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Posted on 08/04/2025 3:09:10 PM PDT by Milagros
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Arab Christians, for centuries, were heavily influenced by the surrounding [dominant] Islamic culture. By 1937, Arab-Christians joined the Arab-Muslims in celebrating Muhammad's birthday by displaying pictures of Hitler & Mussolini.[1]
B
Such was the case with Nazism admirer Michel Aflaq (1910-1989) [ميشيل عفلق arabic] one of the founders of the Ba'ath who stated: 'We were racists, admiring Nazism, reading its books and the source of its thought...'[2]. Aflaq was influenced by Islamic thought and sought to reconcile it with their nationalist and socialist ideals. He considered Islam to be a manifestation of "Arab genius" and deemed the ancient pre-Islamic civilisations of the Fertile Crescent to be Arab too.[3]
This is how Qatar's pro terrorism, Jihad promoting al-Jazeera [2.12.08] described him: 'Aflaq called for a struggle against foreign influences, and stressed that the Baath message was the eternal message of the Arab nation, no different in its values and divine inspiration than that of Islam. He did not seek to take Islam out of Arabism; he sought to make Arabism the central tenet of Islam, praising the revolutionary aspect of Islam.' Later on, "the Baath Party Influences the Islamic State."[4]
C
'Falastin' [فلسطين] newspaper: Though the principle two cousins founders were Arab Christians: Eissa alEissa [داود العيسى, يوسف العيسى arabic], already 1913,[5] it published a hate poem by Sheikh Suleiman al-Taji al-Faruqi [سليمان التاجي arabic] (1882 - 1958) that combined antisemitic canard with Quranic theme - causing the Ottoman authorities to ban ut for inciting "racial hatred."[6] 'Falastin' disseminated an Islamist propaganda such as about the Temple Mount / Western Wall and beyond.
In addition, the masses the 'Falastin' catered to were more of the Islamic faith, being Palestine's overall most prominent newspaper, moreso in the 1920s. 'Falastin' followed the line by Islamic figure the Mufti al-Husseini and propagated for him. In 1928, despite Zionists conciliatory tone, the Arab press, such as the "Falastin, an extremist pro-Mufti newspaper,"[7] went as far as deny Jews' right to Jerusalem's holy place.
For some years it directly propagated for the Mufti.[8] The newspaper already in May 1933, glorified Hitler as "noble" and justified his persecution of the Jews, dragging the infamous 'Protocols' forgery.[9]
D
Issa Basil Bandak [Eissa el Bendak] (1891-1984) [عيسى باسل البندك], in 1931, "The delegation came to the United States last Spring on behalf of the Grand Mufti’s party to raise funds and propagandize the Arab cause."[10] In Sep 1933, "Eissa Bendak, editor of the radical bi-weekly ‘Sawt Al Shaab’ published in Bethlehem, has left for Paris where he will receive instructions from a group of Germans and Arabs on ‘conducting Nazi propaganda’ in Palestine. Bendak was instrumental in organizing the Arab Fascist Party at Bethlehem."[11] As representative of the Bethlehem District for the Muslim-Christian Association, he prioritized Muslims. Bandak defended anti-Christian Muslim 'YMMA' with propaganda and had promoted Muslims' rights even when on the expense of Christians.'[12]
E
Issa Nakhleh (1915-2003) [عيسى نخلة] , who, as 'Falastin' correspondent in London, in 1939 had justified Arab propaganda office in Nazi Germany,[13] had glorified Nazi regime in his 'America y Oriente' in the 1950s in Argentina[14], then, in 1961 had worked for the Mufti in his P.A.D. in NYC, claiming he was a "refugee,"[15] there he justified Nazi enmity of Jews and began pushing the debunked 'Khazar',[16] he was the main torch carrier of his "legacy" Arab-Nazi alliance post WW2, had worked, for decades, with neo nazis, supremacists,[17] denied the Holocaust publicity,[18] served as Judicial Adviser to the World Muslim Congress.[19] He authored a book glorifying the Quran in 2002.[20]
F
Emil Ghuri [Ghory / Ghouri] (1907-1984) [إميل غوري - arabic] , on July 7, 1934, in his short-lived publication, 'Arab Federation': "Hitler whom the Arabs admire very much."[21]
A report of the British General Service of Intelligence, on December 1, 1941, listed Emil Ghouri as one of a group "who are responsible for propaganda, intrigue, and subversive activities in side and outside Iraq."[22]
A "terrorist and conspirator in the Iraq Revolt,"[23] in the 1941 Arab-Nazi coup. He was the organizer and political leader of the underground Arab army, and is alleged to be one of those responsible for internal terror against Arab opponents of the Mufti and Arabs who sell land to the Jews. He advocated that all Jews who came to Palestine since 1918 be regarded as for eigners and be deprived of rights in an independent Arab Palestine.[22] 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.[24] The youth movement resembled 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".[25] In May 1945 as the Mufti al-Husseini was held under house arrest near Paris by the French government. Emil Ghouri (as the secretary of the Arab Higher Committee and general secretary of the Palestine Arab Party), 'had emphasized the continuing “influence and esteem” that Husseini retained in Palestine, and he, too, wanted to be able to reassure Husseini's supporters who were viewing his condition “with anxiety.”'[26]
In May 1947, Ghuri attacked the Jews rejecting the Mufti for his Nazi work had compared Hitler's Mufti to George Washington and to "the founder of Christianity."[27]
In a Feb 1948 report: "The leading members of the Higher Committee in Palestine are Dr. Hussein Khalidi and W. Emil Ghoury who have both made public their approval of Arab violence and their intention to intensify it in the future." [28] As still the Secretary of the Palestinian Arab Higher Command, in an interview with the Lebanese newspaper 'The Beirut Telegraph' on September 6, 1948 he said: "The fact that there are these refugees is a direct consequence of the act of the Arab states in opposing partition and the Jewish state. The Arab states agreed upon this policy unanimously and they must share in the solution of this problem."[29]
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NOTES
[1]
All Arabs Celebrate pro-phet's Birthday. The New York Times, May 23, 1937. Palestine Arabs outdid themselves today in celebrating Mouled el Nebi, the birthday of the .. Mohammed. Never before have there been such elaborate festivities, decorations and processions as throughout the country today… Several days prior to the festival all buildings in Arab quarters were elaborately decorated, and pictures of Hitler, Mussolini and Fawzi el Kaoukgi, an Iraqian who came to Palestine during the disturbances last Summer to organize an “Arab revolt” were displayed. The government immediately ordered the removal of Fawzi el Kaoukgi’s picture.
https://www.nytimes.com/1937/05/23/archives/all-arabs-celebrate-prophets-birthday-christians-join-moslems-in.html
[2]
'"The Secular" Offshoots: The Baath Party and the PLO (Chapter 7). Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012. David Patterson. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/genealogy-of-evil/secular-offshoots-the-baath-party-and-the-plo/29B9ED0CA2F6669CD80A396514933ECF
Adel Soheil (2018). "The Iraqi Ba'th Regime's Atrocities Against the Faylee Kurds Nation-State Formation Distorted." p. 55.
https://books.google.com/books?id=_6tyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA55
[3] Why Baathism was doomed - UnHerd. R. Yassin-Kassab. Feb 27, 2025
https://unherd.com/2025/02/why-baathism-was-doomed/
[4]
'How the Baath Party Influences the Islamic State.' Stratfor, 13 Aug 2015.
https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/how-baath-party-influences-islamic-state
[5]
Wistrich, Robert S.. A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad. United Kingdom: Random House Publishing Group, 2010. Chapter 21: 'The "Liberation" of Palestine.'
https://books.google.com/books?id=Lzs48d3tudsC&pg=PT879
Morris, Benny. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999. United Kingdom: Knopf, 1999. p.65.
https://books.google.com/books?id=t-SMDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA65
[6]
Janrense Boonstra, "Antisemitism, a History Portrayed", SDU, Anne Frank Foundation,' 1989, p. 101.
link
Elie Kedourie, Sylvia G. Haim: 'Zionism and Arabism in Palestine and Israel' (RLE Israel and Palestine), Taylor & Francis, 2015. p. 8.
https://books.google.com/books?id=Qj6sCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8
[7]
Eliash, Shulamit. “THE TEMPLE MOUNT AS PART OF THE ARAB—JEWISH CONFLICT 1922—1933.” Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought, vol. 26, no. 1, 1991, pp. 22–38. JSTOR, link.
An excerpt from Falastin, an extremist pro-Mufti newspaper, in English translation, 13.11.1928, S25/2977, CZA.
[8]
The Palestine Bulletin, 16 February 1931. "Falastin and the Mufti."
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/plb/1931/02/16/01/article/10/
The Palestine Post, 21 April 1935.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1935/04/21/01/article/7/
The Palestine Post, 11 June 1939. "'Falastin' - the Mufti's Organ.."
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1939/06/11/01/article/10/
[9]
"Noble[sic] Hitler" — Says "Falastin " — The Palestine Post, 22 May 1933.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1933/05/22/01/article/42
[10]
'Arab Delegation to U.S. Made Financial Failure, Bendak Says.' JTA, Sep 28, 1930.
https://www.jta.org/archive/arab-delegation-to-u-s-made-financial-failure-bendak-says
[11]
'From Bethlehem to Paris Arab-christian Editor Goes to Get Nazi Instructions.' JTA, October 8, 1933.
https://www.jta.org/archive/from-bethlehem-to-paris-arab-christian-editor-goes-to-get-nazi-instructions
[12]
Haiduc-Dale, N. (2013). Arab Christians in British Mandate Palestine: Communalism and Nationalism, 1917-1948. United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.
p.81:
...the Islamic reform movement founded by figures such as Jamal al-Din al- Afghani, Rashid Rida and Muhammad 'Abduh. The most famous and long- lasting organisation to emerge during that time period was the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, founded by Hasan al-Banna in 1928. The Brotherhood itself became directly involved in Palestine in the 1930s.The YMMA was ostensibly a social organisation and its branches were, according to Lesch, 'relatively independent' of the SMC and other Islamic institutions... while formally a nonpolitical organisation, many members of the YMMA took an active role in politics. In 1932, the government shut down the organisation's Acre branch 'owing to the Association's complete departure from its avowed social, non-political objects'. And despite officially standing outside the nationalist rift, Lesch asserts that 'their pan-Islamic anti-Christian tendencies were supported by such conservative (and anti- SMC) leaders as Sulaiman al- Taji al-Faruqi, former head of the National Party and editor of the newspaper al-Jami'a al-islamiyya'...
p.82:
Bandak took a different approach. Despite differences between the YMMA and the SMC, Bandak used similar arguments in defence of both Islamic institutions. As explained above, in his support of the SMC, Bandak accepted Islamic nationalism as a driving ideology for Palestinian Arabs of all religions. Bandak condemned what he called Filastin's 'disgusting attacks against the most important Islamic personalities in the country', and he supported YMMA communal organisation, arguing that the group was defending Islam rather than attacking Christianity. He argued, in effect, that the SMC should participate in leading the nationalist movement because of its religious standing...
p.87:
... in an article in Sawt al-Shaʿb mirrored those found in Muslimowned papers. Bandak argued that 'Arab Christians should be the first to recognise the rights of their Moslem Brethren over public positions and support them with the Government [even] though some Christian officials might suffer from the grant[ing] of Moslem demands ...
'Issa Basil Bandak: Pro Islamists over Christians, Nazi fan and "student" of its propaganda in 1933, Mufti's ally in 1948'.
At Pipes, Jan 3, 2023.
https://www.danielpipes.org/comments/290534
[13]
'Settlement' in Palestine A Triumph For The 'Axis''.
The Palestine Post, 13 July 1939, p. 6.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1939/07/13/01/article/84
[14]
Anti-Jewish Activities of the Arabs in Argentine - DAIA, 1958. pp.18-9.
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There he publishes 'America y Oriente' from November 20, 1952, "known for its systematical anti-Jewish campaign and its glorification of the totalitarian regimes, particularly of the nazi Germany.
[15]
'Israel At the United Nations.' By Saul Carson
The Canadian Jewish Chronicle, Aug 4, 1961, p. 5.
https://books.google.com/books?id=magcAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA5&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
[16] 'Nasser's Anti-Jewish Propaganda.' Publication Date:July 8, 1965. CIA
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp67b00446r000400170011-8
[17]
Nadeau, J. (2011). The Canadian Fuhrer: The Life of Adrien Arcand.Canada: James Lorimer Limited, Publishers, p. 351.
https://books.google.com/books?id=D630umvXNKoC&pg=PA351
'Extremism on the Right: A Handbook,' Anti Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1983, p. 49.
link
(1979) National front reverse, Patterns of Prejudice, 13:2,26-27, DOI:10.1080/0031322X.1979.9969498.
link
"Swedish authorities’ action."
The American Spectator. (1986). United States: American Spectator, p. 20.
link
The Nizkor Project.
http://www.nizkor.com/ftp.cgi?orgs/american/ihr//nakhleh
The Australian Jewish Times, 7 April 1983. "Whitewashing Hitler" "Neo-Nazi Attempts to Rewrite History" The Australian Jewish News (Melbourne), 7 January 1983.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/ajnm/1983/01/07/01/article/73
Seidel, G.(1986).The Holocaust denial : antisemitism, racism & the new right. United Kingdom: Beyond the Pale Collective, p. 28
link
[18]
National Lampoon. (1973). United States:(n.p.), p. 18.
link
Jewish Observer and Middle East Review, vol. 21, William Samuel & Company Limited, 1972, p. 7.
link
'Behind The Scenes'.
B'nai B'rith Messenger, 17 November 1972, p. 34.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/bbh/1972/11/17/01/article/204
Dalin, D. (2017). Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis. p. 120
https://books.google.com/books?id=dUz4AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA120#v=onepage&q&f=false
[19]
Manor, Y. (1984). Anti-Zionism. Israel: Department of Information, World Zionist Organization, p. 20.
link
[20]
'Issa Nakhleh (1915-2003): A supposed "Christian" - After a long bloody Neo-Nazi career, he published a glorification of Islam, Muhammad.'
Oct 30, 2022 at Pipes.
https://www.danielpipes.org/comments/288065
[21]
Palestine Post, July 16, 1934.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1934/07/16/01/article/35/
'TROUBLES IN GERMANY.
The following paragraph is taken from the Arab Federation, a Jerusalem weekly in English, dated July 7. The people of Palestine have been watching the recent troubles in Germany with great interest and keen.
They were astonished by the courageous quick actions of Hitler whom the Arabs admire very much.'
[22]
Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates... Volume 93, Part 11, United States Congress, 1947, pp.2819-2821.
https://books.google.com/books?id=U3G7YfwJ0zcC&pg=SL1-PA2819
[23]
'Hashimites and Husseinis.' By J. M. Japolsky (London). L l The Sydney Jewish News, 4 March 1949.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/sydneyjn/1949/03/04/01/article/61
[24]
Porath, Y. (2023). The Palestinian Arab National Movement, 1929-1939: From Riots to Rebellion. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, p.76
link
[25]
Morris, B. (2011). Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001. United Kingdom: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, p.124.
https://books.google.com/books?id=xC_uIe9G2FYC&pg=PA124
[26]
Herf, J. (2022). Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, p. 108.
https://books.google.com/books?id=8YlZEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108
[27]
'UNITED NATIONS: Overstatement.' TIME, May 26, 1947.
https://time.com/archive/6784616/united-nations-overstatement/
Karsh, E. (2010). 'Palestine Betrayed'. United States: Yale University Press. Ch.4 'The Road to Partition.'
https://books.google.com/books?id=2oVyDp_OAx4C&pg=PP119
Der Tog - , 21 May 1947
link
Congress Weekly. (1951). United States: American Jewish Congress, p. 10. "Ghoury defended the ex-Mufti, declaring he was a patriot and not really an enemy of Great Britain. He had the effrontery to compare the ex-Mufti with George Washington and added maliciously..."
link
[28]
UN Palestine Commission – Policy of the Mandatory Power in Palestine – Communication from the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Feb 20, 1948.
https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-211889/
[28]
'Nakba: A self inflicted catastrophe.' Barry Shaw, The Jerusalem Post, May 20, 2011.
https://www.jpost.com/blogs/the-view-from-israel/nakba-a-self-inflicted-catastrophe-367255
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Arab Christians do not seem to be motivated to murder me.
So they can do whatever else they may want, as far as I’m concerned.
I’ve spent 7 weeks inside the IDF as a volunteer and met about 100 soldiers and civilian contractors.
The single most motivated guy I met was Najib, and Arab Christian. He was working long before we arrived, and long after we left. He was on fire. A total dynamo. He was responsible for a midsized facility within a base that was saving the IDF about $250,00 a week.
I asked him point blank in public:
“Why are you so motivated?”
“There is no better place in the world for an Arab Christian like me to raise my family than Israel.”
Real typical Christian Arabs are great.
Yes
Great true post. Kudos
You are noth right. And classic hero is Yoseph Haddad https://x.com/yosephhaddad?lang=en
some for sure (a hamndful of antisemitic ‘priests’ come to mind immediately) but certainly not all! There are many good Christians ... many, many, many.
Thank you
I think the O.P. emphasizes that most are great.
I support a wonderful Arab Christian ministry in Israel. I have met the founders, a married couple, when they came to the US a number of years back and spoke at our church. He is an Arab Christian. She was an American.
This is exactly why the Spanish Inquisition happened. Christians had been influenced by Muslims who had occupied them for 500+ years.
“I support a wonderful Arab Christian ministry in Israel “
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Me too.
Right
It’s important to remember that Christians, living under Islamic rule, have to deal with taqueria, meaning that if they speak up, they will pay a price, possibly a big price.
Valid point.
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