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Source: https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-muftis-war-against-the-jews/
The Mufti's War Against the Jews
(JNS) Sean Durns - Amin al-Husseini, the one-time Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Nazi collaborator, during World War II raised SS regiments in the Balkans, promoted the Reich's propaganda in the Arab world, toured death camps, and plotted the genocide of Middle Eastern Jewry. In a Nov. 28, 1941, meeting with Adolf Hitler, al-Husseini asked for "a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Palestine and the Arab world." U.S. intelligence would later conclude that the 1936-39 Arab Revolt, in which Palestinians led by al-Husseini murdered rivals, Jews and British officials, "was able to continue only because of Nazi funding." At war's end, al-Husseini was considered a war criminal by Yugoslavia and implicated for his role in committing war crimes. Nonetheless, the French government, which briefly captured him, allowed him to network and regroup. After the Mufti fled to Egypt, he helped raise forces to attack the fledgling Jewish state during its War of Independence and plotted against Jordan's King Abdullah, whom he viewed as too willing to compromise with the Israeli government. His henchmen murdered the king in 1951. The writer is a senior research analyst for CAMERA.