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An Apr 25, 1935 report:<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/cgs/1935/04/25/01/article/54 GERMAN ANTI-JEWISH PROPA-GANDA IS CONDUCTED IN PALESTINE], ''The Sentinel'', 25 April 1935.

AnAn Apr 25, 1935 report:<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/cgs/1935/04/25/01/article/54 GERMAN ANTI-JEWISH PROPAGANDA IS CONDUCTED IN PALESTINE], ''The Sentinel'', 25 April 1935; [https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn78003973/1935-04-26/ed-1/seq-2/  The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, April 26, 1935, Image 2 « Georgia Historic Newspapers].

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<blockquote><small>From time to time, anti-Jewish slogans written in Arabic and German, and embellished with the swastika, appear on vacant walls and boardings in different Palestine towns, enjoining a boycott of Jewish goods and enterprises… According to well-informed local quarters , the origin of these throwaways is in a central Nazi propaganda ascent for Palestine who, it is believed, works through Arab Fascists. An attempt at Fascism was started some eighteen months ago as the only hope of Arab salvation in the present state of the Arab nationalist cause, as one young leader said. The object was to introduce an ultra-nationalistic spirit among the Arab youth. But it was more closely modelled on the National-Socialist brand of Fascism than the Italian, because the German politics embodied anti-Semitism as the central motive.</small></blockquote></ref> <blockquote>

From time to time, anti-Jewish slogans written in Arabic and German, and embellished with the swastika, appear on vacant walls and boardings in different Palestine towns, enjoining a boycott of Jewish goods and enterprises… According to well-informed local quarters , the origin of these throwaways is in a central Nazi propaganda ascent for Palestine who, it is believed, works through Arab Fascists. An attempt at Fascism was started some eighteen months ago as the only hope of Arab salvation in the present state of the Arab nationalist cause, as one young leader said. The object was to introduce an ultra-nationalistic spirit among the Arab youth. But it was more closely modelled on the National-Socialist brand of Fascism than the Italian, because the German politics embodied anti-Semitism as the central motive.</blockquote></ref> <blockquote>

From time to time, anti-Jewish slogans written in Arabic and German, and embellished with the swastika, appear on vacant walls and boardings in different Palestine towns, enjoining a boycott of Jewish goods and enterprises. Their effect has been nil except to leave a great deal of annoyance among young and ardent Jews, who endeavor to trace the perpetrators of such nuisances. According to well-informed local quarters, the origin of these throwaways is in a central Nazi propaganda agent for Pales tine who it is believed, works through Arab Fascists.  

From time to time, anti-Jewish slogans written in Arabic and German, and embellished with the swastika, appear on vacant walls and boardings in different Palestine towns, enjoining a boycott of Jewish goods and enterprises. Their effect has been nil except to leave a great deal of annoyance among young and ardent Jews, who endeavor to trace the perpetrators of such nuisances. According to well-informed local quarters , the origin of these throwaways is in a central Nazi propaganda ascent for Palestine who, it is believed, works through Arab Fascists. An attempt at Fascism was started some eighteen months ago as the only hope of Arab salvation in the present state of the Arab nationalist cause, as one young leader said. The object was to introduce an ultra-nationalistic spirit among the Arab youth. But it was more closely modelled on the National-Socialist brand of Fascism than the Italian, because the German politics embodied anti-Semitism as the central motive.</blockquote>

An attempt at Fascism was started some eigh teen months ago as "the only hope of Arab salvation in the present state of the Arab nationalist cause," as one young leader said. The object was to introduce an ultra-nationalistic spirit among the Arab youth. But it was more closely modelled on the National-Socialist brand of Fascism than the Italian, because the German politics embodied anti-Semitism as the central motive.

Arab Fascists ... local observers think that a few of their number are working secretly at anti-Jewish propaganda of a virulent kind, such as is manifested in the swastika- signed exhortations.</blockquote>

 

[[File:May 10, 1935 Arab "Palestinian" conference, Haifa.jpg|thumb|May 10, 1935 Arab "Palestinian" conference - Haifa]]

[[File:May 10, 1935 Arab "Palestinian" conference, Haifa.jpg|thumb|May 10, 1935 Arab "Palestinian" conference - Haifa]]

[[File:Arab Palestine delegates coming from Haifa youth conference - swastika and Nazi inscription on train - (May 1935).jpg|thumb|Arab Palestine delegates coming from Haifa youth conference - swastika and Nazi inscription on train - (May 1935)]]

[[File:Arab Palestine delegates coming from Haifa youth conference - swastika and Nazi inscription on train - (May 1935).jpg|thumb|Arab Palestine delegates coming from Haifa youth conference - swastika and Nazi inscription on train - (May 1935)]]

In May 1935, as delegates returned from an Arab youth conference in Haifa, their train to Afula bore a swastika chalked on one of the coaches with an Arabic inscription beneath it reading "Germany over All."<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1935/05/13/01/article/40 ''Palestine Post'', 13 May, 1935, 7].

In May 1935, as delegates returned from an Arab youth conference in Haifa, their train to Afula bore a swastika chalked on one of the coaches with an Arabic inscription beneath it reading "Germany over All."<ref>[https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1935/05/13/01/article/40 ''Palestine Post'', 13 May, 1935, 7].

'''Nazi backing Arab violent riots against the Brits and Jews'''

'''1. Nazi backing Arab violent riots against the Brits and Jews. 2'. More Arab pro-Nazi.'''

<blockquote>Needless to say, how great was the effect of the German victories, in the first period of the war, on the Arabs of the country, and how difficult was then the impression of their defeat: an Egyptian, who visited the country in the days after the conquest of Berlin wrote: "The people cry in the morning and sob in the evening. And blow to their cheek between morning and evening."</blockquote>

<blockquote>Needless to say, how great was the effect of the German victories, in the first period of the war, on the Arabs of the country, and how difficult was then the impression of their defeat: an Egyptian, who visited the country in the days after the conquest of Berlin wrote: "The people cry in the morning and sob in the evening. And blow to their cheek between morning and evening."</blockquote>

At (بيرزيت) Bir Zeit most of the students wrote ‘A. Hitler,’ in answer to 'a great man,' when explained as 'a man who influences the spirits of his contemporaries.'

[[File:Abu.Sarri1.jpg|thumb|Abu Sarri recalls: "There were 50-100 people praying in the mosque. I remember the imam delivering sermons and praying for the victory of Abu-Ali.  Abu Ali is Hitler. So that the British who ruled the country at the time, and who were Hitler's rivals, would not understand who he was talking about, the Arabs called Hitler: Abu-Ali. The Arabs were very afraid that they would be heard speaking adoringly of Hitler, in mosques and cafes, and accused of collaborating with the Germans. And indeed that is what happened to our imam. Shortly after his sermon in favor of Hitler, the British arrested him."]]

<ref>Yeme ha-kalaniyot: Erets Yisrael bi-tekufat ha-Mandat by Segev, Tom. Keter, 1999

An Arab activist, in telling the story of his childhood, ca 1936-7: "There were 50-100 people praying in the mosque.  I remember the imam delivering sermons and praying for the victory of Abu-Ali.  Abu Ali is Hitler. So that the British who ruled the country at the time, and who were Hitler's rivals, would not understand who he was talking about, the Arabs called Hitler: Abu-Ali. The Arabs were very afraid that they would be heard speaking adoringly of Hitler, in mosques and cafes, and accused of collaborating with the Germans. And indeed that is what happened to our imam. Shortly after his sermon in favor of Hitler, the British arrested him."<ref name=abusarri>Arbel, Tuvi. The story of Muhammad Abu Sarri. Israel: Docostory, 2000. pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=qtAvAQAAIAAJ&q=%D7%94%D7%99%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%A8 13], [https://books.google.com/books?id=qtAvAQAAIAAJ&q=%D7%94%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9D%20%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%93%20%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%94 19].

[Page 341: Hilda Wilson the teacher from Bir Zeit ...]

[https://books.google.com/books?id=IRQySQxXii8C&pg=PA335 Page 335]:

… Wilson foresaw: "But he was a Jew!" They protested. Wilson tried to divert the discussion to the question of who a great man is: he is a man who influences the spirits of his contemporaries, Wilson said.  Most of the students, she wrote, mentioned Adolf Hitler at the top of every list.</ref>

We collected everything that was left in the field and brought it home.  I still remember from that time, that every day at 9:30 someone would come with a bicycle and bring newspapers from Egypt.  He would also come to Beit Dagon and sell newspapers.  I was six years old, but I could not read.  My brother would read and I would hear what was going on in the world, but I didn't always understand these politics. Although I didn't go to school, I was always curious and loved to learn.

Among all the brothers, I was the closest to the father.  He would take me everywhere, even to pray.  I learned a lot from this, because I saw a lot.  There were 50-100 people praying in the mosque.  I remember the imam delivering sermons and praying for the victory of Abu-Ali.  Abu Ali is Hitler.  So that the British who ruled the country at the time, and who were Hitler's rivals, would not understand who he was talking about, the Arabs called Hitler: Abu-Ali.

And indeed that is what happened to our imam.  Shortly after his sermon in favor of Hitler, the British arrested him and imprisoned him without trial.

In that period, incitement and attacks on the Jews began.  The Mufti, Haj Amin Al Husseini, who was one of the leaders of the instigators against the Jews, was arrested by the British...

During the war, the British prevented the Arabs in the country from listening to Berlin radio.  When the British found out that they were hearing this radio, they would close the cafe for three months.  But in the cafe where I worked, they heard Radio Berlin, and I, the little one, watched out for the British police.

Hassan Abu-Havila, the owner of the cafe, asked me to sit outside, in the dark, to warn if the police were coming, who patrolled the street every evening.

Two Arab policemen and an English policeman.  (In the Jewish cities, two Jewish policemen and an English policeman used to walk.) The Arabs listened to Radio Berlin, because they thought that only he was telling the truth.  They were sure that what the Americans were saying was a lie.  Most of the Arabs in Israel were in favor of Nazi Germany.  The Arabs also listened to Radio Turkey.  There was no ban on this, even though Turkey was with the Germans.  The policemen were wearing shoes with metal on the soles, so I could hear them coming from a distance...</small></blockquote><small>(PS, Abu Sarri was born in Jaffa, later on was an 'activist in workers' committees and in the Committee for the Arabs of Jaffa..' From: "The story of Muhammad Abu Sarri - interview 1", 'Simania').</small></ref>

Oct 1938 report from Jerusalem:<ref name=jta-31oct1938>Arab "mein Kampf" on Sale, ''JTA'', October 31, 1938 [https://www.jta.org/archive/arab-mein-kampf-on-sale] [http://pdfs.jta.org/1938/1938-10-31_175.pdf?_ga=2.115941126.1897549206.1642068668-275073581.1642068668].

Oct 1938 report from Jerusalem:<ref>[https://www.jta.org/archive/arab-mein-kampf-on-sale Arab "mein Kampf" on Sale], JTA, October 31, 1938. [http://pdfs.jta.org/1938/1938-10-31_175.pdf?_ga=2.115941126.1897549206.1642068668-275073581.1642068668].

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Jerusalem, Oct. 30, (JTA)

Jerusalem, Oct. 30, (JTA)