Farhud: Roots of Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust and its Effects

Published: June 13, 2016, 6:38 p.m.

b'Speakers: Edwin Black, Award-winning, New York Times bestselling international investigative author; Dr. Haim Shaked, Professor of International Studies at the University of Miami \\n\\nTitle: "Roots of an Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust and its Lasting Effects" \\n\\nLocation: Fordham University, New York \\n\\nDate: January 31, 2013\\n\\nDescription: Edwin Black speaks about how the Mufti of Jerusalem forged a far-ranging alliance with Adolph Hitler, resulting in the June 1941 Farhud, a Nazi-style pogrom in Baghdad that set the stage for the expulsion of the Iraqi Jewish community and approximately a million Jews across the Arab world. He asserts that the Farhud was the beginning of what became a broad Nazi-Arab alliance during the Holocaust.'