Fascism,..... Does this sound familiar? Does, or has America had "Fascist Leaders"?

"TruthSeeker" sounds like just another "TrumpHater" tossing around their favorite smear word.
That's Your Misguided Opinion Mike. I don't "Hate Trump", in fact, I can't precisely say that I Hate Anyone.

Now as far as Trust?.... No Sir, I Absolutely Do Not Trust Trump, nor The Republican Party, nor The Democrats for that matter. In Fact,.... "If" One pays Very Close Attention to what America's Leaders do,..... Then it shouldn't take to long to realize that they are jointly working together towards destroying what once was a Nation Blessed by The Almighty GOD.

Take a look at my profile, it may answer some questions regarding my position.
 
Trump haters are people who learned right from wrong as children. It`s wrong to rob a cancer charity. It`s wrong to operate a crooked hole-in-one contest at your country club. It`s wrong to buy whores when your wife is 5 months pregnant.
Again, as I stated to Mike,.... I do not "Hate Trump", but,.... I'd be a FOOL to Trust him, &/or the Majority of America's Political Leaders.
 
There is nothing noble about hurling FASCIST! HITLER! GESTAPO! NAZI! at Donald Trump and his supporters. The Charlie Kirk assassin wrote HEY FASCIST CATCH THIS!! on one his bullets.

It is wrong, it is un-American and it shuts off any possible discussion of the real issues.
I Started this "Fascism Post", to see what the interaction would be, by pointing out similarities presented by Democrat, & Republican Leaders.

I've not "hurled anything" yet,.... At anybody. But I will point out,... When it "Walks", "Quacks", "Flies", "Lays eggs", & "Looks like a Duck", what is it?

And, to call someone "Hitler", (Which I haven't), would mean that somehow he's been "Resurrected", which hasn't happened, or,.... their Communication Skills are sub par.
 
MAGA lies.™️
Did they lie, like they lied about Russiagate being made up, or MAGA lied about Joe Biden having issues with dementia that the world all witnessed during the Presidential debate, or MAGA lied about the Hunter Biden laptop being real?

I guess that is because the lame street Legacy media refuses to cover such things

Crazy, huh.
 
Did they lie, like they lied about Russiagate being made up, or MAGA lied about Joe Biden having issues with dementia that the world all witnessed during the Presidential debate, or MAGA lied about the Hunter Biden laptop being real?

I guess that is because the lame street Legacy media refuses to cover such things

Crazy, huh.
No one lies like MAGA lies. They’re selling out the country to a grifting would be dictator.
 
The "OP" didn't,..... That was "Merriam Webster".

And,... Where is it Written that
"Giovanni Gentile" physically put "Fascism"in to practice, where it heavily influenced/controlled a Nation, as Hitler, & Mussolini did?
So, Merriam Webster has the source of all truthiness? If so, they have left out too much information about the world around you to be that source of truthiness. Such a book would be too large to hold.

Thinking that Benito Mussolini invented fascism is like believing Stalin invented communism. It is infantile to think this.

Think man!

And educate yourself



Gentile was the ideal Progressive humanist, in that he believed the only reality that exists is how you shape it in your mind. For example, if you think you are a man instead of a woman, Ok. Likewise, if you think you are a "furry" and use a liter box to go to the bathroom, have at it!!
 
I Started this "Fascism Post", to see what the interaction would be, by pointing out similarities presented by Democrat, & Republican Leaders.

I've not "hurled anything" yet,.... At anybody. But I will point out,... When it "Walks", "Quacks", "Flies", "Lays eggs", & "Looks like a Duck", what is it?

And, to call someone "Hitler", (Which I haven't), would mean that somehow he's been "Resurrected", which hasn't happened, or,.... their Communication Skills are sub par.
Trump Haters like you push the Democrat narrative that President Trump is a Fascist. That narrative does nothing but divide people, inflame the Democrat base and encourage assassins to write HEY FASCIST CATCH THIS on their bullets.

If you truly wanted to discuss the problems with our two party system, you wouldn't have started with your treatise on Fascism.
 
Trump Haters like you push the Democrat narrative that President Trump is a Fascist. That narrative does nothing but divide people, inflame the Democrat base and encourage assassins to write HEY FASCIST CATCH THIS on their bullets.

If you truly wanted to discuss the problems with our two party system, you wouldn't have started with your treatise on Fascism.
Trump has done nothing but divide people since his first term, hypocrite. Look up the definition of fascism and then look in the mirror. You’re a fellow traveler.
 

When "The Party", gives practically complete obedience to it's "Leader", with very little objection, and that "Leader" publicly presents a "Righteousness" in every action "he, or she" takes, even when that action is absolutely wrong, on a continuing basis, for the Nation/ The People,...... Is that "Fascism"?​

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"fascism​


noun


fas·cism ˈfa-ˌshi-zəm How to pronounce fascism (audio)
also ˈfa-ˌsi-




plural fascisms

Synonyms of fascismnext

1


often Fascism : a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition
At the core of fascism is loyalty to tribe, ethnic identity, religion, tradition, or, in a word, nation.
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There are differences between Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and their various nationalist descendants.—
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broadly : a philosophy or system with some combination of fascist values and governing structures
Take away colonialism and you still have … Balkan fascism … —
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: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
The early instances of army fascism and brutality are typical …—
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Call it "soft fascism": a political system that aims to stamp out dissent and seize control of every major aspect of a country's political and social life, without needing to resort to "hard" measures like banning elections …—
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—often used informally in an exaggerated way
Like the city's ban on the use of trans fats and draconian restrictions on smoking, the new soda regulations are … yet another installment of what Jonah Goldberg rightly termed "liberal fascism."—
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fascist
ˈfa-shist How to pronounce fascism (audio)
also -sist
noun
or Fascist

plural fascists or Fascists

notorious fascists


fascist adjective
or Fascist

a fasciststate


fascistic
fa-ˈshi-stik How to pronounce fascism (audio)
also -ˈsi-
adjective
or less commonly Fascistic

a fascisticorganization


fascistically
fa-ˈshi-sti-k(ə-)lē How to pronounce fascism (audio)
also -ˈsi-
adverb
or less commonly Fascistically



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Did you know?​


The Italian Origin of Fascism


The words fascism and fascist have long been associated with the Fascisti of Benito Mussolini and the fasces, the bundle of rods with an ax among them, which the Fascisti used as a symbol of the Italian people united and obedient to the single authority of the state. However, Mussolini did not introduce the word fascista (plural fascisti) with the 1919 organization of the Fasci di combattimento (“combat groups”), nor did the fasces have any direct connection with the origin of fascista. In Italian, the word fascio (plural fasci) means literally “bundle,” and figuratively “group.” From at least 1872 fascio was used in the names of labor and agrarian unions, and in October 1914 a political coalition was formed called the Fascio rivoluzionario d’ azione internazionalista (“revolutionary group for international action”), which advocated Italian participation in World War I on the side of the Allies. Members of this group were first called fascisti in January 1915. Although Mussolini was closely associated with this interventionist movement, it had no direct link with the post-war Fasci di combattimento, and in 1919 the word fascista was already in political circulation. It is, however, to the Fascisti in their 1919 incarnation—who seized power in Italy three years later—that we owe the current customary meanings of our words fascism and fascist.



Examples of​


From the first hours of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, the propagandists on both sides of the conflict portrayed the struggle in stark, Manichaean language. The totalitarian nature of both regimes made this inevitable. On one side stood Hitler, fascism, the myth of German supremacy; on the other side stood Stalin, communism, and the international proletarian revolution.
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Consider what happened during the crisis of global fascism. At first, even the truth about Hitler was inconvenient. Many in the west hoped the danger would simply go away. —
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He collected stories about groups similar to his—Aryans, other Nazis, the KKK. Lately, he'd been flagging many stories from Germany and Eastern Europe, and was quite thrilled with the rise of fascism there. —
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the rise of Fascism in Europe before World War II





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At the same time, PTA’s of-the-moment take on fascism and resistance could have slotted One Battle into the drama field, but the front-runner will make room for Sinners by competing as a comedy. —
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Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025 The committee made an enormous contribution to the war effort, sending thousands of articles about fascism, the Jewish war experience and the Red Army for publication in the foreign press. —
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Wendy Z. Goldman, The Conversation, 1 Dec. 2025 Unemployment was spreading across Europe and fascism was on the rise, but these were distant abstractions. —
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Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025 Ultimately, Undersight alludes to the visual language of both fascism and Communism in order to undercut the power and magnitude of all forms of authoritarian state projects. —
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Word History​


Etymology

Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces

First Known Use

1921, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of fascism was in 1921"


What about President Lyndon Johnson who is thought to have played an important role in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy?


What about President George H. W. Bush who was thought to have played a role in the assassination of J. F. K?

What about President William Clinton who is suspected to have surrounded himself with people who got rid of his serious opponents or whistleblowers?
 
EMH said:
half a million ..
The Holocaust deaths were not inside Germany, (but in other countries in Europe occupied by nazi Germany), you dummy liar.

In 1933, approximately 9.5 million Jews lived in Europe, comprising 1.7% of the total European population. This number represented more than 60 percent of the world's Jewish population at that time, estimated at 15.3 million.

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Because like all your ideas you repeatedly desperately re-spam are fake, false and lies.



AND NOW TO YOUR ARAB MUSLIM MAJORITY


The Nazis in WW2 did not invade Mandatory Palestine.
Yet, Arab leaders chased nazis ass.




Already in 1933:

1. Joseph Francis of newspaper falastin on behalf of organized Arabs begging Heinrich Wolff to help in setting up an ARAB NAZI PARTY.

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2. And separately, al-Husseini the Mufti.

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At the time, the Germans rejected both.


It is why it stands out.

That is the whole point about pAlesTiNe Arab nazism.



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MOST ARAB pAlEsTiNiAnS FOR HITLER​

The American Mercury. (1953). United States: American Mercury, "Russia and the Middle East," Jules Kagian, p.14



...They saw in Stalin another Hitler coming to save them from the dangers of Zionism. When Hitler persecuted the Jews, Arabs rejoiced. They adorned their houses and ships with Hitler's pictures and the Swastika flag.


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Pakistan Horizon. (1957). Pakistan: Pakistan Institute of International Affairs., p.211.


During the Second World War the Arabs were pro-Hitler and pro-German ...


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The Minority of One. (1966). United States: Minority of One, Incorporated, p.10


Arnoni, M. S. (1968). Rights and Wrongs in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: To the Anatomy of the Forces of Progress and Reaction in the Middle East. United States: Minority of One Press, pp.60-61



From The History of Arab Nationalism.

M.S. Arnoni.

The Greatest Arab Hero.

[...]
But the Arab record vis-a-vis the Nazis was not merely one of passivity. On the contrary, throughout the Arab world hopes had been placed on Hitler, not only because he was an enemy of the British enemy, but also because the ideology and temperament of Nazism were in many ways attractive to the Arabs. Already in the 1930's John Gunther found that "Hitler is tremendously popular with the Arabs. The greatest contemporary Arab hero is -- Adolf Hitler."

In a work outstanding for its scholarship and based on documentation drawn from official German and Arab sources, Lukasz Hirszowicz writes:

'The Arab leaders did not conceal their antipathy to France, their distrust of England and their preference for Germany, even in conversations with the Consul-General of the United States. They did not regard the war in Europe as a misfortune; they pinned their hopes on its weakening the Western Powers.

True, certain public figures in Syria and particularly in Lebanon, held a different point of view, but they were rather isolated in Muslim circles.



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Kurzman, D. (1970). Genesis 1948; the First Arab-Israeli War. United States: World Publishing Company,
pp.6, 37

P.6

...had not been overly impressed by the strength of the Arab "links" during World War II, when most Arabs were pro-Nazi despite British imposition of immigration restrictions on the Jews. At the same time, he was deeply moved by the plight of the 100,000 Jewish refugees who languished without home or hope in Displaced Persons camps throughout Europe—a sentiment reinforced by the report of an American envoy, Earl Harrison.

P.37

Late in the afternoon of December 2, Bahjat Gharbieh, a slender, mild-mannered kinsman of Mohammed Gharbieh, the fiery activist, returned to Jerusalem from the nearby hills, where he had been training a group of Arabs in guerrilla tactics. He was shocked to find himself in the midst of rioting mobs that had turned part of the New City into a blazing inferno....

Like most Arabs, Bahjat had deeply sympathized with the Nazis during World War II—until they started to lose in Russia. His father had warned him about Germany: "I know the Germans from World War I. They acted as if they were gods and treated the Arabs and Turks like servants. They were cruel. What can we expect if they return as governors?"

Bahjat had shrugged: "Never mind, father. They are the enemies of the British and Jews, our enemies."...



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Silverberg, R. (1970). If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem: American Jews and the State of Israel. United States: Morrow, pp.175-176



CHAPTER SIX: Zionism at War.

ON SEPTEMBER I, 1939, German tanks moved into Poland, and the Second World War began. Hitler had secured his position the previous month by signing a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union, the only major power that remained in the way of his ambitions.
Great Britain and France had thus far indicated a willingness to let Hitler do as he pleased ; and the United States remained invisible behind a barrier of neutrality and isolationism.

The failure of the appeasement policy was evident now, and, after Germany ignored a British ultimatum to withdraw from Poland, Great Britain declared war on September 3. The French declaration came five hours later. There was no immediate clash between the German army and those of France and Great Britain, nor would there be for many months, but naval battles began at once, and full-scale hostilities seemed inevitable . Chamberlain, a dismal, depleted figure, brought Winston Churchill into his Cabinet as First Lord of the Admiralty, and disappeared into the background of his administration.

What Churchill called a "sinister stane" prevailed on the European front until the spring of 1940.
Then, on April 9, Germany invaded and seized Norway and Denmark. On May 10, German divisions smashed into Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
That evening Churchill replaced Chamberlain as Prime Minister, taking over at a bleak moment when it seemed that the Nazi steam-roller must inevitably crush Great Britain and France as well. An attempt to push the Germans back from Belgium led to the bottling up of 350,000 Allied troops at the port of Dunkirk, from which they were evacuated on May 26; in June, France collapsed, signing an armistice with Germany on June 22, and London began to crumble under German bombing raids. Italy was in the war, now, striking in North Africa. By the summer of 1940 Britain stood alone in Europe against the barbarian tide.

There was painful irony in this for the Jews. Hardly had they begun denouncing British perfidy over Palestine than they found themselves compelled to rally behind Britain as the last defender of European civilization.

In contrast to World War I this new war was sparked by a fanaticism that went beyond mere territorial ambitions; it was a genetic crusade aimed at "purifying" the world by eliminating such strange [sic] breeds as Jews and gypsies, and Jews everywhere saw the Nazis as their common enemy.

Despite the White Paper , there could be no conflict of loyalties for a Jew; with Britain all that stood between the Nazis and the total conquest of Europe, the Jews would support Great Britain.

"We shall fight the war as if there were no White Paper," David Ben-Gurion said -- though he added, "And we shall fight the White Paper as if there were no war."

The situation of the Palestinian Jews was particularly critical. Their survival was directly connected with the defeat of the Axis, for the Arabs were openly pro-Hitler, and were making no secret of their intention to massacre the Jews if the British were driven out of the Near East by the Germans. Within a few days after the outbreak of the war, therefore, more than 130,000 of Palestine's 450,000 Jews registered for combat service with the British armed forces.... The idea of a Jewish Legion -- an army of Jews fighting against the Axis under their own flag soon came under discussion.

In World War I, when Jabotinsky and Trumpeldor had proposed such an army, the more moderate Zionist leaders had been uncom- fortable about it; but now the World Zionist Organization itself favored the concept.
The coming of the war, the ferocity of the Nazi persecutions, the indifference of the Western countries to the plight of the refugees, the unconcealed hostility of the Arab world, and the British betrayal implicit in the White Paper all had collectively transformed the moderate Zionists into full-fledged Jewish nationalists.
For years they had clung to the polite fiction of a "Jewish homeland," which could be defined, if political considerations made it expedient to do so, as nothing more than a retirement colony or an experimental agricultural ...



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Leibler, I. (1972). The Case for Israel. Cocos (Keeling) Islands: Executive Council of Australian Jewry, p.20.



... Trans-Jordan, no Arab state declared war on Germany in September 1939, and that most Arabs sided with the Nazis. Indeed a pro-Nazi coup took place in April 1941 in Iraq and the Egyptian Premier Ali Maher was subsequently arrested for pro-Nazi policies. The current President of U.A.R., Anwar Sadat, openly identified himself with the Axis powers and was arrested and imprisoned in Upper Egypt for two years for having collaborated with Nazi agents.

The most prominent pro-Nazi collaborator within the Arab ranks was undoubtedly Haj Amin al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who was Chairman of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine. The Mufti actually went to Germany and negotiated with Hitler personally in an effort to co-ordinate operations against the Jews.

At a public rally in Berlin in November 1942 the Mufti stated: The Germans know how to get rid of the Jews. He recruited S.S. units for the Nazis and appealed to Arabs to desert from Allied forces and serve in the German army. He was in close contact with leading Nazis including Eichmann, Himmler and Ribbentrop. The Mufti's patronage of the Moslem Waffen S.S., which committed unspeakable atrocities in Yugoslavia and elsewhere, is the reason for his still remaining on Yugoslavia's list of wanted war criminals.

After the war he settled in Cairo and played a prominent role in the campaign against Israel. He developed close contacts with Sadat, the present U.A.R. President, he had the full support of the Moslem religious authorities, and was ...


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The Emissary: A Life of Enzo Sereni. [1973] (2019). (n.p.): Plunkett Lake Press, Ch. 17. In The Service of British Intelligence.


Arab admiration for the Nazis mounted and there was confidence that here was finally someone who would settle their score with the Jews. Within the Jewish community black moods prevailed...


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Worldview. (1976). United States: Council on Religion and International Affairs, p.47


Father Pawlikowski stresses much the Arab admiration for Hitler and its 'influcnce today'


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Guide to America-Holy Land Studies: Political relations and American Zionism. (1982). United States: Arno Press, p.27


Ch. Political Relations and American Zionism.

Contains correspondence with the ZOA about
strengthening Zionism in America so as "to be able to count on it both as a political and a financial support . . . [as] we see that there are no forces outside the Zionist Organization upon whom we can rely in the upbuilding of the country and the defence of our political rights"; an extensive letter (21 pages) to Brandeis (1940) chronicling Jewish-Arab relations and political contacts over a 10-year period, including the pro-Hitler stance of many Arabs and their hopes for a German victory that they believe would lead to the creation of an Arab Empire; numerous letters concerning illegal immigration to Palestine and the internal affairs of American Zionist organizations . Also includes copies of addresses by Ben-Gurion, press releases and ...



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Magill's Literary Annual: History and Biography, 1985. (1985). United States: Salem Press, Incorporated, pp.159-160


...from 1917 to the end of World War II, Great Britain severely limited Jewish immigration to Palestine and simultaneously, in flagrant violation of the mandate, encouraged Arab migration into Palestine, supplying Arab immigrants with all the necessary documents to validate their illegal entry into the country.
Thus Jewish immigrants did not arrive to find Palestine filled with Arabs ; on the contrary, there was a small population of Arabs living in Palestine in 1917. As Jews arrived, they improved the quality of life in Palestine, which in turn attracted Arabs, who were allowed by the British to immigrate at levels greater than the Jews. A second British violation of the mandate relates to the area and extent of Palestine. The mandate included as parts of Palestine the present State of Israel, the West Bank of the Jordan River, and the area then known as Transjordan and now known as Jordan. Fully three quarters of Palestine was transferred to Arab rule by the British and became Jordan -- a gross violation of the League of Nations mandate governing Palestine . Great Britain unilaterally made the decision and granted Jordan independence in 1946, two years before Israel became a state in only twenty'five percent of the territory originally designated as Palestine. During the period of Jewish immigration, Jews were not permitted to settle in any part of Palestine except the small area out of which Israel was carved.
Thus, Great Britain made certain that Transjordan remained exclusively an Arab territory.

During the 1920's and 1930's , the Arabs in Palestine began a series of ter- rorist attacks violence, rioting, strikes, and massacres of Jews to prevent Jewish immigration and to encourage Great Britain to halt their immigration. Under the mandate, when the Jewish population of Palestine reached a majority, a Jewish homeland could be created. By limiting Jewish im-migration and encouraging Arab immigration, Great Britain and the Arabs effectively thwarted that goal. Even under normal circumstances, the con- sequences of such a policy would have been tragic; under the circumstances of the Holocaust unfolding in the death camps and crematoriums of Nazi Germany, the consequences were truly horrifying.

The 1939 British White Paper was a major concession to the Arabs. It limited Jewish immigration to Palestine to fifty thousand over a five-year period. That fifty thousand was strictly adhered to while the six million Jews of Europe went to their deaths because they could find no haven. ..

make clear that "that deed by Britain's officialdom in Western Palestine ... may indeed have constituted active participation in the racial genocide of the Jews of Eastern Europe."

What could have been the reasons for such in-humanity?

Two may be offered for consideration.

One was Great Britain's hope for Arab support during World War II.
That hope went unfilled, as most Arabs supported Nazi Germany while the Jews of Palestine supported Great Britain.

The second reason was far more odious. In 1943 , the secretary of British Secretary of Foreign Affairs Anthony Eden wrote in his diary: "Unfortunately A. E. is immovable on the subject of Palestine. He loves Arabs and hates Jews." Eden himself wrote to his secretary: "If we must have preferences, let me murmur in your ear that I prefer Arabs to Jews." British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, under whom the White Paper of 1939 was adopted, told his cabinet, "If we must offend one side, let us offend the Jews rather than the Arabs."

These exchanges reflect anti-Semitic attitudes, and the translation of such attitudes into policy meant, in the words of Peters, that "the British virtually signed the death warrants for countless Jews" during the Holocaust.

Even after World War II had ended and the remaining Jewish survivors of the Holocaust languished in the Allied Displaced Persons Camps, Great Britain persisted in its desire to placate the Arabs and to deny to European Jews the right to migrate to Palestine.
For their part, Arabs continued to regard Jews as dhimmis -- not entitled to equality with the Arabs and certainly not entitled to a nation-state in the Middle East.
By 1948, however, Great Britain abandoned its control of Palestine, and the Jewish population created the State of Israel.

Carrying their refusal to acknowledge Jewish equality to the level of war, the combined Arab nations invaded Israel and were, at great cost, fought off. The invading states encouraged Israeli Arabs to leave Israel. Israel encouraged them to stay, but many left...



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Stav, A. (1999). Peace : the Arabian caricature : a study of anti-semitic imagery. Israel: Gefen Publishing House, p.118



Arab admiration for Nazism in the 1930s. after Hitler came to power, should be seen against the backdrop of such an identity of values. The explanation usually given fo such admiration, namely, that a common antipathy toward France and Biltain pushed the Arabs into Hitlers arms. is only a partial explanation. Furthermore. as a fundamental explanation, it is overly simplistic to the point of being a perversion of history.

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Spector, I. (2009). Loud and Clear: The Memoir of an Israeli Fighter Pilot. United States: Voyageur Press, p.153


Most Arabs leaned to Hitler and Mussolini. A German takeover of the Middle East meant Jewish annihilation, and the end of any hope of a revival of the nation.

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Rubenstein, R. L. (2010). Jihad and Genocide. Germany: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, p.82


THE MUFTI'S PRO-AXIS ACTIVITIES.
Rashid 'Ali also made his way to Berlin from Iran. Both men quickly began to compete for Nazi support and recognition as the leader of the Arab cause. Since both believed, as did most Arabs, that an Axis victory was inevitable, much was at stake.



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Ziedenberg, G., history, G. Z. M. (2011). Blockade: The Story of Jewish Immigration to Palestine. United States: AuthorHouse, p.164.



Most Arabs in the area strongly supported the German cause, including such future luminaries as Anwar Sadat.


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Partners Together in This Great Enterprise. (2011). (n.p.): Xulon Press, p.408.



When the war began, most Arabs backed Germany. Throughout the war, the Mufti was a friend and guest of Hitler.


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Grand Mufti al-Husseini: Britain’s Deadliest Enemy?
Prime Minister Winston Churchill labeled Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, as such.

This article appears in: July 2012


By Blaine Taylor.
Like all Palestinians and most Arabs, Haj Amin al-Hussaini not only looked forward to an Axis Pact victory in World War II but also saw it as a means of defeating what he believed was a joint British-Jewish conspiracy to foist an Israelite homeland on the Middle East that would be to the detriment of his own people.


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Wawrzyn, H. (2013). Nazis in the Holy Land 1933-1948. Germany: De Gruyter, p.94.



Arabs admired the “awakened Germany” and its Führer.


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Exposing the myth of the Arab bystander to the Holocaust.
Simon Ohayon. Jerusalem Post, January 26, 2014.

The myth that the Arabs were innocent bystanders to the Nazi Holocaust is unfortunately widely accepted at face value.


The Arab masses and leadership gleefully welcomed the Nazis taking power in 1933 and messages of support came from all over the Arab world, especially from the Palestinian Arab leader, Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, who was the first non-European to request admission to the Nazi party.


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Steininger, Rolf. Germany and the Middle East: From Kaiser Wilhelm II to Angela Merkel. 1st ed., Berghahn Books, 2019. JSTOR, Crossref

Steininger, R. (2018). Germany and the Middle East: From Kaiser Wilhelm II to Angela Merkel. Germany: Berghahn Books. Chapter 4: During the Second World War, p. 47.


Most Arabs admired Hitler as the Führer of Greater Germany and applauded his anti-Jewish policy.


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Osterberg, Ä. (2021). Mehr als alles behüte dein Herz: Wie unsere Herzen und unser Land heilen, wenn uns die Wurzel wieder trägt. Germany: BoD - Books on Demand, p.300



[„Hitler überzeugte ... Chamberlain, daß der Frieden in Europa nur gesichert werden könne, wenn die Tschechoslowakei zur Aufgabe des Sudetenlandes gezwungen würde, das nach Hitler 'rechtmäßig zu Deutschland gehörte.' Diplomatischer Druck wurde ausgeübt und die Tschechen wurden gezwungen, eine Gebirgskette aufzugeben, die eine fast undurchdringliche Verteidigungslinie gegen eine deutsche Invasion bildete. Der Rest ist Geschichte. ...

Arafat ist wie die meisten Araber ein großer Bewunderer Hitlers. Die Strategie der PLO zur Vernichtung Israels basiert auf Hitlers Handlungsweise im Hinblick auf die Tschechoslowakei. Mit Hilfe von Terror und einer hochentwickelten Propagandamaschinerie ist es Arafat gelungen, die ganze Welt zu überzeugen, daß 'Friede' nur gesichert werden kann, wenn Israel Land zurückgibt, das 'rechtmäßig den >Palästinensern< gehört.' Die Strategie im militärischen sowie im Propagandabereich ist identisch mit der von Hitler, aber die Friedensstrategie Arafats stammt aus der arabischen Welt..]

"Hitler convinced ... Chamberlain that peace in Europe could only be secured if Czechoslovakia was forced to abandon the Sudetenland, which, according to Hitler, 'rightfully belonged to Germany.' Diplomatic pressure was applied, and the Czechs were forced to abandon a mountain range that formed a nearly impenetrable line of defense against a German invasion. The rest is history. ...

Arafat, like most Arabs, is a great admirer of Hitler. The PLO's strategy for the destruction of Israel is based on Hitler's approach to Czechoslovakia. With the help of terror and a sophisticated propaganda machine, Arafat succeeded in convincing the entire world that 'peace' could only be secured if Israel returned land that 'rightfully belonged to the Palestinians.'" The military and propaganda strategy is identical to Hitler's, but Arafat's peace strategy originates from the Arab world...


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How Europe bankrolls Palestinian antisemitism.
Ben-Dror Yemini. Ynetnews. Aug 18, 2022



In fact, most Arabs in Palestine eagerly awaited Nazi general Erwin Rommel's invasion ahead of the Battle of El Alamein.


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World War II Colonialism: The Arabs.


For the most part the Arabs seemed to have ignored what the Italians did in Libya. The Arabs both in Palestine and most other areas supported the NAZIs. There was only the open revoly in Iraq (1941), but most Arabs supported the NAZIs ..


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Yad Vashem is wrong about Hamas and the Holocaust.
Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS, Nov. 1, 2023.


The Mufti didn’t give Hitler the idea for the Holocaust at their meeting and was a marginal figure in wartime Berlin. But he was an enthusiastic supporter. It also symbolized the sympathy that many if not most Arabs felt for the Nazi cause because they saw Hitler as an opponent of their British and Jewish enemies.

Mention of the support for the Nazis by the Arabs deserves a place in any museum devoted to the history of the Holocaust especially when one thinks of what might have happened to the hundreds of thousands of Jews in the yishuv had the Germans defeated the British in North Africa in 1942 and conquered Palestine.


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Fighting the Hamas supporters’ lies.
The sooner we wake up and expose and marginalize evil, the better it will be for humanity.

Shmuel Katz, JNS, Nov. 15, 2023.



In 1937, the Peel Commission recommended a further partition of the remaining 23% of the Land of Israel. In 1939, under Arab pressure, the British further restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine (even from Nazi Germany) on the eve of the Second World War. Despite all this, the Jews supported the British, and most Arabs supported Nazi Germany. In 1948 the British Mandate for Palestine ended. In accordance with the U.N. Partition Resolution, and in accordance with the legal favorable vote by the U.N., the State of Israel was established on about 10% of the land included in the original British Mandate for Palestine and became an official member of the U.N. Israel asked the local Arabs to become a part of the reestablished Jewish state in its ancestral homeland, but on the same day, surrounding Arab states, along with many local Arabs, started a war to destroy it.

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Lyn Julius.
Germans and Nazis in the Middle East. Lockdown University Transcript, July 11, 2024.



He was an ideological antisemite, and he would’ve stopped at nothing to kill the Jews wherever he found them as he exhorted Arabs on the radio. And this was proved positive that his anti-Zionism of the 1920s had spilled over into outright antisemitism. And most Arabs across the Middle East and even in North Africa wanted the Nazis to win the war. Throughout the Middle East, public opinion was mostly pro-German.


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Between Gaza and Berlin.
By Matan Hasidim/Makor Rishon. Israel Hayom, Aug 25, 2024.


The September 11 attacks, planned in his hometown of Hamburg, Germany, led Dr. Matthias Küntzel to dedicate his work to researching the Nazi roots of contemporary Arab antisemitism, which, he argues, underpin the opposition to the establishment of Israel and also explain the events of October 7th. He is convinced that the world cannot tolerate a nuclear Iran and shares his personal journey in confronting his family's history.

"In my new book, I quote a good friend from Israel, Dr. Eddy Cohen, who was born in Lebanon," says Dr. Matthias Küntzel, a researcher of Muslim antisemitism, speaking to me from his home in Hamburg, Germany. "Eddy has about half a million followers on Twitter, from across the Arab world. Once, I asked him to post a question in Arabic: 'What do you think about Adolf Hitler?' Within minutes, the post received hundreds of responses. He translated the first forty for me, and about half of them expressed very positive sentiments: 'Hero,' 'the bravest man in the world,' 'his only mistake was not killing all the Jews,' and other such statements.

"Imagine a Western country, like France, conducting a public opinion poll where masses of people express strong support for Hitler and what he represents. It would be a global scandal; everyone would talk about it. But because it's the Arab world, it passes without criticism. The immense popularity of Hitler in the Arab street is well-known to anyone familiar with the Middle East."
The immense popularity of Hitler in the Arab street is well-known to anyone familiar with the Middle East...

"In the early years after the Nazis came to power, their foreign policy showed little interest in the Middle East. Their prevailing perception was that the region was deeply rooted under the influence of the British, French, and Italians, and they had no interest in becoming involved. When, in the spring of 1933, the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, wanted to collaborate with the Nazis against the Jews, they rejected him.

"In 1937, however, a turning point occurred: the Peel Commission in Britain proposed for the first time the plan to partition the land into two states. The commission recommended the establishment of a very small Jewish state in Palestine, on only 17% of the territory, and a very large Arab-Muslim state. The Jews, of course, were not thrilled with this idea, but they accepted it. The Nazis sought to prevent even this tiny Jewish state at all costs. They believed it might become a kind of 'Jewish Vatican' and interfere with Nazi foreign policy. That same year, they launched a campaign throughout the Arab world to bury the nascent Jewish state plan before it could take root.

"It's important to remember that before the Nazis' intervention, there were still various solutions to the conflict...





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When "The Party", gives practically complete obedience to it's "Leader", with very little objection, and that "Leader" publicly presents a "Righteousness" in every action "he, or she" takes, even when that action is absolutely wrong, on a continuing basis, for the Nation/ The People,...... Is that "Fascism"?​

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"fascism​


noun


fas·cism ˈfa-ˌshi-zəm How to pronounce fascism (audio)
also ˈfa-ˌsi-




plural fascisms

Synonyms of fascismnext

1


often Fascism : a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition
At the core of fascism is loyalty to tribe, ethnic identity, religion, tradition, or, in a word, nation.
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There are differences between Italian Fascism, German Nazism, and their various nationalist descendants.—
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broadly : a philosophy or system with some combination of fascist values and governing structures
Take away colonialism and you still have … Balkan fascism … —
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: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
The early instances of army fascism and brutality are typical …—
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Call it "soft fascism": a political system that aims to stamp out dissent and seize control of every major aspect of a country's political and social life, without needing to resort to "hard" measures like banning elections …—
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—often used informally in an exaggerated way
Like the city's ban on the use of trans fats and draconian restrictions on smoking, the new soda regulations are … yet another installment of what Jonah Goldberg rightly termed "liberal fascism."—
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fascist
ˈfa-shist How to pronounce fascism (audio)
also -sist
noun
or Fascist

plural fascists or Fascists

notorious fascists


fascist adjective
or Fascist

a fasciststate


fascistic
fa-ˈshi-stik How to pronounce fascism (audio)
also -ˈsi-
adjective
or less commonly Fascistic

a fascisticorganization


fascistically
fa-ˈshi-sti-k(ə-)lē How to pronounce fascism (audio)
also -ˈsi-
adverb
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The Italian Origin of Fascism


The words fascism and fascist have long been associated with the Fascisti of Benito Mussolini and the fasces, the bundle of rods with an ax among them, which the Fascisti used as a symbol of the Italian people united and obedient to the single authority of the state. However, Mussolini did not introduce the word fascista (plural fascisti) with the 1919 organization of the Fasci di combattimento (“combat groups”), nor did the fasces have any direct connection with the origin of fascista. In Italian, the word fascio (plural fasci) means literally “bundle,” and figuratively “group.” From at least 1872 fascio was used in the names of labor and agrarian unions, and in October 1914 a political coalition was formed called the Fascio rivoluzionario d’ azione internazionalista (“revolutionary group for international action”), which advocated Italian participation in World War I on the side of the Allies. Members of this group were first called fascisti in January 1915. Although Mussolini was closely associated with this interventionist movement, it had no direct link with the post-war Fasci di combattimento, and in 1919 the word fascista was already in political circulation. It is, however, to the Fascisti in their 1919 incarnation—who seized power in Italy three years later—that we owe the current customary meanings of our words fascism and fascist.



Examples of​


From the first hours of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, the propagandists on both sides of the conflict portrayed the struggle in stark, Manichaean language. The totalitarian nature of both regimes made this inevitable. On one side stood Hitler, fascism, the myth of German supremacy; on the other side stood Stalin, communism, and the international proletarian revolution.
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Consider what happened during the crisis of global fascism. At first, even the truth about Hitler was inconvenient. Many in the west hoped the danger would simply go away. —
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Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, 2006

He collected stories about groups similar to his—Aryans, other Nazis, the KKK. Lately, he'd been flagging many stories from Germany and Eastern Europe, and was quite thrilled with the rise of fascism there. —
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John Grisham, The Chamber, 1995

the rise of Fascism in Europe before World War II





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At the same time, PTA’s of-the-moment take on fascism and resistance could have slotted One Battle into the drama field, but the front-runner will make room for Sinners by competing as a comedy. —
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Nate Jones, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025 The committee made an enormous contribution to the war effort, sending thousands of articles about fascism, the Jewish war experience and the Red Army for publication in the foreign press. —
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Wendy Z. Goldman, The Conversation, 1 Dec. 2025 Unemployment was spreading across Europe and fascism was on the rise, but these were distant abstractions. —
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Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025 Ultimately, Undersight alludes to the visual language of both fascism and Communism in order to undercut the power and magnitude of all forms of authoritarian state projects. —
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Gayatri Gopinath, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025





Word History​


Etymology

Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces

First Known Use

1921, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of fascism was in 1921"
There is a difference between fascism and nazism.
The latter (Hitler in his 1925 Mein Kampf and on, Goebbeles, etc. Defined later to apply even to anyone whose ethnicity is partially Jewish) most basic element was anti ALL Jews.
 
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The words fascism and fascist have long been associated with the Fascisti of Benito Mussolini and the fasces, the bundle of rods with an ax among them, which the Fascisti used as a symbol of the Italian people united and obedient to the single authority of the state.
Of course, when any person has the sole intention to deceive and to insult, they call others fascists.

Take Democrats for instance, though they share ideology with fascists, it is wrong to call them fascists. Same with Republicans who clearly are polar opposites from fascists. Democrats are very devoted to Government so long as they run all of it.

Objections to our flawed, crafted by Democrats come from Republicans only.
 
What makes Trump a "fascist"? They never explain
You never listen. I’ve been saying it for a long time. It’s not a short story. It takes a long time to discuss.

For starters, he’s a nationalist. A hyper nationalist. That’s where fascism originates.

He’s operating under a very strong nationalist identity (which has very race based overtones but that’s another issue).

He overly venerates the military.
He establishes himself as synonymous with the state.
He chafes at the idea that his authority is somehow limited.
He seeks to bend the function of commerce to serve his goals for the state.
He seeks to suppress criticism with use of government.
He wishes to punish and imprison his critics because they’re critical of him.

We could go on.
 
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