Group That Staged Violent Uprising To Keep Out Jews Fleeing Hitler Boasts Of Welcoming Jews Fleeing Hitler

Pro-Palestine advocates cited their forebears’ generosity and contrasted it with what they called Zionist xenophobia and racism.

Gaza City, December 19 – Descendants of the people who attacked British and Jewish interests in Palestine before and during the Second World War in an effort to bar Jewish immigration to the territory even as the Third Reich began persecuting and slaughtering Jews now speak proudly of those ancestors giving Jewish refugees a warm reception.

Palestinian activists and propagandists continued a long tradition this week of presenting their violent hostility to Jewish immigration to the ancestral Jewish homeland as a humanitarian phenomenon. Online, in print, and in broadcast media, advocates for the liberation of Palestine by means of destroying the restoration of Jewish sovereignty after almost two thousand years of exile bragged that the Arabs of pre-Israel, British-Mandate Palestine welcomed boatloads of Jews escaping Nazi-run Europe, when in fact in response to Arab threats and attacks the British placed tight restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine right when Jews needed a safe haven most. The British planned to reduce, then shut down, all Jewish immigration to the territory, in hopes of appeasing Arabs and maintaining access to oil from the region. Pro-Palestine advocates cited their forebears’ generosity and contrasted it with what they called Zionist xenophobia and racism.

Images of boats carrying Jewish refugees – interdicted off the coast and sent to internment camps in British-run Cyprus – featured most in the activists’ most recent torrent of mislabeled or doctored photos, this time with descriptions of the scene as one of the Arabs of Palestine demonstrating against the deportations; no Arabs appear in the photos, which depict the refugees holding signs to protest their treatment by the British.

The recent wave marks the latest in a phenomenon that also saw Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) describe her grandmother as having welcomed Jewish refugees to Palestine, a story that would be news to both the Jews of the time and the Arabs of Palestine themselves, whose leader Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini traveled to meet Hitler, recruited for Muslim SS units in the Balkans, fomented a 1941 pogrom in Baghdad that left more than a hundred dead, and stoked terrorism in Palestine against Jewish and British targets. The Arabs of Palestine rioted multiple times throughout the thirty-year British Mandate, including a 1929 massacre in Hebron that erased the ancient Jewish presence in the city. The multiple Arab revolts followed hundreds of years under Muslim rule that saw Jews beaten, abused, exploited, and relegated to the lowest rung of society, which the same activists take pride in describing as Jews and Arabs coexisting peacefully.

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