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Arab Propaganda in Latin America

Arab Propaganda in Latin America

... A Youth Movement is to be launched, and gradually it is hoped the Arabs of both the Americas will be United into a single force.

... A Youth Movement is to be launched, and gradually it is hoped the Arabs of both the Americas will be United into a single force.

The initiative for this ambitious project comes from the most active Arab group in South America, the Central Arab Committee of Chile, whose weekly journal Mundo Arabe, 17/3/50, reports the details.

The initiative for this ambitious project comes from the most active Arab group in South America, the Central Arab Committee of Chile, whose weekly journal Mundo Arabe, 17/3/50, reports the details.

This group boasts of prestige and influence both in Arab countries and in Chile. Its chairman is Sr. Juan Yarur, owner one of the largest Chilean textile concerns, with controlling interests in a number of other firms. He was reported to have negotiated, without success, the engagement as his financial adviser of Dr. Schacht, the former Nazi Minister of Economy. (Cf. Wiener Library Bulletin , March 1950, p. 12).

This group boasts of prestige and influence both in Arab countries and in Chile. Its chairman is Sr. Juan Yarur, owner one of the largest Chilean textile concerns, with controlling interests in a number of other firms. He was reported to have negotiated, without success, the engagement as his financial adviser of Dr. Schacht, the former Nazi Minister of Economy. (Cf. Wiener Library Bulletin , March 1950, p. 12).

A relative and business associate of his , Nicolás Yarur, is the Latin American  

A relative and business associate of his , Nicolás Yarur, is the Latin American  

representative of "All Palestine" and UN delegate of the Arab Higher Committee.

representative of "All Palestine" and UN delegate of the Arab Higher Committee.

Most of these Arabs are Lebanese, and the interest shown in them by their native country was demonstrated by the visit in April of the Foreign Minister of Lebanon.

Most of these Arabs are Lebanese, and the interest shown in them by their native country was demonstrated by the visit in April of the Foreign Minister of Lebanon.

This visit is appreciated by Mundo Arabe , 31/3/50, in connection with the Middle Eastern tour of Dr. Diego Luis Molinari, Chairman of the Argentine Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, who paid glowing and impartial compliments to both Lebanon and Israel.

This visit is appreciated by Mundo Arabe , 31/3/50, in connection with the Middle Eastern tour of Dr. Diego Luis Molinari, Chairman of the Argentine Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, who paid glowing and impartial compliments to both Lebanon and Israel.

Mundo Arabe is not concerned with any compliments for Israel whose statehood and Government it never mentions except in unfriendly quotation marks. In fact the very worst intentions are imputed to the Jews : they want to conquer the entire Middle East as part of a plan to dominate the entire world. (Cf. editorial, 31/3/50).  

Mundo Arabe is not concerned with any compliments for Israel whose statehood and Government it never mentions except in unfriendly quotation marks. In fact the very worst intentions are imputed to the Jews : they want to conquer the entire Middle East as part of a plan to dominate the entire world. (Cf. editorial, 31/3/50).  

No evidence is produced to give substance to such startling allegations, but much is explained by the fact that Mundo Arabe presents itself as a faithful follower of the ex-Mufti Haj Amin el Husseini whose portrait appears on the front page on March 17 with a statement that "the spiritual and political leader of the Palestinian Arabs repudiates the Jordanian elections and denounces the 'British conspiracy'."

No evidence is produced to give substance to such startling allegations, but much is explained by the fact that Mundo Arabe presents itself as a faithful follower of the ex-Mufti Haj Amin el Husseini whose portrait appears on the front page on March 17 with a statement that "the spiritual and political leader of the Palestinian Arabs repudiates the Jordanian elections and denounces the 'British conspiracy'."

Supporters of Ex-Mufti

Supporters of Ex-Mufti.

 

The same issue carries the banner headline, "The Jews (sic. mundo Arabe) Plan the Destruction of the Nations," a rehash of the Nazi stories about the common Jewish and Masonic Capitalism.  

The same issue carries the banner headline, "The Jews (sic. mundo Arabe) Plan the Destruction of the Nations," a rehash of the Nazi stories about the common Jewish and Masonic Capitalism.  

Undiluted Nazi propaganda is also evident, on March 24, in a manifesto by the Argentine Revolutionary National - Syndicalist Movement which denounces the asassination of Count Bernadotte as one in a series of J.. [sic] murders. It so happens that the rather fanciful catalogue is almost identical with the list produced by the Nazis at the time of the Von Rath murder Characteristically, too, the "Protocols of Zion" are quoted, and the gratuitous information is offered that "the five million Jews, 'murdered' by the Germans, to-day live, in their majority, in Argentina" (which actually has a Jewish  population of roughly 400,000). However, ''Mundo Arabe'', both the paper and its radio station, come up against considerable opposition. In a style again distinctly reminiscent of Nazi technique, the editor complains (March 24) that "the whole of Latin America is infested by the clever pro-Jewish propaganda."</small></blockquote></ref>

Undiluted Nazi propaganda is also evident, on March 24, in a manifesto by the Argentine Revolutionary National - Syndicalist Movement which denounces the asassination of Count Bernadotte as one in a series of J.. [sic] murders. It so happens that the rather fanciful catalogue is almost identical with the list produced by the Nazis at the time of the Von Rath murder Characteristically, too, the "Protocols of Zion" are quoted, and the gratuitous information is offered that "the five million Jews, 'murdered' by the Germans, to-day live [sic], in their majority, in Argentina" (which actually has a Jewish  population of roughly 400,000). However, ''Mundo Arabe'', both the paper and its radio station, come up against considerable opposition. In a style again distinctly reminiscent of Nazi technique, the editor complains (March 24) that "the whole of Latin America is infested [sic] by the clever pro-Jewish propaganda."</small></blockquote></ref>

It was the timely publicity that helped to frustrate the clever design to engage Schacht.<ref name=wjc-1950/>

It was the timely publicity that helped to frustrate the clever design to engage Schacht.<ref name=wjc-1950/>