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British officer's testimony 1929
== Life ==
== Life ==
In 1929 Al-Husseini began to agitate the Arabs to riot against the Jewish community, distributing leaflets and stirring up anti-Jewish sentiment. Among these were leaflets stating that the Jews were planning to take over the [[al-Aqsa Mosque]].<ref>'''Segev, Tom''' ''One Palestine, Complete'' New York: Metropolitan Books (1999) ISBN 0-8050-4848-0</ref> These tirades led to the [[1929 Hebron massacre]], in which 67 Jews were slaughtered.
In 1929 Al-Husseini began to agitate the Arabs to riot against the Jewish community, distributing leaflets and stirring up anti-Jewish sentiment. Among these were leaflets stating that the Jews were planning to take over the [[al-Aqsa Mosque]].<ref>'''Segev, Tom''' ''One Palestine, Complete'' New York: Metropolitan Books (1999) ISBN 0-8050-4848-0</ref> These tirades led to the [[1929 Hebron massacre]], in which 67 Jews were slaughtered.
"If a man was a Jew, it was good enough for him to be killed or stamped out," wrote a senior British official serving abroad to his superiors in London in 1929.
<ref>The Mufti and the Holocaust, Revisited.
by Ben Cohen. ''JNS.org. Oct. 2015.
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2015/10/23/the-mufti-and-the-holocaust-revisited][https://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/opinion/fl-jjps-cohen-1028-20151026-story.html]</ref>
An outspoken [[anti-Semitism|anti-Semite]], he had a very close friendship with [[Adolf Hitler]] and visited Islamic [[SS]] units, such as the Handschar Brigade. Al-Husseini also cheered Hitler's deadly "Final Solution." In 1943, after learning of the murder of European Jewry, the mufti declared that Germany had "decided to find a final solution to the Jewish danger that would remove their harm from the world."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rf9vDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA104 'The Eichmann Trial,' Deborah Esther Lipstadt - Nextbook/Schocken, 2011, p.104]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8JiqNpE-Lz4C&pg=PA97 Nazi Palestine:The Plans for the Extermination of the Jews in Palestine. Volume 8 of Publications of the Ludwigsburg Research Unit, Stuttgart University Volume 8 of Veröffentlichungen der Forschungsstelle Ludwigsburg der Universität Stuttgart, by Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Martin CüppersTranslated by Krista Smith, Enigma Books, 2013, p.97]</ref>
An outspoken [[anti-Semitism|anti-Semite]], he had a very close friendship with [[Adolf Hitler]] and visited Islamic [[SS]] units, such as the Handschar Brigade. Al-Husseini also cheered Hitler's deadly "Final Solution." In 1943, after learning of the murder of European Jewry, the mufti declared that Germany had "decided to find a final solution to the Jewish danger that would remove their harm from the world."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rf9vDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA104 'The Eichmann Trial,' Deborah Esther Lipstadt - Nextbook/Schocken, 2011, p.104]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8JiqNpE-Lz4C&pg=PA97 Nazi Palestine:The Plans for the Extermination of the Jews in Palestine. Volume 8 of Publications of the Ludwigsburg Research Unit, Stuttgart University Volume 8 of Veröffentlichungen der Forschungsstelle Ludwigsburg der Universität Stuttgart, by Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Martin CüppersTranslated by Krista Smith, Enigma Books, 2013, p.97]</ref>