‘Anti-Zionism’ Predates the Establishment of Israel. A [Nazi-Arab] pogrom in Baghdad in 1941 gives the lie to today’s denials of antisemitism.

June 1-2, 1941, pro-Nazi Iraqis killed, raped and maimed hundreds of Jews.. 'FARHUD', should heighten vigilance against totalitarian evil everywhere and debunk today’s con claiming anti-Zionism is anything other than a modern update of antisemitism... seven years before Israel’s establishment and before there were any Arab refugees. .. bloodbath triggered an exodus of Iraqi Jews amid the expulsion of 850,000 Jews from Arab and Muslim lands—refugee problem politically correct society ignores.

... ‘mass rape and killing.’ ” Hooligans inflamed by demagogues murdered at least 128 Jews, injured 600 others and raped dozens, possibly hundreds. “Baghdad became a fast-moving hell,” .. “Frenzied mobs raced throughout the city and murdered Jews openly on the streets. Women were raped as their horrified families looked on. Infants were killed in front of their parents. . . . Beheadings, torsos sliced open, babies dismembered, horrid tortures, and mutilations were widespread.”..

.. community’s roots went back 2,600 years. Iraqi Jews so enjoyed their lives, most opposed Zionism.

This.. was cultivated by anti-Zionist antisemites, especially al-Husseini, mufti who fled arrest in British-controlled Palestine and reached Iraq in 1939.

For years, al-Husseini other Islamist .. demonizing Jews ... Exploiting this growing Arab Jew-hatred, Nazi agitators tried turning Iraq against the British . Activists shouted, “Long live Hitler, killer of insects and Jews.” In February 1941, mufti wrote to Hitler “.. right of the Arabs to solve the Jewish question .. same manner as in the Axis countries.”

The mufti conspired with Iraqi soldiers to overthrow the pro-British Prince Regent Abd al-Ilah of Hejaz. On April 1, 1941, the “Golden Square”—four pro-Nazi officers—seized power in a military coup. ... members of a Nazi-inspired youth brigade, Al-Futuwa, painted red palm prints, or hamsas, on Jewish homes .. markings anticipated inverted red triangle symbol of Hamas today.

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Very true, so it’s wise to remember that the British Mandate in Palestine, established in the wake of WWI and the exploits of Lawrence of Arabia, was punitively in favor of the arriving Jews populating the region.

Once Britain and Germany became warring enemies, everybody had to pick sides. Since the Mandate Jews had British protection, you can’t really blame the Arab-Palistinians from seeking allies where they found them — such as Germany and Italy.

History has lots of lessons if you read ALL of it.

First of all, the problen with this is, that Arab palestine was the only overwhelming pro Nazi crowd in the world where there was no Nazi army occupation or presence.
Second of all, the subject is sympathy for Nazis. Not 'siding', "strategically".

Stav, A. (1999). Peace : the Arabian caricature : a study of anti-semitic imagery. Israel: Gefen Publishing House, p.118

Arab admiration for Nazism in the 1930s, after Hitler came to power, should be seen against the backdrop of such an identity of values. The explanation usually given for such admiration, namely, that a common antipathy toward France and Britain pushed the Arabs into Hitler’s arms, is only a partial explanation.
Furthermore, as a fundamental explanation, it is overly simplistic to the point of being a perversion of history.

Arab admiration for Hitler and his movement, which predated his accession to power by a decade, erupted with enthusiasm as soon as he came to power in 1933. Hitler's first telegram of congratulations from abroad came the day after he was named Chancellor from the German consul in Jerusalem, Wolff. That was shortly followed by warm telegrams from throughout the Arab world.
While Hitler's violation of the Versailles Treaty was a crude slap in the face of Britain and France, it came much later in 1936, with German rearmament, and in 1938, with the Anschluss of Austria.

From 1933 at least until the German attack on Poland in September 1939, there were no grounds for assuming that Hitler, an Anglophile who based his long-term strategy, as outlined in Mein Kampf, on Anglo-German cooperation, would be the one to save the Arabs from British colonialism. As the Middle East was mostly under the British sphere of influence, Hitler viewed it at the time of his accession largely as secondary to his overall plans; German attitudes then could be summed up by Bismarck's aphorism, "The entire Eastern question is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier."

Furthermore, while Jews were the victims of Nazi anti-Semitism, that anti-Semitism included all Semites, at least at the "anthropological" level. Nazi contempt for Arabs is amply reflected in expressions of racist revulsion toward them, and of the embarrassment engendered among the Nazi leadership by the courtship toward them by Haj Amin al-Husseini, at least prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.

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