Mick Hartley

We know about the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini, his links to the Nazis, and his determination to bring the Holocaust to the Middle East. Here's another Nazi link to Palestine and anti-Zionism, from Patricia and Gerald Posner at the JC:

In all the commentary about the roots of Islamic extremism that fuelled October 7, one important element has been overlooked: how the eliminationist anti-Jewish policies at the core of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups is the product of a secret post-Second World War plan executed by a Swiss financier and ex-Nazis to incite Arabs to believe that the independence of their own countries was possible only without Jews in the Middle East.

This is not some wild conspiracy theory. It is based on two years of research into François Genoud, a Swiss banker who laundered looted Nazi treasure. A tip from a Catholic priest with a chequered past — criminal convictions for smuggling stolen art and trafficking heroin — kicked off our investigation into Genoud’s efforts to make Arab nationalists the new warriors in a Holy War against Israel and all things Jewish.

Lausanne native Genoud was a zealous 17-year-old admirer of National Socialism when he met his idol, Adolf Hitler, in 1932. Two years later, on a trip to Palestine, he met Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. They had a common enemy: Jews. Genoud became a militant advocate for pan-Arab independence….

Genoud’s wartime Nazi intelligence handler Paul Dickopf had become the director of Germany’s Federal Criminal Police in 1965. A month before the first PFLP hijacking, Dickopf was elected chief of Interpol. No one knew about Dickopf’s Nazi past. He made a deal with Genoud: Interpol refused to investigate any Palestinian terror attacks, deeming them “political matters”.

The same year as the Olympics attack, five PFLP terrorists hijacked a Lufthansa 747 with 188 passengers at Bombay’s airport. The following day, a ransom letter from Cologne demanded $5 million and included explicit instructions that rivalled anything from a John Le Carré novel. The PFLP freed the crew and passengers after it received the $5 million ransom. Genoud did more than fund the hijacking. He had driven overnight to Cologne with his wife carrying the ransom letter. After sending it to Lufthansa, and a copy to news agencies, the couple took off to the Belgian Ardennes for a holiday.

One unidentified intel agency had enough of the surge in terrorism and Genoud’s role. It leaked information about Dickopf’s SS past, forcing him to resign. Genoud had lost his most important police contact. The Mossad opened a Genoud file shortly after the Munich Olympic massacre. He was also on the intelligence radar of half a dozen Western and Eastern bloc nations. The authors discovered that the US National Security Agency had intercepted a telephone call that raised suspicions that Genoud might have had foreknowledge of the Olympics attack. The intelligence agencies played a complex game of chess over Genoud through the 1970s, as they suspected his financing behind dozens of hijackings, assassinations, car bombs and hostage situations. Genoud encouraged Arab nationalists to cooperate with European terror groups such as Germany’s Baader-Meinhof and Italy’s Red Brigade….

In 1987, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, founded Hamas. Genoud told colleagues he liked Hamas’s commitment to driving all Jews from the region. “A free Palestine,” Genoud reportedly told a colleague, “is one without Jews.”

And now tens of thousands of demonstrators in London, New York, Toronto, are carrying on the tradition, chanting the same line.