Joseph Francis

Yousef / Yusuf / Joseph Francis [يوسف فرانسيس] (Born ca 1904 - Died on April 23, 1944) Was a well known Arab journalist in the Holy Land Mandatory Palestine.

For several years until 1936 the correspondent of the Cairo 'Al Ahram' and sub-editor of 'Al Liwa', the "Palestine Arab Party" organ owned by Jamal eff. Husseini. Before that he worked with 'Falastin' and 'As Siraat'. He was also correspondent of overseas newspapers.

Already in 1933, Arab wish to form Arab Nazi party in Mandatory Palestine, weeks after Al-Husseini approached German consul in March, 1933 offering alliance against Democracies, in April "Joseph Francis, the Palestine correspondent of al-Ahram, wrote on behalf of a group of Palestinian Arabs to Heinrich Wolff, the German consul in Jerusalem (1933–35), asking for his aid in forming a local Arab Nazi party."

However, Wolff opposed it, it was conveyed in a note to the Foreign Office in Berlin in June, in which he argued: Because the strengthening of the prestige and the international position of the Reich.

At the time, Francis resided in Jaffa.

By 1938, he was the Jerusalem correspondent of Al Mokattam of Cairo.<ref>The Palestine Post⁩, 8 August 1938⁩[/ref>

See also

• Muhammad 'Izzat Darwazeh
• Darwish Al-Miqdadi
• Munif al-Husseini
• Fuad Isa Shatara
• Amin Ruwayha
• Nazism at Arab Palestinians

References

"The Mufti.. concocted a new kind of antisemitism that combined traditional Muslim antisemitism, like the anti-Jewish verses you find in the Koran, with the Nazi antisemitism that demonised Jews... His whole ideology was antisemitic and from the very beginning he targeted Jews, not Zionists."

The difference between lies and reality is sometimes just a color on a map

Lord Peel to W. Ormsby-Gore as he was preparing the royal commission report, "Though I knew there was ill-feeling between Jews and Arabs, I had not realized the depth and intensity of the hatred with which the Jews are held by the Arabs..."

"It is not Israel's settlement blocks but rather the Palestinian ideological blockade that constitutes the biggest barrier to peaceful arrangements . The Jew-hatred in this region must no longer be played down as a kind of local custom ..."

The only tweet (July 2014) on the Twitter account of the late American Elan Ganeles - murdered by Arab-Islamist "Palestinian" on Feb 27, 2023 hy"d: "I think you're always going to have tension in the Middle East, when there's [are] people who want to kill Jews, and the Jews don't want to be killed, and neither side is willing to compromise."