Posts Tagged: Grand Mufti of Jerusalem
How the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Sought the Jews’ Destruction — and Paved the Path to War Today
In 1946, the future son-in-law of Harry Truman, who eventually decided to recognize Israel, met with the man whose life ambition was to destroy the...
Al Jazeera Arabic Publishes Article Praising Man Who Killed Arabs Who Sold Land to Jews
An article in Al Jazeera last weekend starts off this way: Not long ago, a group of young men died in a car accident in Jerusalem....
Hamas and the PA: Exchanging One Genocidal Antisemitic Leadership for Another
Who will govern Gaza after the present war? It is not clear that Israel has formulated its vision for a post-Hamas Gaza, but Israel has...
Nazism and the Palestinians
JNS.org - In 1921, Herbert Samuel, the British high commissioner of Mandatory Palestine, appointed Haj Amin al-Husseini grand mufti of Jerusalem. It would prove to...
The Problem With the Joint Arab List in Israel
On October 15, Israel's Knesset, with the support of 80 of its 120 Knesset members, ratified the historic peace treaty with the United Arab Emirates,...
Jerusalem Was Largely Ignored as a Muslim Holy City — Until Zionists Came Along
I am reading an academic paper entitled, "Making Jerusalem the centre of the Muslim World: Pan-Islam and the World Islamic congress of 1931" by N....
The Palestinians and Their Allies Should Know the Truth About the Nazis
The most offensive attacks made by Palestinians and their supporters against Israelis are comparisons to the Nazis. These analogies demonstrate a profound ignorance of history...
The Palestinian Connection to the Nazis
Last month, Israel's National Library blogged about Heinrich Himmler's lost telegram to the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini. Contrary to the oft-repeated claim that Nazi Germany...
Regardless of Netanyahu’s Comments, Hitler and the Mufti Shared the Same Goals
When Benjamin Netanyahu spoke of the Palestinian Grand Mufti’s role in the destruction of Europe’s Jews, he exaggerated the Mufti’s role but not the Mufti’s...
The Truth About the Grand Mufti, Hitler and the Holocaust
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went too far in recent comments that Nazi collaborator Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem before and during...
Remembering Farhud Day and the Arab Pogroms
While I was speaking to the packed room, a woman I did not know, sitting in the front row, slowly shook her tear-stained head in...
‘Palestine’: The Real Apartheid State
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, now serving the tenth year of his four-year term, recently defamed Israel's "apartheid government." Speaking in Cairo last weekend at...
Robert Fisk Ignores Palestinian ‘Liquidate the Jews’ Legacy
Fisking "Middle East expert" Robert Fisk can be especially challenging, as he often pivots seamlessly between mere distortions and outright fabrications within the same essay. His latest...
Viscount Samuel, Meet Secretary Hagel
Emerging from intense controversy, the British politician Herbert Samuel (1870-1963) was appointed the first High Commissioner of Palestine, where he served 1920-25. A...
