"Palestinian" neo-Nazi links

Submitted by Jack DH (United States), Sep 20, 2022 at 03:48

Tal, Eliyahu. PLO. Israel: Department of Information, WZO, 1982. 69.

[https://books.google.com/books?id=AXCgAAAAMAAJ&q=fatah].

... since the late 1960s, the PLO has maintained contact with neo-Nazi and other extremist right-wing groups, providing training, smuggling arms and distributing propaganda.

Concerned that exposure of such cooperation might damage its image and standing in "progressive circles," the PLO takes care to conceal those ties and frequently denies they exist.

Despite the PLO's efforts to appear to be "only anti-Zionist, and not anti-Jewish;" it has manifested its hatred for Jews time and again through its activities and propaganda. PLO hijacker Lila Khaled stated in her autobiography:

"At first I admired Hitler because I thought he was the enemy of the Jews..."

"Carry the warfare of the Palestinians to Europe"

This was the resolution of a special conference Al-Fatah held in Beirut on August 14, 1981 with Arafat in the chair. It was decided to cooperate with underground organizations in Europe, as well as to launch attacks against Jewish institutions (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 3 , 1981, in a report of the attack on the synagogue in Vienna on the same date.)...

The first manifestation of this help was the recruitment of a former SS officer to command a PLO training camp at Basra, in Lebanon.

In September of the same year, Jean Tireault, secretary of the neo-Nazi movement, was arrested in Brussels in connection with PLO terrorists acts in Belgium.

At another meeting held in Paris, March 28 1970, Jean Robert Debbaudt, a Belgian exofficer in Hitler's Waffen SS, leader of the neo-Nazi rexist Party, offered to place his group at the service of the PLO.

In Munich on September 16, 1972, 10 days after the massacre of the Israeli athelets, a Nazi fascist rally, "the First National European Congress of Youth," was held. The 600 delegates cheered Black September to the rafters.

Delegates also extolled Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian who killed Senator Robert Kennedy.

...extreme right-wing Whersportsgruppe of Karl-Heinz Hoffman, who was charged with the terrorist explosion at the Munich Oktoberfest (September 28, 1980). Leroy and other members had trained at the PLO's Bir Hassan camp in Lebanon. Hoffman himself told Bild am Sonntag he visited Beirut in July 1980 in connection with supplies to the PLO.

..... L'oeuvre Francaise, an extreme right - wing group operating in France , agreed to carry out terrorist operations at the PLO's request as early as 1977.

The Swiss director of the Arab Bank in Geneva, Francois Genoud, was suspected of of being connected with the "Spider" network responsible for the transfer of Nazi booty to Swiss bank vaults. His appearance at the trial of El Al plane hijackers in Zurich in 1970 uncovered the complex financial cooperation between the neo-Nazis and the PLO.

The public prosecutor in Karlsruh, West Germany, investigated a case of arms smuggling to Europe from Arab countries through a PLO affiliate. Three of those arrested were members of the "Adolf Hitler Free Corps" (January 1978)...

A director of the West German Anti-Crime Burea stated in a seminar held in Rome (February 1982) that neo-Nazis were being helped and financed by the PLO.

According to FBI reports American neo-Nazis (led by Harold Covington) and Fatah personnel trained together in a camp in North Carolina (Ma'ariv, August 7, 1981).

The Austrain police arrested a neo-Nazi leader Herald Angelke for giving shelter to PLO members who had infiltrated into Austria with forged passports (October 1973).

Security sources in Bonn reported that Otto Albrecht, a neo-Nazi arrested ...

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Related:

Wistrich, Robert S.. A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad. United Kingdom: Random House Publishing Group, 2010.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=Lzs48d3tudsC&pg=PT895].

Mein Kampf was required reading in some Fatah training camps; Nazis were recruited for Fatah and for the PLO, including Erich Altern, a key figure in the Jewish affairs section of the Gestapo, and Willy Berner, an SS officer in Mauthausen death camp. Among the neo-Nazis on the PLO payroll were the German Otto Albrecht and two Belgians, Karl van der Put and the secretary of the fascist La Nation Européene, Jean Tireault.

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