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  FARHUD -  June-1941 pogrom on Jews in Iraq, only for being Jews:  The guilty : - Hitler's F. Grobba;  - Nazi propaganda over the airwaves;  - Ex-Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini;  - Rashid 'Ali;  - Syrian/Palestinisn teachers;  - Arab-Nazi [Hitleryouth modelled] al-Futuwwa, Kataib gang;  - Iraqi police/army. Victims : 180, 780 or 1,000 died and 1,000 to 2,000 injured. At locations near river or wells, kids were thrown into the water in front of their parents eyes.  Scenes included smashed babies organs, mass rape. Patients and medical sraff were targeted at the attack on the Jewish hospital.  (Iraqi Jews were not Zionists at the time). ____   Carole L. Basri: ' The Jews of Iraq: A Forgotten Case of Ethnic Cleansing ,' 2003, p.12    The official Iraqi Government report concerning the Farhud laid the blame for the slaughter on six sources.  First  , the report noted the responsibility of the German Legation , for ...

Robert Laird Stewart, ' The Land of Israel ,' ( 1899 ,) p. 1 Palestine is the familiar designation of that section of Southern Syria which was permanently occupied by the tribes of Israel. The name, as originally used in the Bible and in Ancient history was limited to the land of the Philistines.  https://books.google.com/books?id=o_oxAQAAMAAJ&pg =PA1 XX Century Cyclopaedia and Atlas. Biography, History, Art, Science and Gazeteer of the World.  Volume 8, (Gebbie & Company  1901 ,) p.189 The principal river of South Syria (Palestine, which see) is the Jordan. https://books.google.com/books?id=BQZCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA189 The Encyclopaedia Britannica. A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature. Volume 22. ( 1888 ), p.821 Palestine is simply a portion of Syria... https://books.google.com/books?id=UqIMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA821 ____ W alter Laqueur, ' The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict ', (Penguin, 1970,) p. 336 by ...

  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 ...

Reading Eagle - [Sunday] Aug 18, 1889 'Jews of Jerusalem' Jerusalem, July -- Thirty thousand out of the 40,000 people living in Jerusalem are Jews. And the Istaelites bid fair to become the predominant people in Palestine. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=18890818&id=TJIhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DJgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5579,4968507&hl=en

March - This Day in Jewish History - OU.ORG March 1:  First organized Arab attack on a Jewish settlement in Eretz Yisrael, 1886, against Petach Tikva. http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/bhyom/mar.htm Events: The Israel Forever Found Nov 3, 2019 In 1886, they suffered the first terror attack against Jews in pre-State Israel. https://israelforever.org/events/petach_tikva_establishedpetach_tikva_established Frumkin Newsletter 2002 The first attack of Arabs on a Jewish settlement was in Petach Tikva in the year 1886; it was the attack in which Rabbi Arieh Leib Frumkin was very badly it was the attack in which Rabbi Arieh Leib Frumkin was very badly injured when he went out to save what he could while being fired upon by the attackers. In his diary Rabbi Frumkin describes how hundreds of Arabs from Yehudia invaded the settlement and beat up, broke and destroyed everything they could. The contents of his diary were widely published in "The Mother of Settlements", the book commemoratin...

' BLACK HITLER ' JAILED TO AWAIT SENTENCE; Gorgeous Array of Sufi Abdul Hamid Avails Nought -- Found Guilty in Pamphlet Sale. January 16, 1935 , Page 7 A gorgeously arrayed, dusky- skinned man stood before Magistrade Thomas Aurelio yesterday in Harlem Court. His name, he said, was Sufi Abdul Hamid. A year ago he was acquitted in the same court when the police accused him of urging his Negro followers to drive the Jews and Italians out of Harlem. https://www.nytimes.com/1935/01/16/archives/black-hitler-jailed-to-await-sentence-gorgeous-array-of-sufi-abdul.html Times Union  Brooklyn, New York 21 Jun 1935, Fri  •  Page 1 BLACK HITLER BEATS DEPORTATION MOVE Proves He Entered U. S. From Egypt Legally. Harlem's Black Hitler , as the followers of the picturesque, white-turbaned Sufi Abdul Hamid call him, was purged of violating the immigration laws today after he had convinced Ellis Island officials that he came into this country from Egypt legally.  https://www.newspapers...

A word re researchers on the battle of Deir Yassin. After reading from both sides.... 1. It happened BEFORE the modern State of Israel was established. 2.  Accounts tell of at least some of Deir Yassin Arabs in arms and in battle, battling this group of 100 of early Zionists fighters (at the time, radicals). If to take an example from a source that quotes both sides, it might explain even a panic and total fear by the Zionist side (which might have led to a spiriling fight). As they described Arabs hiding guns in their robes surprisingly firing at their captors after surrendering: Jordan, Second Edition, Hal Marcovitz, Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr., 2009, Culture, p.39 By the spring of 1948, there appeared to be no hope for a peaceful resolution. Both sides took up arms. One of the first major battles was at Deir Yassin, an Arab village that overlooked the highway leading to Jerusalem.  Deir Yassin was considered strategically important because a well-armed group of soldiers hidden ...