Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Just another "hero" by their cult-ure.
1 posted on 06/28/2023 12:56:22 PM PDT by Milagros
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: Milagros
Nafi, Basheer M. "The Arabs and the Axis: 1933-1940." Arab Studies Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 2, spring 1997:

In January 1937, a Palestinian delegation including 'Izzat Darwaza, Mu'in al-Madi and 'Awni 'Abd al-Hadi met with Grobba in Baghdad asking his support against the wave of Jewish immigration.

The Jerusalem Quarterly. (1978). Israel: Middle East Institute. p. 127
Jewish quota was imposed and that is why it was crowded with Jews in the first year, but in the following year the authorities took care of that, and only a few Jews were admitted to the college.

The dislike of Jews by Muslims in Iraq no doubt existed since early Islamic times, but one may say that during the thirties they became more intensely hated than ever before, due to anti-Semitic propaganda imported into Iraq by the German Minister to Baghdad, Dr. F. Grobba, and by many Syrians and Palestinians who found political asylum in Iraq, such as Hajj Amin al-Husaini, Dr. Izzat Darwaza and Darwish al-Miqdādī.

This propaganda penetrated mainly the ranks of Muslim youth in the colleges and in the high schools, as well as in the army and in the police. As a result, cases of murder of Jews were reported in 1936 and thereafter a process which culminated on June 1-2, 1941, in the first and only anti-Jewish pogrom which took place in modern Iraq. During these two days, known as the farḥud, hundreds of Jews were massacred and injured in Baghdad. The Jews of the capital were attacked by soldiers, policemen, high school and college students, using every kind of arms. Many of those who enjoyed the killing of Jews belonged to the nationalist para-military youth movement which modeled themselves on the Hitlerjugend.

On the second day of the farhud thousands of Arabs entered the capital to take advantage of that 'lucky day' to loot Jewish ...

2 posted on 06/28/2023 8:46:38 PM PDT by Conservat1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson