Fascist Arab nationalist: Auni Abdul Hadi also instigated to bloody violence in Iraq July/1937

Submitted by Liat (United States), Nov 22, 2022 at 10:37

July 18, 1937:

Scores of Jews Reported Injured, Shops Looted After Baghdad Arab Demonstrations

Jerusalem, July 18. (JTA) -- Scores of Jews were injured in Baghdad, Capital of Iraq, thirty so seriously they were sent to hospitals, and many Jewish shops were pillaged, after mass demonstrations against Zionism, according to reports received here today.

All Jewish shops in the city had been closed throughout the day because of the demonstration, called to protest Partitioning of Palestine and led by Auni Bey Abdul Hadi, Militant Palestinian Arab Nationalist.

http://pdfs.jta.org/1937/1937-07-19_289.pdf

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Note, Awni / Auni Avdul Hadi was the employer of Ahmad Shukeiri, head of Istiqlal party who met Nazi officials Allied with them in June 1939, bragging he read Mein Kampf.
Already 1935 Templars' paper reported, Istiqlal, its bulletin propagates fascism.

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