Not content with describing Israel as a “fascist state,” the 26 “Muslim scholars” in the U.K. made the following claim: “Palestinians have no link to the holocaust [sic] and the crimes of the Second World War against the Jewish people.”
“Palestinians have no link to the holocaust”? Let’s see. The indisputable leader of the “Palestinians” in the inter-war period and during World War II was Haj Amin el Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem. He was in up to his neck in collaborating with, approving of, even encouraging, the Nazi mass-murder of Jews; he urged the Nazis to prevent any Jews from escaping to Palestine from Europe. A friend of Eichmann and Himmler, el-Husseini helped to plan the Nazi genocide. Robert Spencer has the horrifying details, of which very few in the West seem aware:
From 1941 to 1945, al-Husseini lived in Berlin, where he became close friends with Adolf Eichmann and Heinrich Himmler, and met with Adolf Hitler. Eichmann’s assistant, Dieter Wisliczeny, testified at the Nuremberg Trials that the mufti had been a central figure in the planning of the genocide of the Jews:
The Grand Mufti has repeatedly suggested to the Nazi authorities—including Hitler, von Ribbentrop and Himmler—the extermination of European Jewry. He considered this a comfortable solution to the Palestine problem….The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and adviser of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan. He was one of Eichmann’s best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard him say, accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited incognito the gas chambers of Auschwitz.”
Eichmann denied this, but in any case, there is no doubt of the fact that the mufti was openly calling for the mass murder of Jews. In a broadcast on July 7, 1942, the mufti exhorted Muslims in Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Palestine to kill Jews, basing his exhortation on a flagrant lie:
A large number of Jews residing in Egypt and a number of Poles, Greeks, Armenians and Free French, have been issued with revolvers and ammunition in order to help them against the Egyptians at the last moment, when Britain is forced to evacuate Egypt….
The Mufti’s broadcast continued:
You must kill the Jews, before they open fire on you. Kill the Jews, who have appropriated your wealth and who are plotting against your security. Arabs of Syria, Iraq and Palestine, what are you waiting for? The Jews are planning to violate your women, to kill your children and to destroy you. According to the Muslim religion, the defense of your life is a duty which can only be fulfilled by annihilating the Jews. This is your best opportunity to get rid of this dirty race, which has usurped your rights and brought misfortune and destruction on your countries. Kill the Jews, burn their property, destroy their stores, annihilate these base supporters of British imperialism. Your sole hope of salvation lies in annihilating the Jews before they annihilate you.
Al-Husseini also actively intervened on numerous occasions to ensure that Jews were not deported from Europe—thereby ensuring that extermination was the only option left for the fanatical Nazi Jew-haters. As late as July 25, 1944, al-Husseini wrote to Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German minister for foreign affairs:
I have previously called the attention of your Excellency to the constant attempts of the Jews to emigrate from Europe in order to reach Palestine and asked your Excellency to undertake the necessary steps so as to prevent the Jews from emigrating. I had also sent you a letter, under date of June 5, 1944, in regard to the plan for an exchange of Egyptians living in Germany with Palestinian Germans, in which I asked you to exclude the Jews from this plan of exchange. I have, however, learned that the Jews did depart on July 2, 1944, and I am afraid that further groups of Jews will leave for Palestine from Germany and France to be exchanged for Palestinian Germans….It is for this reason that I ask your Excellency to do all that is necessary to prohibit the emigration of Jews to Palestine, and in this way your Excellency would give a new practical example of the policy of the naturally allied and friendly Germany towards the Arab Nation.
Al-Husseini was a committed collaborator with the Nazis, traveling from Berlin to Bosnia in 1943 to raise up a Muslim SS company, which was responsible for killing ninety percent of the Jews in Bosnia, as well as for the burning of numerous Serbian churches. He noted the convergence of the goals of Islamic jihad and those of the Nazis. “It is the duty of Muhammadans in general and Arabs in particular to…drive all Jews from Arab and Muhammadan countries…. 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 [endgültige Lösung] for the Jewish danger that will eliminate the scourge that Jews represent in the world.”
In a 1944 broadcast, he made that “definitive solution” explicit: “Kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion.” His call was an echo of the Qur’an’s call to “kill them wherever you find them” (2:191, 4:89) and to “kill the idolaters wherever you find them.” (9:5)
When those 26 Islamic scholars claim that the Palestinians had nothing to do with the Holocaust, they are flatly, grotesquely, contradicting the facts. They have ignored the words and deeds of the most important Palestinian leader, Haj Amin el Husseini, the admirer of Adolf Hitler, the good friend of Adolf Eichmann and Heinrich Himmler, and a direct participant in the Final Solution, who raised an S.S. brigade responsible for killing 90% of the Jews in Bosnia. Identified by the Allies as a war criminal, El Husseini only escaped punishment by making it to Cairo, where he was protected by the Muslim Brotherhood, and continued to call for Jihad against the Jews. He died, unrepentant and unpunished, in Cairo in 1974. This leader of the “Palestinians” was not just “linked” to the Nazi murders, but was as significant a promoter of the Holocaust as any non-German.
Repeating their theme of Israel as a “fascist” state, the “26 Muslim scholars” in the U.K. who recently denounced Israel ended their letter with this :
We condemn the continued fascist Zionist oppression which has cost the Palestinian people their freedom, homeland and lives for over seventy years.
There has been “no Zionist oppression” of the Arabs in Israel. Israeli Arabs have full civil and religious rights. No one prevents them from their religious observances, or seeks to make the practice of their religion more difficult. Israeli Arabs vote, stand for election, belong to any party they choose, including an all-Arab party hostile to the state, and hold seats in the Knesset where they roundly criticize the government. Arab judges sit on Israel’s supreme court. Arabs serve as diplomats. Arabs are not subject to the military draft, but may serve as volunteers, if they wish, as ever more of them do.
As for the Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank, for 19 years, from 1948 to 1967, the Gazan Arabs endured Egyptian rule, which was far more oppressive than that of Israel between 1967 and 2005. Since 2005, when Israel left Gaza, the Gazan Arabs have again had to endure oppressive Arab rule, this time by the staggeringly corrupt Hamas, two of whose leaders — Mousa Abu Marzouk and Khaled Meshal — each stole at least $2.5 billion from the foreign aid meant for the people of Gaza. The Israelis did what they could to help the Gazans, transferring to them 3,000 greenhouses in perfect working order; it was the Palestinians in Gaza who destroyed those greenhouses. In the West Bank, similarly, Jordan’s rule over the local Arabs — the “Palestinians” — between 1948 and 1967, was more invasive and harsh than that of the Israelis since 1967. Israel’s policy was always to give the local Arabs in Judea and Samaria (a/k/a West Bank) as much autonomy as was consistent with Israeli security; it was the Palestinian terrorists themselves whose attacks triggered greater security measures by Israel. In times of quiet, the Israelis were not just willing but eager to leave the local Arabs alone.
The signatories insist that Islam “does not promote anti-Semitism and Arabs are also a Semitic people”, and claim that Islamic rulers treated Christians in the region with benevolence “until the Zionist occupation ended the mutual tolerance that had existed for over a millennium.”
We are expected to believe that Christians were treated by Islamic rulers “with benevolence” until the “Zionist occupation ended the mutual tolerance” between Christians and Muslims” that “had existed for over a millennium.” By “mutual tolerance” they are attempting to hide the reality of what Christians endured as dhimmis under Muslim rule: this “tolerance” — allowing them to live and to practice their religion — existed only insofar as the Christians accepted the many onerous conditions imposed on them as dhimmis, including most notably the Jizyah tax, which was paid — ideally in humiliating circumstances — by non-Muslims to the Muslim state. When the Caliph Al-Hamid in Cairo in 1009 ordered the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, was he treating the Christians “with benevolence”? Were the Muslim attacks on Christian pilgrims to the Holy Land, during the eleventh century, which helped to trigger the Crusades, an example of Muslims treating Christians “with benevolence”? Was the persecution of the Copts in Egypt under both the Umayyad and Fatimid caliphates an example of Muslim rulers treating Christians “with benevolence”? What about the persecution, and forced conversions, and murders, by Muslim Arab conquerors, of the Christian Berbers in North Africa? And in Andalusia, where we now know that the “convivencia” (co-existence) under benevolent Muslim rulers was a myth,the Christians so tirelessly waged their Reconquista, an 800-year-war to push out the Muslim invaders, precisely because there was no such “benevolence.”
Wellington says
Excellent rebuttal by Hugh Fitzgerald of the contention of 26 Muslim scholars (isn’t the term, “Muslim scholar,” pretty much an oxymoron?). Too bad this article by Fitzgerald has virtually zero chance of being printed in The New York Times or mentioned at CNN.
J D S says
“muslim scholars”..it would be mighty hard to find 26 real muslim scholars owing to the fact that they lied about Palestinians not being involved in the Holocaust..The proof is there but do called scholars didn’t investigate or they just LIED..I think the latter is appropriate.
FYI says
I’m not going to explain Biblical prophecy to muslim “scholars” ,militant atheists,secular Jews,globalists,the MSM or lefties but..ehm..
Going against Israel would be a catastrophic mistake because you see Al lah the pagan Arab god of the muslims
{“The BEST of deceivers” k3;54}is NOT the actual Biblical Judeo-Christian God.
Al lah is to the real God what baal was to the God of Israel
I KINGS 18 V 21
Book of Joel 3 chapter 3 for starters..it is those who go against Israel that are earmarked for God’s Justice
{And this should make sense to religious Jews and Christians who understand prophecy:it makes absolutely no sense to muslims or atheists.It made no sense to me when I was an atheist}
Authentic prophecy,both in the OT and NT actually comes through God’s Holy Spirit of Wisdom{2 Peter 1 v 20-21}which ALWAYS existed as it was the source of prophecy and Wisdom but was formally revealed in the time of Jesus:note that in the koran k4:171 al lah tells muslims NOT to believe in God’s Holy Spirit{one of the 3 he says..it is “better for you”..NOT to believe in….. God’s Wisdom!}
Of course muslims and the enemies of Israel will laugh as they follow Al Lah{ “the BEST OF DECEIVERS” k3:54}
Just as goliath would have laughed at the prospect of being beaten by a mere shepherd boy,but appearances are deceptive in relation to Israel:cross that line and Biblical prophecies will unfold ..and play out AGAINST the enemies of Israel.
1948,1968,1973..:Israel’s existence isn’t simply down to the Israelis.
There is more to it than that{to those who understand Prophecy..which BTW cannot be understood properly without the aid of God’s Holy Spirit see 2 Peter 1 v 20-21}
islamic “prophecy” is fake as it does not even consider the source of Prophecy.
In fact allah ludicrously denies it in k4:171 thus proving he is not God.
jarmanray says
++++1 Well written and like you I was an atheist for more than half of my life until the Holy Spirit provided a vision while I was visiting the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem which led me to Christ. I was fortunate that I visited Jerusalem during the 1991 Intifada as the two colleagues and I were the only people visiting this holiest of holy sites which provided a very special time for me to look inside my own soul.
Angemon says
Indeed. The locals endured the Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, Vandals and Goths but never dropped their weapons until they drove back the Berber and Arab invaders.
Walter Sieruk says
There are many Muslims who hope for as well as desire Jerusalem to be the Capital of a restored Caliphate. Likewise, this would mean a restored Islamic empire . A number of higher up Muslims in the current government of Turkey even hope to restore the Ottoman empire .
If the Ottoman empire is actually restored then it stands to reason that this new Islamic empire would have as its head a man who a caliph and imam and probably a sultan all rolled into one.
Many Muslims also believe that this man will be the coming Mahdi, meaning the “rightly guided one” that is in the Islamic worldview. The Mahdi as the caliph of this new Islamic empire will gather the army of Islam together and attempt to destroy the Jewish State of Israel and make Jerusalem the Capital of this new Islamic empire , The Mahdi’s scheme is that after his total capture of Jerusalem will then use that City as his capital and base to reconquer southern Spain for Islam and then the entire world for a worldwide caliphate with his as its Caliph and grand imam.
Nevertheless, the Mahdi will never get that far . Fir he will not be able to conquer Jerusalem for his is fated to fail ,a in lose in the end and lose totally and completely .For the God of Israel Who is the God of Bible has overruled him. Likewise, the jihadists of his Islamic army will fail to conquer Jerusalem.
To give some Bible based information with authorized Islamic literature also taken into account and yet not to go into detail and that state that this is a theory of Bible prophecy and not a complete prophecy fact. This is what might happen. This awful and terrible conflict in the twenty -first century is part of the war between the Judo- Christian West and the Islamic East. The Mahdi will arise in the Middle East he will appear a wonderful man to many people, in reality he will be wicked man and will be so very deceitful and lying to he will seem, very much, like a good righteous and rightly guided man who will make a short and false “peace” in the Middle East. The Mahdi with have a partner who will be the false “jesus” of Islam. This Islamic ”jesus” will give Christian’s a choice , which is convert to Islam or die by beheading, this is the Koranic way to killing non-Muslims, as in 47:4. Those vicious murders of Christians in the future are predicted in the Bible. As seen in Revelation 20:4. Furthermore in Israel the Mahdi “shall divide the land” Daniel 11:39. [K.J.V.] between the Jews and Muslims and the Mahdi will also by many deceiving lying signs and wonders, will unify Shi ‘ite and Sunni Islam together common goal destroying the State of Israel ,once and for all. The Mahdi will then take the all the military force of Islam with Satanic intention of totally destroying the Jewish State, one and for all. The when the Second Coming of real Jesus will occur .This is at the Battle of Armageddon where the final and complete defeat of the Mahdi, along with false ”jesus,” and his Islamic military forces. After the great Victory there will be then the total destruction of Islam. As found in the Bible in, for example, Ezekiel chapter 37 and 38. Zechariah Chapter 12 and then 14:9-21 well as in Revelation 19:11-21.
There is an Christian Arab pastor ,Michael Youssef who had written two well researched and informative books about the Islamic messiah called the Mahdi the are END TIMES AND THE SECRET OF THE MAHDI also the book entitled JESUS , JIHAD AND PEACE Furthermore, another Christian author on the topic of the Mahdi and prophecy is other than pastor Youssef is Joel Richardson who wrote THE ISLAMIC ANTICHRIST :THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE BEAST and the other book entitled THE MIDEAST BEAST : THE SCRIPTURAL CASE FOR THE ISLAMIC ANTICHRIST.
don vito says
Except for al Hussneini, I’ve never heard or know anything about German palestinians. Anyone?
gravenimage says
Don, he wasn’t really a German Palestinian–he was a “Palestinian” Muslim who spent time in Nazi Germany.
Certainly, many “Palestinian” Muslims have been great admirers of Hitler and the Nazis:
“Palestinian Authority TV sermon: ‘Hitler was sent by Allah to punish the Jews’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/10/palestinian-authority-tv-sermon-hitler-was-sent-by-allah-to-punish-the-jews
There are many similar stories.
jarmanray says
I don’t know about anyone else, but these imams don’t appear as scholars within any academic discipline that I am aware. Academia refers to the pursuit of truth through research and debate which these imams ignore. The pursuit of hate and demagoguery does not rise to the level of academic, whereas, Robert Spencer and Hugh Fitzgerald epitomize the definition.
Anjuli Pandavar says
jarmanray, “these imams don’t appear as scholars within any academic discipline that I am aware.”
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Come on. They’ve read one book, and it’s “the book about which there is no doubt.” What more do you want?
ntesdorf says
Old Adolf was a great admirer of Islam and its methods. He wished that Germany had become Muslim. His wish could yet come true.
gravenimage says
Very true.
Mr. Cohen says
Ken Cohen [editor of Facts and Logic
about the Middle East (FLAME)] said:
Last year, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed
bin Salman reportedly stated in a closed-door
meeting that “Palestinians should accept
peace or shut up and stop complaining.”
SOURCE: Why are Arab states rejecting
the Palestinian cause? by Ken Cohen, 2019 July 2
http://www.jns.org/opinion/why-are-arab-states-rejecting-the-palestinian-cause/
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Nikki Haley (former USA
Ambassador to the United Nations):
“The number of actual Palestinian refugees is classified.
There are multiple people working to get it unclassified.”
SOURCE: The better and stronger
we make Israel, the safer we make the world
by Dr. Miriam Adelson, 2019 June 28
http://www.jns.org/nikki-haley-the-better-and-stronger-we-make-israel-the-safer-we-make-the-world/
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Alexander H. Joffe [a Middle East Historian] said:
“Increasingly, discrimination against Jews is regarded as
legitimate whether or not there is any connection to Israel.”
SOURCE: BDS Spreads Through Community
Organizations and K-12 by Alexander Joffe, 2019 July 2
http://www.algemeiner.com/2019/07/02/bds-spreads-through-community-organizations-and-k-12/
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Mr. John Rossomando said:
“[IUMS Trustee Sheikh Hassan Ould] Aldo and
the [Muslim] Brotherhood use language similar
to what Hamas used in its original charter,
which rejected any peaceful coexistence.
To them, Palestine is part of a waqf, a holy
Islamic trust, that no person can negotiate away.”
SOURCE: Muslim Brotherhood,
Hamas: No Peace as Long as Israel Exists
by Mr. John Rossomando, 2019 July 1
http://www.algemeiner.com/2019/07/01/muslim-brotherhood-hamas-no-peace-as-long-as-israel-exists/
gravenimage says
26 Muslim Scholars Denounce “Fascist” Israel, Claim Jerusalem Will Be Capital of a New Caliphate (Part 2)
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Talk about projection!