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 (Concluded on Page 5) 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! AMERICAN ZIONIST EMERGENCY COUNCIL 342 MADISON, NEW YORK 17, N.Y.