Fact Sheet #3 Did al-Husayni abandon politics after WWII?
The USHMM biography of Amin al-Husayni falsely states that “he rejected the 1947 U.N.
partition plan …and the establishment of Israel in 78 percent of Mandatory
Palestine. Thereafter, he gradually lost his political clout, settled in Beirut, and restricted
his activities to those of a religious leader…”
The Facts:
1. The Holocaust Museum has reversed the
truth. 77% of Mandatory Palestine was given to create TransJordan in 1922. The 1947 U.N. plan
partitioned the remaining 23% of the original Mandate between the Arabs and the
Jews of Palestine. (Eli Hertz, Mandate
for Palestine,
p.12)
2. The Mufti never abandoned politics,
terrorism or Nazi-influenced antisemitism. He
is considered, along with al-Banna, of the Muslim
Brotherhood in Egypt,
the founding father of Islamic terrorism and Islamofacism.
“…the Muslim Brothers cleared the way for the second career of the Mufti, whose
pro-Nazi past they considered a source of pride.” (Matthias Kuntzel,
Jihad and Jew Hatred. Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11, 2007. p. 46.)
3. “Between 1945 and 1948, Islamism
received its ’most important boost’ when the Allied victors …’considered their
good relations with the Arab world more important than countering the
ideological concoctions of antisemitism, Hitler
worship, Holocaust denial and the unbridled desire to destroy Israel, of which
the Mufti was the supreme component…the Islamism of the …21st
century remains marked …by the connections with Nazism…” (in Kuntzel, 2007. forward by Jeffrey Herf,
p.XI,XII)
4. Starting in 1946, Mufti helped bring
“several thousand” Nazi war criminals to Egypt to “’continue their war
against the Jews’.” (Kuntzel, p. 47)
5. In 1945, the Muslim Brotherhood opened
their first branch in Jerusalem,
with al-Husayni as President. By 1947 they had
25 branches and 20,000 members, ‘follower(s) of the Mufti.” (Kuntzel, p.48)
6. In 1946, he “continued to direct
Palestinian Arab political affairs from Cairo,”
and blocked the resettlement of 100,000 Holocaust survivors in Palestine. ((Howard Sachar,
A History of Israel
from the Rise of Zionism to Our Time, 1996, p. 271-2)
7. In 1947, King Abdullah of Jordan warned
that the Mufti wished to set up an Arab state in Palestine with himself as the head. In 1948,
the Egyptians did set him up as the president of a puppet government of Palestine, based in Gaza (Sachar,
p. 321,342)
8. Yasser Arafat was
a relative of the Mufti, and spent time with him in pro-Nazi Egyptian circles
in Cairo. A
German Nazi officer, brought to Egypt
by the Mufti in 1946, trained Yassir Arafat and
other Palestinians as anti-Jewish commandos. (Kuntzel,
p 114)
9. Al Fatah,
founded as a terrorist organization, was financed primarily by funds
supplied by the Mufti.. (Zvi Elpeleg,
The Grand Mufti, p.147)
10. Hussayni fought
successfully to prevent Palestinian refugees from being granted citizenship in
the Arab host states, defining them as Palestinian in perpetuity by the Nazi
volkisch principle, blood inheritance.(Kuentzel, p.113)
11. Hussayni organized the
assassination of King Abdullah of Jordan in 1951 because of the
latter’s willingness to deal with the Israelis. (“The Plotter,” Time Magazine, Aug. 20, 1951) Dr. Musa Abdulla Hussein, convicted
of the assassination, was a cousin of Haj Amin El Husseini.
12. “After May 8, 1945, National Socialism was placed under the ban
virtually everywhere …. The exception was the Arab world, where … former Nazis
and their friends … could continue on as if nothing had changed.… it had much
to do with the period's most renowned Arab politician, the former Mufti of
Jerusalem. The years of Nazi Arabic language propaganda had made the Mufti by
far the best-known political figure in the Arab and Islamic world…. the biggest
cheerleaders for the Mufti were the Muslim Brothers, who at that time could
mobilize a million people in Egypt alone…” “ The majority of Palestinian Arabs
at that time was prepared to accept the partition plan for pragmatic reasons.”
“In el-Husseini's view, the Arabs "should
jointly attack the Jews and destroy them as soon as the British forces have
withdrawn [from the Palestinian Mandate territory]." The Mufti made
it politically impossible for other Arab leaders to accept Israel, and
made the 1948 Arab war against Israel
inevitable. (Matthias Küntzel, “Islamist
terrorism and antisemitism: The mission against
modernity,” talk, Stanford University, March 10, 2008)
13. There is an “ideological and personal lineage”
from the Mufti to bin Laden (Kuntzel, p. XIII).
“The new amalgam of Nazi and Muslim Jew-hatred created by the preaching of Hassan al-Banna and Husseini continued to grow in influence.” The next
generation’s supreme ideologue of the Muslim Brotherhood was Sayyid Qutb. … His brother and
promoter, Muhammad Qutb, mentored Ayman
al-Zawahiri, the number two man in al-Qaeda. Abdullah
Azzam, another Muslim Brotherhood imam, was a mentor
to Osama bin Laden. (David Meir-Levi, “The Nazi Roots
of Palestinian Nationalism and Islamic Jihad”)
The merging of Nazi antisemitism
and terrorism into Islamic fascism has been the enduring legacy of Husayni. With a policy of silence about contemporary
Muslim antisemitism, the Holocaust Museum
has now chosen to falsify the Mufti’s biography, which reveals the
Holocaust-era roots of this antisemitism.
Accordingly, it picked an academic well known for denying any link between
Nazism and the current Islamic antisemitism, to write
the Mufti’s biography for their web site. The Museum is misrepresenting
the genocidal activities of the Mufti during the Holocaust and his Nazi legacy
in the years after the war.