This article in the Chronicle of Higher Education describes Hitler's propaganda efforts in North Africa and the Middle East during WWII. Evidently, the Nazis enlisted the help of exiled Palestinians to broadcast virulent anti-Jew propaganda in "fluent, passionate Arabic," in an effort to influence Arab nationalism and Muslim fundamentalism.
The writer makes a case that this "Nazi Arabic-language propaganda helped introduce radical anti-Semitism into the Middle East." It is an intriguing proposition.
I think discussion of this article, and the adjacent rebuttal (well done Chronicle) would provide a powerful forum to compare the reach and role of media, technology, and rhetoric in that time and our own.
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