Posted on 06/29/2023 7:20:30 PM PDT by Milagros
The Palestine Post, 21 May 1933
READERS' LETTERS
Press Incitement
To the Editor of the Palestine Post
Sir : — Although some of the Arab press of this country has for a long tim been full of insulting, insinuating, an sometimes even inciting articles against one section of the population, there is evidence of effective steps having neen taken to end these practices.
The one case in which an editor (Isa Eff. al Isa of the Falastin) was sued for printing libellous material failed result in conviction, because the Court accepted the accused's plea that too Iong a time had intervened between publication of the material in question prosecution. Even then, the initiator of the action was not the Government, but a private individual (Mr. Naaman).
And now the rise of Hitler has been the signal for an increased activity in Arab newspapers, in which articles rivalling the Nazi outbursts in the vindictiveness are constantly appearing .
On Wednesday of this week the Jamia al Arabia published an editorial containing the following statements :
"The Anti-Jewish movement at over Europe, Poland, Hungary, Rumania . . . and lately Germany is growing. We hear about attacks on Jews in the streets and even in the Universities many of these assaults accompanied bloodshed. All of this happems in countries where the Jews are not striving to colonise as they are in Palestine and Transjordan —and where they are not striving to establish a National Home and Jewish Kingdom. The Governments of most of these countries encourage the anti-Semitic movement, and help to incite the people against the Jews. But here in Palestine and Trans-Jordan one can not even look sternly at a Jew or pronounce him insulting word against him."
Does the Press Ordinance countenance such an outburst? If it does not, perhap this letter will serve to prevent a delay of the sort which made the suit against the Falastin ineffective.
Yours , etc., R . Z.
Jerusalem. May 18.
"Noble Hitler" — Says "Falastin"
"Falastin" considers the Jews to be quite in the wrong in their criticism of anti-Jewish acts in Germany. Hitler is [sic[ Innocent and Noble, strong and beloved by his people and has succeeded in saving [sic] his country from the vile (sic) Jews."
The Elders of Zion are also dragged into Falastin's article . They rule the world and do not like Hitler and are doing all they can to overthrow him, writes the Jaffa paper.
The Palestine Post, 11 February 1935
Trumped-Up Propaganda Arab Paper's Story of "Jews' Enemy No 2"
An instance of trumped-up political propaganda and a refusal on the part of the offending Arabic paper to publish a full correction of its invented statements has just come to light.
In its issue of Tuesday, February 5, Falastin published an article headed "King Ghazi L, the Jews Public Enemy No . 2 ." It stated that, after Hitler, the King of Iraq is the most hated by the Jews, particularly of Palestine. The Ophir Cinema, in Tel Aviv, showed a film of the opening by King Ghazi of the Iraq petroleum pipeline at Kirkuk. When King Ghazi was shown the Jewish audience, the paper reported, created an uproar and drowned out the singing of the Iraqi national anthem, protesting against the exhibition of a film of this sort in Zionist Tel Aviv.
A protest was made to the Jewish national institutions, declares Falastin, and the cinema proprietors were asked to withdraw the film showing "the Jews' Enemy No . 2". The second part of the film was consequently cut .
Firm Denial
The cinema managemen adressed to Falastin a letter, in which it expressed surprise at the false item concerning alleged uproars during the showing of the film featuring King Ghazi, vehemently denied that there had been any intervention by Jewish national institutions in this matter and contradicted the allegation that any part of the film had been cut. The management went on to say that the film would be shown intact, with the part showing the King Ghazi, until the end of the week.
The cinema proprietors requested the publication of their denial put in an early issue in order to remove a reflection upon Jewish cinema-goers and the cinema itself.
Before the statement was pubished, the cinema authorities assert, it was the duty of the newspaper to verify it . It was now up to them to ascertain who it was that had furnished them with this false report and to demand a full explanation.
Abbreviated
The denial did not appear for two days, and it was only when the editor of Falastin was approached by the cinema manager , a short note — an abbreviated version of the repudiation — was published in the issue of February 9, in approximately the following terms : —
"We have received from the Ophir Management a letter denying a local correspondent s report in connection with a Jewish rop test at the showing of a film depicting King Ghazi opening the Iraq pipeline and that Jewish institutions asked for the film to be withdrawn. The management assures us that the film was shown throughout the week, no one asked for its withdrawal, and there was no disturbance at its exhibition!."
Samo. Samo.
Link for article :
“Noble Hitler” — Says “Falastin”
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1933/05/22/01/article/42
Fals-tinians...
The Sentinel, 16 December 1937:
By Jewish Telegraphic Agency CAIRO — [Schwarz] von Berk, aide to Reich Propaganda Minister Goebbels, arrived here last week and was met by the editors of two Palestine Arab papers, Falastin and Adifaa. Dr. Goebbels is scheduled to visit Cairo next month.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/cgs/1937/12/16/01/article/3
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The Palestine Post, 31 October 1945:
Falastin Defends Nazism.
Spirited defence of the Nazi leaders to be tried at Nuremberg shortly, and condemnation of those preparing to prosecute Nazism which is — as much a way of life as democracy and — socialism, were contained yesterday in a leading article in the, Falastin.. Arab daily of Jaffa. The trial prepared by the Allies was at the least a very contradiction of humane justice and religious ethics, the paper stated. War criminals, it went on, was a new term devised by a belligerent power for the vanquished side, whereas the responsibility for war crimes devolved upon both. Falastin could understand the trial of Gestapo men who organized political and racial murders, which had no justification on military and security grounds, but asked why the Nazi leaders responsible for disseminating the fundamentals of Nazism, should be brought to trial and where the justice was of trying European quislings? The trial of the founders of the Nazi syste, (Falastin considers) is in effect a blow at the most elementary right: freedom of thought and belief” in which the 20th century excels over the Dark Ages.
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/falastin/1945/10/30/01/article/5
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The Palestine Post, 18 October 1946:
ARABIC PRESS ON NAZI HANGINGS.
Palestine Post Reporter.
The Arabic press left its readers in no doubt of its opinion that the Nazis condemned at Nuremberg were men of great courage.
Ad-Difaa’s front page headline on Wednesday (the day of their execution) read “Nazi Leaders Await Death with Pride and Courage.”
Referring to Goering’s suicide, yesterday’s Al Wahda wrote: “Goering preferred the death his leader had chosen. He considered death by hanging a disgrace, chose his leader’s and carried out his way, intention.”
Falastin’s comment was: “Another black page of history has been turned with the death of the Nazi leaders by hanging.”
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/pls/1946/10/18/01/article/12
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