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In 1945, Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam  was selected to be the first Secretary General of the Arab League. . One of Azzam's first acts as secretary-general was to condemn anti-Jewish rioting in Egypt of November 2–3, 1945 during which Jewish and other non-Muslim owned shops were destroyed and the Ashkenazi synagogue in Cairo's Muski quarter was set aflame.

On March 2, 1946, in an address to The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry into the…