Jamal Husseini
Jamal Husseini, Jamal al-Husseini (1892-1982). Arab Islamic “Palestinian” Leader
Brief Bio
Born in 1892; graduate from the Anglican School in Jerusalem; studied medicine at the American University of Beirut but was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I;
- served after the war in the British Military Government in the health department, as local adviser to the Governor of Nablus and as assistant to the Governor of Ramleh;
- was member of both, the Nadi al-Arabi and the Mun-tada al-Adabi organizations in 1918/19;
- later member of the pro-Husseini majle-siyoun faction;
- elected representative to the 6th Congress of the Arab Executive Committee (June 1923, Jaffa) for Jerusalem and to the 7th (June 1928) for Bethlehem;
- elected secretary of the Executive Committee at the congresses from 1920-1928;
- secretary of the Supreme Muslim Council from 1927-30;
- suspected by the Jews of organising the revolt of 1929;
From a November 1933 report [1]:
A direct contact between the German Nazis and the Palestinian Arabs is revealed today in the Reichswarte, organ of the all-European Nazi organization, which is edited by the reactionary leader, Count Ernest von Reventlow. An emissary from Palestine has reached Berlin, it was learned today, and reported to the Minister for Propaganda, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, and other Nazi governmental authorities on the recent disturbances in Palestine. The Munich edition of the Voelkischer Beobachter, which is not sold abroad, carries an article today glorifying the German settlers in Palestine, particularly those who settled in Sarona. The Beobachter claims that the British and the Jews do not know how to handle the Arabs. Only the German settlers understand how to establish the most amisable relations with the Arabs, the Beobachter declares. Campaign in Palestine in the interests of the Nazi party. He recently interviewed several Arabs living in France and Germany in connection with the best possible means of adapting the Nazi program to the Holy Land. The arrested Arab leaders, Aouni Abdul Hadi, Jamal Al Husein and Izzat Darwaza, have been replaced on the Executive by el Bendak, Ishac Darwish, a nephew of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and Omar Saleh el Barguthy, a Moslem attorney. El Bendak is the editor of Sowt Es-Shaab and professes the Christian faith. The Arab Executive has issued a proclamation complimenting the Palestinian Arabs on their bravery and for their resistance to the British government by declaring a general strike. A reply is being formulated to the statement issued by the Colonial Secretary in England demanding peace. The moderate Arab leader, Boulos Effendi Shehadeh, editor of the anti-reactionary “Meraat Al Sherk”, has resigned from the Arab Executive because of the manner in which the “Arab Executive fled like cowards from the scene” of the rioting in the Holy City recently.
He deplored the fact that the Arabs have surrendered so readily to pressure of British government military forces.
- member of the Palestinian Delegation to London in 1930; organizer and chairman of the Mufti’s Palestine Arab party, established in 1935;
- member of the Arab Higher Committee in Palestine 1936-37 and its representative to the UN 1947-48;
- Mufti’s representative and president of the Palestinian delegation to the London Conference, St. James’s Palace, February 1939;
- in 1940-41 active among Palestinian exiles in Iraq; caught by the British after escape from Iraq and exiled to Southern Rhodesia;
- returned to Palestine in 1946 and elected vice president of the Arab Higher Executive (Fourth Higher Committee of the Arab League);
- reorganized his party and formed its paramilitary youth organization al-Futuwwa;
- named foreign minister to the All-Palestine Government, established in 1948;
- from the late 50’s to 70’s worked as consultant to Saudi Arabia; - died on July 3, 1982. [2]
An open admirer of Hitler and "saw Nazi Germany as a natural ally in the struggle against the Jews,"[3] worked with Grand Mufti of Jerusalem collaborating with the Nazis.[4]
He was Grand Mufti of Jerusalem's associate in Nazi-collaboration. Involved in [Rashid Ali al-Gailani’s] pro-Nazi coup. [5]
At founding the 'Palestine Arab Party,' boasting as being inspired by German Nazism. It included a 'Nazi Scouts: al-Futuwwa. The first seventy al-Futuwwa recruits took the following oath: “Life — my right: independence — my aspiration: Arabism — my principle: Palestine — my country, and there is no room in it for any but Arabs. In this I believe and Allah is my witness.”[6][7][8]
As Palestinian-Arab students educated in Germany returned to Palestine determined to found the Arab Nazi Party, the Husseinis used the Palestinian Arab Party to establish the al-Futuwwa youth corps. The al-Futuwwa youth groups connected Palestinian youth to fascist youth movements elsewhere in the Middle East. While the Mufti was establishing youth groups in Palestine, al-Futuwwa groups were established in Iraq. [9]
In 1945, as Arab Higher Committee official, this pro Nazi and Hitler collaborator hypocritically testified to the Anglo-Arab Commission that when he heard David Ben-Gurion speak, it was "as if I heard Hitler's voice... the same tone and spirit."[10]
Jamal Husseini was Deputy of AHC (Arab Higher Committee). Stated in 1946: “America is our greatest enemy.” Declared a suicidal Jihad – British weren’t impressed![11]
In 1946, Jamal Husseini repeated Goebbels' Nazi propaganda rhetoric and justifying the Holocaust. (So did Ahmed Shukeiri at the time, who also fought for Hitler).[12][13][14]
In 1947, Jamal Husseini, the Arab Higher Committee’s spokesman, told the UN prior to the partition vote, that the Arabs would drench “the soil of our beloved country with the last drop of our blood. . . .”
Shortly after the vote, The Arabs declared a protest strike and instigated riots that claimed the lives of 62 Jews and 32 Arabs. Violence continued to escalate through the end of the year.[15]
From statement in US Congress by
Jamal Husseini, nephew of the Mufti and for many years his right-hand man, has been the head of the Palestine Arab party, the Mufti's party, since 1935. He was theclosest assistant of the Mufti in organizing the 1936–39 Arab rebellion. In 1939 he joined the Mufti in Bagdad and organized the pro-Axis fifth column in Iraq which culminated in the Iraqi rebellion.
He fled from Bagdad en route to Tehran, but was captured there by the British before he could make good his escape. He was placed in internment in Rhodesia as a dangerous pro-Axis leader. There he spent 4 years until he was finally released in February 1946 and allowed to return to Palestine owing to the pressure of the Arab League.
Five months ago, in January 1947, at the Mufti's request, three of his aides in the Axis adventure were added to the Arab Higher Committee. These were Izzat Dar waza, Is'haq Darwish, and Muin el Madi. The latter was the head of the Mufti's espionage onice in Turkey, while the former two operated in Germany and Athens. Today, unquestionably the center of activity of the Arab Higher Committee is in Cairo, with the Mufti playing a game which he hopes will bring about his recognition by the Arab states as the Palestine Arab government-in exile.
The extent of the alliance of the Mufti and his aides with the Axis is presented in the following pages in photographs and photo static copies of documents found among the papers of the Mufti in his villas and offices in Germany at the war's end, and among the official papers of the Nazi government.
Most, if not all, of these documents are now in the possession of the State Department of the United States.
The record shows that the chairman of the Arab Higher Committee and his principal representatives were involved in an active partnership with Rome and Tokyo, with the Moslem quislings of the Balkans and the Soviet Union, with Axis representatives in the Middle East, and with Vichyites in the French territories of north Africa.
The documents prove, moreover, that due to the insistence of the Mufti, the exterination program of the Nazis was carried out even in those satellite countries which were willing to permit the rescue of the Jews.
It is to these men, whose acts establish their place among the worst of the Axis war criminals, that the United Nations has accorded the honor of appearing in behalf of the Arabs of Palestine.
See also
References
- ↑ "Nazis Reveal Contacts with Arab Riot Leaders; Goebbels Gets Reports" JTA, November 23, 1933
- ↑ Biography Jamal Husseini, JVL
- ↑ Shabtai Teveth, "Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs: From Peace to War", (Oxford University Press, 1985), p.156. Jamal al-Husseini, brother-in-law of Musa Alami, was the Mufti's cousin, and was also one of the more radical supporters of the Mufti's violent tactics, Like the Mufti, he too saw Nazi Germany as a natural ally in the struggle against the Jews and did not conceal his admiration for Hitler.
- ↑ Joan Peters, "From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine", 1985, p.363. The Grand Mufti himself operated at first from headquarters set up in Transjordan, Syria, and Iraq, after he fled Western Palestine at the onset of the revolt he inspired. Then he moved between Teheran and Rome, until November 1941, when he was "established" in Berlin by the Nazis, "with branches organized later in other parts of Germany and Italy"; his "activities" - in espionage, propaganda, establishment of pro-Axis Muslim military units, training of Arabs as Nazi agents, and personal collaboration with Adolf Hitler — have been documented, along with data describing the Nazi collaboration of other effendi scions, such as Rasem al-Khalidi, Jamal al-Husseini, Wasef Kamal, and others.
- ↑ "A safe haven: Harry S. Truman and the founding of Israel " Allis Radosh, Ronald Radosh, HarperCollins, 2009, p, 213 Emil Ghouri, the head of the Arab delegation to UNSCOP, and delegates Wasef Kamal and Rasem Khalidi as “notorious for … association with the Mufti and his Axis activities.” Mufti’s Jamal Husseini… had joined the Mufti in Iraq in 1939… organized a pro-Axis fifth column that led to the anti-British rebellion.… In the Hague, Arab students were trained in explosives and parachuted into Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.
- ↑ The PLO: the rise and fall of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Volume 1984, Part 2. Jillian Becker, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984. p. 19 [1][2] In March 1935 the Husseinis also formed a party, called the Palestinian Arab Party. It was, as its president Jamal Husseini freely boasted, inspired by German Nazism. It included a ‘youth troop’, modelled on the Hitler Youth, for a while actually called the ‘Nazi Scouts’.
- ↑ "Righteous victims: a history of the Zionist-Arab conflict, 1881-1999". p.24. Benny Morris, Random House, Inc. 1999 … the Husseinis in March 1935 formed the Palestinian Arab Party, whose platform for resistance to the establishment of a Jewish National Home. It set up its own youth corps. al-Futuwwa (the name of an association of Arab knights during the Middle Ages). which resembled Germany’s Hitler Youth and was officially designated the “Nazi Scouts.” At Ihe founding meeting on February 11, 1936, Jamal al- Husseini, a principal aide of Hajj Amin, declared that Hitler had stalled out with only six followers and now had sixty million. The first seventy al-Futuwwa recruits took the following oath: “Life — my right: independence — my aspiration: Arabism — my principle: Palestine — my country, and there is no room in it for any but Arabs. In this I believe and Allah is my witness.” The Husseini-Nazi connection… through the 1930s and early 1940s...
- ↑ Benny Morris, "1948: a history of the first Arab-Israeli war", (Yale University Press, 2008, p. 89 The Futuwwa was founded at the end of 1935 by Jamal Husseini as the Arab Party’s youth corps; the Nazi Party or the Hitlerjugend appear to have been his model...
- ↑ Armies of the young: child soldiers in war and terrorism By David M. Rosen, Rutgers University Press, 2005, p.106 …Palestinian students educated in Germany returned to Palestine determined to found the Arab Nazi Party. The Husseinis used the Palestinian Arab Party to establish the al-Futuwwa youth corps, which was named after an association of Arab Nazi Scouts. By 1936 the Palestinian Arab Party was sponsoring the developments of storm troops patterned on the German model. These storm troops, all children and youth, were to be outfitted in black trousers and red shirts… The young recruits took the following oath: “Life — my right; independence — my aspiration; Arabism — my country, and there is no room in it for any but Arabs. In this I believe and Allah is my witness.”
- ↑ Israel Studies: IS., Volume 8, Indiana University Press, 2003 p.129 EQUATING ZIONISM AND NAZISM. Another theme, which also emerged in 1945, equated Zionism with Nazism. Testifying to the Anglo-Arab Commission, Jamal Husayni, member of the Arab Higher Committee, said that when he heard David Ben-Gurion speak, it was "as if I heard Hitler's voice . . . the same tone and spirit."
- ↑ Benny Morris, "1948: a history of the first Arab-Israeli war", (Yale University Press, 2008), pp: 34, 59, 82 p. 34 One Foreign Office cable, in the wake of the report, spoke of Arab hatred of the Jews as being greater than that of the Nazis. The AHC—in a letter from Jamal Husseini to Attlee—issued an “ultimatum” and threatened “jihad.” In a follow-up interview with British high commissioner Sir Alan Cunningham, Husseini declared his willingness “to die” for the cause. When Cunningham responded that this didn’t really trouble him and that what worried him was the welfare of “the ordinary Arab population,” Husseini rejoined that “they were prepared to die too.” The publication of the report triggered violent demonstrations in Baghdad and Palestine; in Beirut, the US Information Center was set on fire. At least one Baghdad newspaper called for jihad: “The Arabs must proclaim a p. 35 crusade [that is, holy war] to save the Holy Land from [the] western gang which understands only the language of force.” Another called on the Arabs to “annihilate all European Jews in Palestine. The AAC report was officially condemned by the Arab League Council meeting at Bludan, Syria on 8-10 June 1946. p. 59 AHC representative Jamal Husseini put it: “America is our greatest enemy.” p. 82 The AHC theoretically functioned as a cabinet, with the exiled Haj Amin al-Husseini as president and Jamal Husseini as his deputy.
- ↑ "Behind Britain's Zion Conspiracy". By Bernard Lerner. The Detroit Jewish News July 12, 1946 Page 2] Out in Jerusalem, in an office situated ironically on Bethlehem Road, where, according to Jewish legend Mother Rachel weeps at midnight over the plight of her children, the people of Israel, I met Achmed Shukeiri, chief of the Arab Office, who reiterated in his conversation the words of Goebbels justified the murder of six million Jews of Europe "because Hitler could not have been all wrong," and warned that his side was ready to "play along with Moscow." They always play along, the Husseini-Shukeiri mob. Outside the Young Men's Christian Association building in Jerusalem, where the hearings of the Anglo-American Inquiry Committee were being held at the time, I met Jamal el Husseini; he issued the same warning as Shukeiri (he being Shukeiri's chief) of playing along with Moscow, and reiterated his justification of the mass murder of six million Jews "for Hitler couldn't be all wrong... you have got to see both sides of a question, my man, both sides of a question..." Jamal Husseini saw both sides so well that he joined in igniting, at a time most critical for the Allies, the Iraq coup d'etat to gauleiter the Middle East for Hitler..
- ↑ The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. July 12, 1946. Page 7 "British Actions in Palestine" By Bernard Lerner... rebellion in Iraq against the war-shattered Allies; when his aide-de-camp, Jamal el Husseini, assisted the Mufti in a coup d'etat to help the Axis wrest the Mediterranean from the democratic powers, Moshe Shertok, chief of the Jewish Agency's Political Department was traveling across the face of Palestine... I met Achmed Shukeiri, chief of the Arab Office who restituted in his conversation the words of Goebbel, the murder of six million Jews ... I met Jamal el Husseini; he issued the same warning as Shukeiri (he being Shukeiri's chief)... and reiterated his justification of the mass murder of six million Jews "for Hitler couldn't be all wrong... you have got to see both sides of a question, my man, both sides of a question." Jamal Husseini saw both sides so well, that he joined in igniting, at a time most critical for the Allies, the Iraq coup d'etat in an effort to gauleiter the Middle East into Hitler's Welt-Raum scheme. And now those gentlemen have been joined by a third. It is a matter of minutes and they get straight through to Cairo for instructions from Haj Amin el Husseini, the former Mufti of Jerusalem... According to Jewish legend Mother Rachel weeps at midnight over the plight of her children, the people of Israel...
- ↑ Bernard Lerner: "Behind The British Bludgeon," Canadian Jewish Chronicle, July 12, 1946.
- ↑ "Perverting the History of Partition" M. Bard, The Jerusalem Post, November 30, 2016
- ↑ Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates... Volume 93, Part 11, United States Congress, 1947, pp.2819-2821
