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    Amin al-Husseini

    Palestinian Arab nationalist

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  1. Mohammed Amin al-Husseini (Arabic: محمد أمين الحسيني; c. 1897 – 4 July 1974) was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in Mandatory Palestine. Al-Husseini was the scion of the al-Husayni family of Jerusalemite Arab nobles, who trace their origins to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.

  2. May 28, 2024 · Amin al-Husseini was the grand mufti of Jerusalem and an Arab nationalist figure who played a major role in Arab resistance to Zionist political ambitions in Palestine. He became the dominant voice of the Palestinian Arab movement after a bitter clash with the rival Nashashibi family.

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  3. Oct 22, 2015 · T his week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked a wave of backlash when he argued that the Holocaust was the brainchild of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who,...

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  4. Oct 23, 2015 · JTA — When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Haj Amin al-Husseini, the mufti of Jerusalem prior to the establishment of Israel, for inspiring Hitler to exterminate the Jews of...

  5. In 1919, Haj Amin al-Husseini, a prominent scion of the clan, began organizing small groups of terrorists to harass and attack Palestine’s Jews. One year later, as the Allies were deliberating at San Remo, al-Husseini instigated anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem during the intermediate days of the Passover festival.

  6. Oct 21, 2015 · The following is an official German record of the meeting between Adolf Hitler and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, on November 28, 1941, at the Reich Chancellory in Berlin.

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  8. www.jerusalemstory.com › en › bioAmin al-Husseini

    Despite the many frustrations he witnessed in his career, and the ultimate defeat of his quest to deliver Palestine from British and Zionist power, Hajj Amin al-Husseini remains one of the icons of 20th-century Palestinian nationalist resistance.

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