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was distributed at the conference, as "a startlingly inflammatory pamphlet" which he said gave "an indication of the passions that the organizers of the congress hoped to arouse. The consul's informant at the conference described the text as "a violently anti-Jewish pamphlet" which was given to each of the persons attending the Bludan
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Fu'ad
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A pamphlet distributed at the conference, entitled "Islam and Jewry," has been described as history's "first text that propagated sheer Jew-hatred in an
Islamic context by mixing selected anti-Jewish episodes of Mohammed’s life with the so-called wickedness of Jews in the 20th century.".
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other pan-Arab conferences held after it during the late 1930s, focused specifically on the
Palestine issue and only sought to consolidate the political status quo in the region in which Iraq and Transjordan leaned towards the
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by more activist delegates called the
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vision of a limited federal Arab union, an idea the
British sympathized with, while Syria, Lebanon and Egypt each held their own initiatives. According to al-Solh, pan-Arab unity and liberation from European
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