Antagonism and violence increased still further as resentment against Zionist efforts in the British Mandate of Palestine spread . The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem , Mohammad Amin al-Husayni played a key role in violent opposition to Zionism and closely allied himself with the Nazi regime . From 1941 al-Husayni was based in Germany from where he urged attacks on Jews . There were Nazi-inspired pogroms in Algeria in the 1930s , and massive attacks on the Jews in Iraq and Libya in the 1940s ( see Farhud ) . Pro-Nazi Muslims slaughtered dozens of Jews in Baghdad in 1941
Farhud
Farhud
Religious antisemitism