Mufti's Cruelties an Indictment of Western Powers
Arab Chief Engineered Nazi Mass Murders
Haj Amin el-Husseini, the
criminal Grand Mufti of
Jerusalem, died July 2 in the
American University Hospital
in Beirut at the age of 80.
He had lived in a suburban
Beirut villa since 1959, and
until that time he had lived
in Cairo. He had asylum in
several other Arab countries
after sojourning in Germany
where he helped mastermind
the mass murder of Jews.
He was one of the world's
arch criminals, but he was
never tried as a war crim-
inal, although charges had
been leveled at him that he
had served with the Nazis
in that capacity.
He posed as the organizer
of the anti-Zionist campaigns
in Palestine, but his activi-
ties were under the slogan
"Kill the Jews," and he en-
gineered a number of mas-
sacres.
His activities remain an
indictment of the Western
powers which had failed to
stem his murderous role.
After the last war, during
which he served as the
Nazis' major fomenter of
hatred against the Jews, he
still received notoriety and
he had a platform for his
anti-Jewish fulminations in
an article by H. J. Sargint
of London, syndicated by the
North American Newspaper
Alliance, which contained the
Mufti's answers to a series
of questions posed by Sar-
gint.
Appended to the Sargint
article when it appeared in
the New York Times Oct. 6,
1946, was an answer by Dr.
Stephen S. Wise under the
heading "Wise Calls Mufti
Criminal."
Edgar Ansel Mowrer, one
of the great correspondents
of World War H, had sub-
mitted to Supreme Court
Justice Robert Jackson, the
chief prosecutor of the War
Crimes Trials, evidence that
the Mufti was party to the
murder of the Six Million,
and he urged that the Mufti
be tried as a war criminal,
but Jackson, to quote from a
story in the New York Post,
June 18, 1946, said that if it
involved only the Mufti, ac-
tion would have to be started
in Washington and would re-
quire concurrence of all in-
terested parties.
But the interested parties
were indifferent. Britain and
Fr a n c e and the United
States, seemed to have ig-
nored the criminal and ap-
peased the Arabs 'by ignor-
ing . their arch murderer's
crimes.
In fact, as late as three
years ago, it was reported
that King Hussein wanted to
extend an invitation to the
Mufti to "return from exile"
to Jordan (New York Times,
April 25, 1971).
"U. S., Britain Bury Proof
Against Mufti" read a
streamer headline over a
story by William 0. Player
in the New York Post, Dec.
31, 1947. This in spite of the
evidence that piled up
against him that he was
"The Nazis' Gauleiter of the
Middle East."
The Arabs defied the de-
mocracies of the world and
in November 1945, at the
48 Friday, July 12, 1974
—
height of the expose of the
Mufti as a war criminal,
they elected him chairman
of the "Arab Higher Corn-
mittee."
The Mufti acclaimed Jap-
anese support for the Arab
cause when, in May of 1942,
he affirmed his friendship
for and support of the Mi-
kado (Japanese hierarchy).
In 1946, according, to a
revelation in an article in
the N. Y. Post, Dec. 27, 1947,
by I. A. Abbady, who was
the chief Hebrew interpreter
for the Palestine government
until 1944, the Mufti said he
will "massacre all Zionists."
Abbady quotes this state-
ment made to him by the
Mufti: "Remember, Abbady,
this was and will remain an
Arab land. We do not mind
you (Jewish) natives of the
country, but those alien in-
vaders, the Zionists, will be
massacred to the last man.
We want no progress, no
prosperity. Nothing but the
sword will decide the future
of this country."
He already had a record
of having engineered the
murder of many Jews in
Palestine in 1920, 1921, 1929
and 1936, when he was wel-
comed at the Reich Chan-
cellery by Adolf Hitler in
March or April of 1941 and
began to broadcast propa-
ganda for the Nazis in
Arabic.
Ironically, it was a Jew
who gave the Mufti his plat-
form and his role as the
Arab leader. First British
High Commissioner for Pal-
estine Herbert Samuel was
responsible for his rise to
power.
A "Magazine of the Year"
— '48 — in June 1948 pub-
lished an article, "Hitler of
the Holy Land," in which
David Nussbaum wrote:
"It started in April 1920,
when Arab mobs subjected
the Jewish quarter of Jeru-
salem to four days of pil-
laging and massacre. A Bri-
tish board of inquiry estab-
lished that the raids had
been carefully planned, and
at later trials Haj Amin was
charged with prime respon-
sibility. He fled to Syria to
escape imprisonment.
"The next year, the Bri-
tish High Commissioner, Sir
Herbert Samuel (the only
Jew ever to hold the job),
granted the young Husseini
a pardon. He followed this
by selecting Husseini, over
the heads of three other con-
tenders for the post of Mufti
of Jerusalem (to which his
associates added the tag of
`Grand'). In 1920, a second
blaze of disturbances broke
out which the then High
Commissioner described as
"acts of unspeakable sav-
agery." Once more Haj
Amin was spotted as the
ringleader, but this time he
was only slapped on the
wrist.
A tragically challenging
period in Jewish history is re-
called in this advertisement
which appeared in leading
American newspapers on
March 21, 1946, exposing the
murderous activities of the
Mufti.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
"Late in 1937, after eighteen
months of Arab-instigated
terror in the Holy Land, the
British finally rounded up
the members of the trouble-
some Arab Higher Commit-
tee. But British troops waited
four days before searching
his Jerusalem hiding-place.
He slipped away disguised as
a peasant woman. Four
years later, in 1941, when
British troops marched into
Iraq to suppress the Mufti-
organized pro-Nazi revolt
there, he again eluded them,
this time to Berlin.
"From 1941 to 1945, the
Mufti was the No. 1 non-Axis
participant in Hitler's war
machine. He formed Moslem
parachute groups in the
Balkans, a Moslem espionage
unit, and finally a full-
fledged Arab brigade. Docu-
ments read at the Nurem-
berg trials provided evidence
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WILL
WAR CRIMINALS
DETERMINE
PALESTINE'S
DESTINY?
The man giving the Nazi salute in
this picture is Amin el Husseini, the
ex-Mufti of Jerusalem. The troops
are those of the Moslem SS Divisions,
organized by the ex-Mufti along with
the Arab Legion to serve with the
German Army. This close collabora-
tor with Adolf Hitler, who engineered
the pro-Axis revolt of 1941 in Iraq, is
still not listed among the war crim-
inals. He lives comfortably in a villa
in France, while his friends and lieu-
tenants clamor for his return to
Palestine.
"Germany Was Not Our Enemy"
Another war criminal, Jamel el
Husseini, the ex-Mufti's cousin and
chief of staff, was released recently
by the British and allowed to return
to Palestine. The British not only re-
admitted this active pro-fascist, but
gave him complete freedom of action.
And last week he was invited to pre-
sent the Arab case before the Anglo-
American Committee of Inquiry on
Palestine.
Encouraged by this singular forget-
fulness of the British as to his pro-
Axis record, Jamal el Husseini spoke
cockily before the Anglo-American
Committee. "Germany was not our
enemy, and, therefore, we had no
interest in the war," he said.
The ex-Mufti's second-in-command
stated only a half-truth. He declared
that the Third Reich was not the
enemy of the Arabs, but he forgot to
mention that both he and his notorious
cousin, along with most of the politi-
cal leaders of the Arab lands, took a
very active interest in the war—on
the side of the Nazis.
The Arab Rulers ARE
Neutral on Fascism!
When one of the Committee mem-
bers reminded Jamal of the hostile
role played by Arab leaders in the
war, Mr. Husseini replied: "I have
read somewhere that it was a Jewish
war anyway."
Now we know. The Rape of Poland
and Czechoslovakia, the brutal sub-
jugation of Norway, Holland, Belgium
and France, the horrors inflicted on
the Balkans and Russia, the blitz
over England — all this was "a Jew-
ish war anyway," in which the Arabs
had no interest.
But Jamal el Husseini went one
step further. He told the Committee
that the Arabs are spiritually neutral
on the question of fascism.
One cannot be neutral on fascism!
One is either for it or against it. The
Arab kings and chieftains are for it.
Fascism suits perfectly the type of
society which they are ruling and
trying to preserve.
Why Aren't They in the Deck?
Justice and decency demand that
Jamal el Husseini and the ex-Mufti
stand trial together with the other war
criminals. But instead, British colo-
nial imperialism allows Jamal to
make a grandstand play before the
Anglo-American Committee of In-
quiry in Jerusalem. And slowly but
surely the way is being cleared for
the ex-Mufti to return to Palestine,
where he is certain to resume his
program of anti-Jewish terror.
It is deplorable that members of
the Anglo-American Committee did
not bother to interrogate Jamal as to
his own shameful deeds before and
during the war. He was treated with
such consideration that when he was
asked "whether in view of the Mufti's
record, the Palestine Arab Higher
Committee still felt that he enjoyed
the confidence of the Arabs." Jamal
felt encouraged to answer: "Yes."
Falsifying the Record
to Shield the Ex-Mufti
Significantly enough, this portion of
Jamal el Husseini's testimony, as well
as the statement of another Arab
representative, Auni Bey Abdul Hadi,
admitting that the ex-Mufti had been
actively associated with the Axis,
were omitted from the stenographic
report of the Committee's proceed-
ings. Clifton Daniels in the New York
Times (March 16, 1946) and other
press correspondents reported that
this caused heated discussion among
members of the Anglo-American Com-
mittee of Inquiry, with certain Bri-
tish members seemingly determined
to keep this damning evidence off the
record, as, in their opinion, the ex-
Mufti's wartime activities were ir-
relevant to the inquiry. •
There is as yet no indication that
this all-important testimony has been
re-incorporated into the text of the
official record.
Enemies Supported,
Allies Persecuted
Thus we see one of the most brazen
imperialistic intrigues develop before
our eyes. Hitler's adviser on Arab
affairs is tenderly protected. His
cousin, who was caught red-handed
taking a leading part in the pro-Nazi
uprisihg in Iraq, is now recognized as
chief spokesman of Palestine's Arabs.
But Jews, who gave over one mil-
lion soldiers to the United N?,tions
and six million victims tc
extermination camps, are barred
from Palestine by every device known
to Britain's Colonial Office.
The Streichers, Lavals, Quislings
and Joyces of every nation had to
pay the price for their acts of treason.
Even Petain, France's foremost hero
of World War I, did not escape pun-
ishment. But Amin el Husseini and
Jamal el Husseini are being treated
as "high contracting parties" in the
negotiations for the settlement of the
Palestine problem.
•
Why Are These War Criminals
Being Shielded?
Why Are the Records of the Anglo-
American Committee of Inquiry
Being "Doctored" to Protect Nazi
Collaborationists?
Americans Who Fought the War for
Freedom and Democracy Want
To Know!
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