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Ghuri headed the creation of the "Youth Groups", the party's youth movement, and was a member of a special committee that ran the organization. The youth movement, (founded in 1935 by the Husseinis) was similar to the "Hitler Youth" in Nazi Germany, and the committee even officially called the groups "Nazi Scouts" for a short period of time, but after a certain period the name was changed to the Islamic nickname "Al-Futuwwa".<ref>Yehoshua Porat, From Riots to Rebellion: The Palestinian Arab National Movement 1929-1939 (Heb.), pp. 101-100.</ref>
Ghuri headed the creation of the "Youth Groups", the party's youth movement, and was a member of a special committee that ran the organization. The youth movement, (founded in 1935 by the Husseinis<ref>Karsh, E. (2010). ''Palestine Betrayed''. United States: Yale University Press, Ch.1, p.30. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2oVyDp_OAx4C&pg=PP48]
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In reality, it was the Mufti who was primarily responsible for the radicalization of Palestinian Arab public opinion. In June 1930, his representatives at the deliberations of the international commission on the future of the Wailing Wall, convened in the wake of the 1929 massacres, refused to recognize any Jewish rights in Palestine (and not only at the Wall), and this recalcitrance was amplified by a pan-Islamic congress held in Jerusalem in December 1931. This zero-sum approach that assigned to the Jews no national or collective rights whatever gained considerable momentum in the early 1930s as the rival Arab factions and clans vied for political dominance through the creation of new parties. In August 1932, Abdel Hadi established the Palestinian branch of the pan-Arab Independence Party (Istiqlal), followed shortly afterward by the creation of the Youth Congress, headed by Yaqub Ghussein. Two years later, the Party for National Defense was created as the political arm of the Nashashibis, the second most powerful Palestinian Arab clan and the Husseinis’ bitterest enemies, and the latter responded in kind by forming, in March 1935, the Arab Palestinian Party headed by Jamal Husseini.
These were followed in the same year by the Reform Party, established by Jerusalem’s mayor, Hussein Khalidi, and the National Bloc, created by the Nablus notable Abdel Latif Salah – both of which took a neutral stance in the rivalry between their larger counterparts. This struggle for political pre-eminence was further radicalized by the Nazi seizure of power in Germany.
The long-established paper Karmil pined for the appearance of “an Arab Hitler” who “will awaken the Arabs and rally them behind his leadership so that they will do what needs to be done,” while Jamal Husseini invoked one of Hitler’s famous refrains in inaugurating his party’s youth organization. “When we began our activity we were six, then we became 6,000 and then 60 million,” he quoted the German tyrant before urging the gathered youths to emulate the Nazi example by “toughening their bodies and souls so as to be able to defend the nation’s honor and rights in time of need.”
It was indeed the Husseinis, the foremost influence in Palestinian Arab politics, who displayed the greatest enthusiasm for Nazism, going so far as to model their youth organization on the lines of the Hitlerjugend and temporarily naming it “The Nazi Scouts.” Losing no time, the Mufti rushed to the German consul in Jerusalem to tell him that “the Muslims in Palestine and elsewhere were enthusiastic about the new regime in Germany and looked forward to the spread of Fascism throughout the region.”</small></blockquote></ref>) was similar to the "Hitler Youth" in Nazi Germany, and the committee even officially called the groups "Nazi Scouts" for a short period of time, but after a certain period the name was changed to the Islamic nickname "Al-Futuwwa".<ref>Yehoshua Porat, From Riots to Rebellion: The Palestinian Arab National Movement 1929-1939 (Heb.), pp. 101-100.</ref>
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=See also==
==See also==
*[[Muhammad 'Izzat Darwazeh]]
*[[Muhammad 'Izzat Darwazeh]]
*[[Akram Zuaiter]]
*[[Akram Zuaiter]]