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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946 [https://books.google.com/books?id=zz44AQAAMAAJ&pg=SL1-PA2634 pp.2634-5] "Arab office Linked with Fascist Jew Baters -- President Truman Is Asked to Investigate Arab Propaganda in the United States". Extension of remarks of hon. Emanuel Celler of New York in the House of Representatives. Thursday, May 7, 1946</ref><ref>"Truman Urged to investigate Arab Office in Washington". The Detroit Jewish News Digital Archives - May 17, 1946 - [https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1946.05.17.001/8 Image 8]</ref>
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946 [https://books.google.com/books?id=zz44AQAAMAAJ&pg=SL1-PA2634 pp.2634-5] "Arab office Linked with Fascist Jew Baters -- President Truman Is Asked to Investigate Arab Propaganda in the United States". Extension of remarks of hon. Emanuel Celler of New York in the House of Representatives. Thursday, May 7, 1946</ref><ref>"Truman Urged to investigate Arab Office in Washington". The Detroit Jewish News Digital Archives - May 17, 1946 - [https://digital.bentley.umich.edu/djnews/djn.1946.05.17.001/8 Image 8]</ref>
===The Islamic ''Mein Kampf''===
[[File:Islamic Mein Kampf.jpg|thumb|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 Jerusalem]]''', who used the text to protest the British [[Peel Commission]]'s 1937 proposal to partition Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states.
* '''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=book2021>''Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Media, the Legal and Political Worlds''. (2021). Germany: De Gruyter.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=WJZEEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT174]</ref>
==== 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 web |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=book2021/>
==Associates==
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