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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 472

Haj Amin al-Husseini

Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Chairman of the Supreme Islamic Council, with German dictator Adolf Hitler in 1941. (German Federal Archive via Wikimedia Commons)
February 25, 2024, 9:35 am
A New York Yiddish center finds Nazis lurking deep within Hamas’s ideology
Starting Feb. 26, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research sponsors a 3-part webinar with scholars countering the view that October 7 was ‘payback’ for Israel’s rule over the West Bank
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Colonial secretary Winston Churchill with Sir Herbert Samuel during a visit to Jerusalem in March 1921. (Public domain)
August 19, 2023, 2:43 pm
Herbert Samuel’s secret 1937 testimony on the infamous mufti of Jerusalem revealed
Newly revealed files show how Palestine’s first high commissioner – a Jew and a Zionist – defended tapping Amin al-Husseini, lamented that ‘Jews can be extremely irritating people’
By Oren Kessler
Journalist Oren Kessler, author of 'Palestine 1936.' (Hadas Parush)
August 18, 2023, 7:21 am
What Matters Now to author Oren Kessler: 1936 Palestine’s missed peace deal
In ‘Palestine 1936,’ Kessler delves into dusty archives to bring to life the overlooked saga of the 3-year Arab Revolt that arguably forms the roots of today’s Middle East conflict
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the Islamic Movement's Northern Branch, arrives at court in Jerusalem, on November 5, 2009. (Kobi Gideon / FLASH90)
August 16, 2017, 6:53 am
The rise of Raed Salah, Israel’s Islamist leader who wants Jerusalem at the heart of a caliphate
The recently rearrested preacher has built a career ‘defending’ Al-Aqsa against Israel’s purported planned takeover, building vast support among Arab Israelis
By Dov Lieber
View of Jerusalem showing the Old City in the foreground against new parts of the city in the background, January 9, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 4, 2017, 8:39 pm
UNESCO panel okays softened text blasting Israel over Jerusalem activity
Israel slams surprise vote by World Heritage Committee condemning ‘illegal’ Old City digs, urges delegates in Poland to stand in silence for Holocaust victims
By Raphael Ahren
A telegram from senior Nazi Heinrich Himmler to the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, probably dating to 1943, found in the archives of the National Library, March 29, 2017.
March 30, 2017, 3:53 am
In rediscovered telegram, Himmler offers Jerusalem’s mufti help against ‘Jewish intruders’
Hitler’s deputy assures pro-Nazi Haj Amin al-Husseini of Nazis‘ ‘particular sympathy‘ for struggle of ‘freedom-loving Arabs’ of Palestine and beyond
By Sue Surkes
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman attends a security discussion at the Security and Foreign Affairs Committee at the Knesset, on July 18, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 21, 2016, 4:02 pm
Liberman: Palestinian poet’s writings are like ‘Mein Kampf’
Defense minister tells Army Radio chief following program on works of Mahmoud Darwish that his legacy cannot be part of Israeli narrative
By Stuart Winer
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a joint press conference with the German chancellor at the chancellery in Berlin on October 21, 2015 (AFP PHOTO/TOBIAS SCHWARZ)
February 15, 2016, 6:18 pm
PM leads ministerial delegation to Germany
Netanyahu will meet Merkel to discuss Mideast regional developments; 4 senior ministers set for talks with counterparts
By Raoul Wootliff
During the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April of 1945, guards with the SS were paraded for work in clearing the dead. (Wikimedia Commons)
January 14, 2016, 12:34 pm
Uncovering Holocaust perpetrators where few have looked
Muslim Nazis, female death camp guards, and Dutch ‘bounty hunters’ are coming out of the archival closet, even as fewer Shoah eyewitnesses remain alive to testify
By Matt Lebovic
Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the 37th World Zionist Congress conference at the Jerusalem Convention Center on October 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 30, 2015, 6:41 pm
Netanyahu: Nazis, not Jerusalem mufti, responsible for Holocaust
PM walks back claim that Muslim leader first proposed that Hitler should ‘burn’ the Jews; slams fact that al-Husseini remains iconic figure for Palestinians
By ToI Staff
Israeli author David Grossman. (CC BY-SA/torre.elena/Flickr)
October 27, 2015, 1:40 pm
David Grossman rips into Netanyahu for Hitler ‘acquittal’
Celebrated Israeli author says PM’s approach to history distorts the true dangers facing Israel
By Raoul Wootliff
Illustrative: Hitler hosts Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini in 1941 in Germany. (Heinrich Hoffmann Collection/Wikipedia)
October 23, 2015, 2:12 pm
US neo-Nazis: Netanyahu is right about Hitler and the Jews
The Daily Stormer website says Nazi leader never planned to exterminate Europe’s Jews, wanted to peacefully deport them to Palestine
By ToI Staff
Haj Amin al-Husseini (American Colony Photo Dept./Wikipedia)
October 23, 2015, 3:49 am
Who was Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini?
Holocaust-era Palestinian nationalist backed anti-British uprising in Iraq, opposed Zionism and supported Hitler’s Final Solution
By Ben Sales
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a joint press conference with the German chancellor at the chancellery in Berlin on October 21, 2015 (AFP PHOTO/TOBIAS SCHWARZ)
October 22, 2015, 10:49 pm
White House pans Netanyahu’s ‘inflammatory’ mufti remarks
Obama spokesman says there’s no doubt Germany was behind Holocaust, calls for an end to statements that ‘can feed the violence’
By ToI Staff
The Waldorf Astoria hotel on Jerusalem's Agron Street. (photo credit: Flash90)
October 22, 2015, 7:05 pm
Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem is Condé Nast’s top Middle East hotel
Lavishly refurbished 226-room hotel places 7th on world list; building was previously the Palace Hotel, built by mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini
By ToI Staff
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