The Red Moon was a Nazi club formed in 1935, by Palestinian-Arabs in Haifa in British-controlled Mandatory Palestine.

After the Federation of Arab Youth in Palestine petitioned Adolf Hitler to help them prevent the Jews from obtaining additional land in Palestine, Arab youths in Haifa formed the Red Moon club, which was financially supported by Hitler's regime. Nazi agents had, at the time, been active in the area, attempting to incite the Arabs against the Jews.

It was described in the Jewish Daily Bulletin as "another manifestation of an intensive Nazi anti-Semitic activity sponsored by the Hitler government, and which has broken out throughout Palestine and the Near East."[1][2][3] Hitler's birthday was "celebrated in the club in Haifa".[4]

This was one of other Nazi Party branches in the region.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Arabs in Haifa form Nazi Club; Well Financed" (PDF). Jewish Daily Bulletin. No. 3183. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 1 July 1935. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  2. ↑ "Arabs in Haifa Form Nazi Club; Well Financed". Canadian Jewish Chronicle. 5 July 1935. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  3. ↑ "Arab Youths Found Nazi Club in Haifa". The Sentinel, June 11, 1935
  4. ↑ Hope, Sebastian (2005). Hotel Tiberias: A Tale of Two Grandfathers. HarperCollins. p. 271. ISBN 978-0-00-713021-4.
  5. ↑ Rubin, Barry; Schwanitz, Wolfgang G. (2014-02-25). Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-19932-1. There were also Nazi Party branches in Al- exandria and Port Said; Haifa and Jaffa; and Adana, Ankara, Istanbul, and Izmir.
  6. ↑ American Christian Palestine Committee (1946): "The Arab War Effort: A Documented Account". p.7: There were a number of strong pre-war Arab - Nazi organizations — the Iron Shirts (led by Fakhri al-Barudi of the National Bloc, member of the Syrian Parliament to this day); the League for National Action (headed by Abu al-Huda al-Yafi, Dr. Zaki al-Jabi and others); the An-Nadi al-Arabi Club of Damascus (headed by Dr. Said Abd al-Fattah al-Imam); the “Councils for the Defence of Arab Palestine” (headed by well - known pro-Nazi leaders, such as Nabih al-Azma, Adil Arslan and others); the “Syrian National Party” (led by the Fascist Anton Saada, who escaped during the war to the Germans and was sent by them to the Argentine). The National Bloc, the principal party in Syria, and more particularly the Istiqlal group (headed by Shukri al-Kuwatli, now President of the Syrian Republic) had for many years been openly pro-Nazi. Before the war, Baldur von Schirach, leader of the Hitlerjugend, visited Syria on a special mission and established close contact with these circles and with the Arab youth organisation.

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