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The younger Arab generation at that time mostly followed the Nazi-fascist axis, which operated in two powerful propaganda arms: the Italian arm was active in Egypt, Lebanon and Syria, and the German arm -- mainly in Iraq and Persia. The Arab rebels from Israel turned to the Baghdad center of the axis, its great stronghold in World War II, which also had in its heart its fierce hatred of Jews.
The younger Arab generation at that time mostly followed the Nazi-fascist axis, which operated in two powerful propaganda arms: the Italian arm was active in Egypt, Lebanon and Syria, and the German arm -- mainly in Iraq and Persia. The Arab rebels from Israel turned to the Baghdad center of the axis, its great stronghold in World War II, which also had in its heart its fierce hatred of Jews.
Then, during the war, the pan-Arab delusion arose among Arab activists and their leader Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, and his delusion was even nourished by political and military support from Italy, Germany and Iraq.</blockquote>
Then, during the war, the pan-Arab delusion arose among Arab activists and their leader Muhammad Amin al-Husseini, and his delusion was even nourished by political and military support from Italy, Germany and Iraq.</blockquote>
==1944 BBC censorship ==
On January 30 and 31, 1944, a conference wss held of some 1,800 Orthodox Jewish rabbis, leaders and activists at the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan
By that time, millions of Jews had already been slaughtered in Nazi death camps. The mass murder had been verified by the Allies more than a year earlier, and had been amply documented by Jewish organizations.
The organizers of the conference paid the required fees to the BBC—as was the procedure at the time—to broadcast the proceedings of the gathering. They also submitted the text of the speeches to the British censorship authorities in advance.
The BBC censored the speeches.
Conference chairman David Meckler, editor of the Yiddish daily Morgen Zhurnal, decried the censorship decision as part of the British White Paper policy of appeasing Arab extremists by keeping Jewish refugees out of the Holy Land. He called the cancelation “an attempt by the British government to silence our demands for aid to refugees through the opening of Palestine.”<ref>[https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/364952/bbc-censored-another-herzog-in-1944/ BBC Censored Another Herzog — in 1944]. "The BBC last week censored parts of its interview with Israeli president Isaac Herzog, cutting out sections in which he cited uncomfortable facts about British policy. Remarkably, he’s not the first Herzog to be censored by the BBC." Rafael Medoff, ''Jewish Journal'', November 8, 2023.</ref>
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