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In 1937, after the dissolution of the Arab Higher Committee, he was a member of an underground committee which directed Arab terrorism in Palestine. After his arrest in 1938, he fled to Syria and then to Iraq, where he joined the Mufti in organizing the Iraqi rebellion of 1941. After its failure he fled to Ankara and thence to Italy and Germany. In the midst of the war, in 1943, he served as an announcer on the Axis-Arabic radio station in Athens. Since 1944 he has been a member of the Mufti's personal entourage, first in Berlin and later in Paris.
In 1937, after the dissolution of the Arab Higher Committee, he was a member of an underground committee which directed Arab terrorism in Palestine. After his arrest in 1938, he fled to Syria and then to Iraq, where he joined the Mufti in organizing the Iraqi rebellion of 1941. After its failure he fled to Ankara and thence to Italy and Germany. In the midst of the war, in 1943, he served as an announcer on the Axis-Arabic radio station in Athens. Since 1944 he has been a member of the Mufti's personal entourage, first in Berlin and later in Paris.
In July 1945, he returned to Egypt and in November 1946 was included in the Palestine Government's amnesty.</blockquote></ref>
In July 1945, he returned to Egypt and in November 1946 was included in the Palestine Government's amnesty.
Although permitted to return to Palestine, he preferred to remain in Egypt. Most recently, the United States Consul refused to grant a visa to the United States because of his activities in Nazi Germany.</blockquote></ref>
The U.S. consul in Egypt had refused to grant Khalidi a visa to the United States because of his wartime collaboration with the Nazis.<ref>Norwood, Stephen H.. Antisemitism and the American Far Left. United States: Cambridge University Press, 2013. [https://books.google.com/books?id=paIxAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA121 p. 121].
<blockquote>The U.S. consul in Egypt had refused to grant Khalidi a visa to the United States because of his wartime collaboration with the Nazis in Germany...
The Nations Associates also charged that the mufti and his "henchmen" Kamal, Khalidi, and Ghouri had been "directly responsible" for the 1941 anti-Jewish pogrom in Baghdad. It noted that the Arab pogromists had "stabbed or brutally clubbed to death in the streets of Baghdad" nearly 400 Jewish men, women, and children.</blockquote></ref><ref name=antinazireport/>
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==See also==