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Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali was a 20th century Moroccan Salafi Islamic scholar, most famous for English translations of the Quran, known as The Noble Quran, and Sahih al-Bukhari. al-Hilali moved from Iraq to Nazi Germany in 1936 to study Arabic philology, first at the University of Bonn – under the recommendation of the aforementioned ...
Comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany occur frequently in the political discourse of anti-Zionism. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Given the legacy of the Holocaust , the nature of these comparisons, and particularly whether they constitute antisemitism , is a matter of ongoing debate.
In 1940, the Nazi-controlled Vichy government issued antisemitic decrees excluding Jews from public functions and imposing the wear of the yellow Star of David. [4] Sultan Mohamed V refused to apply these laws and, as sign of defiance, insisted on inviting all the rabbis of Morocco to the 1941 throne celebrations.
The Mufti collaborated with the Germans in numerous sabotage and commando operations in Iraq, Transjordan, and Palestine, and repeatedly urged the Germans to bomb Tel Aviv [87] and Jerusalem 'in order to injure Palestinian Jewry and for propaganda purposes in the Arab world', as his Nazi interlocutors put it. The proposals were rejected as ...
The Free Arabian Legion (German: Legion Freies Arabien; Arabic: جيش بلاد العرب الحرة, romanized: Jaysh bilād al-ʿarab al-ḥurraẗ) was the collective name of several Nazi German units formed from Arab volunteers from the Middle East, notably Iraq, and North Africa during World War II.
Iraq remained a co-belligerent state of the Axis Powers and ally of Nazi Germany until it fought against the United Kingdom during the Anglo-Iraqi War in May 1941, which resulted in the downfall of Ali's government, the reoccupation of Iraq by the British Empire and the restoration to power of the Regent of Iraq, Prince 'Abd al-Ilah, who was ...
This included Israel's cooperation in not criticizing the "wall of silence" that was constructed around the Nazi period, including the integration of ex-Nazi's into political offices. [1] The controversial thesis of the book is that Germany's material support for the fledging Israeli state was offered in exchange for the whitewashing of its ...
Relations between East Germany and Israel never materialised. Israel and Germany now maintain a "special relationship" based on shared beliefs, Western values, and a combination of historical perspectives. [2] Among the most important factors in their relations is Nazi Germany's genocide of Jews in Europe during the Holocaust. [3] German ...