Hey guys I'm new to this subreddit. With all the tension happening in middle-east I started doing some reading on the concurrent rise of Arab Nationalism and Zionism in the early 20th century. Unfortunately, almost all the online sources that I could find were biased one way or the other (shocking! I know). I am specifically looking for reliable and neutral literature on the relationship (or lack thereof) between the founders of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and National Socialist German Workers' Party. Online sources are very much appreciated. There are some "peer reviewed" articles online but they are written more like propaganda pieces than academic research.
I know this is a hot topic but please leave your opinions and politics out of it.
Thanks guys.
This is a tricky thing in terms of online sources, since the form sort of lends itself to pointing towards contemporary issues, rather than strict historicism. I'll recommend a few books that I think directly address some of the issues you're interested in below. What I might actually suggest is digging around for primary sources on the internet for this issue. One kind of nice side effect of the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict is that pretty much all of the major primary documents have been reproduced online! And many of the non-English ones have been translated into English! I suggest taking some time to actually read the Balfour Declaration, the Sykes-Picot agreement, UN Res. 242, the Hamas Charter, the Israeli Constitution, the Oslo Accords, etc., etc..
Additionally, if you want even deeper primary source info, you can get that too. The US National Archives has made public and digital thousands of primary documents related to this subject on it's website. A simple search for Israel, as an example, returns over 1,700 documents that are in the Online Public Holdings. Similar searches at the British Public Records Office can be done as well.
Some recommended reading: Israel Gershoni, Confronting Fascism in Egypt
Eugene Rogan and Avi Shlaim, The War for Palestine, 1948
Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity