NYT May-1948: "Not like Dachau, is it, Herr Mufti?"

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[Words Matter]

"NOT LIKE DACHAU, IS IT, HERR MUFTI?" The New York Times. May 16, 1948, Section E, Page 4.

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Rebecca Mistereggen @RMistereggen:

This political cartoon, published in The New York Times one day after the establishment of the State of Israel, captures a pivotal moral reversal in world history.

On one side stands “Palestine”, symbolizing the reborn Jewish nation, sword in hand. Opposite him is The Grand Mufti, depicted in a Nazi uniform, an unmistakable reference to Haj Amin al-Husseini, the wartime Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who collaborated closely with Hitler’s regime, supported the extermination of Jews and later led Arab resistance against the new Jewish state.

The caption, “Not like Dachau, is it, Herr Mufti?”, cuts like a blade. Only three years after the liberation of the Nazi death camps, Jews who had been hunted and slaughtered in Europe were fighting back - this time against those who had sided with their oppressors.

I’ll just leave it here for the reader: the stance back then was that Israel’s birth was not a birth of conquest, but of survival, and that the Arab leaders who opposed it did so under the shadow of an alliance with Nazism. The victims of Dachau were no longer powerless. They had taken up the sword, and history, for once, was on their side.

Oct 6, 2025.

Overwhelming Palestinian Arab Alignment with Nazi Germany: Ideology and Collaboration in the 1930s and World War II (and beyond)
Just sayin'

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TOPICS: History; Politics
KEYWORDS: alhusseini; arabnazis; islamofascism; mufti; thirdreich

[DFG]

Related : Free Republic post from May 22, 2022

Epic cartoon from the NYT in 1948. When everyone recognized that Palestine was Jewish and Arab leadership were aligned with Nazis

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4065700/posts

[Words Matter]

Thanks.

[Long Jon No Silver]

The arab interlopers are still aligned with the nazis. So are their supporters on FR

[Texas Fossil]

My father was in Munich toward the end of WWII. He saw Dachau not long after it was liberated. One of his high school classmates was Lt. Jack Westbrook, he was involved in taking Dachau. It was a political prisoner camp. And there were a lot of Russian solders who died there. Lt. Jack Bushyhead was also there.

[mass55th]

I recommend this book about Dachau, the first concentration camp:

"Hitler's First Victims: The Quest for Justice" by Timothy W. Ryback

[Texas Fossil]

Dad was there.

[Reily]

My uncle was also and was later assigned to document and gather evidence for the war crime trials.

[Texas Fossil]

OK

[wbarmy]

The Jews were called the “Palestinians” back then to kepp them feom being called Jewish. Arafat preempted the name because people had become kindly feeling toward that name because of the Jews.

[JOHN ADAMS]

Here’s an amusing fact about “Palestine:”
Arabic has no letter that makes the sound P
They can’t even pronounce “Palestine” in their native tongue. The name was conferred on the region by the Romans after they defeated the Jews and destroyed the Jewish country, then called Judea. The Romans were so proud of having defeated the Jews that they minted coins on which they wrote Judaea Capta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaea_Capta_coinage
“Palestine” was the region, and everyone who lived there, Jew, Arab or anything else, was a Palestinian. There is no such thing as “the” Palestinian people.” It is, as an earlier post noted, a construct, made up in the 1950s so they could invoke another basis for driving the Jews out of their ancient homeland.

[wbarmy]

Oh, I totally agree. But there are many references to the word “Palestine”. The Palestinian Orchestra, etc.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-palestine-symphony-orchestra

Palestinian

1875 (adj.) “of or pertaining to the Holy Land;” 1905 (n.) “an inhabitant of Palestine,” from Palestine + -ian. Also in early use with reference to Jews who settled or advocated Jewish settlement in that place.