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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The new pro-Nazi government sought German and Italian support for an Iraqi revolt against British forces in the country. Contact was established with the Axis powers with the help of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini , who had been living in Iraq since he had fled imprisonment from Mandatory Palestine shortly before the war.
The Kingdom of Iraq cuts its diplomatic relations with Germany. [58] Britain terminates its diplomatic recognition of Slovakia. [59] Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop makes clear that no hostile actions against Romania will be tolerared by the Reich. [60] 6 September South Africa, now under Prime Minister Jan Smuts, declares war ...
Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination camps. [15] [16] Nazi policy from 1933 was to force all Jews to ...
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.
The uniqueness of the Holocaust is emphasized, non-Jewish victims of Nazi Germany are sidelined, and any linkage between the Holocaust and the Nakba is rejected. [3] [4] According to Zionist historiography, the formation of the State of Israel in 1948 was the "culmination of the long Jewish quest for rights and justice". [18]