Sunday, March 23, 2025

Hey, Did You Know the Arab World Opposed Nazi Antisemitism? So Says Wikipedia

Arabs were against the Nazis antisemitism! They just loved Jews (to death)

One of the joys of reading Wikipedia is that you are exposed to novel versions of history. They aren't true, but they are always different, and they are never surprising when it comes to Jews, Israel, Zionism and Arabs. 

Jews are bad. Israelis are really bad. Zionists are colonial oppressors. Arabs are wonderful people. Tolerant as hell. Love Jews.

A good example is the Wikipedia article "Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world." Its current incarnation can be found here

In the 1940s, the Arab world was a hotbed of pro-Nazi sentiment. That is what actually happened, according to every historical account that's worth more than its weight in spit. 

But that is not what the lead of this article says, because (see the illustration at the top) it was sanitized into a fairy tale by the editor "Smallangryplanet," a rising star in the ranks of pro-Hamas, anti-Israel and antisemitic editors.

Thanks to their deft editing last December 30, which has never been reversed, the article now omits a sentence saying  "One foundation of such collaborations [between the Nazis and Arabs] was the antisemitism of the Nazis, which was shared by some Arab and Muslim leaders, most notably the exiled Palestinian leader, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini."

"Smallangryplanet" also added "anti-Semitic" to a whitewash sentence at the top of the article, which says that "In terms of confrontation, the Arab intellectual elite was very critical towards Nazism, which was perceived as a totalitarian, racist, anti-Semitic and imperialist phenomenon."

Yep, the Arab world just hated antisemitism! It was just brimming with tolerance back in the 1940s. Woke as hell.

Wikipedia is that bad. Truly. No matter how much you find Wikipedia insufferable, it's not enough.

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