I know that being an anti-semite doesn’t necessarily infer support of Hitler or fascism, but why hasn’t there been at least SOME reference to Hitler’s ideals in Arab protests?
I think because of the whole blue-eyed Ayran thing. Hitler/Nazi Germany was pretty much against other races, AFAIK. I believe in some of the propaganda, they referred to other races as subhuman.
As such, I think the only people who are supporting Hitler are the crazy neo-nazi’s.
Arabs are semites, so they don’t tend to be anti-semitic.
Arab sentiment against Israel has nothing to do with race. It is purely political.
I had a feeling someone was gonna take me literally on that one. You know what I meant Number. Somehow I thought “Jew-Hating” lacked tact.
According to a British biographer, Saddam was raised by an uncle who was an ardent Nazi. So, assuming this is true, then there are at least some Arabs who are Nazi’s, or at least Nazi sympathizers. I would imagine that the reason you don’t see any pictures of Hitler at anit-Jewish rallies is that the organizers of the protests are smart enough to know that the moment they allowed people to wave such things around, the weight of world opinion would immediately tilt against them.
The term may be most commonly used to refer to hatred of Jews, but it certainly applies to other Semite peoples as well.
From Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc:
Yes, Semites are not limited to Jews but to several other groups as well. That’s irrelevant though. Antisemite by virtually all definitions refers to the hatred of Jews only. It may seem inconsistent, but that is what it means.
You knew what the OP meant, right? Why play silly little semantic games?
Haj
What are you, anti-semantic or something?
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Ugh! I should have seen that one coming. 
Haj
But the Nazis were rather ambiguous about who they defined as "Aryan (many Germans don’t even have blond hair and blue eyes. The did ally with the Japanese after all.
Ex. The Nazis welcomed the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem as an “Aryan ally”, somthing not forgotten by many Israelis. (The Grand Mufti was also related to Yasser Arafat’s family). Also the Nazis occupied parts of Arab North Africa in the early 1940’s, and probably treated the civilian Arabs far better than the civilian Poles or Russians. Also Hitler was quite interested in relations with Iran, Iraq and the Allies overthrew their governments as a result.
There were and are open Nazi sympathizers in many places that many of us would not suspect.
I guess that explains all the Jew-bashing by Arab states.
I agree that they were rather ambiguous about it, but the perception is probably what counts here. AFAIK the perception of Nazi’s and Hitler is “blond hair, blue eyed”, and because that’s the popular perception (once again AFAIK), that could be one of the reason’s there is no reference to Hitler in Arab anti-semitic protests.
That doesn’t seem to stop protestors from carrying around signs showing swastikas. Same thing, when you think about it.
I was referring to the types of protests that the OP was talking about. I’ve not seen any swastikas in those (then again, I’ve not paid much attention to Arab anti-Israeli protests, seen one hate-mongering mob, you’ve seen 'em all). I have seen Neo-Nazi types waving posters of Adolf about. (One of the “joys” of living in Tennessee is that the Klan traces its origin to here and periodically has to inflict the local residents of the town that excreted it to a rally. Said residents are not amused by this.)
You do very occasionly see nazi paraphenilia (e.g. nazi flags, etc.) at anti-Israel protests (though only in middle eastern countries) but there is no real connection between Arab anti-Israel sentiment and Nazism as the conflict is political, but racism (which in this case certainly cuts both ways) is always a product of a long and embittered conflict.