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| name               = Amin al-Husseini
| image              = Amin al-Husseini 1929 (3x4 cropped).jpg
| caption            = Amin al-Husseini in 1929
| birth_name         = Mohammed Amin al-Husseini
| birth_date         = {{circa|1897}}{{efn|name=birthdate}}
| birth_place        = [[Jerusalem]], Ottoman Empire
| death_date         = {{death date and given age|df=y|1974|07|04|{{approx.|{{awrap|76–77}}}}}}
| death_place        = [[Beirut]], Lebanon
| religion           = [[Islam]]
| denomination       = [[Sunni]]
| school             = [[Hanafi]]
| party              = [[Arab Higher Committee]]
| module             = {{Infobox officeholder
   | embed          = yes
   | title          = [[Grand Mufti of Jerusalem]]
   | term_start     = 1921
   | term_end       = 1937{{sfn|Sela|2002|p=360}}{{sfn|Ghandour|2009|p=140}}{{sfn|Blamires|2006|p=497}}{{sfn|Mitchell|2013|p=134}}
   | predecessor    = [[Kamil al-Husayni]]
   | successor      = [[Hussam ad-Din Jarallah]]
   | title2         = President of the [[Supreme Muslim Council]]
   | term_start2    = 9 January 1922
   | term_end2      = 1937
   | predecessor2   = ''Post established''
   | successor2     =
   | title3         = [[President of Palestine|President]] of [[All-Palestine Protectorate|All-Palestine]]
   | term_start3    = 22 September 1948
   | term_end3      = 1953
   | primeminister3 = [[Ahmed Hilmi Pasha|Ahmed Hilmi Abd al-Baqi]]
   | predecessor3   = ''Post established''
   | successor3     = [[Yasser Arafat]] (1989)
   | allegiance     = {{Plainlist|
* [[Ottoman Empire]]<br />(until 1918)
* [[United Kingdom]]<br />(1920–1937)
* [[Nazi Germany]] and<br />[[Kingdom of Italy]]<br />(1941–1945)
   }}
 }}
| native_name        = محمد أمين الحسيني
| native_name_lang   = ar
}}
'''Mohammed Amin al-Husseini''' ({{langx|ar|محمد أمين الحسيني}}; {{circa|1897}}{{efn|name=birthdate|[[Philip Mattar|Mattar]], writing on the uncertainty of al-Husseini's birthdate, notes that he wrote both 1895 and 1896 on official documents between 1921 and 1934, which Mattar suggests was due to both years corresponding to 1313 A.H. in the [[Islamic calendar]]. Mattar found no documentary evidence for Husseini's claim, written later in life, that he was born in 1897. (See {{harvnb|Mattar|1992|p=156}}.) [[Henry Laurens (scholar)|Laurens]] argues that 1897 was his likely date of birth, suggesting he was induced by circumstances to assert that he was older when giving various dates for his birth, ranging from 1893 to 1897. (See {{harvnb|Laurens|2002|p=624, n.5}}.) Laurens, in the first volume of his trilogy ({{harvnb|Laurens|1999|p=425}}), had used Mattar's dating of 1895, but revised this to 1897 as more probable in his second volume.}}{{snd}}4 July 1974) was a [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] [[Arab nationalist]] and [[Muslim]] leader in [[Mandatory Palestine]].{{sfn|Peretz|1994|p=290}} He was the scion of the {{nowrap|[[al-Husayni]]}} family of [[Jerusalem]]ite Arab nobles,<ref>{{harvnb|Gelvin|2007|p=109}}: "the scion of one [of] the most influential notable families of Jerusalem."</ref> who trace their origins to the Islamic prophet [[Muhammad]].{{sfn|Elpeleg|2007|p=1}}

Husseini was born in Jerusalem, [[Ottoman Empire]] in 1897, he received education in [[Madrasa|Islamic]], [[Madrasa#Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]], and [[Catholic school]]s. In 1912, he pursued [[Salafi movement|Salafist]] religious studies in Cairo. Husseini later went on to serve in the [[Military of the Ottoman Empire|Ottoman army]] during [[World War I]]. At war's end he stationed himself in [[Damascus]] as a supporter of the [[Arab Kingdom of Syria]], but following its disestablishment, he moved back to Jerusalem, shifting his [[pan-Arabism]] to a form of [[Palestinian nationalism]]. From as early as 1920, he actively opposed [[Zionism]], and as a leader of the [[1920 Nebi Musa riots]], was sentenced for ten years imprisonment but pardoned by the British.{{sfn|Elpeleg|2007|pp=2–3, 6–7}}{{sfn|Kopel|2021|p=232}} In 1921, [[Herbert Samuel]], the [[High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan|British High Commissioner]] appointed him [[Grand Mufti of Jerusalem]], a position he used to promote [[Islam]] while rallying a non-confessional [[Arab nationalism]] against Zionism.{{sfn|Kohn|1929|p=53}}<ref>{{harvnb|Tschirgi|2004|p=192}}:"the leading Palestinian political group that developed during the mandate was very largely dominated by Islamic discourse and led by the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini. However, it long found its basic support in Muslim-Christian Associations."</ref> During the 1921–1936 period, he was considered an important ally by the British authorities.<ref>{{harvnb|Khalidi|2001|p=23}}: "There is an element of amnesiac historiography in the vilification of the mufti, influenced by his subsequent career after 1936. In fact, Husayni served the British exceedingly well for the decade and a half after his appointment, at least until 1936 when he felt obliged to align himself with a growing popular rebellion against his former British masters. One indication of how valuable the British perceived the mufti to be is the willingness of the notoriously tight-fisted Mandatory administration to subsidize him. When the revenues of the public awqaf properties declined after the Great Depression of 1929, and with it the revenues of the Supreme Muslim Council, the latter were supplemented by British subventions starting in 1931, which were naturally kept secret".</ref> His appointment by the British for the role of grand mufti of all Palestine (a new role established by the British) helped divide the Palestinian leadership structure and national movement.{{sfn|Khalidi|2020|pp=42–43}}

In 1937, evading an arrest warrant for aligning himself as leader of the [[1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine]] against British rule, he fled and took refuge in [[Greater Lebanon|Lebanon]] and afterwards [[Kingdom of Iraq|Iraq]]. He then established himself in [[Kingdom of Italy|Fascist Italy]] and [[Nazi Germany]], which he [[Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world|collaborated]] with during [[World War II]] against Britain, requesting during a meeting with [[Adolf Hitler]] backing for Arab independence and opposition to the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine.{{sfn|Sells|2015|p=725}} Upon the [[End of World War II in Europe|end of the war]], he came under French protection, and then sought refuge in [[Cairo]]. In the lead-up to the [[1948 Palestine war]], Husseini opposed both the [[1947 UN Partition Plan]] and [[Jordan]]'s plan to annex the [[West Bank]]. Failing to gain command of the [[Arab League]]'s [[Arab Liberation Army]], Husseini built his own militia, the [[Army of the Holy War|Holy War Army]]. In September 1948 he participated in the establishment of an [[All-Palestine Government]] in [[Occupation of the Gaza Strip by Egypt|Egyptian-ruled Gaza]], but this government won limited recognition and was eventually dissolved by Egypt in 1959. After the war and the [[1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight]], his claims to leadership were discredited and he was eventually sidelined by the establishment of the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] in 1964.<ref>{{harvnb|Brynen|1990|p=20}}: "The leadership of al-Hajj Amin al-Husayni and the Arab Higher Committee, which had dominated Palestinian Arab political scene since the 1920s, was devastated by the disaster of 1948 and discredited by its failure to prevent it. The socio-economic base underlying the political power of traditional Palestinian Arab notables was severely disrupted."</ref> He died in [[Beirut]], Lebanon, in July 1974.

Husseini was and remains a highly controversial figure. Historians dispute whether his fierce opposition to Zionism was grounded in [[nationalism]] or [[antisemitism]], or a combination of both. Opponents of Palestinian nationalism have pointed to Husseini's wartime residence and propaganda activities in Nazi Germany to associate the Palestinian national movement with [[antisemitism in Europe]].

==Early life==
[[File:MuhammadRashidRida.jpg|thumb|Al-Husseini's mentor, [[Muhammad Rashid Rida]], a [[Syrians|Syrian]] [[Sunni Islam|Sunni]] [[ulema|cleric]] noteworthy for his vehement opposition to Zionist movement and [[Age of Enlightenment|Western ideals]]]]

Amin al-Husseini was born around 1897{{efn|name=birthdate}} in [[Jerusalem]], the son of the mufti of that city and prominent early opponent of Zionism, [[Tahir al-Husayni]].<ref>{{harvnb|Mattar|1992|p=6}}; {{harvnb|Pappé|1994|p=2}}.</ref>
The al-Husseini clan consisted of wealthy landowners in southern Palestine, centered around the district of Jerusalem. Thirteen members of the clan had been [[List of mayors of Jerusalem|Mayors of Jerusalem]] between 1864 and 1920. Another member of the clan and Amin's half-brother,{{sfn|Laurens|1999|p=425}} [[Kamil al-Husayni]], also served as [[Mufti of Jerusalem]]. In Jerusalem Amin al-Husseini attended a [[Quran|Qur'an]] school ({{lang|ar-Latn|kuttub}}), and [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] government secondary school (''rüshidiyye'') where he learned [[Turkish language|Turkish]], and a Catholic secondary school run by [[Catholic missions|French missionaries]], the Catholic Frères, where he learned [[French language|French]].{{sfn|Krämer|2008|p=219}} He also studied at the [[Alliance Israélite Universelle]] with its Jewish director [[Albert Antébi]].{{sfn|Laurens|1999|pp=425–426}}{{sfn|Laurens|2002|p=467}} Antébi considered al-Husseini his pupil, and refers to him in a letter.{{efn|See Elizabeth Antébi, {{lang|fr|L'homme du Sérail}}, NiL, Paris, 1996, p. 563.{{sfn|Laurens|1999|pp=426,675 n16}}}}

In 1912 he studied [[Sharia|Islamic law]] briefly at [[Al-Azhar University]] in [[Cairo]] and at the {{lang|ar-Latn|Dar al-Da'wa wa-l-Irshad}}, under [[Rashid Rida]], a [[salafi]] scholar, who was to remain Amin's mentor till his death in 1935.<ref>{{harvnb|Sicker|2000|p=33}} {{harvnb|Krämer|2008|p=219}};</ref> Rashid Rida's defense of traditional Islamic values and hostility to [[Westernization]] became a major component of Al-Husseini's religious persona. Like Rida, he believed that the West was waging a [[War against Islam]] and encouraged Islamic revolutions across the [[Muslim world|Muslim World]] to defeat [[European colonial powers]] and [[Zionism]].{{sfn|Pappé|2010|pp=147–148}} However, Al-Husseini did not adopt his teacher's [[Islamic fundamentalism]].{{sfn|Achcar|2010c|p=131}}

Though groomed to hold religious office from youth, his education was typical of the Ottoman [[effendi]] at the time, and he only donned a religious turban in 1921 after being appointed mufti.{{sfn|Krämer|2008|p=219}} In 1913, approximately at the age of 16, al-Husseini accompanied his mother Zainab to [[Mecca]] and received the [[honorific|honorary title]] of [[Hajji]]. Prior to [[World War I]], he studied at the School of Administration in [[Istanbul|Constantinople]], the most secular of Ottoman institutions.{{sfn|Matthews|2006|p=31}}

==World War I==
With the outbreak of [[World War I]] in 1914, al-Husseini received a commission in the [[Military of the Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Army]] as an [[artillery]] [[Officer (armed forces)|officer]] and was assigned to the Forty-Seventh Brigade stationed in and around the city of [[İzmir]]. In November 1916 he obtained a three-month disability leave from the army and returned to Jerusalem.{{sfn|Elpeleg|2007|p=3}} He was recovering from an illness there when the city was captured by the British a year later.{{sfn|Matthews|2006|p=31}} The British and [[Sharifian Army|Sherifian armies]], for which some 500 Palestinian Arabs were estimated to have volunteered, completed their conquest of Ottoman-controlled Palestine and Syria in 1918.<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|1999|p=409}}: "{{lang|fr|italic=no|Selon Jaussen ([[:fr:Antonin Jaussen|Antonin Jaussen]]?), le nombre d'Arabes palestiniens reclutés dépasse les 500.}}"</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Krämer|2008|pp=152–153}}:Both local Palestinian Arabs and Jews played almost no role in the conquest of Palestine: the former enlisted after the Arab revolt and were active east of the Jordan, the latter were recruited after the conquest of Jerusalem and saw little military action.</ref>
As a Sherifian officer, al-Husseini recruited men to serve in [[Faisal I of Iraq|Faisal bin Al Hussein bin Ali El-Hashemi]]'s army during the [[Arab Revolt]], a task he undertook while employed as a recruiter by the British military administration in [[Jerusalem]] and [[Damascus]]. The post-war [[Palin Report 1920|Palin Report]] noted that the English recruiting officer, Captain C. D. Brunton, found al-Husseini, with whom he cooperated, very pro-British, and that, via the diffusion of War Office pamphlets dropped from the air promising them peace and prosperity under British rule, "the recruits (were) being given to understand that they were fighting in a national cause and to liberate their country from the Turks".{{sfn|Huneidi|2001|p=35}} Nothing in his early career to this point suggests he had ambitions to serve in a religious office: his interests were those of an Arab nationalist.{{sfn|Matthews|2006|p=31}}

==Early political activism==
In 1919, al-Husseini attended the [[Syrian National Congress|Pan-Syrian Congress]] held in [[Damascus]] where he supported Emir Faisal for King of [[Syria]]. That year al-Husseini founded the pro-British Jerusalem branch of the Syrian-based "Arab Club" ({{lang|ar-Latn|Al-Nadi al-arabi}}), which then vied with the Nashashibi-sponsored "Literary Club" ({{lang|ar-Latn|[[al-Muntada al-Adabi]]}}) for influence over public opinion, and he soon became its president.{{sfn|Friedman|2000|pp=239–240}}{{sfn|Tauber|1994|pp=79ff., esp.96ff.}} At the same time, he wrote articles for the {{lang|ar-Latn|[[Suriyya al-Janubiyya (newspaper)|Suriyya al-Janubiyya]]}} (Southern Syria).{{citation needed|date=June 2022}} The paper was published in Jerusalem beginning in September 1919 by the lawyer Muhammad Hassan al-Budayri, and edited by [[Aref al-Aref]], both prominent members of al-Nadi al-'Arabi.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}

Al-Husseini was a strong supporter of the short-living [[Arab Kingdom of Syria]], established in March 1920.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}} In addition to his support to pan-Arabist policies of King Faisal I, al-Husseini tried to destabilize the British rule in Palestine, which was declared to be part of the Arab Kingdom, even though no authority was exercised in reality.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}

During the annual [[1920 Nebi Musa riots|Nabi Musa]] procession in Jerusalem in April 1920, violent [[1920 Palestine riots|rioting]] broke out in protest at the implementation of the [[Balfour Declaration]] which supported the establishment in Palestine of a [[homeland for the Jewish people]]. Much damage to Jewish life and property was caused. The [[Palin Report 1920|Palin Report]] laid the blame for the explosion of tensions on both sides.<ref>{{harvnb|Huneidi|2001|p=40}}. The report was never published, the newly appointed [[High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan|High Commissioner]] Sir Herbert Samuel informing the War Office that it was best forgotten.</ref>
[[Ze'ev Jabotinsky]], organiser of Jewish paramilitary defences, received a 15-year sentence.{{sfn|Schechtman|1986|pp=334–337}} Al-Husseini, then a teacher at the [[Rashidiya school]], near [[Herod's Gate]] in [[East Jerusalem]], was charged with inciting the Arab crowds with an inflammatory speech and sentenced ''[[trial in absentia|in absentia]]'' to 10-years imprisonment by a military court, since by then he had fled to Syria.{{sfn|Elpeleg|2007|p=6}} It was asserted soon after, by [[Chaim Weizmann]] and British army [[Lieutenant Colonel]] [[Richard Meinertzhagen]], who worked in close concert,{{efn|"{{lang|fr|Meinertzhagen et Weizmann sont en contacts permanents et coordonnent leur action}}" {{harv|Laurens|1999|p=495}}}} that al-Husseini had been put up to inciting the riot by British [[Field-marshal]] [[Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby|Allenby]]'s [[Chief of Staff]], Colonel Bertie Harry Waters-Taylor, to demonstrate to the world that Arabs would not tolerate a Jewish homeland in Palestine.{{sfn|Laurens|1999|pp=506–512}}{{sfn|Segev|2001|p=140}}<ref>{{harvnb|Sicker|2000|pp=23ff.}} for a reading which follows closely Meinertzhagen's reading of the events as a British army plot.</ref>
The assertion was never proven, and Meinertzhagen was dismissed.<ref>Regarding the whole period preceding the riot, marked by conflicting rumours, Laurens writes:"For several months, the intelligence service Zionists organised in 1918 multiplied warnings about plots by Arab activists. These pieces of information never received any confirmation from the British (or French) intelligence service. Later Arab sources show this quite clearly: no one claimed responsibility for any planning ({{lang|fr|prémeditation}}) for the events, even several decades afterwards". {{harvnb|Laurens|1999|p=506}}.</ref>

After the April riots an event took place that turned the traditional rivalry between the Husseini and Nashashibi clans into a serious rift,{{sfn|Tauber|1994|p=102}} with long-term consequences for al-Husseini and [[Palestinian nationalism]]. According to [[Louis Bols|Sir Louis Bols]], great pressure was brought to bear on the military administration from Zionist leaders and officials such as [[David Yellin]], to have the mayor of Jerusalem, [[Musa al-Husayni|Musa Kazim Pasha al-Husayni]], dismissed, given his presence in the demonstration of the previous March. [[Ronald Storrs|Colonel Storrs]], the Military Governor of Jerusalem, removed him without further inquiry, replacing him with [[Raghib al-Nashashibi]] of the rival Nashashibi clan. This, according to the Palin report, "had a profound effect on his co-religionists, definitely confirming the conviction they had already formed from other evidence that the Civil Administration was the mere puppet of the Zionist Organization."<ref>{{harvnb|Huneidi|2001|p=37}} citing the Palin Report, pp. 29–33.</ref>

Until late 1920, al-Husseini focused his efforts on [[Pan-Arabism]] and the ideology of a [[Greater Syria]] in particular, with Palestine understood as a [[Southern Syria|southern province]] of an Arab state, whose capital was to be established in Damascus. Greater Syria was to include territory of the entire Levant, now occupied by [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Jordan]], [[Palestinian Authority]] and [[Israel]]. The struggle for Greater Syria collapsed after [[France]] defeated the Arab forces in [[Battle of Maysalun]] in July 1920. The French army [[Siege of Damascus (1920)|entered]] Damascus at that time, overthrew King Faisal and put an end to the project of a Greater Syria, put under the French Mandate in accordance with the prior [[Sykes-Picot Agreement]]. Palestinian notables responded to the disaster by a series of resolutions at the [[Palestine Arab Congress|1921 Haifa conference]], which set down a Palestinian framework and passed over in silence the earlier idea of a south confederated with Syria. This framework set the tone of Palestinian nationalism for the ensuing decades.<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|1999|p=545}}. 1920 was considered the "year of disaster" ({{lang|ar-Latn|am al-nakba}}) after the failure, with the French overthrow of Faisal, of the pan-Arab project for a Greater Syria, embracing also Lebanon and Palestine. The Haifa conference, from 13 to 20 December 1920, "marks the basic date in the history of the Palestinian question: it is the historical moment where the Palestinian version of nationalism prevails over the pan-Arab version."</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Kimmerling|Migdal|2003|pp=81–86}}."Faysal's fall marked an important turning point. From then until 1948, Palestinian politics and loyalties were determined by the idea of an independent Palestine." (p.86) "The platform drawn up in Haifa would change little over the next few decades. It contained the following six elements: the first public recognition of Palestine, as it would be constituted by the mandate, as a distinct political entity for the people living there.. a total rejection of any political or moral right of the Jews over Palestine; a declaration of unity among the Palestinian Arabs to supersede any other loyalties, such as those to religion, region, and clan; a call to the new administration to halt any transfers of Arab or state lands to Jewish control; the demand to close Palestine to further immigration; a call to recognize the Arab executive Committee.. as a legitimate representative of the population before the British authorities (with a status similar to that defined for the Jewish Agency).." (p.86)</ref>

Al-Husseini, like many of his class and period, then turned from Damascus-oriented Pan-Arabism to a specifically [[Palestinian nationalism|Palestinian ideology]], centered on Jerusalem, which sought to block Jewish immigration to [[Mandatory Palestine]].<ref>{{harvnb|Milton-Edwards|1999|p=25}}:"Through his position Haj Amin, with the blessing of the British, was able to play a pivotal role in the course of Palestinian nationalist politics. He sought eventually to combine his religious role with his political position in the burgeoning area of Palestinian nationalist agitation."</ref>
The frustration of pan-Arab aspirations lent an Islamic colour to the struggle for independence, and increasing resort to the idea of restoring the land to [[Divisions of the world in Islam#Dar al-Islam|Dar al-Islam]].{{sfn|Nicosia|2008}} From his election as Mufti until 1923, al-Husseini exercised total control over the secret society, {{lang|ar-Latn|Al-Fida'iyya}} ("The Self-Sacrificers"), which, together with {{lang|ar-Latn|al-Ikha' wal-'Afaf}} ("Brotherhood and Purity"), played an important role in clandestine anti-British and anti-Zionist activities, and, via members in the gendarmerie, had engaged in riotous activities as early as April 1920.{{sfn|Tauber|1994|pp=105–109}}

==Mufti of Jerusalem==
[[Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel|Sir Herbert Samuel]], recently appointed British [[High Commissioners for Palestine and Transjordan|High Commissioner]], declared a general [[amnesty]] for those convicted of complicity in the riots of 1920, excluding only Amin al-Husseini and Al Aref.  During a visit later that year to the Bedouin tribes of Transjordan who harboured the two political refugees, Samuel offered a [[pardon]] to both and Al Aref accepted with alacrity. Husseini initially rebuffed the offer, on the grounds that he was not a criminal. He accepted the pardon only in the wake of the death of his half-brother, the mufti [[Kamil al-Husayni]], in March 1921.{{sfn|Ghandour|2009|p=142}} Elections were then held, and of the four candidates running for the office of Mufti, al-Husseini received the fewest votes, the first three being Nashashibi candidates. Nevertheless, Samuel was anxious to keep a balance between the al-Husseinis and their rival clan the [[Nashashibi]]s.{{sfn|Morris|2011|pp=111ff}} A year earlier the British had replaced [[Musa al-Husayni]] as [[Mayor of Jerusalem]] with [[Raghib al-Nashashibi]]. They then moved to secure for the Husseini clan a compensatory function of prestige by appointing one of them to the position of mufti, and, with the support of Raghib al-Nashashibi, prevailing upon the Nashashibi front-runner, [[Sheikh]] [[Hussam ad-Din Jarallah]], to withdraw. This automatically promoted Amin al-Husseini to third position, which, under Ottoman law, allowed him to qualify, and Samuel then chose him as Mufti.{{sfn|Elpeleg|2007|pp=7–10}} His initial appointment was as Mufti, but when the Supreme Muslim Council was created in the following year, Husseini demanded and received the title Grand Mufti that had earlier been created, perhaps on the lines of Egyptian usage,<ref>{{harvnb|Kupferschmidt|1987|pp=19,78}}:"Soon after the British began to style Kāmil al-Husaynī as the Grand Muftī ({{lang|ar-Latn|al-muftī al-akbar}}), a title which had hitherto been unknown in Palestine but which was probably copied from Egypt. This gesture was, in part, meant as a reward for Kāmil's cooperation with the British, but it may have been intended to substitute some kind of a new hierarchy for the former Ottoman one".</ref>
by the British for his half-brother [[Kamil al-Husayni|Kamil]].<ref>{{harvnb|Elpeleg|2007|p=11}}:"He demanded that the title Grand Mufti, which had been granted to his brother by the British for cooperating with them, also be given to him, and that his salary be higher than that of the other muftis. Richmond and Storrs supported this claim, arguing that since, from the spiritual and religious points of view, the status of Jerusalem was superior to that of other regions in Palestine, the Mufti of Jerusalem should be considered head of the country's Muslim community. ".</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Khalidi|2001|p=22}}: "After their occupation of the country, the British created the entirely new post of 'grand mufti of Palestine' ({{lang|ar-Latn|al-mufti al-akbar}}), who was also designated the 'mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestine region' ({{lang|ar-Latn|mufti al-Quds wal-diyar al-filistiniyya}})."</ref>{{sfn|Cohen|1989|p=69}} The position came with a life tenure.<ref>{{harvnb|Sicker|2000|pp=32f.}}:{{harvnb|Elpeleg|2007|p=48}}.</ref>

In 1922, al-Husseini was elected president of the [[Supreme Muslim Council]] which had been created by Samuel in 1921.<ref>{{harvnb|Matthews|2006|pp=31–32}}:"It was not scholarly religious credentials that made Hajj Amin an attractive candidate for president of the SMC in the eyes of colonial officials. Rather, it was the combination of his being an effective nationalist activist and a member of one of Jerusalem's most respected notable families that made it advantageous to align his interests with those of the British administration and thereby keep him on a short tether."</ref>
Matthews argues that the British considered the combinations of his profile as an effective Arab nationalist and a scion of a noble Jerusalem family "made it advantageous to align his interests with those of the British administration and thereby keep him on a short tether.".{{sfn|Matthews|2006|p=32}} The Council controlled the [[Waqf]] funds, worth annually tens of thousands of pounds<ref>{{harvnb|Reiter|1996|pp=22–24}} for details.</ref>
and the orphan funds, worth annually about £50,000, as compared to the £600,000 in the [[Jewish Agency]]'s annual budget.<ref>{{harvnb|Huneidi|2001|p=38}} This excludes funds for land purchases. The "Jewish Agency", mentioned in article 4 of the Mandate only became the official term in 1928. At the time the organisation was called the Palestine Zionist Executive.</ref>
In addition, he controlled the [[Shariah|Islamic]] courts in Palestine. Among other functions, these courts were entrusted with the power to appoint teachers and preachers.{{sfn|Milton-Edwards|1999|p=38}}

The British initially balanced appointments to the [[Supreme Muslim Council]] between the [[al-Husayni|Husseinis]] and their supporters (known as the {{lang|ar-Latn|majlisiya}}, or council supporters) and the Nashashibis and their allied clans (known as the {{lang|ar-Latn|mu'aridun}}, the opposition).{{sfn|Robinson|1997|p=6}} The {{lang|ar-Latn|mu'aridun}}, were more disposed to a compromise with the Jews, and indeed had for some years received annual subventions from the [[Jewish Agency]].{{sfn|Morris|2011|p=111}} During most of the period of the [[Mandatory Palestine|British mandate]], bickering between these two families seriously undermined any Palestinian Arab unity. In 1936, however, they achieved a measure of concerted policy when all the Palestinian Arab groups joined to create a permanent executive organ known as the [[Arab Higher Committee]] under al-Husseini's chairmanship.{{sfn|UNPC|1948|loc=§ 24}}

===Haram ash-Sharif and the Western Wall===
The Supreme Muslim Council and its head al-Husseini, who regarded himself as guardian of one of the [[Holiest sites in Islam|three holy sites]] of [[Islam]], launched an international campaign in Muslim countries to gather funds to restore and improve the {{lang|ar-Latn|Haram ash-Sharif}} (Noble Sanctuary) or [[Temple Mount]], and particularly the [[Qibli Mosque|Al-Aqsa Mosque]] and the [[Dome of the Rock]] shrine (which houses also the holiest site in Judaism).<ref>{{harvnb|Kupferschmidt|1987|pp=131–132}} for a detailed list of the several sites on the Haram that underwent extensive renovation.</ref>
The whole area required extensive restoration, given the disrepair into which it had fallen from neglect in Ottoman times. Jerusalem was the original direction towards which Muslims prayed, until the [[Qibla]] was reorientated towards [[Mecca]] by Mohammed in the year 624. Al-Husseini commissioned the Turkish architect Mimar Kemalettin.<ref>{{harvnb|Monk|2002|p=61}} The name is occasionally given as Kamal Bey, or Kamal al-Din in primary and secondary sources.</ref>
In restoring the site, al-Husseini was also assisted by the Mandatory power's Catholic Director of [[Antiquities]], [[Ernest Richmond]].<ref>{{harvnb|Monk|2002|pp=42–72}} for a detailed account of Richmond's role. Richmond authored an important volume on the Haram (Ernest Tatham Richmond, ''The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem: A description of its structure and decoration,'' Oxford University Press, Oxford 1924).</ref>
Under Richmond's supervision, the Turkish architect drew up a plan, and the execution of the works gave a notable stimulus to the revival of traditional [[artisan]] arts like [[mosaic|mosaic tessellation]], [[glassware]] production, [[woodcraft]], [[wicker]] work and [[wrought iron|iron-mongering]].<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|p=156}}.translation needed</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Kupferschmidt|1987|pp=127ff.,130}}. The mosaic ''tesserae'', however, were manufactured in, and imported from, Turkey.</ref>

Al-Husseini's vigorous efforts to transform the [[Haram (site)|Haram]] into a symbol of pan-Arabic and [[Palestinian nationalism]] were intended to rally Arab support against the [[Balfour Declaration|postwar]] influx of Jewish immigrants. In his campaigning, al-Husseini often accused Jews of planning to take possession of the [[Western Wall]] of Jerusalem, which belonged to the waqf of [[Abu Madyan]] as an [[Inalienable rights|inalienable]] property, and rebuild the Temple over the Al-Aqsa Mosque.{{sfn|Sicker|2000|p=77}} He took certain statements, for example, by the [[Ashkenazi]] [[chief rabbi]] of Palestine, [[Abraham Isaac Kook]] regarding the eventual return in time of the Temple Mount back to Jewish hands, and turned them to a concrete political plot to seize control of the area.<ref>{{harvnb|Benvenisti|1996|pp=77f.}} writes that Rabbi Kook had preached as early as 1920: "The Temple Mount is Israel's holy place, and even should it be under the hand of others for long days and periods of time, it will finally come into our hands..., which could merely mean however that, in rabbinical thought, with the coming of the Messiah, the Temple would automatically revert to the Jews."</ref>
Al-Husseini's intensive work to refurbish the shrine as a cynosure for the Muslim world, and Jewish endeavours to improve their access to, and establish a ritually appropriate ambiance on the plaza by the [[Western Wall]], led to increased conflict between the two communities, each seeing the site only from their own traditional perspective and interests.{{sfn|Yaeger|1996|pp=196ff.}} Zionist narratives pinpointed al-Husseini's works on, and publicity about, the site and threats to it, as attempts to restore his own family's waning prestige. Arab narratives read the heightened agitation of certain Jewish groups over the Wall as an attempt to revive [[Jewish diaspora|diaspora]]'s interest in Zionism after some years of relative decline, depression and emigration.<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|p=154}}.translation needed</ref>
Each attempt to make minor alterations to the [[status quo]], still governed by Ottoman law, was bitterly protested before the British authorities by the Muslim authorities. If Muslims could cite an Ottoman regulation of 1912 specifically forbidding objects like seating to be introduced, the Jews could cite testimonies to the fact that before 1914 certain exceptions had been made to improve their access and use of the Wall.<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|p=163}}. translation needed</ref>
The decade witnessed several such episodes of strong friction, and the simmering tensions came to a head in late 1928, only to erupt, after a brief respite, into an explosion of violence a year later.

===1929 Palestine riots===
{{Main|1929 Palestine riots}}

====Prelude====
[[File:Palestinian delegation 1929.jpg|thumb|Arab protest delegations against British policy in Palestine during 1929]]

On 10 August 1928, a [[constituent assembly]] convened by the French in Syria was rapidly adjourned when calls were made for a reunification with Palestine.<ref>The longest accounts for the riots are in {{harvnb|Kolinsky|1993|pp=42–70}} and {{harvnb|Segev|2001|pp=309–327}}.</ref>
Al-Husseini and [[Awni Abd al-Hadi]] met with the Syrian nationalists<ref>Among them [[Shukri al-Quwatli]], Ihsan al-Jabiri and Adil Arslan</ref>
and they made a joint proclamation for a unified [[Monarchy|monarchical]] state under a son of [[Ibn Sa'ud]]. On the 26th,<ref>{{harvnb|Kupferschmidt|1987|p=131}} gives the 26th: {{harvnb|Laurens|2002|p=155}} (translation needed) gives the 17th.</ref>
the completion of the first stage of restoration work on the Haram's mosques was celebrated with great pomp, in the presence of representatives from the Muslim countries which had financed the project, the Mandatory authorities, and [[Abdullah I of Jordan|Abdullah, Emir of Transjordan]]. A month later, an article appeared in the Jewish press proposing the purchase and destruction of houses in the Moroccan quarter bordering on the wall to improve pilgrim access and thereby further the "Redemption of Israel."<ref name="Laurens 2002 158">{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|p=158}}. translation needed</ref>
Soon after, on 23 September,<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|p=157}}: {{harvnb|Kupferschmidt|1987|p=131}} gives 24 September.</ref>
[[Yom Kippur]], a Jewish [[beadle]] introduced a screen to separate male and female worshippers at the Wall. Informed by residents in the neighbouring [[Moroccan Quarter|Mughrabi quarter]], the waqf authority complained to [[Harry Luke]], acting [[Chief Secretary (British Empire)|Chief Secretary]] to the Government of [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]], that this virtually changed the lane into a synagogue, and violated the status quo, as had the collapsible seats in 1926. British constables, encountering a refusal, used force to remove the screen, and a jostling clash ensued between worshippers and police.<ref name="Laurens 2002 158" />{{efn|See also the British account of this incident in: ''[[Survey of Palestine (Anglo-American Committee)|A Survey of Palestine]]'' (Prepared in December 1945 and January 1946 for the information of the [[Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry]]), vol. 1, chapter 2, British Mandate Government of Palestine: Jerusalem 1946, p. 23}}

Zionist allegations that disproportionate force had been employed during what was a solemn occasion of prayer created an outcry throughout the [[diaspora]]. Worldwide Jewish protests remonstrated with Britain for the violence exercised at the Wall. The Jewish National Council [[Vaad Leumi]] "demanded that British administration expropriate the wall for the Jews".{{sfn|Ovendale|2004|p=71}} In reply, the Muslims organized a Defence Committee for the Protection of the Noble Buraq,<ref>{{lang|ar-Latn|Lajnat al-Difa}} and {{lang|ar-Latn|al-Buraq al-Sharif}}. See {{harvnb|Monk|2002|p=70}}. The Muslim name for the contested section of the wall, where [[Mohammed]] was said to have tethered his steed Buraq while on his famous visionary flight to heaven. See {{harvnb|Krämer|2008|p=225}}.</ref>
and huge crowd rallies took place on the Al-Aqsa plaza in protest. Work, often noisy, was immediately undertaken on a mosque above the Jewish prayer site. Disturbances such as opening a passage for donkeys to pass through the area, angered worshippers.{{sfn|Gonen|2003|p=141}} After intense negotiations, the Zionist organisation denied any intent to take over the whole Haram Ash-Sharif, but demanded the government expropriate and raze the Moroccan quarter. A law of 1924 allowed the British authorities to expropriate property, and fear of this in turn greatly agitated the Muslim community, though the laws of donation of the waqf explicitly disallowed any such alienation. After lengthy deliberation, a [[White Paper]] was made public on 11 December 1928 in favour of the status quo.<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|pp=153,158–161,162}} translation needed</ref>

After the nomination of the new [[High Commissioner]] [[John Chancellor (British administrator)|Sir John Chancellor]] to succeed [[Lord Plumer]] in December 1928, the question was re-examined, and in February 1929 legal opinion established that the mandatory authority was within its powers to intervene to ensure Jewish rights of access and prayer. Al-Husseini pressed him for a specific clarification of the legal ''status quo'' regarding the Wall. Chancellor mulled weakening the [[Supreme Muslim Council|SMC]] and undermining al-Husseini's authority by making the office of mufti elective. The [[Nabi Musa]] festival of April that year passed without incident, despite al-Husseini's warnings of possible incidents. Chancellor thought his power was waning, and after conferring with London, admitted to al-Husseini on 6 May that he was impotent to act decisively in the matter. Al-Husseini replied that, unless the Mandatory authorities acted, then, very much like Christian monks protecting their sacred sites in Jerusalem, the sheikhs would have to take infringements of the status quo into their own hands, and personally remove any objects introduced by Jews to the area. Chancellor asked him to be patient, and al-Husseini offered to stop works on the Mount on condition that this gesture not be taken as a recognition of Jewish rights. [[Labour Government 1929–1931|A change of government in Britain]] in June led to a new proposal: only Muslim works in the sector near where Jews prayed should be subject to mandatory authorisation: Jews could employ ritual objects, but the introduction of seats and screens would be subject to Muslim authorisation. Chancellor authorised the Muslims to recommence their reconstructive work, while, responding to further Zionist complaints, prevailed on the SMC to stop the raucous [[Dhikr|Zikr]] ceremonies in the vicinity of the wall.<ref>Muslims in the Mughrabi Quarter were to make similar complaints against the racket of [[Hasidic]] [[Mitzvah tantz|ritual dancing]] in the area on the night of the anniversary of Muhammad's birth, 16 August 1929.{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|p=170}}. translation needed</ref>
He also asked the Zionist representatives to refrain from filling their newspapers with attacks on the government and Muslim authorities. Chancellor then departed for Europe where the Mandatory Commission was deliberating.<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|pp=163–165}}. translation needed</ref>

====Riots====
With Chancellor abroad, and the Zionist Commission itself, with its leader Colonel [[Frederick Kisch]], in [[Zürich]] for the 16th [[Zionist Congress]] (attended also by [[Ze'ev Jabotinsky]]), the [[Supreme Muslim Council|SMC]] resumed works, confidentially authorised, on the Haram only to be met with outcries from the Jewish press. The administration rapidly published the new rules on 22 July 1929, with a serious error in translation that fueled Zionist reports of a plot against Jewish rights.<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|p=632. n.3}}: "Fixed hours of Jewish worship" was given, instead of "customary hours of Jewish worship".</ref>
A protest in London led to a public declaration by a member of the Zionist Commission that Jewish rights were bigger than the ''status quo'', a statement which encouraged in turn Arab suspicions that local agreements were again being overthrown by Jewish intrigues abroad. News that the Zurich Congress, in creating the Jewish Agency on 11 August 1929, had brought unity among Zionists and the world Jewish community, a measure that greatly increased Jewish investment in British Palestine,<ref>{{harvnb|Sicker|2000|p=79}}:"This was done to ensure a new major influx of non-Zionist American wealth into the country to support the development of a Jewish national home".</ref>
set off alarm bells. On 15 August, [[Tisha B'Av]], a day memorializing the [[Siege of Jerusalem (70)|destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem]], the [[Revisionist Zionism|revisionist]] [[Betar]] movement, despite [[Pinhas Rutenberg]]'s plea on 8 August to the acting High Commissioner [[Harry Luke]] to stop such groups from participating,{{sfn|Sicker|2000|pp=179ff.}} rallied members from [[Tel Aviv]] to join them in the religious commemoration. Kisch, before leaving, had banned Jewish demonstrations in Jerusalem's Arab quarters. The Betar youth gave the ceremony a strong nationalist tinge by singing the [[Hatikvah]], waving the [[flag of Israel]], and chanting the slogan "The Wall is Ours".{{sfn|Laqueur|2003|pp=168–169}}<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|pp=168–169}}. translation needed</ref>
The following day coincided with {{lang|ar-Latn|mawlid}} (or {{lang|ar-Latn|mawsin al-nabi}}),{{sfn|Krämer|2008|p=230}} the anniversary of the birth of [[Seal of the prophets|Islam's prophet]], [[Muhammad]]. Muslim worshippers, after prayers on the esplanade of the Haram, passed through the narrow lane by the Wailing Wall and ripped up prayer books, and [[Western Wall|kotel notes]] (wall petitions), without harming however three Jews present. Contacted by Luke, al-Husseini undertook to do his best to maintain calm on the Haram, but could not stop demonstrators from gathering at the Wall.

On 17 August 1929 a young Jewish boy was stabbed to death by Arabs while retrieving a football, while an Arab was badly wounded in a brawl with Palestinian Jews.<ref>{{harvnb|Krämer|2008|p=230}} writes that it was in revenge for the former incident.</ref>
Strongly tied to the [[Hashemite|anti-Hashemite]] party,<ref>Particularly with [[Riad as-Solh|Riad al-Suhl]]</ref>
and attacked by supporters of [[Abdullah I of Jordan|Abdullah]] in [[Emirate of Transjordan|Transjordan]] for misusing funds marked out for campaigning against France, al-Husseini asked for a visa for himself and Awni Abd al-Hadi to travel to Syria, where the leadership of the Syrian anti-French cause was being contested.<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|p=171}} asserts that "The matter was sufficiently important.. for this not to be (read as) an attempt to secure an [[alibi]] for subsequent events".</ref>
Averse to his presence in Syria, the French asked him to put off the journey. Meanwhile, despite Harry Luke's lecturing journalists to avoid reporting such material, rumors circulated in both communities, of an imminent massacre of Jews by Muslims, and of an assault on the Haram ash-Sharif by Jews. On 21 August a funeral cortège, taking the form of a public demonstration for the dead Jewish boy, wound its way through the old city, with the police blocking attempts to break into the Arab quarters. On the 22nd, Luke convoked representatives of both parties to calm things down, and undersign a joint declaration. Awni Abd al-Hadi and [[Jamal al-Husayni]] were ready to recognize Jewish visiting rights at the Wall in exchange for Jewish recognition of Islamic prerogatives at the Buraq. The Jewish representative, [[Yitzhak Ben-Zvi]], considered this beyond his brief—which was limited to an appeal for calm—and the Arabs in turn refused. They agreed to pursue their dialogue the following week.

On 23 August 1929, a Friday, two or three Arabs were murdered in the Jewish quarter of [[Mea Shearim]].<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|pp=168–172}}. translation needed</ref>
It was also a day of Muslim prayer. A large crowd, composed of many people from outlying villages, thronged into Jerusalem, many armed with sticks and knives. It is not known whether this was organized by al-Husseini or the result of spontaneous mobilisation. The sermon at Al-Aqsa was to be delivered by another preacher, but Luke prevailed on al-Husseini to leave his home and go to the mosque, where he was greeted as "the sword of the faith" and where he instructed the preacher to deliver a pacific sermon, while sending an urgent message for police reinforcements around the Haram. In response to the peaceful address, extremists harangued the crowd, accusing al-Husseini of being an infidel to the Muslim cause. The same violent accusation was launched in [[Jaffa]] against sheikh Muzaffir, an otherwise radical Islamic preacher, who gave a sermon calling for calm on the same day.<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|p=173}}. translation needed</ref>
An assault was launched on the Jewish quarter. Violent mob attacks on Jewish communities, fueled by wildfire hearsay about ostensible massacres of Arabs and attempts to seize the Wall, took place over the following days in [[1929 Hebron Massacre|Hebron]], [[Safed]] and [[Haifa]]. In all, in the killings and subsequent revenge attacks, 136 Arabs and 135 Jews died, while 340 of the latter were wounded, as well as an estimated 240 Arabs.<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|p=179}} translation needed {{harvnb|Sicker|2000|p=46}}; gives 133 Jewish killed, and 339 wounded, 116 Arabs known to be killed, and 232 known to be wounded, the latter almost entirely due to police actions. The Arab wounded are those registered by the Mandatory authorities. Many preferred to hide their injuries.</ref>

====Aftermath====
Two official investigations were subsequently conducted by the British and the [[League of Nations]]'s Mandatory Commission. The former, [[Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August, 1929, Cmd. 3530|The Shaw Report]], concluded that the incident on 23 August consisted of an attack by Arabs on Jews, but rejected the view that the riots had been premeditated. Al-Husseini certainly played an energetic role in Muslim demonstrations from 1928 onwards, but could not be held responsible for the August riots, even if he had "a share in the responsibility for the disturbances".{{sfn|Great Britain|1930|pp=158–159}} He had nonetheless collaborated from the 23rd of that month in pacifying rioters and reestablishing order. The worst outbreaks occurred in areas, Hebron, Safed, [[Jaffa]], and [[Haifa]] where his Arab political adversaries were dominant. The root cause of the violent outbreaks lay in the fear of territorial dispossession.<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|p=199}}. translation needed</ref>
In a Note of Reservation, [[Harry Snell, 1st Baron Snell|Mr. Harry Snell]], who had apparently been swayed by [[Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel|Sir Herbert Samuel]]'s son, [[Edwin Samuel, 2nd Viscount Samuel|Edwin Samuel]]<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|p=200}} citing {{harvnb|Samuel|1970|p=96}}, which records several long talks of members of [[Brit Shalom (political organization)|Brit Shalom]] with Snell. translation needed</ref>
states that, although he was satisfied that al-Husseini was not directly responsible for the violence or had connived at it, he believed al-Husseini was aware of the nature of the anti-Zionist campaign and the danger of disturbances.{{sfn|Great Britain|1930|p=172}} He therefore attributed to the Mufti a greater share of the blame than the official report had.{{sfn|Great Britain|1930|p=172}} The Dutch Vice-Chairman of the Permanent Mandates Commission, M. Van Rees, argued that "the disturbances of August 1929, as well as the previous disturbances of a similar character, were, in brief, only a special aspect of the resistance offered everywhere in the East, with its traditional and feudal civilisation, to the invasion of a European civilisation introduced by a Western administration" but concluded that in his view "the responsibility for what had happened must lie with the religious and political leaders of the Arabs".{{sfn|Permanent Mandates Commission|1930}}

In London, [[Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett|Lord Melchett]] demanded his arrest for orchestrating all anti-British unrest throughout the [[Middle East]]. Consular documentation discarded the plot thesis rapidly, and identified the deeper cause as political, not religious, namely in what the Palin report had earlier identified<ref>{{harvnb|Huneidi|2001|p=36}} citing Palin Report p. 184.</ref>
as profound Arab discontent over Zionism. Arab memoirs on the {{lang|ar-Latn|[[fitna (word)|fitna]]}} (troubles) follow a contemporary proclamation for the Defence of the Wall on 31 August 1929, which justified the riots as legitimate, but nowhere mention a coordinated plan. [[Izzat Darwaza]], an [[Arab nationalist]] rival of al-Husseini, alone asserts, without details, that al-Husseini was responsible. Al-Husseini in his Judeophobic memoirs{{sfn|Sells|2015|p=725}} never claimed to have played such a role.{{sfn|Laurens|2002|pp=175–176}}

The High Commissioner received al-Husseini twice officially on 1 October 1929 and a week later, and the latter complained of pro-Zionist bias in an area where the Arab population still viewed Great Britain favorably. Al-Husseini argued that the weakness of the Arab position was that they lacked political representation in Europe, whereas for millennia, in his view, the Jews dominated with their genius for intrigue. He assured Chancellor of his cooperation in maintaining public order.<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|pp=180–181}}. translation needed</ref>

=== Political activities, 1930–1935 ===
[[File:Atassi, Husayni, and Arslan in Saudi Arabia.jpg|thumb|Al-Husseini (center) in a visit to [[Saudi Arabia]] in the early 1930s. To his left is [[Hashim al-Atassi]], who later became president of [[Syria]] and to al-Husseini's right is [[Shakib Arslan]], an [[Arab nationalist]] philosopher from [[Lebanon]].|300px]]

By 1928–1929 a coalition of a new Palestinian nationalist group began to challenge the hegemony so far exercised by al-Husseini. The group, more pragmatic, hailed from the landed gentry and from business circles, and was intent on what they considered a policy of more realistic accommodation to the Mandatory government. From this period on, a rift emerged, that was to develop into a feud between the directive elite of Palestinian Arabs.{{sfn|Hen-Tov|1974|p=16}}

In 1931, al-Husseini founded the [[World Islamic Congress]], on which he was to serve as president. Versions differ as to whether or not al-Husseini supported [[Izz ad-Din al-Qassam]] when he undertook clandestine activities against the British Mandate authorities. His appointment as [[imam]] of the al-Istiqlal [[mosque]] in Haifa had been approved by al-Husseini. Lachman argues that he secretly encouraged, and perhaps financed al-Qassam at this period. Whatever their relations, the latter's independent activism, and open challenge to the British authorities appears to have led to a rupture between the two.{{sfn|Lachman|1982|pp=75–76}} He vigorously opposed the Qassamites' exactions against the Christian and Druze communities.{{sfn|Achcar|2010b|p=144}}

In 1933, according to Alami, al-Husseini expressed interest in Ben Gurion's proposal of a Jewish-Palestine as part of a larger Arab federation.{{efn|"The grand mufti, Alami has claimed, expressed interest in the Idea of Jewish Palestine as part of a larger Arab federation." {{harv|Kotzin|2010|pp=251–}}}}

By 1935 al-Husseini did take control of one clandestine organization, of whose nature he had not been informed until the preceding year,<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|p=297}}. translation needed</ref>
which had been set up in 1931 by [[Musa Kazim al-Husayni]]'s son, [[Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni]] and recruited from the Palestinian Arab [[Boy Scout]] movement, called the "Holy Struggle" ({{lang|ar-Latn|al-jihad al-muqaddas}}).<ref>{{harvnb|Rosen|2005|p=104}}. Rosen notes that, by 1934, it had 63 cells (400 youths).</ref>
This and another paramilitary youth organization, {{lang|ar-Latn|al-Futuwwah}}, paralleled the clandestine Jewish [[Haganah]]. Rumours, and occasional discovery of caches and shipments of arms, strengthened military preparations on both sides.<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|pp=292, 297f}}. One such discovery, in the port of Haifa, in October 1935, of a shipment of arms from Germany, with the apparent authorization of the Nazi Ministry for Internal Affairs, and destined for the Haganah, led to great agitation and played into the hands of those Arabs who pressed for more radical activities. translation needed.</ref>

===1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine===
{{Main|1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine}}

On 19 April 1936, [[1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine|a wave of protest strikes and attacks against both the British authorities and Jews was unleashed]] in [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]]. Initially, the riots were led by Farhan al-Sa'di, a militant [[sheikh|sheik]] of the northern al-Qassam group, with links to the Nashashibis. After the arrest and execution of Farhan, al-Husseini seized the initiative by negotiating an alliance with the al-Qassam faction.{{sfn|Laurens|2002|p=376}} Apart from some foreign subsidies, including a substantial amount from [[Kingdom of Italy|Fascist Italy]],<ref>{{harvnb|De Felice|1990|pp=210–211}} mentions £138,000 from 10 September 1936 to 15 June 1938. Earlier, in January 1936 Italy had given al-Husseini £12,000 of a promised £25,000.</ref>
he controlled [[waqf]] and orphan funds that generated annual income of about 115,000 [[Palestine pound]]s. After the start of the revolt, most of that money was used to finance the activities of his representatives throughout the country. To Italy's Consul-General in [[Jerusalem]], Mariano de Angelis, he explained in July that his decision to get directly involved in the conflict arose from the trust he reposed in Italian dictator [[Benito Mussolini]]'s backing and promises.{{sfn|De Felice|1990|p=210}} Upon al-Husseini's initiative, the leaders of Palestinian Arab clans formed the [[Arab Higher Committee]] under his chairmanship. The Committee called for nonpayment of taxes after 15 May and for a [[general strike]] of Arab workers and businesses, demanding an end to the Jewish immigration. The British [[High Commissioner]] for Palestine, [[Sir]] [[Arthur Grenfell Wauchope|Arthur Wauchope]], responded by engaging in negotiations with al-Husseini and the Committee. The talks, however, soon proved fruitless. Al-Husseini issued a series of warnings, threatening the "revenge of God Almighty" unless the Jewish immigration were to stop, and the general strike began, paralyzing the government, public transportation, Arab businesses and agriculture.{{sfn|Sachar|2006|pp=199–200}}

As the time passed, by autumn the Arab middle class had exhausted its resources.{{sfn|Sachar|1972|p=73}} Under these circumstances, the Mandatory government was looking for an intermediary who might help persuade the Arab Higher Committee to end the rebellion. Al-Husseini and the Committee rejected King [[Abdullah I of Jordan|Abdullah]] of [[Emirate of Transjordan|Transjordan]] as mediator because of his dependence on the British and friendship with the Zionists, but accepted the [[Iraq]]i Foreign Minister [[Nuri as-Said]]. As Wauchope warned of an impending military campaign and simultaneously offered to dispatch a Royal Commission of Inquiry to hear the Arab complaints, the Arab Higher Committee called off the strike on 11 October 1936.{{sfn|Sachar|2006|pp=200–201}} When the promised [[Peel Commission|Royal Commission of Inquiry]] arrived in Palestine in November, al-Husseini testified before it as chief witness for the Arabs.{{sfn|Sachar|2006|pp=200–201}}

[[File:MuftiDeposition1937.pdf|thumb|180px|Deposition of Amin el Husseini from the Supreme Muslim Sharia Council and declaration of the Arab Higher Committee as illegal]]
In July 1937, British police were sent to arrest al-Husseini for his part in the Arab rebellion, but, tipped off, he managed to escape to the sanctuary of asylum in the Haram. He stayed there for three months, directing the revolt from within. Four days after the assassination of the Acting District Commissioner for that area [[Lewis Yelland Andrews]] by [[Galilee|Galilean]] members of the [[al-Qassam]] group on 26 September 1937, al-Husseini was deposed from the presidency of the Muslim Supreme Council, the Arab Higher Committee was declared illegal, and warrants for the arrest of its leaders were issued, as being at least "morally responsible", though no proofs existed for their complicity.<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|p=373}}:{{harvnb|Levenberg|1993|p=8}}.</ref>
Of them only [[Jamal al-Husayni]] managed to escape to [[French Mandate of Syria|Syria]]: the remaining five were exiled to the [[Seychelles]]. Al-Husseini was not among the indicted but, fearing imprisonment, on 14 October 1937, after sliding under cover of darkness down a rope from the Haram's wall, he himself fled, in a [[Palestine Police Force]] car to [[Jaffa]] where he boarded a [[tramp steamer]]{{sfn|Hughes|2019|pp=422–523}} that conveyed him to [[French Mandate of Lebanon|Lebanon]], disguised as a Bedouin,{{sfn|Rose|1989|p=332}}{{sfn|Mattar|1992|p=83}} where he reconstituted the committee under his leadership.{{sfn|Fieldhouse|2006|p=169}} Though terrorism was used by both sides,<ref>{{harvnb|Mattar|1984|p=272}}: "terrorism was employed by both sides during the Arab Revolt. Palestinian guerrilla warfare included violence against British officials, Jewish civilians, and members of the Opposition, some of whom were collaborators. The British and Zionist forces, in an attempt to suppress the rebellion, indiscriminately shot and bombed civilians, used suspects as human minesweepers, executed Palestinians for minor offenses, and operated with the Opposition to assassinate rebels. Political assassination, however, was used far more frequently by the supporters of the Mufti against pro-British and Opposition members."</ref> Al-Husseini's tactics, his abuse of power to punish other clans, and the killing of political adversaries he considered "traitors",<ref>{{harvnb|Karmi|2004|p=9}} [[Ghada Karmi]] recalls that her oldest uncle, who refused to join Husseini's camp, suffered two attempts on his life by an assassin sent by al-Husseini, in [[Nablus]] and Beirut. The second attempt succeeded.</ref>
alienated many Palestinian Arabs. One local leader, Abu Shair, told Da'ud al-Husayni, an emissary from Damascus who bore a list of people to be assassinated during the uprising "I don't work for {{lang|ar-Latn|Husayniya}} ('Husayni-ism') but for {{lang|ar-Latn|wataniya}} (nationalism)."{{sfn|Swedenburg|2003|p=87}} He remained in [[French Mandate of Lebanon|Lebanon]] for two years, under [[French Third Republic|French]] surveillance in the [[Christians|Christian]] village of [[Zouk Mikael|Zouk]],{{sfn|Laurens|2002|p=374}} but, in October 1939, his deteriorating relationship with the French and [[French Mandate of Syria|Syrian]] authorities – they had asked him to make a public declaration of support for Great Britain and France,{{sfn|Mattar|1984|p=270}} – led him to withdraw to the [[Kingdom of Iraq]]. By June 1939, after the disintegration of the revolt, Husseini's policy of killing only proven turncoats changed to one of liquidating all suspects, even members of his own family, according to one intelligence report.{{sfn|Cohen|2008|p=171}}

The rebellion itself had lasted until March 1939, when it was finally quelled by British troops, assisted by Zionist forces, with a 10/1 advantage over Palestinians.{{sfn|Mattar|1984|p=269}} Al-Husseini was sufficiently depressed by the outcome, and the personal loss of many friends and relatives,<ref>{{harvnb|Mattar|1984|p=274}}: "Between November 1939 and June 1940 thirty-nine Palestinians were condemned to death in secret British trials. The Mufti knew most of the  condemned rebels or their families personally. Their families desperately  appealed to him to intervene, but all he could do was turn to fellow Muslims and Arabs to intercede with the British. In one such appeal, he wrote an Indian friend that the British were annihilating the 'best element,' whose only crime was 'to defend their country'."</ref> that he contemplated suicide, according to the French High Commissioner in Lebanon.{{sfn|Mattar|1984|pp=269–270}} The Revolt nonetheless forced Britain to make substantial concessions to Arab demands. Jewish immigration was to continue but under restrictions, with a quota of 75,000 places spread out over the following five years. On the expiry of this period further Jewish immigration would depend on Arab consent. Besides local unrest, another key factor in bringing about a decisive change in British policy was Nazi Germany's preparations for a European war, which would develop into a worldwide conflict. In British strategic thinking, securing the loyalty and support of the Arab world assumed an importance of some urgency.<ref>{{harvnb|Aboul-Enein|Aboul-Enein|2013|p=15}}:"Both Italy and Britain came to the realization in the late 1930s as the clouds of war began to descend on Europe that support for the Arabs would prove fruitful."</ref>
While Jewish support was unquestioned, Arab backing in a new global conflict was by no means assured. By promising to phase out Jewish immigration into Palestine, Britain hoped to win back support from wavering Arabs.{{sfn|Hilberg|1973|p=716}} Husseini, allied to radical elements in exile, hailing from provincial Palestinian families, convinced the [[Arab Higher Committee|AHC]], against moderate Palestinian families who were minded to accept it, to reject the [[White Paper of 1939]], which had recommended an Arab-majority state and an end to building a Jewish national home. The rejection was based on its perceived failure to promise an end to immigration; the land policy it advocated was thought to provide imperfect remedies: and the promised independence appeared to depend on Jewish assent and cooperation. Husseini, who also had personal interests threatened by these arrangements,{{sfn|Morris|2011|p=159}} also feared that acceptance would strengthen the hand of his political opponents in the Palestine national movement, such as the Nashashibis.{{sfn|Khalaf|1991|pp=72–75}}{{sfn|Elpeleg|2007|p=52}} Schwanitz and Rubin argued that Husseini was a great influence on Hitler and that his rejectionism was, ironically, the real causal factor for the establishment of the state of Israel, a thesis Mikics, who regards Husseini as a "radical anti-semite", finds both "astonishing" and "silly", since it would logically entail the collateral thesis that the Zionist movement triggered the [[Holocaust]].{{sfn|Mikics|2014}}

Neve Gordon writes that al-Husseini regarded all alternative nationalist views as treasonous, opponents became traitors and collaborators, and patronizing or employing Jews of any description illegitimate.{{sfn|Gordon|2008}} From Beirut he continued to issue directives. The price for murdering opposition leaders and peace leaders rose by July to 100 Palestine pounds: a suspected traitor 25 pounds, and a Jew 10. Notwithstanding this, ties with the Jews were reestablished by leading families such as the Nashashibis, and by the Fahoum of Nazareth.{{sfn|Cohen|2008|pp=172–174}}

==Ties with the Axis Powers during World War II==
{{Main|Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world}}

Since 1918, Arab nationalist movements lay under the constraints imposed by the French-English imperial [[duopoly]] in the Middle East, which in turn extended to the sphere of international politics. The Arabs perceived their interests as tied up with an eventual weakening of these two powers as a precondition for establishing their national independence. For this reason, as early as June 1933, even the most Europeanized of Palestinian notables were known to look forward to a renewed outbreak of war in Europe, something that would enable them to overthrow the colonial grip on their countries and expel ("throw into the sea") the Jews in Palestine, the French in Syria, and the English throughout the Arab world. al-Husayni was only one of many such notables who greeted with optimism the emergence of a new regime in Germany in that year.{{sfn|Laurens|2002|p=259}}

The Nazis generally regarded Arabs with contempt.<ref>[[Miles Copeland Jr|Copeland, Miles]]. The Game Player: Confessions of the CIA's original operative. 1989. Page 181. "Most of them (the Nazis) were anti-Arab, although they had the wit to conceal that fact."</ref> Hitler himself had in 1937 spoken of them as "half-apes".{{sfn|Mattar|1984|p=277}} However, throughout the interwar period, Arab nationalists bore Germany no ill-will (despite its earlier support for the Ottoman Empire). Like many Arab countries, Germany was perceived as a victim of the [[Treaty of Versailles|post-World War I settlement]]. Hitler himself often spoke of the "infamy of Versailles". Unlike France and Great Britain it had not exercised imperial designs on the Middle East, and its past policy of non-intervention was interpreted as a token of good will.{{sfn|Aboul-Enein|Aboul-Enein|2013|pp=184–186}} While the scholarly consensus is that Husseini's motives for supporting the Axis powers and his alliance with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy were deeply inflected by anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist ideology from the outset,{{sfn|Morris|2008|pp=20–22}} some scholars, notably [[Renzo De Felice]], deny that the relationship can be taken to reflect a putative affinity of Arab nationalism with Nazi/Fascist ideology, and that men like Husseini chose them as allies for purely strategic reasons,<ref>{{harvnb|De Felice|1990|pp=212–213}}:"It should be quite clear that this relation (arose) not, as a number of authors have nonetheless argued, because of a presumed affinity of their ideology with that of the Nazis or Fascists, no such thing existed, but by virtue of the wholly political logic (of events) that saw in the enemies (in deed or potentially) of their own enemies their own friends, particularly if the latter have already provided evidence – and this was, precisely, the case with Germany, and all the more so, with Italy – of being interested, in terms of the same political logic, in giving support to their cause".("{{lang|it|E questo, sia ben chiaro, non -come pure è stato sostenuto da vari autori – per una presunta affinità della loro ideologia con quelle nazista e fascista, che non-esisteva, ma in forza della logica tutta politica che vede nei nemici (in atto o potenziali) dei propri nemici i propri amici, specie se essi hanno già dato prova – e questo era appunto il caso della Germania ed ancor più dell'Italia – di essere interessati, nella stessa logica politica, a sostenere la loro causa}}").</ref>
on the grounds that, as Husseini later wrote in his memoirs, "the enemy of your enemy is your friend".<ref>{{rtl-para|ar|واعتبرت المانيا بلدآ صديقآ لأنها لم تكن دولة مستعمرة ولم يسبق لها أن تعرضت بسوء لأية دولة عربية أو اسلامية, ولأنها كانت تقاتل أعداءنا من مستعمرين و صهيونيين, ولان عدو عدوك صديقك, و كنت موقنآ, أن انتصار المانيا سينقذ بلادنا حتمآ من خطر الصهيونية و الاستعمار}}
Translation: "I have considered Germany to be a friendly country, because it was not a colonizing country, and it never harmed any Arab or Islamic country, and because it was fighting our colonialist and Zionist enemies, and because the enemy of your enemy is your friend. And I was certain that Germany's victory would definitely save our countries from the danger of Zionism and colonization". ''Mudhakkirat al-Hajj Amin al-Husayni,'' Damascus 1999 p.96.</ref> British policy was to ease Husseini "into oblivion" by ignoring him, [[Nuri al-Said]], mediating, endeavoured to get him to side with the Allies against the Germans. The overture was considered then rebuffed: according to [[Philip Mattar]], Husseini was reluctant to lend his voice in support of Britain "because it had destroyed Palestinian villages, executed and imprisoned Palestinian fighters, and exiled their leaders".{{sfn|Mattar|1984|p=271}}

When Husseini eventually met with Hitler and Ribbentrop in 1941, he assured Hitler that "The Arabs were Germany's natural friends because they had the same enemies... namely the English, the Jews, and the Communists".{{sfn|Laqueur|1970|p=106}} Hitler was pleased with him, considering him "the principal actor in the Middle East" and an Aryan because of al-Hussaini's fair skin, blond hair and blue eyes.{{sfn|Rubin|Schwanit|2014|p=7}}

===Pre-war===
It has often been stated that the Nazis inspired and financed the Arab Revolt. According to [[Philip Mattar]], there is no reliable evidence to support such a claim.{{sfn|Mattar|1984|p=276}} In 1933, within weeks of Hitler's rise to power in [[Weimar Republic|Germany]], the [[List of German consuls in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa and Eilat#German consuls and consuls general|German Consul-General in Jerusalem]] for [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]], Heinrich Wolff,{{sfn|Yahil|Friedman|Galai|1991|p=676, n.53}}<ref>{{harvnb|Nicosia|2000|p=87}} Wolff's wife was Jewish, and he was forced to resign in 1936. Hans Döhle replaced him.</ref> an open supporter of Zionism,{{sfn|Laurens|2002|p=250}} sent a telegram to Berlin reporting al-Husseini's belief that Palestinian Muslims were enthusiastic about the new regime and looked forward to the spread of fascism throughout the region. Wolff met al-Husseini and many sheikhs again, a month later, at [[Nabi Musa]]. They expressed their approval of the anti-Jewish boycott in Germany and asked Wolff not to send any Jews to Palestine.{{sfn|Nicosia|2000|pp=85–86}} Wolff subsequently wrote in his annual report for that year that the Arabs' political naïvety led them to fail to recognize the link between German Jewish policy and their problems in Palestine, and that their enthusiasm for Nazi Germany was devoid of any real understanding of the phenomenon.{{sfn|Nicosia|2000|pp=86–87}} The various proposals by Palestinian Arab notables like al-Husseini were rejected consistently over the years out of concern to avoid disrupting Anglo-German relations, in line with Germany's policy of not imperiling their economic and cultural interests in the region by a change in their policy of neutrality, and respect for British interests. Hitler's {{lang|de|Englandpolitik}} essentially precluded significant assistance to Arab leaders.{{sfn|Nicosia|2008|pp=71,95,196}} This care for treating with respect English colonial initiatives (like the promotion of Zionist immigration) was also linked to Nazi ambitions to drive Jews out of Europe.{{sfn|Laurens|2002|p=259}}

Italy also made the nature of its assistance to the Palestinian contingent on the outcome of its own negotiations with Britain, and cut off aid when it appeared that the British were ready to admit the failure of their pro-Zionist policy in Palestine.{{sfn|De Felice|1990|pp=211–212}} Al-Husseini's adversary, [[Ze'ev Jabotinsky]] had at the same time cut off [[Irgun]] ties with Italy after the passage of antisemitic racial legislation.

Though Italy did offer substantial aid, some German assistance also trickled through. After asking the new German Consul-General, Hans Döhle on 21 July 1937 for support, the [[Abwehr]] briefly made an exception to its policy and gave some limited aid. But this was aimed to exert pressure on Britain over [[Czechoslovakia]]. Promised arms shipments never eventuated.{{sfn|Nicosia|2000|pp=105,185ff}} This was not the only diplomatic front on which al-Husseini was active. A month after his visit to Döhle, he wrote to the American Consul [[George Wadsworth (diplomat)|George Wadsworth]] (August 1937), to whom he professed his belief that America was remote from imperialist ambitions and therefore able to understand that Zionism "represented a hostile and imperialist aggression directed against an inhabited country". In a meeting with Wadsworth on 31 August, he expressed his fears that Jewish influence in the United States might persuade the country to side with Zionists.{{sfn|Davidson|2001|p=239}} In the same period he courted the French government by expressing a willingness to assist them in the region.{{sfn|Laurens|2002|p=467}}

===Al-Husseini in Iraq===
{{see also|1941 Iraqi coup d'état|Anglo-Iraqi War|Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia}}

With the outbreak of the [[Second World War]] in September 1939 the Iraqi Government complied with a British request to break off diplomatic relations with Germany, interned all German nationals, and introduced emergency measures putting Iraq on a virtual war-footing.{{sfn|Tripp|2002|p=99}} Al-Husseini in the meantime had quietly slipped out of Beirut with his family on 14 October 1939, reaching Baghdad two days later.{{sfn|Nevo|1984|p=7}} There he was welcomed as the leading Arab nationalist of his day, and heir to [[Faisal I of Iraq|King Faisal]], modern Iraq's founder.{{sfn|Mattar|1984|p=271}}

A circle of 7 officers who had opposed this government decision and the measures taken had invited him, with [[Nuri as-Said]]'s agreement, to Iraq, and he was to play an influential role there in the following two years.<ref>{{harvnb|Simon|2004|p=130}}: "Soon after his arrival al-Husseini was received in state by the Iraqi politicians who welcomed and feted him and voted him an immediate subvention of ID 18,000 to be folloed by other grants throughout his stay in Iraq: ID 1,000 monthly from hidden funds of the Iraqi secret service, 2 percent of the salary of every Iraqi government official including the military and the police, grants of ID 12,000 between 1939 and mid-1940 for the relief of distress in Palestine, and special sums donated by the Palestine Defense Society, the Red Crescent, and other public donations. He received gifts from Egypt, from King 'Abd al-'Azis Al Sa'ud, payments of some ID 60,000 from the Germans and some ID 40,000 from the Italians, who also promised £20,000 in gold monthly if al-Husseini initiated another Palestine revolt. He was the guest of honor at state functions and, with his 5,000 to 6,000 followers, al-Husseini installed a mini-government in Baghdad where he settled and began to renew contact with old friends and make new ones in the Iraqi army and police force, with lawyers, doctors and teachers. By 1941 his influence was such that he could place Palestinians in the Iraqi bureaucracy, adding more teachers and other professionals to those Palestinians already working in Iraq. It was said that he controlled hirings, firings, and promotions in Iraqi government departments, that he could have passports issued on demand to his followers, and that he could authorize the importation of personal effects into Iraq duty-free. He controlled newspapers and propaganda mechanisms, some mutually with German influence and money, which were not interfered with."</ref>
Nuri as-Said hoped to negotiate concessions on Palestine with the British in exchange for a declaration of support for Great Britain.{{sfn|Nevo|1984|p=8}} A [[quadrumvirate]] of four younger generals among the seven, three of whom had served with al-Husseini in World War I, were hostile to the idea of subordinating Iraqi national interests to Britain's war strategy and requirements.{{sfn|Tripp|2002|pp=100–102}} They responded to high public expectations for achieving independence from Britain, and deep frustration at the treatment of Palestinians by the latter.<ref>{{harvnb|Mattar|1984|pp=273–274}}: "pointed out: 'No element in all Iraqi-British relations 1941 was more powerful in poisoning them than Palestine Question', citing [[Stephen Hemsley Longrigg|Stephen Longrigg]]."</ref>
In March 1940, the nationalist [[Rashid Ali]] replaced Nuri as-Said. Ali made covert contacts with German representatives in the [[Middle East]], though he was not yet an openly pro-Axis supporter, and al-Husseini's personal secretary Kemal Hadad acted as a liaison between the Axis powers and these officers.{{sfn|Hirszowicz|1966|pp=82–83}}

As the European situation for the Allies deteriorated, Husseini advised Iraq to adhere to the letter to their treaty with Great Britain, and avoid being drawn into the war in order to conserve her energies for the liberation of Arab countries. Were Russia, Japan and Italy to side with Germany however, Iraqis should proclaim a revolt in Palestine.{{sfn|Simon|2004|p=131}}{{sfn|Mattar|1984|p=273}} In July 1940 Colonel [[S. F. Newcombe]] managed to work out an agreement with Nuri al-Sa'id, who was then Foreign Minister, and the Palestinians [[Jamal al-Husayni]] and [[Musa Alami|Musa al-'Alami]] to the effect that Palestinian Arabs would back Britain and assent to the White Paper of 1939 in exchange for an immediate implementation of the clause regarding the country's independence. Iraq undertook to place half of its army under Allied command outside the country's borders.<ref>{{harvnb|Nevo|1984|p=9}} "As a result of these meetings an agreement was initialled whereby the Arabs of Palestine (through their representatives, the members of the AHC), undertook to support Britain and agree to the White Paper on condition that the clause pertaining to the country's independence be put into application forthwith and not after a ten-year period of transition as provided in the original document. Nuri al-Sa'id, with the consent of his government, undertook to place two divisions (about half of the Iraqi army) at the disposal of the Allies outside Iraq (in other words, to take an active part in the fighting against the Axis), if the agreement were implemented."</ref>{{sfn|Mattar|1984|p=275}} On 29 August 1940, the British however reneged on the agreement, which even Husseini had initially opposed vehemently{{sfn|Mattar|1984|p=271}} until the Iraqi government brought pressure to bear on him. The British backtracked out of fear over the hostile reaction the accord might stir up among the [[Yishuv|Jews of Palestine]], and among American Jews, whose opinion was important were Britain to gain American support in the war. That summer, Britain dropped all attempts to deal with al-Husseini, and he threw in his lot with Germany.{{sfn|Nevo|1984|p=9}}  al-Husseini's dissatisfaction with Nuri's pro-British politics, in the meantime, was exacerbated by the latter's refusal to intervene with the British on behalf of the families, all of whom he knew, of 39 Palestinians who had been sentenced to death in secret trials for, in Husseini's view, the crime of defending their country.{{sfn|Mattar|1984|p=274}}

On 23 May 1940, [[Pinhas Rutenberg]] had suggested to a British official, [[R. H. Bruce Lockhart|Bruce Lockhart]], that al-Husseini be assassinated. The idea was broadly discussed only months later. The [[War Office]] and [[Winston Churchill]] formally approved his assassination in November of that year,{{sfn|Mattar|1984|p=280}} but the proposal was shelved after objections arose from the [[British Foreign Office|Foreign Office]], concerned at the impact an attempt on his life might have in Iraq where his resistance to the British was widely admired.{{sfn|Nevo|1984|pp=10–12}} After the coup of April 1941, British called on assistance from the [[Irgun]], after [[Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell|General Percival Wavell]] had one of their commanders, [[David Raziel]], released from his imprisonment in Palestine. They asked him if he would undertake to kill or kidnap al-Husseini and destroy Iraq's oil refineries. Raziel agreed on condition he be allowed to kidnap al-Husseini.{{sfn|Elpeleg|2012|pp=60–}} Raziel and other Irgun militants were flown to the RAF base at [[RAF Habbaniya|Habbaniyya]] where he died two days later, on 20 May 1941, when the car he was travelling in was strafed by a German plane.<ref>{{harvnb|Mattar|1984|pp=280–281}}; {{harvnb|Simon|2004|p=207, n.16}}.</ref>

Al-Husseini used his influence and ties with the Germans to promote Arab nationalism in Iraq. He was among the key promoters of the pan-Arab [[Al-Muthanna Club]], and supported the [[1941 Iraqi coup d'état|coup d'état]] by [[Rashid Ali]] in April 1941.  When the [[Anglo-Iraqi War]] broke out, during which Britain used a mobile Palestinian force of British and Jewish troops, and units from the [[Arab Legion]]{{sfn|Mattar|1984|p=281}} al-Husseini used his influence to issue a [[fatwa]] for a holy war against Britain. The situation of Iraq's Jews rapidly deteriorated, with extortions and sometimes murders taking place.  Following the Iraqi defeat and the collapse of [[Rashid Ali]]'s government, the [[Farhud]] pogrom in Baghdad, led by members of the Al-Muthanna Club,{{sfn|Davis|2005|p=70}} which had served as a conduit for German propaganda funding,{{sfn|Lukitz|1995|p=96}} erupted in June 1941. It was the first Iraqi pogrom in a century, one fueled by violent anti-Jewish feelings stirred over the preceding decade by the ongoing conflict between Arabs and Jews in Palestine.{{sfn|Gavish|2010|p=239}}

When the Iraqi resistance collapsed – given its paucity, German and Italian assistance played a negligible role in the war{{sfn|Tripp|2002|p=105}} – al-Husseini escaped from Baghdad on 30 May 1941 to [[Pahlavi Dynasty|Persia]] (together with [[Rashid Ali]]), where he was granted [[right of asylum|extraterritorial asylum]] first by Japan, and then by Italy. On 8 October, after the [[Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran|occupation of Persia]] by the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] and after the new Persian government of [[Shah]] [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi]] severed diplomatic relations with the [[Axis powers]], al-Husseini was taken under Italian protection.{{sfn|Laurens|2002|pp=463–464}}{{sfn|Fisk|2006|p=442}} In an operation organized by [[Servizio Informazioni Militari|Italian Military Intelligence]] ({{lang|it|Servizio Informazioni Militari}}, or SIM).{{sfn|De Felice|1990|p=247}} Al-Husseini was not welcome in Turkey, nor given permission nor visa to enter; however, he traveled through Turkey with the help of Italian and Japanese diplomats to get to Bulgaria and eventually Italy.{{sfn|Nicosia|2017|pp=187–188}}

===In Nazi-occupied Europe===
Al-Husseini arrived in [[Rome]] on 10 October 1941. He outlined his proposals before [[:it:Ubaldo Alberto Mellini Ponce de León|Ubaldo Alberto Mellini Ponce de León]]. On condition that the [[Axis powers]] "recognize in principle the unity, independence, and sovereignty, of an Arab state, including Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and Transjordan", he offered support in the war against Britain and stated his willingness to discuss the issues of "the Holy Places, Lebanon, the [[Suez Canal]], and [[Aqaba]]". The Italian foreign ministry approved al-Husseini's proposal, recommended giving him a grant of one million [[Italian lire|lire]], and referred him to [[Benito Mussolini]], who met al-Husseini on 27 October. According to al-Husseini's account, it was an amicable meeting in which Mussolini expressed his hostility to the Jews and Zionism.{{sfn|Lewis|1999|pp=150–151}}

Back in the summer of 1940 and again in February 1941, al-Husseini submitted to the [[Nazi dictatorship|Nazi German Government]] a draft declaration of German-Arab cooperation, containing a clause<blockquote>Germany and Italy recognize the right of the Arab countries to solve the question of the Jewish elements, which exist in Palestine and in the other Arab countries, as required by the national and ethnic ({{lang|de|völkisch}}) interests of the Arabs, and as the Jewish question was solved in Germany and Italy.{{sfn|Lewis|2002|p=190}}</blockquote>

Encouraged by his meeting with the Italian leader, al-Husseini prepared a draft declaration, affirming the Axis support for the Arabs on 3 November 1941. In three days, the declaration, slightly amended by the Italian foreign ministry, received the formal approval of Mussolini and was forwarded to the German embassy in Rome. On 6 November, al-Husseini arrived in [[Berlin]], where he discussed the text of his declaration with [[Ernst von Weizsäcker]] and other German officials. In the final draft, which differed only marginally from al-Husseini's original proposal, the Axis powers declared their readiness to approve the elimination ({{lang|de|Beseitigung}}) of the Jewish National Home in Palestine.{{sfn|Lewis|1999|pp=151–152}}

[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1987-004-09A, Amin al Husseini und Adolf Hitler.jpg|250px|thumb|Haj Amin al-Husseini meeting with Adolf Hitler (28 November 1941).]]
On 20 November, al-Husseini met the German Foreign Minister [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]]{{sfn|Segev|2001|p=463}} and was officially received by [[Adolf Hitler]] on 28 November 1941.{{sfn|Lewis|1999|p=152}} Hitler, recalling Husseini, remarked that he "has more than one Aryan among his ancestors and one who may be descended from the best Roman stock."{{sfn|Mattar|1984|p=277}} He asked Adolf Hitler for a public declaration that "recognized and sympathized with the Arab struggles for independence and liberation, and that would support the elimination of a national Jewish homeland".{{sfn|Lewis|2002|p=190}} Hitler refused to make such a public announcement, saying that it would strengthen the [[Gaullists]] against the [[Vichy France]],<ref>{{harvnb|Lewis|1999|p=151}}.check</ref>
but asked al-Husseini "to lock ...deep in his heart" the following points, which [[Christopher Browning]] summarizes as follows, that

<blockquote>Germany has resolved, step by step, to ask one European nation after the other to solve its Jewish problem, and at the proper time, direct a similar appeal to non-European nations as well. When Germany had defeated Russia and broken through the Caucasus into the Middle East, it would have no further imperial goals of its own and would support Arab liberation... But [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] did have one goal. "Germany's objective would then be solely the destruction of the Jewish element residing in the Arab sphere under the protection of British power". ({{lang|de|Das deutsche Ziel würde dann lediglich die Vernichtung des im arabischen Raum unter der Protektion der britischen Macht lebenden Judentums sein}}). In short, Jews were not simply to be driven out of the German sphere but would be hunted down and destroyed even beyond it.<ref>{{harvnb|Browning|2007|p=406}} drawing on {{harvnb|Yisraeli|1974|p=310}}.</ref>
</blockquote>

[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 147-0483, Berlin, Besuch Amin el Husseini.jpg|thumb|Al-Husseini meeting with Muslim volunteers, including the [[Aserbaidschanische Legion|Azerbaijani Legion]], at the opening of the Islamic Central Institute in [[Berlin]] on 18 December 1942, during the Muslim festival [[Eid al-Adha]].]]

A separate record of the meeting was made by [[Fritz Grobba]], who until recently had been the German ambassador to Iraq. His version of the crucial words reads "when the hour of Arab liberation comes, Germany has no interest there other than the destruction of the power protecting the Jews".<ref>{{harvnb|Yisraeli|1974|p=310}}

<blockquote>{{lang|de|denn die Stunde der Befreieung der Araber habe dann geschlagen, Deutschland habe dort keine anderen Interessen als die Vernichtung der das Judentum protegierenden Macht.}}</blockquote></ref>

A claim which [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] made in 2015 that Husseini convinced Hitler to go through with the [[Holocaust]] during this meeting has been discredited, with the mass killings of Jews by SS mobile killing units in fact already underway by the time Hitler met him.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/21/netanyahu-under-fire-for-palestinian-grand-mufti-holocaust-claim |title=Anger at Netanyahu claim Palestinian grand mufti inspired Holocaust|first=Peter|last=Beaumont |work=The Guardian|date=September 21, 2025|accessdate=September 21, 2025}}</ref>

Al-Husseini's own account of this point, as recorded in his diary, is very similar to Grobba's.<ref>{{harvnb|Schechtman|1965|pp=307–308}}

"Germany has no ambitions in this area but cares only to annihilate the power which produces the Jews". And earlier: "It is clear that the Jews have accomplished nothing in Palestine and their claims are lies. Everything that has been achieved in Palestine is due to the Arabs and not the Jews. I (Hitler) have decided to find a solution to the Jewish problem, approaching it step by step without holding back. In this regard, I am about to make a just and indispensable appeal, firstly to all the European countries and, later, to countries outside of Europe". Also in {{harvnb|Laurens|2002|pp=664–666 n.47}}</ref> According to Amin's account, however, when Hitler expounded his view that the Jews were responsible for World War I, Marxism and its revolutions, and this was why the task of Germans was to persevere in a battle without mercy against the Jews, he replied: "We Arabs think that Zionism, not the Jews, is the cause of all of these acts of sabotage."{{sfn|Laurens|2002|p=468}}

In December 1942, al-Husseini held a speech at the celebration of the opening of the Islamic Central Institute ({{lang|de|Islamisches Zentralinstitut}}) in [[Berlin]], of which he served as honorary chair. In the speech, he harshly criticised those he considered as aggressors against Muslims, namely "Jews, Bolsheviks and Anglo-Saxons." At the time of the opening of the Islamic Central Institute, there were an estimated 3,000 Muslims in Germany, including 400 German converts. The Islamic Central Institute gave the Muslims in Germany institutional ties to the "Third Reich".{{sfn|Günther|Zankel|2006|p=7}}

[[Fritz Grobba]] wrote on 17 July 1942 that a member of al-Husseini's staff had visited [[Sachsenhausen concentration camp]] and that "the Jews aroused particular interest among the Arabs. ... It all made a very favorable impression on the Arabs."{{sfn|Gensicke|2011|p=119}} At the time, the Sachsenhausen camp, set up by the Nazi authorities as a "model camp" to be shown off to both domestic and foreign visitors,{{sfn|Wien|2016|p=376}} housed large numbers of Jews, but was only transformed into a death camp in the following year.{{sfn|Lebor|Boyes|2000|p=230}} The camp was presented during their tour as a re-educational institution, and they were shown the high quality of objects made by inmates, and happy Russian prisoners who, reformed to fight Bolshevism, were paraded, singing, in sprightly new uniforms. They left the camp very favourably impressed by its programme of educational indoctrination.{{sfn|Schwanitz|2004|pp=217–220}} In his memoirs, he recalls Himmler telling him how shocked he was to observe Jewish [[Kapo (concentration camp)|kapos]] abusing fellow Jews and that Himmler claimed he had the culprits punished.{{sfn|Sells|2015|p=726}}

Generally, having provided much funding for al-Huysayni and his retinue, the Germans were unsatisfied with the return from their investment. He was highly secretive about his networks of contacts in the Middle East and the [[Abwehr]] complained he had given them "practically no military information of any worth."  As the Abwehr grew disenchanted with him, al-Husayni gravitated by 1943 towards the SS.{{sfn|Biddiscombe|2018|pp=789,793}}

===The Holocaust===
====Al-Husseini and the Holocaust====
Al-Husseini has been described by the [[American Jewish Congress]] as "Hitler's henchman"{{efn|Kaufman, ''Ambiguous Partnership'', 287, 306–7. Steven L Spiegel, ''The Other Arab–Israeli Conflict'' (Chicago: 1985), 17, 32, quoted in {{harv|Finkelstein|2003|p=25}}}}
and some scholars, such as Schwanitz and Rubin, have argued that Husseini made the [[Final Solution]] inevitable by shutting out the possibility of Jews escaping to Palestine.{{sfn|Schwanitz|Rubin|2014|p=160}}

[[Gilbert Achcar]] refers to a meeting between al-Husseini and [[Heinrich Himmler]], in the summer of 1943, and observes:

<blockquote>The Mufti was well aware that the European Jews were being wiped out; he never claimed the contrary.  Nor, unlike some of his present-day admirers, did he play the ignoble, perverse, and stupid game of [[Holocaust denial]]...&nbsp;. His {{lang|fr|amour-propre}} would not allow him to justify himself to the Jews...&nbsp;.gloating that the Jews had paid a much higher price than the Germans... he cites...&nbsp;: "Their losses in the Second World War represent more than thirty percent of the total number of their people ...". Statements like this, from a man who was well placed to know what the Nazis had done ... constitute a powerful argument against Holocaust deniers.  Husseini reports that [[Reichsführer-SS]] [[Heinrich Himmler]] ... told him in summer 1943 that the Germans had "already exterminated more than three million" Jews: "I was astonished by this figure, as I had known nothing about the matter until then." ...&nbsp;Thus. in 1943, Husseini knew about the genocide...&nbsp;.{{sfn|Achcar|2010b|pp=151–152}}</blockquote>

Al-Husseini's memoir then continues:-

<blockquote>Himmler asked me on the occasion: "How do you propose to settle the Jewish question in your country?" I replied: "All we want from them is that they return to their countries of origin." He (Himmler) replied: "We shall never authorize their return to Germany."{{sfn|Laurens|2002|p=469}}</blockquote>

[[Wolfgang G. Schwanitz]] doubts the sincerity of his surprise since, he argues, Husseini had publicly declared that Muslims should follow the example Germans set for a "definitive solution to the Jewish problem".{{efn|{{harvnb|Schwanitz|2008|p=?}} citing Abd al-Karim al-Umar (ed.), ''Memoirs of the Grand Mufti'', Damascus, 1999, p. 126.<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed -->}}

Subsequently, al-Husseini declared in November 1943

<blockquote>It is the duty of [[Mohammedan|Muhammadans]] [Muslims] in general and Arabs in particular to ... drive all Jews from Arab and Muhammadan countries...&nbsp;. Germany is also struggling against the common foe who oppressed Arabs and Muhammadans in their different countries.  It has very clearly recognized the Jews for what they are and resolved to find a definitive solution [{{lang|de|endgültige Lösung}}] for the Jewish danger that will eliminate the scourge that Jews represent in the world.{{sfn|Achcar|2010b|p=157}}</blockquote>

At the [[Nuremberg trials]], one of [[Adolf Eichmann]]'s deputies, [[Dieter Wisliceny]], stated that al-Husseini had actively encouraged the extermination of European Jews, and that al-Husseini had a meeting with Eichmann at his office, during which Eichmann gave him a view of the current state of the "[[Solution of the Jewish Question in Europe]]" by the [[Third Reich]]. The allegation is dismissed by most serious historians.<ref>{{harvnb|Ahren|2015}}: "[[Yehuda Bauer]], Israel's preeminent Holocaust scholar, is a prominent case in point. 'After the war, they caught him (Wisliceny) and tried him at Nuremberg, where he tried to eschew all responsibility, saying: 'It wasn't Hitler, it wasn't me, it was the mufti', ...  It's clear that his account is untrue: the Germans had started annihilating the Jews half a year before Hitler and the mufti met'."</ref>
A single affidavit by [[Rudolf Kastner]] reported that Wisliceny told him that he had overheard Husseini say he had visited Auschwitz incognito in Eichmann's company.<ref>{{harvnb|Hopwood|1980|p=69}}: "During his trial in Jerusalem in 1961, Eichmann denied having known the Mufti well, affirming he had met him only once during an official reception. The evidence for the friendship came from Dieter Wisliceny, one of Eichmann's aides, who months before the Nuremberg trials had begun to prepare an alibi for himself at the expense of Eichmann. Wisliceny went much further and accused the Mufti of being an 'initiator' of the extermination policy. Other evidence of the Mufti's alleged role came from Rudolf Kastner (a Jewish leader in Hungary), who reported that Wisliceny had told him that '{{em|According to my opinion}}<!-- emphasis used in source-->, the Grand Mufti ... played a role in the decision ... to exterminate the European Jews ... {{em|I heard say}}<!-- emphasis used in source--> that, accompanied by Eichmann, he has visited incognito the gas chamber at Auschwitz'. These reports coming only from Wisliceny must be questioned until substantiated from other sources."</ref>
Eichmann denied this at his trial in Jerusalem in 1961. He had been invited to Palestine in 1937 with his superior Hagen by a representative of the [[Haganah]], Feival Polkes,{{sfn|Cesarani|2007|p=263}} Polkes supported German foreign policy in the Near East and offered to work for them in intelligence. Eichmann and Hagen spent one night in Haifa but were refused a visa to stay any longer.{{sfn|Cesarani|2007|pp=54–57}} They met Polkes in Cairo instead.{{sfn|Cesarani|2007|pp=54–57}}<ref>"It is doubtful whether Eichmann made contact with al-Husseini even in 1942, when the latter resided in Berlin. If this fallen idol makes an occasional appearance in Eichmann's office correspondence it is because Eichmann's superiors at the Foreign Office found the Mufti a very useful sacred cow, always to be invoked when the reception of Jewish refugees in Palestine was under discussion. Dieter Wisliceny even believed that Eichmann regarded al-Husseini as a colleague in a much expanded post-war Final Solution."{{harvnb|Reitlinger|1971|pp=27–28}}.</ref>
Eichmann stated that he had only been introduced to al-Husseini during an official reception, along with all other department heads, and there is no evidence, despite intensive investigations, that shows al-Husseini to have been a close collaborator of Eichmann, exercising influence over him or accompanying on visits to death camps.{{sfn|Sells|2015|p=738}} The Jerusalem court accepted Wisliceny's testimony about a key conversation between Eichmann and the mufti,{{sfn|Pearlman|1963|p=596}} and found as proven that al-Husseini had aimed to implement the Final Solution.{{sfn|Landsman|2005|pp=95–96}} [[Hannah Arendt]], who was present at the trial, concluded in her book, ''[[Eichmann in Jerusalem|Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil]]'', that the evidence for an Eichmann- al-Husseini connection was based on rumour and unfounded.{{sfn|Arendt|1963|p=13}}<ref>{{harvnb|Landsman|2005|p=96}} writes: "The Mufti materials were highly prejudicial, and the argument constructed from them was deeply troubling. ... Eichmann's and the Mufti's crimes had nothing to do with each other. The prosecution's attempt to link Eichmann symbolically with the Arabs, Israel's bitterest enemy, showed its preoccupation with the contemporary situation of the Jewish state. The success of this effort to prejudice the court is clear in the judges' willingness to entertain the Mufti evidence and to incorporate it into their judgment in a coy passage that identifies shared goals but not a shred of actual joint criminal activity."</ref>

[[Rafael Medoff]] concludes that "actually there is no evidence that the Mufti's presence was a factor at all; the Wisliceny hearsay is not merely uncorroborated, but conflicts with everything else that is known about the origins of the Final Solution."{{sfn|Medoff|1996|p=?}} [[Bernard Lewis]] also called Wisliceny's testimony into doubt: "There is no independent documentary confirmation of Wisliceny's statements, and it seems unlikely that the Nazis needed any such additional encouragement from the outside."{{sfn|Lewis|1999|p=156}} Bettina Stangneth called Wisliceny's claims "colourful stories" that "carry little weight".{{sfn|Stangneth|2015|pp=43–44}}

====Opposition to Jewish immigration====
Al-Husseini opposed all immigration of Jews into Palestine, and during the war he campaigned against the transfer of Jewish refugees to Palestine. No evidence has been forthcoming to show he was opposed to transferring Jews to countries outside the Middle East.{{sfn|Sells|2015|p=730}} Al-Husseini's numerous letters appealing to various governmental authorities to prevent Jewish refugees from emigrating to Palestine have been republished and widely cited as documentary evidence of his participative support for the Nazi genocide. For instance, Husseini intervened on 13 May 1943, before the meeting with Himmler when he was informed of the Holocaust,{{sfn|Laurens|2002|p=670, n.190}} with the German Foreign Office to block possible transfers of Jews from Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania to Palestine, after reports reached him that 4,000 Jewish children accompanied by 500 adults had managed to reach Palestine. He asked the Foreign Minister "to do his utmost"  to block all such proposals, and this request was complied with.{{sfn|Hilberg|1973|p=504}} According to [[Idith Zertal]], none of the documents presented at Eichmann's trial prove that it was al-Husseini's interference, in these "acts of total evil," that prevented the children's rescue.{{sfn|Zertal|2005|p=102}} In June 1943 al-Husseini recommended to the Hungarian minister that it would be better to send Jews in Hungary to [[The Holocaust in Poland|concentration camps]] in Poland rather than let them find asylum in Palestine.  A year later, on 25 July 1944 he wrote to the Hungarian foreign minister to register his objection to the release of certificates for 900 Jewish children and 100 adults for transfer from Hungary, fearing they might end up in Palestine. He suggested that if such transfers of population were deemed necessary, then

<blockquote>I ask your Excellency to permit me to draw your attention to the necessity of preventing the Jews from leaving your country for Palestine, and if there are reasons which make their removal necessary, it would be indispensable and infinitely preferable to send them to other countries where they would find themselves under active control, for example, in Poland, thus avoiding danger and preventing damage.{{sfn|Schechtman|1965|pp=154–155}}{{sfn|Achcar|2010b|p=148}}</blockquote>

[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101III-Alber-164-18A, Großmufti Amin al Husseini, Heinrich Himmler.jpg|thumb|Haj Amin al-Husseini meeting with [[Heinrich Himmler]] (1943).]]

Achcar quotes al-Husseini's memoirs about these efforts to influence the Axis powers to prevent emigration of Eastern European Jews to Palestine:

<blockquote>We combatted this enterprise by writing to Ribbentrop, Himmler, and Hitler, and, thereafter, the governments of Italy, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and other countries. We succeeded in foiling this initiative, a circumstance that led the Jews to make terrible accusations against me, in which they held me accountable for the liquidation of four hundred thousand Jews who were unable to emigrate to Palestine in this period. They added that I should be tried as a war criminal in Nuremberg.{{sfn|Achcar|2010b|pp=145–146}}</blockquote>

In September 1943, intense negotiations to rescue 500 Jewish children from the [[Arbe concentration camp]] collapsed due to the objection of al-Husseini who blocked the children's departure to Turkey because they would end up in Palestine.{{sfn|Carpi|1977|p=39}}

===Intervention in Palestine and Operation Atlas===
Al-Husseini collaborated with the Germans in numerous sabotage and commando operations in Iraq, Transjordan, and Palestine, and repeatedly urged the Germans to bomb Tel Aviv{{sfn|Lewis|1997|p=311}} and Jerusalem "in order to injure Palestinian Jewry and for propaganda purposes in the Arab world", as his Nazi interlocutors put it. The proposals were rejected as unfeasible.{{sfn|Medoff|1996|p=?}} The Italian Fascists envisaged a project to establish him as head of an intelligence centre in North Africa, and he agreed to act as commander of both regular and irregular forces in a future unit flanking Axis troops to carry out sabotage operations behind enemy lines.{{sfn|Elpeleg|2007|p=68}}

[[Operation ATLAS]] was one such joint operation.  A special commando unit of the Waffen SS was created, composed of three members of the [[Templers (religious believers)|Templer]] religious sect in Palestine, and two [[Palestinians|Palestinian Arabs]] recruited from al-Husseini's associates, [[Hasan Salama]] and Abdul Latif (who had edited the al-Husseini's Berlin radio addresses).{{sfn|National Archives: released MI5 documents|2001|p=19}} It has been established that the mission, briefed by al-Husseini before departure, aimed at establishing an intelligence-gathering base in Palestine, radioing information back to Germany, and buying support among Arabs in Palestine, recruiting and arming them to foment tensions between Jews and Arabs, disrupting the Mandatory authorities and striking Jewish targets.{{sfn|Fountain|2001}}

The plan ended in fiasco: they received a cold reception in Palestine,{{sfn|Adams|2009|p=15}} three of the five infiltrators were quickly rounded up, and the matériel seized. Their air-dropped cargo was found by the British, and consisted of submachine guns, dynamite, radio equipment, 5,000 Pound sterling, a duplicating machine, a German-Arabic dictionary,{{sfn|Mallmann|Cüppers|2010|p=201}} and a quantity of poison.{{sfn|National Archives: released MI5 documents|2001|p=19}} [[Michael Bar-Zohar]] and [[Eitan Haber]], have claimed that the mission included a plan to poison the [[Tel Aviv]] water supply,{{sfn|Bar-Zohar|Haber|2002|pp=45–66}} There is no trace of this poison plot in the standard biographies, Palestinian and Israeli, of Husseini.{{sfn|Finkelstein|2008|p=322}}

===Propaganda===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101III-Mielke-036-23, Waffen-SS, 13. Gebirgs-Div. "Handschar".jpg|thumbnail|Bosniak soldiers of the SS 13 Division, reading Husseini's pamphlet ''Islam and Judaism'']]

Throughout World War II, al-Husseini worked for the [[Axis powers|Axis Powers]] as a broadcaster in propaganda targeting Arab public opinion. He was thereby joined by other Arabs such as [[Fawzi al-Qawuqji]]{{sfn|USHMM: al-Husayni}} and [[Hasan Salama]]. The Mufti was paid "an absolute fortune" of 50,000 marks a month (when a German field marshal was making 25,000 marks a year),{{sfn|Breitman|Goda|2012}} the equivalent today of $12,000,000 a year.{{sfn|Mikics|2014}} [[Walter Winchell]] called him "the Arabian [[Lord Haw-Haw]]".{{sfn|Medoff|1996|p=317}} Only about 6,300 Arab soldiers ended up being trained by German military organisations, no more than 1,300 from Palestine, Syria and Iraq combined.  In contrast, Britain managed to recruit 9,000 from Palestine alone and a quarter of a million North African troops served in the French Army of Liberation where they made up the majority of its dead and wounded.{{sfn|Achcar|2010a}}

The Mufti also wrote a pamphlet for the 13th [[13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian)|SS ''Handschar'']] division, translated as ''Islam i Židovstvo'' (Islam and Judaism) which closed with a quotation from Bukhari-Muslim by [[Abu Hurairah|Abu Khurreira]] that states: "The Day of Judgement will come, when the Muslims will crush the Jews completely: And when every tree behind which a Jew hides will say: 'There is a Jew behind me, Kill him!".{{sfn|Shay|2009|p=33}} Some accounts have alleged that the Handschar was responsible for killing 90% of Bosnian Jews. However, Handschar units were deployed only after most of the Jews in Croatia had been deported or exterminated by the Ustaše regime. One report, however, of a Handschar patrol murdering some Jewish civilians in [[Zvornik]] in April 1944 after their real identity was revealed, is plausible.{{sfn|Sells|2015|p=747 n.33}}

On 1 March 1944, while speaking on Radio Berlin, al-Husseini said: "Arabs, rise as one man and fight for your sacred rights. Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion. This saves your honor. God is with you."{{sfn|Sachar|1961|p=231}}{{sfn|Pearlman|1947|p=51}}{{sfn|Stillman|2000|p=143}} This statement has been described as [[incitement to genocide]].{{sfn|Spoerl|2020|p=214}}

===Recruitment===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1980-036-05, Amin al Husseini bei bosnischen SS-Freiwilligen.jpg|thumb|November 1943 al-Husseini greeting Bosnian Waffen-SS volunteers with a Nazi salute.{{sfn|Fisk|2006|p=439}} At right is SS General [[Karl-Gustav Sauberzweig]].]]

Among the Nazi leadership, the greatest interest in the idea of creating Muslim units under German command was shown by Heinrich Himmler, who viewed the Islamic world as a potential ally against the British Empire and regarded the Nazi-puppet [[Independent State of Croatia]] as a "ridiculous state".{{sfn|Hoare|2013|p=53}} Himmler had a romantic vision of Islam as a faith "fostering fearless soldiers", and this probably played a significant role{{sfn|Tomasevich|2001|p=496}}{{sfn|Lepre|1997|pp=12, 310}} in his decision to raise three Muslim divisions under German leadership in the [[Balkans]] from [[Bosniaks|Bosnian Muslims]] and [[Albanian people|Albanians]]:{{sfn|Stein|1984|pp=184–185}}{{sfn|Lepre|1997|p=228, n.28}} the 13th [[13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian)|''Handschar'']],<ref>{{harvnb|Lepre|1997|p=47}} named from the word for a Turkish policeman's sword (or fighting knife, ''handžar'', from Turkish ''hancer''{{harvnb|Tomasevich|2001|p=497}}), which had figured as an emblem on the Bosnian coat-of-arms.</ref>
the 21st ''[[21st Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Skanderbeg (1st Albanian)|Skanderbeg]]'', and the 23rd ''[[23rd Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Kama (2nd Croatian)|Kama]]'' (Shepherd's dagger). Riven by interethnic conflict, the region's Jewish, Croat, [[Romani people|Roma]], Serb and Muslim communities suffered huge losses of life,{{sfn|Mojzes|2011|p=78}}<ref>{{harvnb|Lepre|1997|p=313}}:"Overall, it is fairest to say that the Yugoslavian insurgency was a racial – national – ideological – religious struggle that was unique in its barbarity and excesses were perpetrated by all of the warring sides against both combatants and the civilian population."</ref>
Bosnian Muslims losing around 85,000 from a genocidal [[Chetniks|Chetnik]] [[ethnic cleansing]] operations alone.<ref>{{harvnb|Mojzes|2011|pp=97–98}}: "a scorched-earth practice commenced&nbsp;... During the operation, we carried out the complete annihilation of the Moslem inhabitants, without regard to their sex and age&nbsp;... The whole population has been annihilated."</ref>
The Muslims had three options: to join the [[Independent State of Croatia|Croatian]] [[Ustaše]], or the [[Yugoslav Partisans|Yugoslav partisans]], or to create local defense units. Following a tradition of service in the old Bosnian regiments of the former [[Austro-Hungarian Empire|Austro-Hungarian]] army, they chose an alliance with Germany, which promised them autonomy. Husseini, having been petitioned by the Bosnian Muslim leaders, was well informed of their plight.<ref>{{harvnb|Lepre|1997|p=31}}:"The hearts of all Muslims must today go out to our Islamic brothers in Bosnia, who are forced to endure a tragic fate. They are being persecuted by the Serbian and communist bandits, who receive support from England and the Soviet Union.... They are being murdered, their possessions are robbed, and their villages are burned. England and its allies bear a great accountability before history for mishandling and murdering Europe's Muslims, just as they have done in the Arabic lands and in India."</ref>
Dissatisfied with low enlistment, Himmler asked the mufti to intervene.{{sfn|Lepre|1997|pp=26–28}} Husseini negotiated, made several requests, mostly ignored by the SS, and conducted several visits to the area.{{sfn|Lepre|1997|p=34}} His speeches and charismatic authority proved instrumental in improving enlistment notably.{{sfn|Lepre|1997|p=313}} In one speech he declared that

<blockquote>Those lands suffering under the British and Bolshevist yoke impatiently await the moment when the Axis (powers) will emerge victorious. We must dedicate ourselves to unceasing struggle against Britain – that dungeon of peoples – and to the complete destruction of the British Empire. We must dedicate ourselves to unceasing struggle against Bolshevist Russia because communism is incompatible with Islam.</blockquote>

One SS officer reporting on impressions from the mufti's [[Sarajevo]] speech said Husseini was reserved about fighting [[Bolshevism]], his main enemies being Jewish settlers in Palestine and the English.{{sfn|Lepre|1997|p=33}} During a visit in July 1943 the Mufti said: "The active cooperation of the world's 400 million Muslims with their loyal friends, the German, can be of decisive influence upon the outcome of the war. You, my Bosnian Muslims, are the first Islamic division [and] serve as an example of the active collaboration....My enemy's enemy is my friend."{{sfn|Lepre|1997|p=75}} Himmler in addressing the unit on another occasion declared "Germany [and] the Reich have been friends of Islam for the past two centuries, owing not to expediency but to friendly conviction. We have the same goals."{{sfn|Lepre|1997|p=125}}

In an agreement signed by Husseini and Himmler on 19 May 1943, it was specified that no synthesis of Islam and Nationalism was to take place.<ref>{{harvnb|Tomasevich|2001|p=497}}:"the objective was not to synthesize National Socialism and Islam, nor to convert the Bosnian Muslims (who, it said, though racially Germanic, were ideologically part of the Arab world) to National Socialism ... though distinct the two ideologies would act together against their common enemies—Jews, Anglo-Americans, Communists, Freemasons, and the Catholic Church."</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Lepre|1997|p=67}}:"Husseini and the Germans opted against forming any synopsis between Islam and national socialism. ... The Idea of Family ({{lang|de|Familiengedanke}}) – the strong family sense possessed by the German and Muslim peoples. The Idea of Order ({{lang|de|Ordnungsgedanke}}) – the idea of the New Order in Europe. The Idea of the Fũhrer ({{lang|de|Fũhrergedanke}}) – The idea that a people should be led by one leader. The Idea of Faith ({{lang|de|Glaubensgedanke}}) – That Islam (for Muslims) and national socialism (for Germans) would serve as educational tools to create order, discipline, and loyalty."</ref>
Husseini asked that Muslim divisional operations to be restricted to the defense of the Moslem heartland of [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]]; that partisans be amnestied if they laid down their arms; that the civilian population not be subject to vexations by troops; that assistance be offered to innocents injured by operations; and that harsh measures like deportations, confiscations of goods, or executions be governed in accordance with the rule of law.{{sfn|Lepre|1997|p=135}} The Handschar earned a repute for brutality in ridding north-eastern Bosnia of Serbs and partisans: many local Muslims, observing the violence, were driven to go over to the communist partisans.{{sfn|Tomasevich|2001|p=499}}{{sfn|Hoare|2014|pp=194–195}} Once redeployed outside Bosnia, and as the fortunes of war turned, mass defections and desertions took place, and [[Volksdeutsche]] were drafted to replace the losses.{{sfn|Lepre|1997|pp=247ff.}} The mufti blamed the mass desertions on German support for the Četniks.{{sfn|Lepre|1997|p=257}} Many Bosnians in these divisions who survived the war sought asylum in Western and Arab countries, and of those settling in the Middle East, [[1948 Arab–Israeli War|many fought in Palestine]] against the new state of Israel.{{sfn|Lepre|1997|p=303}}
Reacting to the formation by Great Britain of a special Jewish legion in the Allied cause, Husseini urged Germany to raise a similar Arab legion.{{sfn|Sells|2015|p=725}}{{sfn|Biddiscombe|2018|p=794}} Husseini helped organize Arab students, POWs and North African emigres in Germany into the "Arabisches Freiheitkorps", an Arab Legion in the German Army that hunted down Allied parachutists in the Balkans and fought on the Russian front.{{sfn|Medoff|1996|p=?}}{{sfn|Mackenzie|2006|pp=301–301}}

==Activities after World War II==
===Arrest and flight===
After the end of the Second World War, al-Husseini attempted to obtain asylum in [[Switzerland]] but his request was refused.{{sfn|Fisk|2006|p=446}} He was taken into custody at [[Konstanz]] by the French occupying troops on 5 May 1945, and on 19 May, he was transferred to the Paris region and put under [[house arrest]].{{sfn|Hershco|2006}}

At around this time, the British head of Palestine's Criminal Investigation Division told an American military attaché that the Mufti might be the only person who could unite the Palestinian Arabs and "cool off the Zionists".{{sfn|Breitman|Goda|2012|p=21}}

Henri Ponsot, a former ambassador of France in Syria, led the discussions with him and had a decisive influence on the events.{{sfn|Hershco|2006}} The French authorities expected an improvement in France's status in the Arab world through his intermediaries and accorded him "special detention conditions, benefits and ever more important privileges and constantly worried about his well-being and that of his entourage".{{sfn|Hershco|2006}} In October 1945, he was even given permission to buy a car in the name of one of his secretaries and enjoyed some freedom of movement and could also meet whoever he wanted.{{sfn|Hershco|2006}} Al-Husseini proposed to the French two possibilities of cooperation: "either an action in Egypt, Iraq and even Transjordan to calm the anti-French excitement after the events in Syria and because of its domination in North Africa; or that he would take the initiative of provocations in [Palestine], in Egypt and in Iraq against Great Britain", so that the Arabs countries will pay more attention to British policy than to that of France.{{sfn|Hershco|2006}} Al-Husseini was very satisfied with his situation in France and stayed there for a full year.{{sfn|Hershco|2006}}

As early as 24 May 1945, Great Britain requested al-Husseini's extradition, arguing that he was a British citizen who had collaborated with the Nazis.{{sfn|Hershco|2006}} Despite the fact that he was on the list of [[war criminal]]s, France decided to consider him as a [[political prisoner]] and refused to comply with the British request. France refused to extradite him to Yugoslavia where the government wanted to prosecute him for the massacres of Serbs.{{sfn|Hershco|2006}} Poussot believed al-Husseini's claims that the massacre of Serbs had been performed by General Mihailovic and not by him. Al-Husseini also explained that 200,000 Muslims and 40,000 Christians had been assassinated by the Serbs and that he had established a division of soldiers only after Bosnian Muslims had asked for his help, and that Germans and Italians had refused to provide any support to them.{{sfn|Hershco|2006}} In the meantime, Zionist representatives—fearing that al-Husseini would escape—backed Yugoslavia's request for extradition. They claimed that al-Husseini was also responsible for massacres in Greece and pointed out his action against the Allies in Iraq in 1941; additionally they requested the support of the United States in the matter.{{sfn|Hershco|2006}}

Members of the [[Jewish Agency]], who loathed Husseini as a Nazi collaborator, and who were aware that states were competing to employ Nazis and Nazi collaborators, gathered war-crimes documentation on al-Husseini's role in the Holocaust. This was done in order to prevent his reinstatement to a leadership position in Palestine, in an attempt to have him arrested and prosecuted, and in the context of an intensive public relations exercise to establish a Jewish state in Mandatory Palestine.{{efn|"It would be anachronistic to hold the [[Jewish Agency]] activists led by Ruffer or the former Zionist rescue workers of [[Budapest]] and [[Bratislava]] to the standards of historiographical representation that should apply to later versions of the [[Newman]] story. These men were not acting as historians but as activists working in a war-torn Europe and in the wake of a catastrophe that had not yet been conceptualized as the Holocaust. Ruffer and Pier teamed with other Jewish Agency operatives who had been dispatched to postwar Europe to coordinate illegal immigration (referred to on the European end as [[Briha]] and on the Palestinian end as [[Aliyah Bet]]), war-crimes documentation, and in some cases arms smuggling. They loathed Husayni as a Nazi collaborator and viewed his possible return to leadership in Palestine as a threat. They lamented the allied preoccupation with the emerging [[Cold War]] that was eclipsing interest in pursuing Nazi criminals. As experienced covert operatives with strong connections to American and European intelligence agencies, they were no doubt aware that Western and [[Soviet bloc]] governments as well as governments in the [[Middle East]] and [[Latin America]] were competing with one another to find and employ former Nazis and Nazi collaborators who could be useful in intelligence gathering, propaganda efforts, and chemical, biological, nuclear, and missile technology; however, they would not likely have known or imagined the full extent of the various programs to recruit war criminals, cleanse their records, and put them to work for their new sponsors. They saw that their only chance of having Husayni arrested and prosecuted lay in making a case that he had played a critical role in the conception, planning, organization, and execution of the extermination policy. They lacked a nation-state to give them a voice in the investigation and prosecution of war criminals and had been frustrated in their attempt to convince war-crimes courts to appoint a Jewish adviser to bring more legal and prosecutorial attention to the Nazi judeocide. Finally, they were also in the midst of an intensive PR effort on behalf of the establishment of a Jewish state in British Mandate Palestine and in opposition to Arab lobbyists like [[Samir Shammai]], who argued that the destruction of European Jewry was committed by European powers and that it was Europe that should make a place for the survivors or grant them a state on its territory, not the Palestinians. For all of these reasons, they prioritized their war-crimes documentation efforts on the hunt for [[Adolf Eichmann]], the manager of the extermination policy, and on the case against Husayni."{{harvnb|Sells|2015|pp=734–735}}}} The reputation of Haj Amin al-Husseini among Jews in the immediate postwar period is indicated by the observation by [[Raul Hilberg]] that when culpability for [[The Destruction of the European Jews]] was debated in 1945, al-Husseini was the only specific individual singled out to be put on trial.<ref>{{harvnb|Hilberg|1973|p=691}}:"In all the sessions of the American Jewish Conference and its interim committees, no proposal was put forward for the trial of any specific individual or category of individuals, save one: the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem."</ref>
In June 1945, [[Yishuv]] leaders decided to eliminate al-Husseini. Although al-Husseini was located by [[Jewish Brigade|Jewish Army]] members who began to plan an assassination, the mission was canceled in December by [[Moshe Sharett]] or by [[David Ben-Gurion]], probably because they feared turning the Grand Mufti into a martyr.{{sfn|Hershco|2006}}<ref>{{harvnb|Shlaim|2000|pp=156–157}} regarding Ben-Gurion's relationship with al-Husseini writes of "(his) old tactic of projecting an image of reasonableness and placing the onus for the deadlock on the shoulders of his Arab opponents. This was the tactic that had served him so well in relation to the grand Mufti, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, and other Arab leaders in the pre-Independence period".</ref>

A campaign of intimidation was launched to convince the mufti that at [[Léon Blum]]'s request he would be handed over to the British.{{sfn|Laurens|2002|p=549}} In September 1945, the French decided to organize his transfer to an Arab country. Egypt, Saudi Arabia or Yemen were considered and diplomatic contacts were made with their authorities and with the Arab League.{{sfn|Hershco|2006}}

On 29 May 1947, after an influential Moroccan had organized his escape, and the French police had suspended their surveillance, al-Husseini left France on a TWA flight for Cairo using travel papers supplied by a Syrian politician who was close to the [[Muslim Brotherhood]]. It took more than 12 days for the French foreign minister to realize he had fled, and the British were not able to arrest him in Egypt, after that country granted him political asylum.{{sfn|Hershco|2006}}{{sfn|Laurens|2002|p=549}}

On 12 August 1947, al-Husseini wrote to French foreign minister [[Georges Bidault]], thanking France for its hospitality and suggesting that France continue this policy to increase its prestige in the eyes of all Muslims. In September, a delegation of the [[Arab Higher Committee]] went to Paris and proposed that Arabs would adopt a neutral position on the North African question in exchange of France's support in the Palestinian question.{{sfn|Hershco|2006}}

=== Post-war Palestinian political leadership ===
In November 1945, at the initiative of the Arab League, the "Arab Higher Committee" (AHC) was reestablished as the supreme executive body that represented the Arabs in Mandatory Palestine.  This 12-member AHC included Husseini supporters and some members of political parties that opposed the Grand Mufti and his allies.  The dispute between Husseini supporters and their opposition was inflamed by the return of Jamal al Husseini to the Middle East and his resumption of political activity.  In March 1946 the AHC was disbanded, and then Jamal reconstituted it as an organization exclusively staffed by Husseini political allies and family members.  The Arab League foreign ministers intervened in May 1946 by replacing both the AHC and the opposing "Arab Higher Front" with the "Arab Higher Executive" (AHE) to represent Palestinian Arabs.  Haj Amin al Husseini was the chairman of the AHE, even though he was absent, and Jamal acted as Vice-Chairman.  The Husseini faction dominated the nine-member AHE.  Subsequently, al-Husseini returned to Egypt and began his practical leadership of the Palestinian Arabs while residing in Cairo.  The name of the AHE was changed back to AHC in January 1947.{{sfn|Morris|2008|p=107}}

===1948 Palestine war===
{{See also|1948 Palestine war|All-Palestine Government}}
[[File:Arabic-The Mufti High Command call the Arabs to attack and conquer all of Palestine, as a response to the U.N partition resolution.png|thumb|A leaflet, distributed after the U.N partition resolution, by the Mufti High Command, which calls the Arabs to attack and conquer all of Palestine, to ignite all of the Middle East and to curtail the U.N. partition resolution]]
[[File:Husayni meeting Abdel Nasser.jpg|thumb|Haj Amin al-Husseini meeting with [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]], the future Egyptian president in 1948]]

====The U.N. Partition Resolution====
When the [[United Nations Special Committee on Palestine]] delivered its recommendations for the partition of Palestine, the [[High Commissioner of Palestine]], [[Alan Cunningham]] sent emissaries to Cairo to sound out al-Husseini, though transferring any power of state to him was unthinkable.{{sfn|Laurens|2002|pp=594–595}}
[[Musa Alami]] surmised that the Mufti would agree to partition if he were promised that he would rule the future Arab state.<ref>{{harvnb|Cohen|2008|p=236}}"...Musa al-Alami surmised that the Mufti would agree to partition if he were promised that he would rule the Arab state".</ref>
According to [[Issa Khalaf]] there are no indications to substantiate this claim.

The wartime reputation of al-Husseini was employed as an argument for the establishment of a Jewish State during the deliberations at UN in 1947. [[The Nation|The Nation Associates]] under [[Freda Kirchwey]] prepared a nine-page pamphlet with annexes for the United Nations entitled ''The Arab Higher Committee, Its Origins, Personnel and Purposes''. This booklet included copies of communications between Haj Amin al-Husseini and high ranking Nazis (e.g. Heinrich Himmler, [[Franz von Papen]], [[Joseph Goebbels]]), al-Husseini's diary account of meeting Hitler, several letters to German officials in several countries where he requested that Jews never be permitted to emigrate from Europe to a Jewish Home in Palestine, and many photographs of al-Husseini, [[Rashid Ali]], and other Arab politicians in the company of Nazis and their Italian and Japanese allies. It claimed to demonstrate that German Nazis and Palestinian politicians (some of whom were requesting recognition at the UN in 1947 as representatives of the Palestinian Arab population) had made common cause during [[World War II]] in their opposition to the establishment of a Jewish State in Palestine. In May 1948, the Israeli government thanked Kirchwey for "having a good and honorable share of our success", at least partly as a consequence of distributing information on al-Husseini to the UN representatives.{{sfn|Radosh|Radosh|2008|pp=65–75}}

On the eve of the United Nations' partition of Mandatory Palestine, King Abdullah, who shared with Zionists a hostility to [[Palestinian nationalism]], reached a secret entente with [[Golda Meir]] to thwart al-Husseini and annex the part of Palestine in exchange for Jordan's dropping its opposition to the establishment of a Jewish state. The meeting, in Shlaim's words, "laid the foundations for a partition of Palestine along lines radically different from the ones eventually envisaged by the United Nations".{{sfn|Shlaim|2001|p=30}} Husseini's popularity in the Arab world had risen during his time with the Nazis, and Arab leaders rushed to greet him on his return, and the masses accorded him an enthusiastic reception, an attitude which was to change rapidly after the defeat of 1948.   Elpeleg writes that "to a certain extent" Husseini was chosen as the "scapegoat" for this defeat.{{sfn|Elpeleg|2007|p=106}}

====The war====
On 31 December 1947, Macatee, the American consul general in Jerusalem, reported that terror ruled Palestine, and that partition was the cause of this terror. According to Macatee, the Palestinian Arabs did not dare to oppose Haj Amin, but they did not rally en masse around his flag in the war against the Zionists.{{efn|{{harvnb|Milstein|Sacks|1997|p=190}}: "On December 31 (1947), Macatee, the American consul general in Jerusalem, filed a report summing up the events of the month following the UN decision to partition Palestine. ... Terror ruled Palestine, Macatee wrote. That situation certainly would continue until Britain withdrew. The direct cause of terror was partition; other causes were the Arabs patriotic feelings and their hatred of Jews. As an example, Macatee described who the Arabs were shooting at: a Jewish woman, the mother of five children, hanging her laundry on the line; the ambulance that took her to the hospital; and mourners attending her funeral. The roads between the Jewish settlements were blocked, supplies of food were spotty and the Arabs even attacked police vehicles. The Jews were quieter: the Stern Gang (LEHI) struck only at the British and the Hagana at Arabs only in retaliation. ETZEL, which had started such actions, apparently had the Hagana in tow, and if attacks on Jews continued, the Hagana might switch from a policy of protecting lives to aggressive defense. The Jewish Agency, wrote Macatee, was correct to a certain extent in its claim that the British were supporting the Arabs...The Arab's leader, al-Husseini, enjoyed popular support in the Arab states….The arabs of Eretz Israel did not dare to oppose Haj Amin, yet neither did they rally en masse around his flag in the war against the Zionists."}}

From his Egyptian exile, al-Husseini used what influence he had to encourage the participation of the [[Egyptian military]] in the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]]. He was involved in some high level negotiations between Arab leaders—before and during the War—at a meeting held in [[Damascus]] in February 1948, to organize Palestinian Field Commands and the commanders of the [[Holy War Army]]. [[Hasan Salama]] and [[Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni]] (Amin al-Husseini's nephew), were allocated the [[Lod|Lydda]] district and [[Jerusalem]] respectively. This decision paved the way for undermining the Mufti's position among the Arab States. On 9 February 1948, four days after the Damascus meeting, he suffered a severe setback at the [[Arab League]]'s [[Cairo]] session, when his demands for more Palestinian self-determination in areas evacuated by the British, and for financial loans were rejected.{{sfn|Levenberg|1993|p=198}} His demands included the appointment of a Palestinian Arab representative to the League's General Staff, the formation of a Palestinian Provisional Government, the transfer of authority to local National Committees in areas evacuated by the British, and both a loan for Palestinian administration and an appropriation of large sums to the Arab Higher Executive for Palestinian Arabs entitled to war damages.{{sfn|Levenberg|1993|p=198}}

The Arab League blocked recruitment to al-Husseini's forces,{{sfn|Sayigh|1999|p=14}}{{Citation needed|reason=a probable mistake. How could they block locals volunteering?|date=June 2015}} and they collapsed following the death of one of his most charismatic commanders, [[Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni]], on 8 April 1948.

[[Anwar Nusseibeh]], a supporter of al-Husseini, said he refused to issue arms to anyone except his loyal supporters, and only recruited loyal supporters for the forces of the [[Holy War Army]]. This partially accounts for the absence of an organized Arab force and for the insufficient amount of arms, which plagued the Arab defenders of Jerusalem.{{sfn|Budeiri|2001|pp=40–51}}

====Establishment of All-Palestine Government====
Following rumors that [[Abdullah I of Jordan|King Abdullah I]] of [[Jordan|Transjordan]] was reopening the bilateral negotiations with Israel that he had previously conducted clandestinely with the [[Jewish Agency]], the Arab League—led by Egypt—decided to set up the [[All-Palestine Government]] in [[Gaza City|Gaza]] on 8 September 1948, under the nominal leadership of al-Husseini. Avi Shlaim writes:

<blockquote>The decision to form the Government of All-Palestine in Gaza, and the feeble attempt to create armed forces under its control, furnished the members of the Arab League with the means of divesting themselves of direct responsibility for the prosecution of the war and of withdrawing their armies from Palestine with some protection against popular outcry. Whatever the long-term future of the Arab government of Palestine, its immediate purpose, as conceived by its Egyptian sponsors, was to provide a focal point of opposition to Abdullah and serve as an instrument for frustrating his ambition to federate the Arab regions with Transjordan.{{sfn|Shlaim|2001|p=97}}
</blockquote>

The All-Palestine Government was declared in Gaza on 22 September 1948, in a way as a countermeasure against Jordan. According to Moshe Ma'oz this was "a mere tool to justify Cairo's occupation of the Gaza Strip".{{sfn|Kamel|2013}} Pre-conference by the Arab League obtained an agreement to have Ahmad Hilmi Pasha preside over the government, while giving al-Husseini a nominal role, devoid of responsibilities. A [[All-Palestine National Council|Palestinian National Council]] was convened in Gaza on 30 September, under the chairmanship of Amin al-Husseini. On 30 September, al-Husseini was elected unanimously as president, but had no authority outside the areas controlled by Egypt. The council passed a series of resolutions culminating on 1 October 1948 with a [[1948 Palestinian Declaration of Independence|declaration of independence]] over the whole of [[Mandatory Palestine|Palestine]], with [[Jerusalem]] as its capital.{{sfn|Kassim|1988|p=294}}

The All-Palestine Government was hence born under the nominal leadership of Amin al-Husseini, the [[Mufti of Jerusalem]], named as [[President of Palestine|President]].{{sfn|Hall|2008|p=464}}{{sfn|Gallagher|2007}} [[Ahmed Hilmi Pasha|Ahmed Hilmi Abd al-Baqi]] was named [[Prime Minister of Palestine|Prime Minister]]. Hilmi's cabinet consisted largely of relatives and followers of Amin al-Husseini, but also included representatives of other factions of the Palestinian ruling class. [[Jamal al-Husayni]] became [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates (Palestine)|foreign minister]], Raja al-Husayni became defense minister, Michael Abcarius was [[Ministry of Finance (Palestine)|finance minister]], and [[Anwar Nusseibeh]] was secretary of the cabinet. Twelve ministers in all, living in different Arab countries, headed for Gaza to take up their new positions. The decision to set up the [[All-Palestine Government]] made the [[Arab Higher Committee]] irrelevant.

Jordan's Abdullah retaliated on 2 October 1948 by organizing a Palestinian congress, which countermanded the decision taken in Gaza. [[Abdullah I of Jordan|Abdullah]] regarded the attempt to revive al-Husseini's [[Holy War Army]] as a challenge to his authority and on 3 October, his minister of defense ordered all armed bodies operating in the areas controlled by the [[Arab Legion]] to be disbanded. [[Glubb Pasha]] carried out the order ruthlessly and efficiently.{{sfn|Shlaim|2001|p=99}} Nonetheless, Egypt, which manipulated its formation, recognized the All-Palestine Government on 12 October, followed by Syria and Lebanon on 13 October, Saudi Arabia the 14th and Yemen on the 16th. Iraq's decision to the same was made formally on the 12th, but was not made public. Both Great Britain and the US backed Jordan, the US saying that al-Husseini's role in World War II could be neither forgotten nor pardoned.{{sfn|Laurens|2007|pp=167–169}} The sum effect was that:

<blockquote>The leadership of al-Hajj Amin al-Husayni and the Arab Higher Committee, which had dominated the Palestinian political scene since the 1920s, was devastated by the disaster of 1948 and discredited by its failure to prevent it.{{sfn|Brynen|1990|p=20}}</blockquote>

The [[1948 Palestinian exodus|nakba]] narratives, according to Hillel Cohen, tend to ignore the open resistance to al-Husseini by many influential Palestinians. A member of the Darwish family—on expressing dissent with Husseini's war objective in favour of negotiation—was told by al-Husseini: {{lang|ar-Latn|idha takalam al-seif, uskut ya kalam}} – "when the sword talks, there is no place for talking".{{sfn|Cohen|2008|p=257}} Many recalled his policy of assassinating mukhtars in the Revolt of 1936–39 and viewed al-Husseini and his kind as "an assembly of traitors".{{sfn|Cohen|2008|p=237}} The opposition of a relevant percentage of the Palestinian society to al-Husseini goes back to an earlier period and was also connected to the British way of dealing with the local majority: "The present administration of Palestine", lamented for example the representatives of the Palestine Arab Delegation in a letter to British public opinion in 1930, "is appointed by His Majesty's Government and governs the country through an autocratic system in which the population has no say".{{sfn|Kamel|2013}}

===Exile from Palestine===
[[File:Syrian and Palestinian politicians meet in 1955.jpg|thumb|right|Syrian and Palestinian leaders meeting Syrian President [[Shukri al-Quwatli]] at the presidential palace, 1955. From right to left: [[Sabri al-Asali]], [[Fares al-Khoury]], [[Sultan Pasha al-Atrash]], Quwatli, [[Mohamed Ali Eltaher]], [[Nazim al-Qudsi]], Amin al-Husayni and [[Muin al-Madi]].]]

Although al-Husseini had been removed from the Supreme Muslim Council and other administrative roles by the British government in 1937, they did not remove him from the post of mufti of Jerusalem.{{sfn|Elpeleg|2007|p=48}} They later explained this as due to the lack of legal procedure or precedent.<ref>[[Oliver Stanley]] ([[Secretary of State for the Colonies]]), answer to a question on notice, House of Commons debates, 1 December 1943; Hansard, vol 395 paragraphs 347–8 [https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1943/dec/01/mufti-and-president-of-supreme-moslem]</ref>
However, on 20 December 1948, King [[Abdullah I of Jordan|Abdullah]] announced his replacement as mufti by his long-term rival [[Husam Al-din Jarallah]].{{sfn|Elpeleg|2007|p=98}}

The king was assassinated on 20 July 1951, on the eve of projected secret talks with Israel, by a militant, Mustafa Ashu, of the {{lang|ar-Latn|jihad al-muqaddas}}, while entering the Haram ash-Sharif to pray. There is no evidence al-Husseini was involved, though Musa al-Husayni was among the six indicted and executed after a disputed verdict.{{sfn|Laurens|2007|p=308}} Abdullah was succeeded by [[Talal of Jordan|King Talal]]—who refused to allow al-Husseini entry into Jerusalem. Abdullah's grandson, [[Hussein of Jordan|Hussein]], who had been present at the murder, eventually lifted the ban in 1967, receiving al-Husseini as an honoured guest in his Jerusalem royal residence after uprooting the [[PLO]] from Jordan.{{sfn|Laurens|2007|p=694}}

The Palestinian Government was entirely relocated to Cairo in late October 1948 and became a government-in-exile, gradually losing any importance. Having a part in the [[All-Palestine Government]], al-Husseini also remained in exile at [[Heliopolis (Cairo suburb)|Heliopolis]] in Egypt throughout much of the 1950s. As before 1948, when the [[Yishuv]] believed the ex-Mufti's hand could be detected "behind every anti-Jewish pogrom, murder, and act of sabotage",{{sfn|Morris|2011|p=57}} Israel persisted in asserting that al-Husseini was behind many border raids from Jordanian and Egyptian-held territory, and Egypt expressed a readiness to deport him if evidence were forthcoming to substantiate the charges.<ref>{{harvnb|Morris|1997|pp=57ff.,232}}: "Both before and after 1948, the Yishuv was convinced that the ex-Mufti's hand was behind every anti-Jewish [[pogrom]], murder, and act of sabotage. The Jordanian authorities, always apprehensive of the Palestinians, suspected that the ex-Mufti – and various Arab regimes – were sponsoring terrorism from Jordan against Israel in order to foment trouble between the two and to destabilize the [[Hashemite]] rule. ... There were persistent suspicions in Amman and Jerusalem that the Mufti and AHC had organized and were running a permanent anti-Israel, anti-Hashemite underground in the West Bank. But no such organization was discovered between 1949 and 1956. The truth was somewhat more prosaic. The ex-Mufti had managed, through contact-men and supporters in Jordan, to 'subcontract' occasional raids against Israel."</ref>
The All-Palestine Government was eventually dissolved in 1959 by Nasser himself, who envisaged a [[United Arab Republic]] embracing Syria, Egypt and Palestine. That year he moved to [[Lebanon]]. He refused requests to lend his support to the emergent PLO after the [[Six-Day War]] of 1967,{{sfn|Fisk|2006|p=446}} was opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state on the West Bank after 1967,{{sfn|Achcar|2010b|p=162}} and his closest collaborator, [[Emil Ghuri]], continued to work for the Jordanian monarchy even after [[Black September in Jordan|the Jordanian Civil War]] there in 1970.{{sfn|Achcar|2010b|p=162}}

Al-Husseini died in [[Beirut]] on 4 July 1974. He had wished to be buried on the [[Haram ash-Sharif]] in Jerusalem. However, [[Israel]] had captured East Jerusalem during the 1967 [[Six-Day War]]. The [[Supreme Muslim Council]] asked the Israeli government permission to bury him there but permission was refused. Three days later, al-Husseini was buried in Beirut. Within two years, the Christian Lebanese [[Kataeb Party|Phalange]] sacked his villa, and stole his files and archives.{{sfn|Fisk|2006|p=447}} His granddaughter married [[Ali Hassan Salameh]], the founder of PLO's [[Black September (group)|Black September]], who was later killed by [[Mossad]] for his involvement in the [[Munich massacre]]. According to [[Zvi Elpeleg]], almost all trace of his memory thereafter vanished from Palestinian awareness, and Palestinians have raised no monument to his memory, or written books commemorating his deeds.{{sfn|Achcar|2010b|pp=162–163}}

== Amin al-Husseini and antisemitism ==
The earlier biographical works on Husseini were characterized by extreme partisanship, with supporters among his Arab contemporaries showcasing his role as the central figure in an Arab revolt that was thwarted by British and Zionist conspiracies, and Zionist histories vilified him as a Muslim fanatic chiefly responsible for the disasters that befell Palestinians in 1948.{{sfn|Mattar|1988|pp=227–228}} Al-Husseini's first biographer, [[Moshe Pearlman]], described him as virulently antisemitic,{{sfn|Pearlman|1947}} as did, a decade and a half later, [[Joseph Schechtman]].{{sfn|Schechtman|1965|p=?}} Both have been accused by [[Philip Mattar]] of relying on press reports and lacking sufficient background understanding.<ref>{{harvnb|Mattar|1988|p=228}}:"the Zionist biographers, especially Maurice Pearlman and Joseph B. Schechtman, rely on the Western press; they lack even an elementary familiarity with al-Husayni, Islam, the Arabic language, or Palestinian society and its politics."</ref>

There is no doubt Husseini became robustly antisemitic and convinced himself, using arguments based on Biblical, Talmudic, and Quranic passages, that Jews were enemies of God, engaged in a global conspiracy, and practicing [[Blood libel|the ritual use of Christian blood]].{{sfn|Sells|2015|pp=725–726}} More recent biographers such as Philip Mattar and Elpeleg, writing in the late 1980s and early 1990s, began to emphasize his [[nationalism]].{{sfn|Rouleau|1994}} [[Peter Wien]] judges that his behaviour in World War II deserved the image among Zionists of him as an "arch villain", but adds that Israeli and Zionist leaders have long since used this to denigrate the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli occupation as inspired by Nazism from the beginning and thus fundamentally antisemitic.<ref>{{harvnb|Höpp|Wien|2010|pp=214–215}}: "Zionist and Israeli leaders, however, have exploited the Mufti's activities to denigrate the Palestinian resistance against Israeli occupation as in fact Nazi inspired from the beginning and thus as fundamentally anti-Semitic. The latest example for these efforts is Israeli Foreign Minister [[Avigdor Lieberman]]'s circulating a photograph of a meeting between the Mufti and Adolf Hitler in Berlin in 1941 in order to provide a convincing argument why Israel had the right to expand building activities in East Jerusalem."</ref>

Scholarly opinion is divided on the issue, with many scholars viewing him as a staunch antisemite{{sfn|Sachar|1961|p=231}} while some deny the appropriateness of the term, or argue that he became antisemitic.<ref>{{harvnb|Laurens|2002|pp=467,469–470}}; "In terms of his initial formation, Haj Amin was far from being an antisemite. He had learned French at the [[Alliance Israélite Universelle]] institute in Jerusalem and [[Albert Antébi]] had been one of his mentors. In the interwar period, he had fought Zionism as a political and religious leader. He was then of the opinion that the aim of Zionism was to expel the Arabs of Palestine and take over the [[Haram al-Sharif]] in order to build the [[Third Temple]]. Gradually ({{lang|fr|progressivement}}) he was persuaded that world Judaism supported Zionists in a secretive manner and exercised a major influence over decision-making in Great Britain and the United States. For some time (during WW2) he was certain (based on real facts) that the Zionists were seeking to assassinate him. … It is evident that he gradually came to identify his battle in Palestine with that of Germany against world Judaism. The reading of all those passages in his memoirs devoted to his European sojourn reveal an assimilation of the content of european antisemitism, with their two great themes of the identification of Judaism with financial capitalism (Anglo-Saxons), and of the [[Stab-in-the-back myth|legend of the stab in the back]] (the Jews as responsible for the two world wars). On the other hand, a racist vision of world history is totally absent from his general worldview. … Taken together, his writings after 1945 do not show him as having an attitude of [[negationism|holocaust denial]], whilst Arab politicians of the first rank, in the period of Eichmann's trial, had begun to adopt (precisely) this kind of discourse."</ref>
Robert Kiely sees Husseini as moving "incrementally toward anti-Semitism as he opposed Jewish ambitions in the region."{{sfn|Kiely|2008|p=113}} Historian Zvi Elpeleg, who formerly governed both the [[West Bank]] and the [[Gaza Strip]], while rehabilitating him from other charges,{{sfn|Rouleau|1994}} concludes his chapter concerning al-Husseini's involvement in the extermination of the Jews as follows

<blockquote>[i]n any case, there is no doubt that Haj Amin's hatred was not limited to Zionism, but extended to Jews as such. His frequent, close contacts with leaders of the Nazi regime cannot have left Haj Amin any doubt as to the fate which awaited Jews whose emigration was prevented by his efforts. His many comments show that he was not only delighted that Jews were prevented from emigrating to Palestine, but was very pleased by the Nazis' Final Solution.{{sfn|Elpeleg|2007|p=73}}</blockquote>

[[Walter Laqueur]],{{sfn|Laqueur|Rubin|2001|p=51}} [[Benny Morris]], [[Klaus-Michael Mallmann]] and Martin Cüppers,{{sfn|Mallmann|Cüppers|2010|p=201}} the evidential basis for whose claims in their book, translated as "Nazi Palestine" were questioned by [[Michael Sells]] as based on selective statements by a few writers taken at face value,{{sfn|Sells|2015|p=743}} share the view that al-Husseini was biased against Jews, not just against Zionists. Morris, for instance, notes that al-Husseini saw the Holocaust as German revenge for a putative Jewish sabotaging of their war effort in World War I,<ref>{{harvnb|Morris|2008|pp=21–22}}, "He was deeply anti-Semitic. He later explained the Holocaust as owing to the Jew's sabotage of the German war effort in World War I and the millennia of Gentile anti-Semitism as due to the Jews' 'chararacter': (quoting al-Husseini) 'One of the most prominent facets of the Jewish character is their exaggerated conceit and selfishness, rooted in their belief that they are the chosen people of God.  There is no limit to their covetousness and they prevent others from enjoying the Good. … They have no pity and are known for their hatred, rivalry and hardness, as Allah described them in the Qur'an.' "</ref>
and has said, "Haj Amin al-Husseini was an antisemite. This is clear from his writings. I am not saying he was just an anti-Zionist, he hated the Jews, 'Jews were evil'".{{sfn|Morris lecture at LSE|2011|loc=43:24 min}}
In a study dedicated to the role and use of the Holocaust in Israeli nationalist discourse, Zertal, reexamining al-Husseini's antisemitism, states that "in more correct proportions, [he should be pictured] as a fanatic nationalist-religious Palestinian leader".<ref>{{harvnb|Zertal|2005|pp=102, 175}}:"the demonization of the Mufti serves to magnify the [[Yasser Arafat|Arafatian threat]]", … the "[portrayal of the Mufti as] one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry (…) has no (…) historical substantiation". (p.175).</ref>

There is no consensual verdict among historians concerning the degree to which Husseini might have been involved in or exposed to knowledge of the Holocaust.{{sfn|Wien|2016|p=376}} [[Wolfgang G. Schwanitz]] does remark that in his memoirs, Husseini recalled Himmler telling him how during the deportation of Dutch Jews, only Jews accepted the offer of payment in lieu of information on those trying to escape being caught by the Nazis. He also recorded that Himmler told him how shocked he was to observe Jewish [[Kapo (concentration camp)|kapos]] abusing fellow Jews and that Himmler claimed he had the culprits punished. In this way, it has been argued, he imitated the Nazis who were destroying them, by implicitly portraying the Jews as morally inferior. Husseini also states in his memoirs, that he had visited [[Alfred Rosenberg]]'s ''Institute for Study of Judaism'' which had failed to find any way to civilise the Jewish people.{{sfn|Sells|2015|p=726}}

== Evaluations of Husseini's historical significance ==
[[Edward Said]] has described al-Husseini as "Palestine's national leader", who, as part of the [[Arab Higher Committee]], "represented the Palestinian Arab national consensus, had the backing of the Palestinian political parties that functioned in Palestine, and was recognized in some form by Arab governments as the voice of the Palestinian people".{{sfn|Said|1988|p=248}}

[[Philip Mattar]] states the overriding cause behind the dispossession of Palestinians lay in the Balfour Declaration, British policies and the combined military superiority of Yishuv forces and the Mandatory army. Husseini's initial moderation and then failure to compromise was a contributory factor, but not decisive.{{sfn|Mattar|1988|pp=239–240}} [[Zvi Elpeleg]] on the other hand compares him to [[Chaim Weizmann]], [[David Ben-Gurion]], and even to [[Theodor Herzl]].<ref>{{harvnb|Rouleau|1994}}: "{{lang|fr|C'est surtout dans l'appréciation globale de l'ancien mufti de Jérusalem et de son action que nos deux historiens s'opposent. Médiocre et velléitaire pour le Palestinien, Haj Amin est, pour l'Israélien, un homme 'hors du commun', 'comparable à Haïm Weizmann, David Ben Gourion, ou même à Theodor Herzl'. Ancien gouverneur militaire à Gaza et en Cisjordanie, qui passait autrefois pour un 'faucon', Zvi Elpeleg témoigne de l'évolution des esprits en Israël, où son livre a reçu le meilleur des accueils dans les médias.}}"</ref>

[[Robert Fisk]], discussing the difficulties of describing al-Husseini's life and its motivations, summarized the problem in the following way:

<blockquote>(M)erely to discuss his life is to be caught up in the Arab–Israeli propaganda war. To make an impartial assessment of the man's career—or, for that matter, an unbiased history of the Arab–Israeli dispute—is like trying to ride two bicycles at the same time.{{sfn|Fisk|2006|p=441}}</blockquote>

[[Peter Novick]] has argued that the post-war historiographical depiction of al-Husseini reflected complex geopolitical interests that distorted the record.

<blockquote>The claims of Palestinian complicity in the murder of the European Jews were to some extent a defensive strategy, a preemptive response to the Palestinian complaint that if Israel was recompensed for the Holocaust, it was unjust that Palestinian Muslims should pick up the bill for the crimes of European Christians. The assertion that Palestinians were complicit in the Holocaust was mostly based on the case of the Mufti of Jerusalem, a pre-World War II Palestinian nationalist leader who, to escape imprisonment by the British, sought refuge during the war in Germany. The Mufti was in many ways a disreputable character, but post-war claims that he played any significant part in the Holocaust have never been sustained. This did not prevent the editors of the four-volume ''[[Encyclopedia of the Holocaust]]'' from giving him a starring role. The article on the Mufti is more than twice as long as the articles on [[Joseph Goebbels|Goebbels]] and [[Hermann Göring|Göring]], longer than the articles on Himmler and [[Heydrich]] combined, longer than the article on Eichmann—of all the biographical articles, it is exceeded in length, but only slightly, by the entry for Hitler.{{sfn|Novick|2000|pp=157–158}}{{sfn|Zertal|2005|pp=102–103}}{{sfn|Sells|2015|p=739}}</blockquote>

In October 2015, Israeli Prime Minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] claimed that Hitler at the time was not thinking of exterminating the Jews, but only of expelling them, and that it was al-Husseini who inspired Hitler to embark on a programme of genocide to prevent them from coming to [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].{{sfn|Netanyahu|2015}} Netanyahu's remarks were broadly criticized, and dismissed by Holocaust scholars from Israel and Germany.{{sfn|Beaumont|2015}}{{sfn|Ravid|2015}}{{sfn|Rudoren|2015}} [[Christopher Browning]] called the claim a "blatantly mendacious attempt to exploit the Holocaust politically", "shameful and indecent" as well as fraudulent, aimed at stigmatizing and delegitimizing "any sympathy or concern for Palestinian rights and statehood".<ref>{{harvnb|Browning|2015}}: "His extraordinary exaggeration of Husseini's complicity, and by implication that of the entire Palestinian people, is a blatant attempt to stigmatize and delegitimize any sympathy or concern for Palestinian rights and statehood. Netanyahu's shameful and indecent speech is a disservice to anyone – Jew and non-Jew – for whom research, teaching, and preservation of the historical truth of the Holocaust has value, meaning, and purpose."</ref>
The official German transcript of the meeting with Hitler contains no support for Netanyahu's assertion.{{sfn|''The Times of Israel''|2015}}

In 1947, [[Simon Wiesenthal]] alleged that Eichmann had accompanied Husseini on an inspection tour of both Auschwitz and Majdanek, and that al-Husseini had praised the hardest workers at the crematoria. His claim was unsourced.{{sfn|Sells|2015|p=728}} The charge was recycled with added colour by [[Quentin Reynolds]], unfounded on any evidence, at the time of the trial of Adolf Eichmann.{{sfn|Sells|2015|p=736}} Various sources have repeatedly alleged that he visited other concentration camps, and also the death camps of [[Auschwitz]], [[Majdanek]], [[Treblinka]] and [[Mauthausen concentration camp|Mauthausen]], but according to Höpp there is little conclusive documentary evidence to substantiate these other visits.{{sfn|Höpp|2004|pp=217–221}}

[[Gilbert Achcar]] sums up al-Husseini's significance:
<blockquote>One must note in passing that Amin al-Husseini's memoirs are an antidote against Holocaust denial: He knew that the genocide took place and boasted of having been perfectly aware of it from 1943 on. I believe he is an architect of the [[Nakba]] (the defeat of 1948 and the departure of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who had been driven out of their lands) in the sense that he bears a share of responsibility for what has happened to the Palestinian people.{{sfn|Achcar|2010b|p=158}}</blockquote>

[[Dani Dayan]], who became chairman of [[Yad Vashem]] in 2021, told [[Haaretz]] that he resisted "wild attacks" in refusing to display the photograph of al-Husseini meeting Hitler. He said "Those who want me to put it up aren't really interested in the Mufti's part in the Holocaust, which was limited anyway, but seek to harm the image of the Palestinians today. The Mufti was an antisemite. But even if I abhor him, I won't turn Yad Vashem into a tool serving ends not directly related to the study and memorialization of the Holocaust. [[Hasbara]], to use a term, is an utterly irrelevant consideration that shall not enter our gates."{{sfn|Aderet|2022}}

==Works==
* The Causes of the Palestine Catastrophe (1948 in Arabic). {{lang|ar-Latn|Asbab Karithat Filastin}} {{lang|ar|أسباب كارثة فلسطين}}
* The Lie of the Palestinians' Sale of their Land (1954 in Arabic, a letter of response published from Egypt). {{lang|ar-Latn|Kidhbat Bay‘ al-Filastiniyin li-’Ardihim}} ({{lang|ar|كذبة بيع الفلسطينيين لأرضهم}})
* Facts about the Palestinian Matter (1954 in Arabic, Cairo). {{lang|ar-Latn|Haqaiq 'an Qadiyat Filastin}} ({{lang|ar|حقائق عن قضية فلسطين}})
* The Memoirs of Amin al-Husseini, covering the period 1937 to 1948. (First published in 1975 in Arabic, republished in Syria as a whole book in 1999. Originally Published progressively as monthly articles in the Palestine Magazine between 1967 and 1975 over 75 episodes)

==See also==
{{Portal|Islam|Palestine|Biography}}
* [[Palestinian nationalism]]
* [[Palestinian political violence]]
* [[Army of Shadows: Palestinian Collaboration with Zionism, 1917–1948]]
* [[Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world]]
* [[Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy|Collaboration with the Axis Powers during World War II]]
* [[Alimjan Idris]] (Muslim figure compared to Amin al-Husseini due to his affiliation with Nazi Germany)

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== Notes ==
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==Further reading==
===Biographies of Amin al-Husseini===
* 1988, Ibrahim Abu Shaqra, ''Al-Hajj Amin al-Husseini: From his Birth until the 1936 Revolt.'' {{lang|ar|الحاج أمين الحسيني منذ ولادته حتى ثورة 1936}}. (Lattakia: Dar al-Manara). Abu Shaqra also published a second edition in 1989 in Damascus with further details covering events post-1936.
* 1998, [[Philip Mattar]], ''The Mufti of Jerusalem, Al-Hajj Amin al-Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement'',  [[Columbia University Press]]
* 1993, [[Zvi Elpeleg]], ''The Grand Mufti: Haj Amin Al-Hussaini, Founder of the Palestinian National Movement'', [[Routledge]]

==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline|Amin al-Husseini}}
* {{Wikiquote-inline}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/19990128121613/http://www.passia.org/palestine_facts/personalities/alpha_h.htm#hajamin Husseini, Haj Amin (1895–1974)] at passia.org (with [https://web.archive.org/web/20050410042925/http://www.passia.org/images/personalities/Husseni-Haj-Amin/index.htm photos])
* {{YouTube|nSUEx1cKUlg|10 December 1941. Deutsche Wochenschau No. 588. The Fuhrer receives the Grand Mufti (Haj Amin al-Husseini) of Jerusalem}} {{dead link|date=December 2016}}
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