Haj Amin Al-husseini

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The Nazi’s Man in British Palestine (’48 Magazine, 1948)

Written two and a half years after the Second World War, this article tells the story of Haj Amin Al-husseini (1897 – 1974), the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem; he was the most prominent of Nazi-collaborators in all of Islam. Believed to have been a blood relation of Yasser Arafat (1929 – 2004), Al-Husseini was the animating force behind numerous attacks on the Jews of British Palestine throughout the Twenties and Thirties.


Al-Husseini is also the subject of this article.


Here is an article from 1919 about Al Husseini.

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Al-Husseini After the War (Tribune, 1946)

Appearing in a British labor weekly was this short column pertaining to the whereabouts of Haj Amin Al-Husseini and his appearance as the elected representative of the Palestine Arab Delegation in London:

Haj Amin Al-Husseini, ex-Mufti of Palestine, has had a varied and adventurous career. Few transformations in his fortunes, however, have been as startling as those of the last twelve months. Just before VE-Day, together with Rashid Ali, he gave himself up to French forces on the Austro-German frontier. In his wildest dreams at the time he could not have imagined that a year later he would be conducting Palestine Arab affairs from Cairo….

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