1914: Ottoman authorities abolish Racist 'Falastin' periodical
Janrense Boonstra, ' Antisemitism, a History Portrayed ,' SDU / Anne Frank Foundation,' 1989, p. 101 The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem In 1914, the periodical Falastin – with its extremist Arab nationalist slant - was abolished by the Ottoman authorities because of its racist hate propaganda . The periodical had agitated against the immigration of Jewish refugees from Russia. In the Twenties, the publication reappeared and led campaigns against Jewish immigration. As a result of anti-Jewish propaganda and terror , the British government took measures between the Twenties and the Forties to restrict Jewish immigration to Palestine. In 1921, an extremist, pan-Arab nationalist , Haji Amin al-Huseini, was appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a religious leader. Three weeks after his appointment , he led a pogrom in which forty-three Jews were murdered. From the beginning of the Second World War the Mufti led a rebellion of ...