"The grand mufti of Jerusalem al-Hajj Amin al-Husayni and his active involvement in the Jewish genocide have figured prominently in Israeli efforts to prove the tangible collaboration between the "Arab world" and Nazis. Here, it is imperative to distinguish between "official" and academic efforts. Although scholars are certainly more cautious in depicting the Husayni and Arab-Nazi collaboration, sometimes their work mirrors the generalization that indicts Arabs at large as active supporters or sympathizers with Nazism. The Arab-Israeli conflict's escalation and its redefinition as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict reinforced this mutual demonization. On the Israeli-Jewish side, it has triggered an emphasis on Holocaust denial and extensive, sometimes disproportionate, study of the intimate Nazi-mufti collaboration that is embodied by Husayni's unabashed enthusiasm for Nazi antisemitism and his historical role in the atrocities."
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— Israel Gershoni, Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism - Attraction and Repulsion, p. 3.
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Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world
1933 – 1945
Relations between Nazi Germany (1933–1945) and leaders in the Arab world ranged from indifference, resistance, collaboration, to emulation in some instances, and was often influenced by propaganda and the efforts of Nazi collaborators.
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