for being cool to Arab unity was probably meant to prepare the ground for more concrete negotiations. For on the following day Grobba was visited by members of the Palestinian Arab Higher Committee: Awni-bey Abd el-Hadi and Muin el-Madhi. They urged that the Reich Government should interest itself in the Palestine question and support the Palestinian Arabs; while Abd el-Hadi expressed a desire to visit Berlin soon. | | On July 15th, 1937, Dr. Grobba, German envoy at Baghdad, met the then Premier of Iraq, Hikmet Suleiman, who expressed the hope that the Germans would do everything in their power to frustrate the plans of the Royal Commission. This step by a leader who was attacked for being cool to Arab unity was probably meant to prepare the ground for more concrete negotiations. For on the following day Grobba was visited by members of the Palestinian Arab Higher Committee: Awni-bey Abd el-Hadi and Muin el-Madhi. They urged that the Reich Government should interest itself in the Palestine question and support the Palestinian Arabs; while Abd el-Hadi expressed a desire to visit Berlin soon. |
| − | Auni 'Abd al-Hadi visited Germany in 1939 after the London conference, on Palestine. He was most probably the guest of A.P.A.</blockquote></ref> In Berlin:<ref>Mallmann, Klaus-Michael., Cüppers, Martin. Nazi Palestine: The Plans for the Extermination of the Jews in Palestine. United Kingdom: Enigma Books, 2010. [https://books.google.com/books?id=8JiqNpE-Lz4C&pg=PA39 38-39].<blockquote>According to the German consul in Jaffa, Timotheus Wurst, in late March 1936 the Muslim Palestinians were "deeply impressed by fascist, particularly National Socialist, teachings and views. National Socialism, with its anti-Jewish notions, has struck a chord among the Arabs of Palestine... battle against Zionism. Among the Arabs, fascism and National Socialism have in many cases become the standards against which all other political systems and teachings are measured, and, in the eyes of many Arabs, Adolf Hitler is without a doubt simply the most important man of the 20th century. Our Führer's popularity is so great that there can hardly be a single Arab, even the lowliest peasant, who doesn't know the name of Hitler." | + | Auni 'Abd al-Hadi visited Germany in 1939 after the London conference, on Palestine. He was most probably the guest of A.P.A.</blockquote></ref> |
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