- Edwin Black
- Paper No. 2064
The world just marked the 80thย anniversary of the Farhud, the Arab-Nazi pogrom against the Jews of Baghdad and Basra that occurred on June 1-2, 1941. The term Arab-Nazi is entirely appropriate, not simply because these Arabs were fascist in mind and deed, but because they explicitly identifiedย with Germanyโs Nazi Party. Some of the rioters wore swastikas; more than a fewย marched in the Nuremberg torchlight parades. The Nazi ideology that motivated the Arab slaughterers of Jews in 1941โthe desire to exterminate Jews from the face of the earthโmotivates the Arabs and Muslims who assault Israelis and Jews today.