ABSTRACT
Fu'ad al-Khatib family, an Arab nationalist, had a relationship with a key personality of the thematic complex of relations between Arabs and Jews, too. There are three sub-topics that serve to highlight the overall problematic that is at stake in this chapter: Arab perceptions and reactions to the news of the Jewish Holocaust, before and after 1948, are key to understanding the relationship between Arabs and Jews in the second half of the twentieth century in general, including the currently widespread usage of anti-Semitic language; Arab immediate encounters with Fascism and Nazism provide historical background for, and in fact a corrective against, 176the alleged natural affinity between Arabs and Nazism; and, finally, it is a matter of debate if there was actual adoption and adaptation of fascist ideology in the Modern Middle East, and to what extent we can talk of Arab fascism as a reality.
