Red Moon (nazi club)
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Posted on 04/23/2025 9:01:32 AM PDT by Milagros
BACKGROUND:
In 1933, Joseph Francis (d.1944) on behalf of Palestinian Arabs, editor in Al-Ahram and Falastin, begged German consul to help in founding the Nazi Arab party.
Lewis, B. (1999). Semites and Anti-Semites: An Inquiry Into Conflict and Prejudice. United States: W. W. Norton, p. 147.
Black, E. (2010). The Farhud: Roots of The Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust. Washington, DC: Dialog Press. Ch. 12 'The Arabs Reach for the Reich.'
In the 1930s, Palestinian Arab students returning from Germany strongly decided to establish Nazi Arab parties.
Rosen, David M. (2005). Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism . Rutgers University Press. p. 106:
By 1936 Al Difaa, the paper of the Istiqlal movement and the most widely read paper in the Arab community, proclaimed, in clearly fascist tones, that "youth must go out to the field of battle as soldiers of the Fatherland." Others argued that the "Land is in need of a youth, healthy in body and soul like the Nazi youth in Germany and the fas-cist youth in Italy which stands ready for the orders of its leaders and ready to sacrifice its life for the honor of its people and freedom of its fatherland." An al-Shahab editorial titled "The Strength of Youth" called on youth to "take my blood and drink it, perhaps it will heal you, give me the sword of Khalid." Al-Jamia el Islamia called on youth to "join the flag of the nation's army ... be a pillar of fire to light up the gloom with the flaming, purifying and searing fire; be a sharp sword; take vengeance upon the usurpers."
Nationalist rhetoric accompanied major efforts to build fascist-style youth organizations by recruiting young men to serve as the strike force of the nationalist movement.
Throughout the 1930s the children of wealthy Palestinians returned home from European universities having witnessed the emergence of fascist paramilitary forces.
Palestinian students educated in Germany returned to Palestine determined to found the Arab Nazi Party of Palestine.°
The Husseinis used the Palestinian Arab Party to established the al-Futuwwa youth corps, which was named after an association of Arab knights of the Middle Ages and which was officially designated the Nazi Scouts. By 1936 the Palestinian Arab Party was sponsoring the development of storm troops patterned on the German model. These storm troops, all children and youth, were to be outfitted in black trousers and red shirts and were to be divided into three sections: below age fifteen, ages fifteen to twenty, and twenty years and older. The first troops were founded in Lod and Jerusalem.° The young recruits took the following oath: "Life—my right; independence—my aspiration; Arabism—my principle; Palestine—my country, and there is no room in it for any but Arabs. In this I believe and Allah is my wimess."
The British were clearly alarmed, reporting that "the growing youth and scout movements must be regarded as the most probable factors for the disturbance of the peace." The British were quite correct because the increasing levels of youth violence they were observing were merely the prelude to the out-break of the Great Arab Revolt of 1936-1939. The al-Futuwwa youth groups connected Palestinian youth to fascist youth movements elsewhere in the Middle East. While the Mufti was estab-lishing youth groups in Palestine, al-Futuwwa groups were established in Iraq.
When in 1935 delegates returned from an Arab youth conference in Haifa, their train to Afula bore a large swastika chalked on one of the coaches with an Arabic inscription beneath it reading "Germany over All." [ألمانيا فوق كل شيء].
It then continued for some time.
'Palestine Train Flies Swastika.' Haifa-Damascus train flies swastika.
The New York Times, May 13, 1935 .
https://www.nytimes.com/1935/05/13/archives/palestine-train-flies-swastika.html
'Swastikas On Haifa Train.'
The Chronicler-Spokesman, 17 May 1935
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/chroniclerspokesman/1935/05/17/01/article/50
'Swastika Decorates Palestine Train.'
The Sentinel, 6 June 1935
https://www.nli.org.il/en/newspapers/cgs/1935/06/06/01/article/65
The Arab-Nazi club in Haifa 'Red Moon.' [القمر الأحمر، النادي]
Arabs in Haifa Form Nazi Club; Well Financed. July 1, 1935 JTA.
Arab youths here have organized a Nazi club, it was learned today.
The club has already established headquarters and goes under the name of “The Red Moon.”
Apparently the organization has strong backers, for all of its deficits are promptly met, and it seems able to draw upon unlimited financial resources.
This is viewed as another manifestation of an intensive Nazi anti-Semitic activity sponsored by the Hitler government, and which has broken out throughout Palestine and the Near East. Nazi agents have appeared in various parts of the country in an attempt to incite the Arabs against the Jews. They have been particularly successful among Arab nationalist youth.
Groups of brown-clad Arab youths are now organized in the larger cities.
Recently the Federation of Arab Youth in Palestine petitioned Hitler to help them prevent the Jews from obtaining additional land in Palestine.
Bumped for later reading
Check your math...1935 was 90 years ago...Not 95 years ago...
The Imam in the Middle East was a personal friend of Adolf. Went there when the Brits drove that trash out of Egypt.
I think Milagros meant the background which began a few years earlier from Rosen’s book.
Probably...I was just going by the headline...
Cheers
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