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ANTI-JEWISH CAMPAIGN RESUMED LISBON, July 10, 1941 (JTA) -
An anti-Jewish campaignreniihiseerit of the campaigns conducted by the Nazis in the early days of their coming to power has now been started through the Reich by order of Joseph Goebbels, propagada minister. .
The report is substantiated by the German newspapers. The entire Nazi press is utilizing ther war against Soviet Russia to carry on its front pages atrocious anti-Jewish propiiganda, including the ob^\ vious lies that Jews were helping the Soviets to shoot political prisoners prior to the retreat of Soviet forces from various towns.
Reports published in the Berliner Bqersen Zeiiung and in the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung bear out the stories of the shooting by the Nazis ofmasses of Jewish eiyilians when they occupied the cities of Lemberg, Luck, Dubno and Rudni in So V iet Poland .The two lead i hg Nazi newspapers carr>' long columns of descriptions how the advanced German troops "liquidated local Jewish Bolshevists" in these cities.
NO U.S. VISAS
WASHINGTON, July 11, 1941 (JTA) -
The possibility of residents of Germany and Italy obtaining visas for the United States without first . going to another country is excluded with the closing of the American consulates in those two countries. The U.S. embassies in Berlin and Rome will not issue visas.
Unless Nazi and Fascist authorities will give a person intending to leave either of these countries
for the United States some documentary evidence of their willingness to allow him to leave, which he may send to a U.S- consulate in some other country, his possibility of obtaining an American visa appears hopeless:
NAZIS EXHIBIT WAR PICTURES LONDON, July 13, 1941 (JTA) -
Revolting scenes showing How advanced German troops are executing hundreds of Jews in the Russo-(jerrnan war zone contained in a Nazi film which the Ministry of Propaganda exhibited in Berlin to a group of foteign correspondents, -f--:
The film, dealing with the "effects of modem weapons on human beings and animals," shows corpses stacked up in heaps. Jews are shown in the film' being driven from their homes, herded together and marched off.
The fdm titles boast that the Jews have been overtaken by fate at last and allege that many of them are responsible for the German-Russian war.
CATASTROPHIC FOOD STTUATION '[ STOCKHOLM, July 21, 1941 (JTA) -
The German press today carried articles openly describing the catastrophic food; situation in Nazi-held Poland The articles indicate that all the food available in Poland is being removed to feed the German soldiers wounded on the Soviet front.
Other reports from Poland state that there are many towns in the occupied territory where the "Jewish population is Gorhpletely without food. The mortality among children is very high in all sections because of the lack of milk.
The Joint Distribution Committee some time ago purchased in Switzerland 12,000 cans of condensed milk which were stored in Warsaw. Thus far only 7,000 cans of milk have been released for distribution under J DC auspices in Polandr
From all indications, it Is assuniied here that Jews in Nazi-held Poland will be dying by the thousands of hunger before the fields yield their new crop. Not much better are the prospects of Polish Jewry even after the harvest, since the entire crop is expected to be shipped into the Reich.
HUNGARY DEPORTS JEWS LISBON, July 22, 1941 (JTA) -
- More than 6iQ0O-JewishTefugees, the majority of them stateless, have been rounded up in Hungarian frontier districts and deported into Nazi-occupied Galicia.
Raids on Jews are being made also in Budapiest with the view of ascertaining whether they are,_ Hungarian-bom. Those bom in any of the former pahs of Poland aire herded into jails for deportation to German-occupied Poland.
Simon AXi^ifescnthal Ccnt^^^ tcports:
LOS ANGELES (JTA) -
Haj Amin al-Husseini, the notoriously anti-Jewish grand mufti of Jemsalem, sought Adolf Hitler's help for an Arab version of the "Final Solution" to the Jewish problem, according to the Simon Wiesehthal Centre:
The Nazi-hunting centre made the statement after analyzing' documents uncovered at the United Nations archives in New York- -.......
The mufti wielded considerable power as both the religious and nationalist leader of Arabs in Palestine and beyoTKl during much of the British mandatory period. He fled to Nazi Gerrria-ny in late 1941 and started a systematic campaign to extend the Nazis' anti-Jewish policies and methods to the Arab Middle East, in anticipation of the expected Axis victory.
One significant aspect of
the find, said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Wiesenthal Centre, is that it counters the longstanding argument among many Palestinians that while they had no part in Hitler's persecution of the Jews, they are'^^^paying the price
for his crimes.
"Thedocuments, in fact, show that the dominant leader of the Palestinian Arabs wanted to do to the Jews of the Middle East what Hitler was doing to the Jews of Europe," Rabbi Hier said.
After participating in a short-lived pro-Gerrnan coup in Iraq, Husseini arrived in Beriin on Nov. 6, 1941, and over the next few months he sent 15 drafts to Hitler, proposing an official declaration by Germany and Italy on the Middle East.
In one of the French-language drafts, annotated
in Arabic iri the mufti's handwriting, he urged inclusion of the following Statement: "Germany and Italy recognize the illegality of the 'Jewish Home in Palestine.'
"They accord to Palestine and to other Arab countries the right to solve the problem of the Jewish elements in Palestine and other Arab countries, in accordance with the interest of the Arabs and, by the same method, that the question is now being settled in the Axis countries.
"Under this agreement, no Jewish immigration into the Arab countries should be permitted."
At that time, the extermination of the Jews was already in full swing in the conquered Soviet territories, so there is little doubt what the mufti meant by solving the Jewish problem
Under
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"by the same methods" employed by the Axis countries, Rabbi Hier said.
Husseini had a chance to press his points with the Nazi leader personally during a 90-minute meeting in late Nov em be r 1941. which the mufti recorded in his own handwriting in a diary.
Hitler, according to the diary, assured the mufti repeatedly that the Jews were his foremost enemy:
"Primarily, I am fighting the Jews without respite, and this fight includes the fight against the so-called Jewish National Home in Palestine, because the Jews want to establish there a central government for their own pemicious piirposes," the Nazi leader said.
He pointed out that "it is clear that the Jews have ac-compITshed nothing in Palestine, and their claims are lies. All the accom-: plishments in Palestine are due to the Arabs and not to the Jews.
- Hussemi remained in Germany throughout the warrmet again with Hitler, with SS leader Heinrich Himmler, and apparently with Adolf Eichmahn, and "toured" some of the main extermination camps as. guest of their commandants.
In 1945, the government of Yugoslavia under former partisan leader Marshal Josip Tito sought to indict him as a war criminal for his role in recruiting 20,000 Muslim volunteers for the SS, who participated in the killing of Jevys in Croatia and Hungary.
He escaped from French detention in 1946 and continued his fight against the Jews, first from Cairo and then from Beirut, where he died iri 1974.
The Husseini family continues to play a role in Palestinian affairs, with Faisal Husseini, whose father was the mufti's nephew, active.as the leading spokesman for the Palestinian cause.
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JERUSALEM (JTA) -
The Knesset approved, over government objections, a private member's bill that would require a public official who exer-. cises his right of silence under police investigation to relinquish his office pending completion of the investigation.
The measure, which passed ijsfirst reading and must pass two more before becoming law,- was introduced by Laborite David Libai, chairman of the Knesset's state control committee.
It was obviously aimed chiefly at Interior Minister A rye Deri, who has been under police investigation for the better part of a year for^alleged financial im-
proprieties.
Its reading in the Knesset coincided with the release of a report by State Comptroller. Miriam Ben-Porat which not only excoriated the practices of which Deri has been accused but charged Deri specifically with inishan-dling huge sums of gpvem-ment funds.
The comptroller and the interior minister crossed verbal swords at a hearing before Libai's committee July 24. Deri said he accepted the report and vowed to implement its main recommendations,
Ben-Porat, a former member of the.High Court of Justice, openly doubted his sincerity.>
Her report charged that
the Interior Ministry under Deri handed out some $38 million in government funds to religious institutions, tnainly those affiliated with the minister's political base, the Orthodox Shas party.
According to the comptroller, those monies were disbursed without following proper legal procedure. In some cases, Deri'^s purpose was to win votes for his movement, the report alleged, noting that significant ftinds were transferred around election time. ,
Israeli Interior Minister Arye Deri
Ben-Porat said she made her findings available to the police.
Deri accused the police . of deliberately leaking material intended to discredit him and timing it to coincide with the comptroller's report.
r The system Ben-Poral criticized allows the Interior Ministry to funnel public funds to favored institutions through local authorities, who depend on the ministry for their subsidies.
Deri, who says he would
gladly submit to questioning by senior police officials, told the Knesset members he believed it was his task to "correct years of discrimination" against haredi institutions in general and Sephardi haredi in particular.
Haredi is the term used to describe the most strictly Orthodox communities. Shas is a haredi party with amainly Sephardi constituency. '~~
Knesset members on both the governnrient and opposition sides of the house agreed that the abuses uncovered by the comptroller were coinmon in departments of government, though probably most blatant in the Interior Ministry.
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