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'''Mohamed Ali Eltaher''' ['''ali al-Taher'''] was an [[Arab]] "[[Palestinian]]" [[Islam]]ic zealot pro-Jihad, [[antisemitic]] writer and journalist, born in Nablus in 1896, where he received his primary education. He worked as a journalist for several newspapers, including Fata al-Arab, published in Jaffa , and Suriya al -Janubiya, published in Jerusalem . Al-Taher served as the director of telegraph and post in Nablus , before moving to Cairo in 1920. He was among the first journalists to make noise against the British Mandate's intention to establish a Jewish state in Palestine.
In 1936 Cairo, appeared a publication of an [[antisemitic]] pamphlet by the "Young Muslim Association." The leaders of the Cairo community sued the association's president, Ali al-Taher. Distribution of the pamphlet was halted.<ref>"Israel" in Egypt | Mazal Mosseri – Editor of a Zionist Newspaper in Egypt.
Eyal Keren, YBZ, 12ll.19.19.
[https://ybz.org.il/%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%95%D7%91%D7%9F-%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9F-%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9D-%D7%94%D7%96%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9F-copy/]</ref>
In Cairo he had published "Al-Shabab" [The Youth] paper from February 1937<ref>Palestine & Transjordan... (1937). E. Israel: Arab Publications Company, p.10.
{{Cquote|... Taher, has recently started the publication in Cairo of a weekly paper, under the name of "Ash-Shabab" (Youth ) with the purpose..}}</ref> until April 1939.
[[File:Eltaher.Shabab.Palestine.Hitler.Oct.26.1938.jpg|thumb| Mohamed Ali Eltaher / Ali al-Taher. (Aboul-Hassan, born in 1896 in Nablus, died 1974 in Lebanon) had published "Al-Shabab" [The Youth] paper from February 1937 until April 1939. In the Oct.26.1938 issue, it states "الله ولي أهل فلسطين الذين لا...]]
In the Oct 26, 1938 issue, it states "Allah is the guardian of the people of Palestine who have neither Hitler nor a nation for them."
==The Islamic ''Mein Kampf''==
The 1937 brochure '''''Islam and Jewry''''' (Arabic: ''Islam wa-l-Yahud'') is a 31-page text published in [[Cairo]] on August 18, 1937, and widely distributed at the [[Bloudan Conference of 1937]] in Syria.<ref name="Kuentzel-Antisemitism">{{cite web |last=Küntzel |first=Matthias |title=Islamic Antisemitism: How It Originated and Spread |url=http://matthiaskuentzel.de |website=Matthias Küntzel Academic Website |date=July 3, 2018 |access-date=June 15, 2026}}</ref>
The historical designation of the text as the foundation or forerunner of an "Islamic ''Mein Kampf''" stems primarily from the research of German political scientist and historian '''[[Matthias Küntzel]]'''.<ref name="Kuentzel-Antisemitism" /> In his work documenting Nazi Germany's ideological influence on the Middle East, Küntzel argues that the brochure served a purpose analogous to Adolf Hitler's ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' by establishing a foundational, text-based blueprint for modern Islamic antisemitism.<ref name="Kuentzel-PDF">{{cite journal |last=Küntzel |first=Matthias |title=Nazi Propaganda in the Middle East and its Repercussions in the Postwar Period |journal=Scholarly Paper |url=https://semanticscholar.org |pages=112–115 |access-date=June 15, 2026}}</ref>
=== Key Details & Context ===
* '''The Publisher:''' The pamphlet was published and popularized by the prominent Palestinian-Egyptian journalist and author ''Mohamed Ali Eltaher''.<ref name="LoC">{{cite web |title=An Arab Nationalist Survival Against All Odds: Muhammad Ali Eltaher |url=https://loc.gov |website=Library of Congress Blogs |date=June 2017 |access-date=June 15, 2026}}</ref>
* '''The Ideological Link:''' Historians view the text as a critical turning point in the region, as it combined select anti-Jewish episodes from early Islamic history with 20th-century Western antisemitic conspiracy theories.<ref name="Gale">{{cite journal |title=Islamic Antisemitism: Its Genesis, Meaning, and Effects |journal=Gale Academic OneFile |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA592241068&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=24741817&p=AONE&sw=w |access-date=June 15, 2026}}</ref>
* '''Haj Amin al-Husseini:''' It provided a formal ideological framework for '''[[Grand Mufti of Palestine]]''', who used the text to protest the British [[Peel Commission]]'s 1937 proposal to partition Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states.<ref name="Kuentzel" />
* '''Contents:''' The brochure notably promoted specific anti-Jewish sayings (''[[hadith]]s''), including an eschatological passage about the "stones and trees" that would later appear in the 1988 founding [[Hamas Charter]].<ref name="Kuentzel" />
=== Mobilization and Motivation of Muslims ===
The 1937 document was strategically deployed to motivate the Arab public to forcefully reject the [[Peel Commission]]'s partition plan through specific framing mechanisms:
* '''A New Narrative Flow:''' The brochure was the first major modern text to synthesize a direct historical line between the 7th-century theological conflicts involving [[Muhammad]] in [[Medina]] and the 20th-century political conflict over land in Mandatory Palestine.<ref name="Hagler-ISCA">{{cite techreport |last=Hagler |first=Aaron |title=Locating the "Jew" in the Early Islamic Textual Tradition |institution=Indiana University, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (ISCA) |date=June 19, 2024 |url=https://indiana.edu |access-date=June 15, 2026}}</ref>
* '''Religious Framing:''' By shifting the argument away from a territorial or political dispute, the text reframed geopolitical opposition to a Jewish state as an absolute, eternal religious obligation for all Muslims.<ref name="Kuentzel-Antisemitism" />
* '''The Nazi Connection:''' The distribution of this pamphlet at the Bloudan Conference directly coincided with the onset of covert logistical and financial links between Nazi Germany and the Grand Mufti, '''[[Amin al-Husseini]]'''.<ref name="Kuentzel-PDF" /> It acted as an ideological vehicle, blending European antisemitic conspiracy theories with selective Islamic scripture for mass public distribution.
===Nazi SS Muslims===
In [[WW2]] it was used in motivation for the Mufti's [[SS]] Moslems recruits.
=== Influence on Later Islamist Writers ===
The ideological framework established in ''Islam and Jewry'' laid the direct groundwork for subsequent Islamist theoreticians, most notably '''[[Sayyid Qutb]]''', the leading intellectual of the [[Muslim Brotherhood]].
In the 1950s, Qutb published his seminal essay, ''[[Our Struggle with the Jews]]'' (Arabic: ''Ma'rakatuna ma'a al-Yahud''). Historians note that Qutb adopted and expanded the core premise of the 1937 pamphlet: portraying Jews not merely as political opponents in Palestine, but as an cosmic, unchanging existential threat to Islam that has operated continuously since the 7th century.<ref name="Kuentzel-Antisemitism" /> This specific lineage of thought—running from the 1937 pamphlet through Qutb—effectively institutionalized Western-style conspiratorial antisemitism within mainstream Islamist ideology, a trajectory that culminated in the inclusion of these identical concepts in the 1988 [[Hamas Charter]].<ref name="Kuentzel-PDF" />
==1947==
On October 3, 1947, the Mufti's [[Arab Higher Committee]] issued an appeal to all Arab states to declare a total strike in protest against the Partition.
A propagandist<ref>Talhami, 1992:45-46</ref> author writes: "A huge rally by Islamic forces held in Cairo was addressed by Muhammad Ali al-Taher, who called for the Jihad in defense of Palestine. This was the first public call to use force to rescue Palestine. On the same day, the Supreme Guide, al-Banna, called for an oath of sacrifice for Palestine in Cairo's mosques and declared his readiness to organize a holy Jihad."
=== References ===
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Middle East]]
[[Category:Israel]]
[[Category:Palestine]]
[[Category:Egypt]]
[[Category:WW2]]
[[Category: Antisemitism]]
In 1936 Cairo, appeared a publication of an [[antisemitic]] pamphlet by the "Young Muslim Association." The leaders of the Cairo community sued the association's president, Ali al-Taher. Distribution of the pamphlet was halted.<ref>"Israel" in Egypt | Mazal Mosseri – Editor of a Zionist Newspaper in Egypt.
Eyal Keren, YBZ, 12ll.19.19.
[https://ybz.org.il/%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%95%D7%91%D7%9F-%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9F-%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9D-%D7%94%D7%96%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9F-copy/]</ref>
In Cairo he had published "Al-Shabab" [The Youth] paper from February 1937<ref>Palestine & Transjordan... (1937). E. Israel: Arab Publications Company, p.10.
{{Cquote|... Taher, has recently started the publication in Cairo of a weekly paper, under the name of "Ash-Shabab" (Youth ) with the purpose..}}</ref> until April 1939.
[[File:Eltaher.Shabab.Palestine.Hitler.Oct.26.1938.jpg|thumb| Mohamed Ali Eltaher / Ali al-Taher. (Aboul-Hassan, born in 1896 in Nablus, died 1974 in Lebanon) had published "Al-Shabab" [The Youth] paper from February 1937 until April 1939. In the Oct.26.1938 issue, it states "الله ولي أهل فلسطين الذين لا...]]
In the Oct 26, 1938 issue, it states "Allah is the guardian of the people of Palestine who have neither Hitler nor a nation for them."
==The Islamic ''Mein Kampf''==
The 1937 brochure '''''Islam and Jewry''''' (Arabic: ''Islam wa-l-Yahud'') is a 31-page text published in [[Cairo]] on August 18, 1937, and widely distributed at the [[Bloudan Conference of 1937]] in Syria.<ref name="Kuentzel-Antisemitism">{{cite web |last=Küntzel |first=Matthias |title=Islamic Antisemitism: How It Originated and Spread |url=http://matthiaskuentzel.de |website=Matthias Küntzel Academic Website |date=July 3, 2018 |access-date=June 15, 2026}}</ref>
The historical designation of the text as the foundation or forerunner of an "Islamic ''Mein Kampf''" stems primarily from the research of German political scientist and historian '''[[Matthias Küntzel]]'''.<ref name="Kuentzel-Antisemitism" /> In his work documenting Nazi Germany's ideological influence on the Middle East, Küntzel argues that the brochure served a purpose analogous to Adolf Hitler's ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' by establishing a foundational, text-based blueprint for modern Islamic antisemitism.<ref name="Kuentzel-PDF">{{cite journal |last=Küntzel |first=Matthias |title=Nazi Propaganda in the Middle East and its Repercussions in the Postwar Period |journal=Scholarly Paper |url=https://semanticscholar.org |pages=112–115 |access-date=June 15, 2026}}</ref>
=== Key Details & Context ===
* '''The Publisher:''' The pamphlet was published and popularized by the prominent Palestinian-Egyptian journalist and author ''Mohamed Ali Eltaher''.<ref name="LoC">{{cite web |title=An Arab Nationalist Survival Against All Odds: Muhammad Ali Eltaher |url=https://loc.gov |website=Library of Congress Blogs |date=June 2017 |access-date=June 15, 2026}}</ref>
* '''The Ideological Link:''' Historians view the text as a critical turning point in the region, as it combined select anti-Jewish episodes from early Islamic history with 20th-century Western antisemitic conspiracy theories.<ref name="Gale">{{cite journal |title=Islamic Antisemitism: Its Genesis, Meaning, and Effects |journal=Gale Academic OneFile |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA592241068&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=24741817&p=AONE&sw=w |access-date=June 15, 2026}}</ref>
* '''Haj Amin al-Husseini:''' It provided a formal ideological framework for '''[[Grand Mufti of Palestine]]''', who used the text to protest the British [[Peel Commission]]'s 1937 proposal to partition Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states.<ref name="Kuentzel" />
* '''Contents:''' The brochure notably promoted specific anti-Jewish sayings (''[[hadith]]s''), including an eschatological passage about the "stones and trees" that would later appear in the 1988 founding [[Hamas Charter]].<ref name="Kuentzel" />
=== Mobilization and Motivation of Muslims ===
The 1937 document was strategically deployed to motivate the Arab public to forcefully reject the [[Peel Commission]]'s partition plan through specific framing mechanisms:
* '''A New Narrative Flow:''' The brochure was the first major modern text to synthesize a direct historical line between the 7th-century theological conflicts involving [[Muhammad]] in [[Medina]] and the 20th-century political conflict over land in Mandatory Palestine.<ref name="Hagler-ISCA">{{cite techreport |last=Hagler |first=Aaron |title=Locating the "Jew" in the Early Islamic Textual Tradition |institution=Indiana University, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (ISCA) |date=June 19, 2024 |url=https://indiana.edu |access-date=June 15, 2026}}</ref>
* '''Religious Framing:''' By shifting the argument away from a territorial or political dispute, the text reframed geopolitical opposition to a Jewish state as an absolute, eternal religious obligation for all Muslims.<ref name="Kuentzel-Antisemitism" />
* '''The Nazi Connection:''' The distribution of this pamphlet at the Bloudan Conference directly coincided with the onset of covert logistical and financial links between Nazi Germany and the Grand Mufti, '''[[Amin al-Husseini]]'''.<ref name="Kuentzel-PDF" /> It acted as an ideological vehicle, blending European antisemitic conspiracy theories with selective Islamic scripture for mass public distribution.
===Nazi SS Muslims===
In [[WW2]] it was used in motivation for the Mufti's [[SS]] Moslems recruits.
=== Influence on Later Islamist Writers ===
The ideological framework established in ''Islam and Jewry'' laid the direct groundwork for subsequent Islamist theoreticians, most notably '''[[Sayyid Qutb]]''', the leading intellectual of the [[Muslim Brotherhood]].
In the 1950s, Qutb published his seminal essay, ''[[Our Struggle with the Jews]]'' (Arabic: ''Ma'rakatuna ma'a al-Yahud''). Historians note that Qutb adopted and expanded the core premise of the 1937 pamphlet: portraying Jews not merely as political opponents in Palestine, but as an cosmic, unchanging existential threat to Islam that has operated continuously since the 7th century.<ref name="Kuentzel-Antisemitism" /> This specific lineage of thought—running from the 1937 pamphlet through Qutb—effectively institutionalized Western-style conspiratorial antisemitism within mainstream Islamist ideology, a trajectory that culminated in the inclusion of these identical concepts in the 1988 [[Hamas Charter]].<ref name="Kuentzel-PDF" />
==1947==
On October 3, 1947, the Mufti's [[Arab Higher Committee]] issued an appeal to all Arab states to declare a total strike in protest against the Partition.
A propagandist<ref>Talhami, 1992:45-46</ref> author writes: "A huge rally by Islamic forces held in Cairo was addressed by Muhammad Ali al-Taher, who called for the Jihad in defense of Palestine. This was the first public call to use force to rescue Palestine. On the same day, the Supreme Guide, al-Banna, called for an oath of sacrifice for Palestine in Cairo's mosques and declared his readiness to organize a holy Jihad."
=== References ===
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:Middle East]]
[[Category:Israel]]
[[Category:Palestine]]
[[Category:Egypt]]
[[Category:WW2]]
[[Category: Antisemitism]]