Knesset advances bill to commemorate Iraq’s Farhud pogrom. (Arab-Nazi atrocities June/1941)

1941, there was a brief Arab Pro-Nazi coup, by the four Iraqi nationalist army generals, known as "the Golden Square, the Mufti, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini [محمد أمين الحسيني] and Rashid Ali al-Gaylani [رشيد عالي الگيلاني] assisted by al-Muthanna / Futuwwa (modeled on Hitler-Youth) fascist groups. The coup was later repelled by the Brits.

Farhoud The Mufti incited to the infamous Farhud ([الفرهود] Farhoud) pogrom against Iraqi Jews on Shavuot, June 1-2, (just before the new government settled in) , carried out by Futuwwa and others including policemen. It came after months of instigation, includinh bybthe Mufti and hus assuvuates Darwush al-Mikdadi and Akram Zuaiter portions of Mein Kampf in Arabic publications and Younis Bahri's Berlin 'voice of Hitler in Arabic' radio broadcasts. It was brutal: "Hundreds of Jews were cut down by sword and rifle, some decapitated. Babies were sliced in half and thrown into the Tigris river. Girls were raped in front of their parents. Parents were mercilessly killed in front of their children." Some estimate Jewish fatalities victims to be up to a 1,000. With Yunis al-Sabawi planning a greater massacre, foiled.

Perhaps a shout against the European nations demanding that Israel accept a “two-state solution” with an adversary multi-generationally taught to destroy all Jews.

At that time, wasn’t Baghdad over 40% Jewish?

Photographic Evidence Shows Palestinian Leader Amin al-Husseini at a Nazi Concentration Camp
An analysis of photographs sold at a Jerusalem auction house offers new insight into the role of foreign accomplices in Hitler’s Final Solution
BY
WOLFGANG G. SCHWANITZ
APRIL 07, 2021

Excerpt:
“Grobba and the two Arab leaders pictured had supported the anti-British coup in Iraq, which was followed by the al-Farhud pogrom in mid-1941. In it, 179 Jews were killed and many stores looted. Masterminds like al-Kailani and al-Husseini wanted to signal, there in a 2,500-year-old community, how Arabia’s Jews should be treated.”

Source:
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/amin-al-husseini-nazi-concentration-camp

With a long ancient history since destruction of 2nd Temple...

Yup.

When Baghdad Burned: The June 1941 Farhud Massacre.
The fusion of Nazism and Arab nationalism in the Middle East spelled unimaginable horror for Iraq’s ancient Jewish community.
Edwin Black, May 27, 2015.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/195902

Yup, just do it!

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The Farhud and the Palestinian ‘cause’.

Nazism continues to inspire the Palestinians.

The Farhud, Baghdad 1941. Credit: Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi Archive.The Farhud, Baghdad 1941. Credit: Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi Archive.

Lyn Julius. (May 31, 2023 / JNS)

Have you heard of the Farhud? Chances are you haven’t. This anti-Jewish massacre—Farhud means “forced dispossession” in Arabic—took place 82 years ago this week in Iraq. ..

On June 1-2, 1941, at least 180 Jews were murdered in Baghdad and Basra—the figure could have been as many as 600—2,000 were wounded and 900 homes and 586 Jewish-owned businesses were destroyed. There was looting, rape and mutilation. Stories abound of babies murdered and Jewish hospital patients being refused treatment or poisoned. The dead were hurriedly buried in a mass grave.

The Farhud sounded the death knell for the ancient Jewish community of Iraq. More “Farhuds” decimated other Jewish communities in Arab countries, leading to a mass exodus. Most of these Jews fled to Israel, where they and their descendants comprise over half the Jewish population.

Besides the general ignorance of the Farhud, the Palestinian role in it is almost unknown. In fact, the infamous Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, helped lay the groundwork for the massacre.

The Farhud, in other words, was proof that anti-Zionist “resistance” to the Jews of Palestine had spilled over into unabashed antisemitism directed against the Jews of the Arab world.

The Mufti himself spent two years in Iraq beginning in 1939. He arrived with 400 Syrians and Palestinians, most of them teachers. In April1941, the Mufti backed a pro-Nazi coup led by Rashid Ali al-Gilani and four military officers. Theirs was the only Arab regime to sign a treaty with Nazi Germany.

Throughout the Middle East, Arab public opinion was mostly pro-German. A poll carried out on behalf of the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem in Feb. 1941 found that 88% of Palestinian Arabs wanted the Nazis to win the war.

Although the pro-Nazi government in Iraq was defeated and the ringleaders put to flight, the Mufti escaped to Berlin, where he became Hitler’s lavishly-funded wartime guest. The Mufti enjoyed an entourage of 60 Arab exiles and pumped out poisonous propaganda from the shortwave Radio Berlin transmitter at Zeesen, fusing anti-Jewish verses from the Quran with contemporary antisemitic conspiracy theories. “Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history and religion,” he exhorted over the airwaves.

At a meeting with Hitler in Nov. 1941, the Mufti pledged to help the Nazis win the war and demanded that he be allowed to manage the extermination of the Jews within his sphere of influence.

The Mufti’s collaboration with the Nazis, despite strenuous Arab efforts to downplay it, is well-documented. During his stay in Berlin, he met all the senior Nazis: Himmler, Goebbels and Eichmann among them.

His overall contribution to the Nazi cause was twofold. In order to stop Jews from fleeing to Palestine, he persuaded the Nazis to abandon their plans to expel the Jews of Europe. Given Nazi ideology, once the expulsion option was abandoned, the only thing to be done with the Jews was to exterminate them. The Mufti also set up SS units of Muslim troops in Bosnia and Albania, who committed terrible atrocities.

The Mufti was, according to the scholar Matthias Kuentzel, the point of convergence between the Nazis’ great war against the Jews and the Arabs’ small war against the Jewish community of Palestine. The Mufti’s top military commanders in the small war against the Jews were Fawzi al-Qawuqji, Abdel Qader al-Husseini and Hassan Salama. They had all been Nazi collaborators. There are reports that Palestinian Arab forces had ex-Nazi advisers in the field.

The Mufti was, for various realpolitik reasons, never tried at Nuremberg. This meant that, unlike in Europe, Nazi-inspired antisemitism was never discredited in the Arab and Muslim world. In fact, Egypt and Syria became havens for Nazi war criminals.

The postwar influence of ex-Nazis in Cairo was a contributing factor in extending the Arabs’ ideological, territorial and race war against Israel into the 1950s and beyond. Adolf Eichmann, for example, saw the Muslim world’s war on Israel as a continuation of the Nazi struggle against the Jews. “I have not managed to complete the task of total annihilation of the Jews, but I hope that the Muslims will complete it for me,” he wrote in his memoirs.

The Arab League, founded in 1945, was filled with ex-Axis collaborators. Abdel Rahman Azzam, its first secretary-general, was one of the Mufti’s agents who had worked with the Nazis. He promised “a war of extermination not seen since the Mongolian massacres” if a Jewish state were established. Indeed, the Mufti-inspired charter of the Arab League would soon form the basis of the League’s declaration of a war of annihilation on the nascent State of Israel in 1948.

A byproduct of the Arabs’ failure to win the small war against the Jews and their new state was the mass ethnic cleansing of almost a million Jews from Arab countries. Early on, Arab League states drafted antisemitic decrees eerily reminiscent of the Nazis’ Nuremberg laws, stripping Jews of their rights and stealing their property.

What, you might ask, has the Mufti got to do with the Palestinians of today? While several Arab states have made peace with Israel, the “moderate” leadership of the Palestinian Authority remains determined to continue the Mufti’s tradition of total war against Israel.

In his recent speech to the U.N. marking the 75th anniversary of the nakba—the derogatory Palestinian term for Israel’s creation—P.A. chief Mahmoud Abbas, whose doctoral thesis denied the Holocaust, did not attempt to disguise his eliminationist aims with talk of a “two-state solution” or withdrawal from post-1967 settlements. Israel must be thrown out of the U.N., he said. It has no place or history in the Middle East.

Abbas’s call for the return of Palestinian Arab refugees would, at best, turn the Jews of Israel into a subjugated minority under Arab rule.

It is clear that the spirit of the Farhud still hovers over the Palestinian “cause.” https://www.jns.org/jns/palestinians/23/5/31/291858

About, though 3% of Iraq, 135,000, 90,000 in Baghdad. Living there for nearly 2,500 years. Per the Times of Israel, in 2021 4 known to still be present.

Hitler is tremendously popular with the Arabs. The reason is not far to seek – he is the enemy of the Jews whom Arabs consider their enemy in Palestine and of Great Britain.

Hitler pointedly invited Arabs to Germany as honored guests, and in the 1938 Nuremberg address he spoke about the “defenseless Arabs in Palestine, left in the lurch.” An Arab spokesman in Jerusalem reacted promptly: “Now we are not without friends in Europe; our ultimate success as a nation lies in the hands of Hitler and Mussolini.” The greatest contemporary Arab hero is – Adolf Hitler.

Gunther, J. (1939). Inside Asia. United Kingdom: Harper & Bros., p. 528.
https://books.google.com/books?id=IYJAAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Hitler%20is%20tremendously%20popular%20with%20the%20Arabs%22

Zimmermann, Moshe. Germans Against Germans: The Fate of the Jews, 1938–1945. United States: Indiana University Press, 2022, p. 201.

...diaries of Joseph Goebbels, who wrote in 1938: “In Palestine, riots with multiple fatalities again, it will never ease off,” and “The Arabs admire the Führer as though he were holy.”

https://books.google.com/books?id=L8VrEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA201