SOURCES and NOTES - Narration - Pt.2 - Jews

Jews of Persia

An even older religious minority in Iran are Jews.
The Persian Jewish community stretches back nearly 3000 years when Jews were freed from Babylonian captivity by Persia's King Cyrus the Great.

Mufti of Jerusalem

In the West we hear of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem visiting Hitler, Arab soldier helping out the Fuehrer in Serbia and the popularity of the anti-Semitic classic Protocols of the Elders of Zion in the Muslim world. 20sIn Iran the MP told us a story of how Nazi’s called Jews “Muslims” - the idea being the Nazis didn’t know or care what the difference was between the two Semitic groups.

SOURCE: “From his appointment in 1921 by the British as the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Husseini was a major figure, and during the 1930s and 1940s he was the recognized leader--recognized, that is, by the British Mandate authorities and the Zionist leadership and, not least, by the leaders of the surrounding Arab societies and states--of the Palestinian Arab national movement, much as Yasser Arafat was the leader of the movement from the late 1960s until his death in 2004. And like Arafat, Husseini basked in the support of the Palestinian multitudes,

“… the story published in Joseph Schechtman's The Mufti and the Fuhrer (1965),
Zvi Elpeleg's The Grand Mufti (1993), or Jennie Lebel's Haj Amin and Berlin (1996).
To be sure, Haj Amin was an anti-Semite. ... His anti-Semitism was certainly reinforced by what he picked up during his years in Germany, between 1941 and 1945, when he was employed by the Third Reich to broadcast jihadist anti-Allied propaganda to the Arab world and to recruit Muslims for the Wehrmacht in Bosnia, while the Nazis, as they described it, were battling "international Jewry" and its agents in London, Washington, and Moscow. Husseini seems to have accepted the Nazi view of the Jews' world-embracing powers--something that is entirely lacking in Qur'anic and early Islamic anti-Semitism, which, if anything, belittled the Jew.
From: The New Republic
September 10, 2008
“The Darker Side” by Benny Morris
http://www.tnr.com/booksarts/story.html?id=701916b5-4f75-4a2b-8fa2-535badfb4ffe&p=5