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Haaretz, the Israeli newspaper are the ones who initially reported the story, take one's gripes to them.

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New Study Says 12,000 Palestinians Volunteered to Fight Nazis during WWII
Saturday, 1 June, 2019 - 11:15

Arab rookies line up in a barracks square for their first drill under a British soldier, in Mandatory Palestine, December 1940. (AP)

In 2015, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked an uproar when he claimed that Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini was the one who had urged Hitler to annihilate the Jews, drawing a wave of criticism.

But it turns out that there was another side to the story that also escaped mention by Netanyahu, the historian’s son: the forgotten role played by thousands of Palestinians who did not heed the Mufti of Jerusalem’s call to support the Axis countries, and went so far as to take up arms to fight the Nazis, often shoulder to shoulder with young Jews from Mandatory Palestine, reported the Israeli Haaretz on Friday.

Professor Mustafa Abbasi, a historian at Tel Hai Academic College, has spent years tracing their story. Having recently published an academic article on the subject, this week he suggested an opposite narrative to the one that Netanyahu put forward.

Read more at: https://aawsat.com/english/home/article/1749506/new-study-says-12000-palestinians-volunteered-fight-nazis-during-wwii