Salem Bader
Salem Bader (born 1902) was a British spy and an activist in American nationalist causes. He later became an anti-Zionist lobbyist founding the United States Arab-Asian Institute.
Bader was born in Jerusalem to a German father and a mother of English-French background. He knew Lawrence of Arabia and served with him in his war against the Turks.[1] At age 13 he was the youngest agent of the British Intelligence Service. He knew the desert regions and the dialects of the surrounding tribes.[2] At age 16 he was caught and tried in a Turkish-German court martial held in Palestine. The court sentenced him to be shot for his spying but Bader was soon rescued by Lawrence and his Arab allies when the jail was stormed in the middle of the night.[3]
Salem Bader was educated in Great Britain.[4] He arrived in the United States in 1925 and settled in Los Angeles. He became an American citizen in 1942.
In November 1953 Bader founded the United States Arab-Asian Institute based in Washington DC. He registered as a foreign agent in 1957. The purpose of the Institue was to establish a "bridge" between "American and Arab, Asian and African political and economic interests."[5]
Contents
Books
- Brothers Under the Skin (1940, historic novel)
Booklets
- Is America a Christian or Jewish Civilization?
- Is the White Race Committing Suicide?
- Let's Go to War Again!
Notes
- ↑ Arts and Architecture, Volumes 57-58, 1940, page 1
- ↑ "Noted British Spy, Author is Injured", Lodi News-Sentinel, October 21, 1942, page 1
- ↑ "Noted British Spy, Author is Injured", Lodi News-Sentinel, October 21, 1942, page 3
- ↑ Class Struggle in Hollywood, By Gerald Horne, page 131
- ↑ Near East Report, Volume 8 (1966) page 71
