by David Solway (April 2026)
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted. —Psalm 22
What historian Robert Wistrich in A Lethal Obsession has called the world’s longest hatred is also the world’s oldest sickness. Jew-hatred is best construed as a universal epidemic, the emotional and intellectual equivalent of a decimating plague. The difference is that those who have contracted this septicemia of the mind do not die, except inwardly. It strikes me that the catalogue of such reprobates would fill the devil’s Rolodex. Unfortunately, the Israeli pharmaceutical firm Teva, one of the world’s largest suppliers of antibiotic medicines, has no psychic or endocrinal equivalent to treat the malady.
In Anti-Semite and Jew, Jean-Paul Sartre argues that antisemitism is not an idea but “first of all a passion” that is akin to hysteria. This passion connects schematically with “the idea of the Jew” to which individual Jews are made to conform irrespective of their personal attributes. Sartre’s thesis is that the Jew is made responsible for the inescapable distress of being human—an excuse for failure, a means of false absolution and a convenient repository of all the unpleasant things we are unwilling to acknowledge about ourselves. Sartre concludes that “If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.”
In an important book with the plain title Anti-Semitism, former president of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis Theodore Isaac Rubin regards antisemitism as an authentic disease of the mind, characterized by what he calls “symbol sickness” which transfers a sense of inner failure and conflict to its projected object—the Jew. The isolation of the symbol from both the real object and the central self that posits it makes the application of logic difficult, if not impossible. Symbol sickness is predicated on an irrational reversal of semantic designation. Unfortunately, the malediction of Isaiah has been forgotten or dismissed: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness… ” Israel and its people, whom Isaiah called “a light unto the nations,” are now threatened by an encroaching darkness, the collective hatred of the so-called civilized world verging on affective psychosis, a universal pathology.
The cadastral address of the Empire of Antisemitism is located in the recorded past and the indefinite future, but it squats in the here and now so that it remains substantial, fully formed, repressive and immutable, and refuses to be abolished. It merely creates tenement states of mind—anti-Zionism, scholarly distaste, personal animosity, feckless alliances—until the day history is annulled and the devil’s pleasure palace is erected in perpetuum. It is an evil that migrates from the meandering insincerity of our lives to the radical decline of moral sensitivity into the ninth circle of Hell where the social order turns feral and what Wistrich calls the “Judeophobic virus” once again infects the human race. We see this happening now in the wake of the Gaza embroilment as majorities side with a monstrous Islamic entity while reviling and abusing the only democratic nation in the Middle East constantly fighting for its always-threatened survival. We see it in the increasingly frequent and toxic anti-Israel and anti-Jewish incitement playing out on the streets, ministries, websites, and university campuses of our liberal world. We see it in the streets rife with Palestinian flags.
It is an evil that spares neither its victim nor its perpetrator. For antisemitism ultimately casts its stygian murk over Jew and non-Jew alike, harming the one, debasing the other. As Satan tormented Job in the Fiend’s wager with God, so the antisemite afflicts the Jew in an act of what we might call motivated malignity—not as a wager but as a form of criminal envy and resentment. What is the offense? What do untold millions begrudge? The imposition of a demanding moral code like the Ten Commandments, which underwrite all our values? The extravagant dreams, as Thomas Cahill affirms in The Gifts of the Jews, that the Hebrew prophets articulated of universal justice and the God that sustains it? A scientific and medical benefactor whose many inventions and contributions to human welfare put much of an ungrateful world to shame? The fact that approximately 0.2 percent of the world’s population garners 20 percent of Nobel Prizes? A people capable of gratification-deferment waiting endlessly for the Messiah is accustomed to patient training in study, work, struggle and development, unlike the majority of its haters.
The various blood libels are merely the standard calumnies intended to avoid confronting the genuine reasons for such groundless and arbitrary hatred. Antisemites are still doing the devil’s work. They are still “going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it.” (Job 1:7.)
“The devil, after a period of relative quiescence,” writes Daniel Jonah Goldhagen in The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism, “has reappeared, flexes his muscles again, and stalks the world, with ever more confidence, power, and followers.” Goldhagen explains that he is speaking “not only metaphorically but conceptually.” Yet, the devil and his cohorts may be something more than a metaphor or a concept; one may imagine that we are now really living in the time of demons, as John of Patmos prophesied and as Rabbi Jonathan Cahn has warned in The Paradigm and other volumes.
Similarly, poet Ted Hughes avers in an essay titled “Myth and Education” reprinted in the edited volume The Symbolic Order, “The inner world, separated from the outer world, is a place of demons. The outer world, separated from the inner world, is a place of meaningless objects and machines. The faculty that makes the human being out of these two worlds is called divine.” That is the faculty that is missing in the antisemite.
Indeed, what is a demon but a creature without scruples, a creature who despises beauty, is impervious to truth, is oblivious to moral reciprocity, and is devoid of humor? Demons have desires, fears and ambitions, but they are strangers to introspection. The voice within is silent. To put it bluntly, they don’t have souls. Their souls have died under a barrage of lies—the lies they have told and the lies they have uncritically received or welcomed. And such creatures proliferate among the mass of humankind.
One is tempted to think of these demons as “fallen angels,” which do all they can to mock the proper sacred order of the cosmos and of human life. The celestial hierarchy or holarchy has three functions: to express sacred adoration of God, to keep the universe “going” (science), and to encourage and defend morality. Reverence, Harmony and Moral Goodness are the three qualities trashed by the enemy who promotes scorn, chaos and deceit. The demons are also capable of infecting “normal” people, who then become demons themselves.
Entire populations, Goldhagen writes, are being “redemonized in the new social, cultural circumstances and opportunities of the new global age,” and Jews are the primary victims of those who are carrying out the unholy work of “the demonic ecumenical church of antisemitism.” Goldhagen, of course, is still speaking conceptually, as a world-class scholar must, but one may wonder, however fancifully, whether demons do literally exist, circulating among the mass of humankind. Perhaps they went underground for a spell and have now re-emerged. Shakespeare’s words from The Tempest continue to resonate: “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
One recalls St. Paul’s warning in Ephesians 6, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” People are merely “mules,” or carriers of harmfully stimulating products that warp the personality.There is a sense in which antisemitic individuals lose distinctions of personal selfhood and begin to replicate one another almost like robots. “A malignant symbol sickness,” Rubin emphasizes, “can infect a population and there are never any real differences between individuals.”
As Dinesh D’Souza pointed out in his documentary The Dragon’s Prophesy, antisemitism is the infection that the Devil transmits into the soul of man, the infusion of evil into the world. The evil we are confronting is so flagrant, irrational and diabolical that the literal hypothesis, if not demonstrably empirical, still remains persuasive. Antisemitism is the subtle form of demonic possession against which no rite or formula has been discovered.
I sometimes think that the concept or practice of possession has taken on a new form. The devil does not necessarily dispatch his minions like shape-shifting phantoms or Gadarine shadows that enter the human being, hurling insults and blasphemies in modulator voices, distorting the “human face divine,” dashing objects against the wall and splintering mirrors. They are known among sundry cultures as dybbuks, jinns, asuras, unclean spirits, and the like. Far more efficiently and effectively, the devil merely changes the brain chemistry of individuals, even intelligent people who should know better. The devil works at the level of the cerebral molecule. These fallen beings otherwise appear quite normal. Once admirable people become despicable.
As a Jew, I am provoked to believe that the devil has once more unleashed his hordes, that whole populations are corrupted, that demons actually do exist, that antisemitism is their calling card, and that they and their corollaries are really here again.
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David Solway’s latest books are Profoundly Superficial: Observations on a Net-Zero Culture and Crossing the Jordan: On Judaism, Islam, and the West. A CD of his original songs, Partial to Cain, appeared in 2019.
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By the ‘grace’ of Islamic lobby OIC: genocidal Hamas-“Palestine” [Jallad] to win UN so called “human rights” top job.
The ‘OIC lobby’ and its allies are once again hijacking the United Nations to push a viciously anti-Israel, pro-terror agenda—this time by installing a vocal defender of Hamas terrorism as a supposed “human rights expert.”
On March 31, 2026, the UN Human Rights Council is poised to appoint Palestinian academic Zeina Jallad as Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures. This is a mandate originally cooked up in 2014 via an ‘Iran-sponsored resolution’, designed not to protect rights but to shield rogue regimes from accountability while smearing Western and Israeli security measures.
Jallad has openly defended Hamas—a designated terrorist organization whose charter calls for Israel’s destruction and whose fighters carried out the barbaric October 7, 2023 massacre, raping, burning, and murdering over 1,200 Israelis and taking hundreds hostage. In her own words, she describes Hamas as a legitimate “political party” that “won the elections in 2007,” dismisses the October 7 atrocities as merely “a revolt,” and claims the real issue is that the world created a “devil” out of Hamas to blame it for everything. She laments the “boycott” of Hamas by Europe and the “blockade” by Israel, while conveniently ignoring why those measures were imposed: Hamas’s relentless rocket fire, suicide bombings, and explicit goal of jihad against the Jewish state.
She has justified violence against Israeli civilians as “resistance” and pushed to expel Israel from international bodies altogether. This is not human rights advocacy; this is ‘terror apologetics’ dressed up in academic language.
The Real Agenda.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry rightly called out the selection as “outrageous,” noting that it exposes the entire process as nakedly political rather than rooted in genuine concern for human rights. A mandate born from Iranian influence is now being handed to someone who whitewashes the very terrorists responsible for the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
This fits a long, shameful pattern. The
‘Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)’—a bloc of 57 Muslim-majority states—functions as a powerful lobby inside the UN system, consistently weaponizing human rights mechanisms to demonize Israel while shielding actual human rights abusers, from Hamas and Hezbollah to Iran, Syria, and beyond. Under their influence, the UNHRC has passed far more resolutions condemning the Jewish state than against all other countries combined, including the world’s worst dictatorships. The appointment of Jallad is the latest example of this inverted morality: ‘Hamas terrorists’ are recast as “resistance fighters” or misunderstood politicians, while Israel—the only democracy in the Middle East defending its citizens against genocidal jihad—is portrayed as the villain.
Jallad even flips the timeline, suggesting we should talk about “October 6th” before October 7th, as if years of Hamas rule, tunnels, rockets, and incitement somehow justify slaughtering civilians at a music festival, in their homes, and on the roads.
Hypocrisy at the UN.
The hypocrisy is staggering. While the UN obsesses over “unilateral coercive measures” (i.e., sanctions on terror-sponsoring regimes), it shows zero interest in the real suffering caused by Hamas: diverting billions in international aid to build terror infrastructure instead of improving life for Gazans, using civilians as human shields, and rejecting every peace offer in favor of endless war aimed at Israel’s elimination.
UN Watch has sounded the alarm and urged countries like the UK to vote NO on this appointment. Democratic nations that value actual human rights—not propaganda—must reject this farce. Appointing a Hamas defender to a UN human rights post doesn’t advance peace or justice; it normalizes terrorism, rewards October 7 denialism, and further erodes the UN’s already tattered credibility.
Israel has every right to defend itself against Hamas’s genocidal campaign. The Jewish state does not need lectures on human rights from those who excuse or celebrate the deliberate massacre of its people. The OIC-Hamas axis at the UN should be exposed and opposed, not empowered. True human rights begin with condemning terrorism unequivocally—not rebranding it as “revolt.”
References:
* UN Watch report: “U.N. Set to Appoint Terror Sympathizer as ‘Human Rights Expert’” — https://unwatch.org/u-n-set-to-appoint-terror-sympathizer-as-human-rights-expert/
* JNS article: “Jerusalem condemns politicized, pro-Hamas selection to UN post” — https://www.jns.org/news/world/jerusalem-condemns-politicized-pro-hamas-selection-to-un-post
* UN Watch video featuring Zeina Jallad’s statements: “UN rights nominee Zeina Jallad defends Hamas terror: ‘Hamas is a political party, Oct. 7th a revolt’” — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZxKGLQ62yA
* Instagram post by diplo.act on Zeina Jallad — https://www.instagram.com/p/DWgefOfDiCo/
A remarkable article.
Antisemitism with its persistence, its ability to adapt and mutate, its inversion of good and evil, victim and victimiser is best seen as a demonic force luring man into damnation necessitating a religious revival to re-establish the moral law.
La-fascista Francesca Albanese — The UN Official Who Echoed Nazi Propaganda Against Jews — Gets a Soft Landing from Politico.
For years, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has waged a relentless antisemitic hate campaign against the Jewish people and Israel. It dates back at least to 2014, when she peddled classic conspiracy tropes, claiming America was “subjugated by Jewish” and Europe paralyzed by Holocaust guilt—rhetoric straight out of the antisemitic playbook that has endangered Jews for generations.
Her twisted path only intensified in 2022, when backing from the OIC [Islamic countries bloc] and like-minded lobbies helped install her as the UN’s so-called “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.” From that platform, she has flooded the world with vicious, unfounded accusations, blood libels, and outright Holocaust inversion. Her extremism grew so grotesque that prominent human rights experts branded her the “Goebbels” of our time for her systematic propaganda, lies, and demonization of Jews defending themselves.
Albanese [whose husband had worked for “Palestinian” Authority] has repeatedly whitewashed the genocidal Hamas regime’s October 7 atrocities—the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust—while branding Israel’s right to self-defense as fake “genocide,” “apartheid,” [- Pallyweid] and Nazi-like evil. Multiple European governments, along with the United States and others, have openly condemned her conduct, with some explicitly calling for her dismissal due to her antisemitism and abuse of office.
Yet today, ‘Politico EU’ airbrushes this entire poisonous record into the innocuous phrase that she merely “spoke out on Gaza.” This is not neutral journalism—it is journalistic malpractice that sanitizes years of inflammatory antisemitic rhetoric, downplays the legitimate outrage from governments and Jewish communities, and shields a UN official who has weaponized her mandate to spread hate and delegitimize the one Jewish state on earth.
When mainstream outlets reduce documented antisemitism and atrocity denial to bland euphemisms, they don’t just fail at reporting—they actively erode the moral clarity needed to confront Jew-hatred in our time.
This comes a week after Politico published a Nazi inspired made cartoon.
[Radical Arab] Racism Masquerading as Anti-Racism
From the “Arab Lawyers Union”’s Hitlerism on display in Durban (2001) to the rhetoric of the “Canadian Lawyers Association” a decade later, the pattern persists.
In a profound inversion of truth and justice, those who promote hatred against the Jewish people and the Jewish state often cloak their bigotry in the language of anti-racism. This tactic—racists crying “racism”—seeks to delegitimize Israel’s right to exist as the ancient homeland of the Jewish people, while shielding actual prejudice and violence directed at Jews. It echoes historical efforts to invert victim and perpetrator, undermining the Jewish people’s indigenous connection to their ancestral land and their right to self-determination after centuries of exile, persecution, and the Holocaust.
A striking example occurred at the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa. What was billed as a gathering to combat racism devolved into one of the most vicious displays of Jew-hatred since the Nazi era. Antisemitic materials proliferated, including copies of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and flyers featuring Adolf Hitler with the message “What if I had won? There would be no Israel.” The Arab Lawyers Union distributed a book of antisemitic caricatures frighteningly reminiscent of 1930s Nazi hate literature.
As documented by Don Feder in his September 11, 2001, column:
“Racists cry racism at U.N. conference.”
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/feder091101.asp
Archived: https://archive.ph/XsFtB
Lahav Harkov’s Jerusalem Post article, reflecting on the 20th anniversary, captured the event’s horror: “Antisemitism that shocked even a Holocaust survivor marked the 2001 World Conference Against Racism.” The UN later honored it with anniversary events despite the overt Jew-hatred.
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/20-years-since-durban-most-sickening-display-of-jew-hate-since-nazis-680016
This pattern persists today through the concept of so-called “Anti-Palestinian Racism (APR),” advanced by groups like the Arab Canadian Lawyers Association and echoed in educational settings. Far from addressing genuine discrimination, APR frameworks often redefine legitimate Jewish self-identification, pride in Jewish heritage, or support for Israel’s existence as “racist.” They promote a one-sided narrative that erases Jewish indigenous history in the Land of Israel, ignores Arab rejectionism and terrorism (including by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, whose charters call for Israel’s destruction and the annihilation of Jews), and frames the Palestinian “right of return” in ways that explicitly seek Israel’s demographic elimination as a Jewish state.
Critics have outlined ten major concerns with this concept, noting that it lacks rigorous debate, deviates from established anti-racism definitions by conflating political disagreement with racism, risks undermining efforts against real threats like antisemitism and even Islamophobia, and poses dangers to freedom of expression for Jews and supporters of Israel.
https://www.cija.ca/ten_major_concerns_with_the_concept_of_anti_palestinian_racism
Archived: https://archive.is/W4DZX
CIJA further warned in November 2024 that government support for “Anti-Palestinian Racism” initiatives risks undermining Canadian Jewish rights by prioritizing a politicized narrative that negates Jewish identity and experience.
https://www.cija.ca/government_support_of_anti_palestinian_racism_risks_undermining_canadian_jewish_rights
In the United States, similar efforts have targeted education. The Massachusetts Teachers Association’s Anti-Racism Task Force hosted a webinar featuring anti-Israel activists that distorted Israel’s history, promoted falsehoods about the conflict, and used the platform—framed as fighting “Anti-Palestinian Racism”—to advance a biased agenda while sidelining or mishandling challenges to their views.
https://www.camera.org/article/massachusetts-teachers-association-anti-racism-task-force-webinar-riddled-with-distortions-and-falsehoods/
A July 2024 analysis by The Focus Project highlighted how anti-Israel activists seek to hijack American K-12 education by spreading anti-Jewish bias under the guise of “political analysis.” Toronto’s school board adopted APR strategies that rejected addressing “anti-Israel racism” while ignoring rising anti-Jewish attacks. The narrative equates support for Israel with racism and treats rejection of the Palestinian “right of return” (which would end Israel as a Jewish state) or criticism of terror groups as bigotry.
https://www.jns.org/wire/the-focus-project/anti-israel-activists-attempt-to-hijack-american-education-system
Alyza D. Lewin powerfully addressed this in her October 2024 JNS piece, “The ethics of war and peace.” She described the intensifying “war of words and ideas” in which those denying Jewish identity and erasing Jewish history weaponize “Anti-Palestinian Racism” to accuse Jews of racism simply for affirming their indigenous ties to the Land of Israel or identifying as Zionists. Pride in Jewish ancestral heritage is twisted into “erasing Palestinian history.” This represents a modern revival of the UN’s infamous 1975 “Zionism is Racism” resolution (revoked in 1991) and lies at the heart of campus assaults on Jewish students and truth itself.
https://www.jns.org/opinion/alyza-d-lewin/the-ethics-of-war-and-peace
Important historical context on demographics: Claims of Jewish “colonialism” or racial othering often ignore that many Arab populations in the region, including those identifying as “Palestinian,” trace significant elements of their presence to relatively recent immigration and settlement in the historic Jewish homeland during the 19th and early 20th centuries—alongside Jewish return and development. Arab immigrants’ grandparents are not of a fundamentally different “race” from other Arabs in the broader area; the conflict is national, religious, and political, not a classic racial one between distant ethnic groups. Jewish people, by contrast, maintained a continuous (if minority) presence in the land for millennia and constitute an indigenous people reclaiming their ancestral sovereignty after exile and genocide.
This inversion—where defense of the Jewish people’s right to live securely in their indigenous homeland is branded racism—does not combat prejudice; it enables and masks it. True anti-racism upholds the equal dignity of all peoples, including the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in their historic homeland. Efforts to single out, demonize, and delegitimize the world’s only Jewish state while excusing or glorifying violence against Jews represent racism in its most insidious modern form: antisemitism masquerading as anti-racism. Jews, like all peoples, deserve the same rights to pride, security, and truth without being vilified for asserting them.
Islamic bigot Hasan Piker Garbage
September 11 & U.S. Foreign Policy
“America Deserved 9/11”: Stated during an August 2019 Twitch stream.
Dan Crenshaw Mockery: Stated that Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s eye was taken by a “brave f***ing soldier.”
October 7 & genocidal “Palestine” Hamas
“Militant Resistance”: Labeled the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack as “militant resistance.”
Moral Comparison: Stated that “Hamas is a thousand times better than the fascist settler colonial apartheid state” of Israel.
Reaction to Atrocities: Stated that reports of mass rape on October 7 “doesn’t change the dynamic for me.”
Rape Denial & Sexual Assault Rhetoric
“Rape Hallucinations”: Referred to reports of sexual violence on October 7 as “rape fantasies” or “hallucinations.”
Utilitarian Rape Comment: Claimed that from a “utilitarian perspective,” it is better for a wealthy woman to be raped than a poor woman.
Comments on Orthodox Jews
“Inbred” Slur: Has repeatedly used the term “inbred” to describe Orthodox (Haredi) Jews. (BTW Haredim in Israel, by in large even refuse draft in IDF).
“Bloodthirsty Pig Dog”: Used this phrase toward a Jewish viewer defending Israeli policy.
“Swastika Sword” Incident: Purchased a replica Japanese sword from the anime *Bleach* that features a *manji* symbol on the hilt. He referred to it as “the swastika sword” on stream and initially noted the hilt looked “sus” before later downplaying its resemblance to Nazi imagery during debates.
Other Notable Incidents
Houthi Interview: Interviewed a member of the Houthi rebels and compared them to an anime protagonist.
“Cracker” Slur: Received a Twitch ban for using the word “cracker.”
$2.7 Million House: Criticized for purchasing a multi-million dollar West Hollywood home while identifying as a socialist. Lies, Hypocrisy.
In every grouping, large and small, there always emerges a top and a bottom of whatever categories the group is identified by. In the classroom, we have the smartest and dumbest, the most attractive, the least attractive, the most liked, most disliked. If X is the most disliked and his family moves away, someone will take his/her place. There will always be a most disliked. If Hitler had his way, there would be no Jews to hate but another group would take their place as sure as the sun rises everyday. That’s just how it is and how human beings are constituted. The past couple of millennia suggests that there’s not much the Jews can do about their unpopularity other than cop another identity. We note that the chameleons among us are favoured by natural selection.
Not to make a virtue out of persecution, but I do believe that Israeli, indeed Jewish character, has been forged in the flames of historical bigotry, struggle, and adversity. If we believe in evil, we must in believe it’s antithesis, virtue. Israeli is or should be a light unto its neighbors, a beacon of civility and success midst the dark cloud of Moslem recidivism. Wither Israel, so go we all.
Overwhelming Palestinian Arab Alignment with Nazi Germany: Ideology and Collaboration in the 1930s and World War II (and beyond)
This entry focuses on historical evidence of Palestinian Arab support for Nazi Germany, as documented in the provided sources. It aims to present a comprehensive overview while adhering to the historical record. URLs are included where available.
Overview.
During the 1930s and World War II, significant segments of the Palestinian Arab population, even mainstream, public display, and their leadership expressed sympathy for Nazi Germany, driven by shared anti-Jewish sentiment and opposition to British colonial rule in Mandatory Palestine. This alignment was rooted in ideological affinity with Nazi anti-Semitism, admiration for Adolf Hitler’s regime, and strategic efforts to counter Zionism and British influence. Historical records, including contemporary newspapers, Nazi documents, scholarly works, and post-war admissions, reveal public displays, propaganda, and organizational efforts by Palestinian Arab leaders, particularly under Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, to align with Nazi Germany. While not all Palestinian Arabs supported the Nazis, and some enlisted in the British Army, the dominant sentiment among the leadership and populace leaned heavily toward the Axis powers, especially during periods of Nazi military success.
Background.
The Palestinian Arab national movement, led primarily by Haj Amin al-Husseini, emerged in opposition to British mandatory rule and Zionist immigration, spurred by the Balfour Declaration of 1917. However, al-Husseini displayed and aroused anti-Jewish sentiments at least since 1920. By the 1930s, Nazi Germany’s anti-Semitic policies resonated with (the larger) segments of the Palestinian Arab population, who saw Hitler as a potential ally against Jews and the British. This period saw Nazi propaganda proliferate in Palestine, fascist-inspired organizations form, and direct appeals to Nazi Germany for support.
Key Evidence of Sweeping Support for Nazi Germany.
Public Displays and Propaganda
Swastika Usage and Public Celebrations: The swastika, a Nazi symbol, appeared frequently in Palestinian Arab communities. In 1935, a Haifa-Damascus train bore a swastika with the inscription “Germany Over All” in Arabic, reflecting admiration among Arab youth conference delegates (The New York Times, May 13, 1935; Palestine Post, May 13, 1935). Swastikas were painted on Jerusalem’s Zion Gate in 1935 and 1936, with slogans like “Heil Hitler” and “Hiteler” (sic) (JTA, July 18, 1935; Lossin, 1983). During the 1937 celebration of the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, swastikas were flown, and Hitler and Mussolini were cheered (The New York Times, May 23, 1937; JTA, May 23, 1937).
Media Support:
Arab newspapers like Falastin, Al-Difa, and Al-Karmel praised Hitler and Nazi ideology. Falastin described Hitler as “noble” and expressed sympathy for fascist ideas (Palestine Post, May 22, 1933; January 5, 1936, cited in Erlich, 2002). Al-Difa published excerpts from Mein Kampf and urged Arab youth to emulate Hitler (Erlich, 2002). Post-war, Falastin defended Nazism as a legitimate ideology and protested the Nuremberg Trials (Palestine Post, October 31, 1945; Youngstown Vindicator, December 28, 1945). Al-Wahda and Ad-Difaa praised Nazi leaders’ courage post-execution (Palestine Post, October 18, 1946).
Contemporary Observations: Emil Ghuri, in his Arab Federation newspaper, wrote on July 7, 1934, “Hitler whom the Arabs admire very much,” reflecting widespread admiration (Palestine Post, July 16, 1934). In 1935, German Consul Walter Doehle reported to Germany that “Arabs admire our Führer” across all social strata (Cohen, 2014). In June 1939, journalist John Gunther wrote, “The Greatest Contemporary Arab Hero is—Adolf Hitler,” noting Hitler’s prominence in Arab public sentiment (Inside Asia, 1939). A 1941 survey by Sari Sakakini found 88% of Palestinian Arabs supported Nazi Germany, with only 9% backing Britain (Morris, 2008). A CIA report from August 1942 described most Palestinian Arabs as radical, harboring anti-Jewish hatred and awaiting Rommel’s advance to act against Jews and seize their property (Herf, 2009; Cohen, 2014). General Charles de Gaulle noted in 1968 that in 1941, Palestinian Jews fought with the Allies, while “the Arabs… were on the other side” (Cohen, 1974).
Leadership and Organizational Efforts.
Haj Amin al-Husseini’s Role: The Grand Mufti sought German support as early as March 1933 (Cohen, 2014; Steininger, 2018). (Thought he wasn’t the only Arab Palestinian to approach the Germans, Falastin’s Joseph Francis was sent on behalf of Palestine Arabs as well). During World War II, al-Husseini collaborated with the Nazis in Berlin, broadcasting anti-Jewish propaganda and recruiting Muslim SS units in the Balkans (Alon, 2003; Dalin, 2017). His plans included an Auschwitz-like crematorium in the Dotan Valley (Shragai, 2012; Algemeiner, October 27, 2015). His wartime activities boosted his post-war popularity (Elpeleg, 1993; Said, 1983). In 1942, his supporters expressed “open joy” at Jewish suffering in Europe (Cohen, 2014).
Fascist-Inspired Organizations:
The Husseinis’ Palestinian Arab Party (1935) included al-Futuwwa, a Hitler Youth-modeled “Nazi Scouts” corps (Rosen, 2005; Becker, 1984). Palestinian students in Germany attempted to form an Arab Nazi Party in 1933 (Black, 2010; Lewis, 1999). The Arab Youth Federation sent telegrams to Hitler in 1935 to block land sales to Jews (JTA, June 9, 1935).
Key Figures:
Fawzi al-Qawuqji: Participated in the 1941 pro-Nazi Iraq coup, served in the Wehrmacht, broadcast Nazi propaganda, and led the 1948 Arab Liberation Army, vowing to “push the Jews into the sea” (Silver, 2022; Davar, January 5, 1947; Sydney Jewish News, May 2, 1947; Palestine Post, October 6, 1948).
Ahmad Shukairy:
Admitted in his 1969 memoir, Arbaʻūn ʻāmman fī al-ḥayāt al-ʻrabīyah wa-al-duwalīyah, that “Our sympathies were with the Axis powers being led by Hitler” (Shuqayrī, 1969; Kedourie, 1964). He wrote that they opposed Arab enlistment in the British Army, celebrated German victories. He justified the Holocaust post-war alongside Jamal Husseini (B’nai B’rith Messenger, July 12, 1946), and praised and promoted the neo-Nazi Tacuara group at the UN in 1962 (New York Times, September 16, 1962; Facts, 1963).
Issa Nakhleh:
Defended Arab propaganda offfice in Nazi Germany in 1939, glorified the Nazi regime in Argentina in the 1950s and then in New York, and denied the Holocaust (Palestine Post, July 13, 1939; DAIA, 1958; Dalin, 2017) and worked with Neo Nazis for years.
Farouk Qaddoumi:
In December 2013, the PLO leader admitted Palestinian Arab support for the Nazis, explaining their shared opposition to Zionism (Algemeiner, December 18, 2013).
Jamal Husseini: A key leader in the Arab Higher Committee (AHC), Husseini ordered copies of Hitler’s Mein Kampf and the anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in 1933, promoting Nazi ideology (The Sentinel, June 15, 1933). He was sent by the Mufti in 1936 to Berlin, where he met Joseph Goebbels (Karsh, E. The long trail of Palestinian antisemitism. (2025)., Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, and the Challenge for Israel. (2025) ), was involved in the pro-Nazi 1941 Iraq coup alongside the Mufti (Could the Arabs Stage an Armed Revolt Against the United Nations? Memorandum Submitted to the General Assembly of the United Nations. (1947). p.12), aiming to bring the Middle East under Axis influence. In 1946, shortly after his release from exile, he rationalized the Holocaust alongside Ahmad Shukairy, claiming “Hitler couldn’t be all wrong” (B’nai B’rith Messenger, July 12, 1946). As AHC spokesperson in 1947–1948, he explained Arab opposition to the establishment of a Jewish state, that it would disrupt the Arab world’s “homogeneity” of “Arab race” (Herf, 2022; New York Times, September 30, 1947).
Hassan Salameh:
A guerrilla leader and Mufti associate, Salameh participated in the failed Operation Atlas in 1944, parachuting into Palestine with Nazi commandos to sabotage Jewish targets and incite unrest (Tablet Magazine, April 14, 2021) and per some versions to poison some 250,000. (Isracast). He later commanded the Holy War Army in the 1948 war.
Nazi Propaganda and Arab Sympathy.
German Reports:
Nazi officials noted Arab admiration for Hitler. In 1937, Consul Walter Doehle reported widespread sympathies for “the new Germany and its Führer” (Cohen, 2014). Goebbels noted in 1938 that Arabs revered Hitler “as though he were holy” (Zimmermann, 2022). A Dec-1942 SS report stated Arabs awaited Hitler (Wawrzyn, 2013).
Collaboration and Post-War Continuity
Wartime Collaboration:
The Mufti’s associate met Adolf Eichmann in 1937 (Malul, 2017; Rubin & Schwanitz, 2014) and planned to extend the Holocaust to Palestine (Mallmann & Cüppers, 2010). Hitler intended to entrust Arabs with exterminating Mediterranean Jews (Intermountain Jewish News, April 3, 1947). Bosnian Muslims trained by Nazis fought against Israel in 1948 (Palestine, 1948; Frantzman, 2008).
Post-War Admiration: The Mufti’s popularity surged post-war, with enthusiastic welcomes from Arab leaders and masses (Elpeleg, 1993; Dowerin Guardian, March 22, 1946). Leaders like Shukairy and Jamal Husseini justified the Holocaust (B’nai B’rith Messenger, July 12, 1946). Falastin and others defended Nazism as a legitimate ideology (Youngstown Vindicator, December 28, 1945; Palestine Post, October 18, 1946). In 1967, a Palestinian Arab leader admitted their supporting Hitler was a “big mistake” (Saturday Review, 1970).
Context and Counterpoints
Limited Arab Enlistment: About 9,000 Palestinian and Jordanian Arabs enlisted in the British Army, often incentivized by Jewish payments, but 78% deserted in 1942 to support Rommel (Bouchnik-Chen, 2019; Hurewitz, 1950).
British Censorship:
British authorities controlled the Arab press during the war, limiting overt pro-Nazi expressions (Kabahā & Caspi, 2011). Still, pro-Nazi sentiments persisted.
Jewish Resistance:
Palestinian Jews supported the Allies, with 27,000 volunteering for the British Army and aiding Free French forces (Navon, 2020). Right-wing Zionists pulled down swastikas from German consulates (Encyclopaedia Judaica, 1977).
Legacy and Implications.
The alignment with Nazi Germany shaped post-war Arab nationalism and anti-Zionist rhetoric. Figures like Shukairy, who called for Israel’s destruction in 1967 (Progress-Index, June 13, 1967), and Nakhleh, who denied the Holocaust (Dalin, 2017), perpetuated anti-Semitic narratives. The 2013 admission by PLO leader Farouk Qaddoumi of Palestinian Arab support for the Nazis underscores the historical ideological overlap with Nazi anti-Semitism, contributing to Arab-Israeli tensions (Algemeiner, December 18, 2013).
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Its first victim was Abel; Cain was the first perp.
Historical Moses and Buddha recognized this ENVY as the source of mental moral malfunctioning, and specified codes of corrective conduct.
AntiSemites are the inheritors of a wide stream of morality neglect and mistakes.