Amin Al-Husseini: The founder of Palestinian Jihad and the aggravator behind the Holocaust

The media are up in arms about Netanyahu’s claim that the Nazi genocide originates with the Palestinian jihad founder, Amin al-Husseini.

But these statements are true, even according to the Nazi’s themselves.

The public cannot imagine that the Muslim jihad occupation that is taking place not only in Israel, but in Burma, in Thailand, in India, in China, in Chechnya, and on and on – built on identical victimhood arguments – can actually have its origin in Islam. It has been continuous for 1,400 years.

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“The Mufti [Amin al-Husseini] was one of the initiators of the systematic exterm­ination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and advisor 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 that, accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited in-incognito the gas chamber of Auschwitz”
— SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Dieter Wisliceny, in a signed official deposition submitted on July 26, 1946, to the Nuremberg tribunal.

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The counter argument by the press against Netanyahu’s public statement is built by some of the selective historians they have interviewed. They claim it would be impossible for Amin al-Husseini to have influenced Hitler’s holocaust because al-Husseini officially met Hitler in late 1941 while Hitler had already been putting his plans into motion.

But none of the historians the media is quoting that al-Husseini was in contact with the Nazi’s long before his officially recorded visit with Hitler:

• 1914-1917 Husseini’s First Taste of Jihad: Amin Al-Husseini swears allegiance to the Ottoman Empire during the Muslim genocide of 1.5 million Armenian Christians. He is an officer stationed in Smyrna and participates first-hand in the Armenian genocide.
• Belfour declaration, which established the borders of Israel and includes Jordan, is drafted in 1917.
• Fanatical Haj Amin begun to instigate anti-Jewish riots in Palestine as early as 1920.
• When the Mufti appeared before the “Palestine Commission on the Disturbances of August 1929” (the Shaw Commission) in December 1929, he held a copy of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” in his hand.
• Arab Nazi political groups spring up throughout Middle East in 1933. (Nazi Germany and the Arab world, 1933-1944, by Francois R Nicosia)
• When Hitler proclaimed the Nuremberg Race Laws in 1935, not so few Palestinian Arabs sent him telegrams congratulating him.
• Husseini Meets Hitler’s banker in 1936. Francois Genoud, later known as the Swiss Banker of the Hitler’s Third Reich, travels to Palestine to meet Amin Al-Husseini for the first time. Their relationship will continue well into the 1960’s.
• There is a rare document about a possible visit by Haj Amin Al-Husseini to Yemen in 1936. The document refers to Al-Husseini as “an envoy of Hitler.”
• As early as February 1933, a few weeks after Hitler became Reich Chancellor, the Mufti sent a telegram to Berlin addressed to the German consul-general in Jerusalem saying he looked forward to spreading Nazi ideology in the Middle East and Palestine.
• In July 1937, the Mufti visited the German consul-general to express his support for Nazi Germany once again.
• In November and December 1937, a representative from the Mufti traveled to Berlin to seek German financial and military support.
• Amin Al-Husseini ends up on Hitler’s payroll. Al-Husseini visits Jerusalem German Consul. He meets SS Hauptschanfuehrer A.Eichman and SS Oberscherfuehrer H. Hagen to discuss “the Jewish question”. Amin Al-Husseini subsequently receives financial and military aid from Nazi Germany.
• Adolf Eichmann, SS Lieutenant-Colonel and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust, knew the Mufti quite well. As early as 1937, he was sent to the Middle East to contact the Mufti and other Arab leaders. He and SS Oberscharführer Herbert Hagen arrived in Haifa by boat on October 2, 1937.
• The Mufti traveled to Berlin in November 1941 to meet Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Hitler.
• The Nazis granted the Mufti asylum in 1941.
• After the war the Mufti’s diary was found by the Allies. On a page bearing the date of 9 November 1944, the following words had been written: “The best of the friends of the Arabs. Eichmann.” Above the word “Eichmann” (written in Latin characters) appeared the following Arabic words in Al-Husseini’s own handwriting: “fairus nadira jiddan” and “Kheir mukhlis lil-arab” – “a very rare diamond” and “the best redeemer for the Arabs.”

See references at the bottom of the page.

No matter what the arguments the media gives in their selection of historians, it is a huge plus that the media is even covering this statement from history as it will lead to a lot of curiosity and attention – finally – to the reality of the Muslim occupation of Israel, which was purely based on jihad and nothing else.

Let’s look at the timeline of some of these incidents below. There is an article by Emerson Vermaat that has painstakingly gone through date by date to cover some of the essentials. Emerson Vermaat is an investigative reporter in the Netherlands specialized in crime and terrorism.

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Adolf Eichmann’s deputy at the Nuremberg trials after World War II, said: “The Mufti was instrumental in the decision to exterminate the Jews of Europe. The importance of his role must not be ignored. The Mufti repeatedly proposed to the authorities, primarily Hitler, Ribbentropp and Himmler, to exterminate the Jews of Europe. He considered it a suitable solution for the Palestinian question.”

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The Grand Mufti was a war criminal in WWII. If you doubt it then look it up.

The Turban and the Swastika: Full documentary.

References to Amin al-Husseini’s history and association with the Nazi’s:

The author wishes to thank Dr. Perry Pierik, a Dutch historian specialized in German history, for providing information on the “SS Handzar Division” and on Haj Amin Al-Husseini’s possible visit to Yemen (The Rosenblatt/Megilat Hajeshuah-document).

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[1 Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Die Grundlagen des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts, Vol. 1 (Munich: F. Bruckmann A.-G., 1915; 11th printing), p. 460 (“…wen durchschauerte es nicht mit fast unheimlicher Bewunderung, wenn er einen Mohammedaner in den Tod sehen sieht…)

[2 Alfred Rosenberg, Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts. Eine Wertung der seelisch-geistigen Gestaltenkämpfe unserer Zeit (Munich: Hoheneichen-Verlag, 1936), p. 515 (“Mohammed erzwang dazu Befolgung seiner Lehren, während Konfuzius in stillerer Auswirkung chinesisches Volkstum schuf und erhielt.”)

[3 Ibid., p. 665. (“Vor diesem einst vielleicht geeinigten Hass der farbigen Rassen und Bastarde, geführt von fanatischen Geiste Mohammeds, haben die weissen Rassen mehr denn je alle Ursache auf der Hut zu sein.”)

[4 Bernard Lewis, Semites and Anti-Semites. An Inquiry into Conflict and Prejudice (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1999). p. 28.

[5 Klaus Gensicke, Der Mufti von Jerusalem und die Nationalsozialisten. Eine politische Biographie Amin el-Husseinis (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2007), p. 82.

[6 Alfred Rosenberg, Der Staatsfeindliche Zionismus. Auf Grund jüdischer Quellen erläutert (Hamburg: Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, 1922), p. 63 (“Ein jüdisch kontrolliertes Palestina könnt zum Kristallisationspunkt der jüdischen Weltherrschaftsideen, zum jüdischen Aufmarsch für Weltbewucherung werden.”)

[7 Hans Günther Seraphim, Das politische Tagebuch Alfred Rosenbergs (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1964), p. 244, 247, 253 (“Weltanschauliche Thesen,” July 1939).

[8 Alfred Rosenberg, Der Mythus des 20 Jahrhunderts, op. cit., p. 76, 78, 134, 414, 604, 622. In his book Das Wesengefüge de Nationalsozialismus (Munich: Verlag Frz. Eher Nachf., 1932, p. 40, 41) does Rosenberg strongly criticize the church but he also says that ideology can both exclude and include religion. “The National Socialist movement is people’s politics based on a new and yet age-old and strongly founded ideology of the value of the blood. It seeks to protect the good blood, whether one believes this is a creation of God or whether one sees it as the law of nature.”

[9 Walter Künneth, Antwort auf den Mythus, (Berlin: In Wichern-Verlag, 1935), p. 64, 74 (“Wer an das Alte Testament rührt, rührt an die Offenbarung Gottes.“) Dr. Walter Künneth, a former Professor of Systematic Theology at Erlangen University, died in October 1997. He was 97 years old when he died, a strong and impressive personality who continued to write books and articles for quite a long time. I met Professor Künneth many times and interviewed him for Dutch television in May 1978. He was friend, a mentor.

[10 Walter Künneth, Lebensführungen. Der Wahrheit verpflichtet (Wuppertal: R. Brockhaus Verlag. 1979), p. 154. 157.

[11 Alfred Rosenberg, Der Mythos des 20.Jahrhunderts, op. cit.

[12 Friedrich Heer, Der Glaube des Adolf Hitler. Anatomie einer politischen Religiosität (Munich and Esslingen: Bechtle Verlag, 1968), p. 405 (“satanische Juden”).

[13 Claus-Ekkehard Bärsch, Die politische Religion des Nationalsozialismus. Die religiöse Dimension der NS-Ideologie in den Schriften von Dietrich Eckart, Joseph Goebbels, Alfred Rosenberg und Adolf Hitler (Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1998), p. 320.

[14 Ibid., p. 125. (“Der Jude ist wohl der Antichrist der Weltgeschichte.”)

[15 Ibid., p. 126, 127.

[16 Memri TV, Iranian Professor Qanbari on Jews throughout history, November 11, 2004, clip No. 383 (Iranian Television). See also: Hans Jansen, Van Jodenhaat naar Zelfmoordterrorisme. Islamisering van het Europese Antisemitisme in het Midden-Oosten (Heerenveen: Uitgeverij Groen, 2006), p. 344-346. This 1047-page study is one of the most thorough Dutch studies on Arab and Iranian inspired anti-Semitism. Professor Jansen is an authoritative Dutch theologian specialized Jewish affairs, anti-Semitism and church history. He is currently associated with the Simon Wiesenthal Institute in Brussels.

[17 Hadassa Ben-Itto, “Die Protokolle der Weisen von Zion.” Anatomie einer Fälschung (Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 1998), p. 331, 332, 341 (“…gäbe es eine jüdische Weltverschwörung, dann müsste man akzeptieren, dass die gesamte Geschichte nur ein schöner Schein sei, ein Betrug, auf den alle Historiker hereinfielen.” This is what Basel University Professor Arthur Baumgarten said during a court session in Basel, Switzerland, in April 1935; Baumgarten left his university post in Frankfurt, Germany, after the Nazis came to power.)

[18 Chuck Morse, The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism. Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin Al-Husseini (www.google.books.com), p. 17.

[19 Jilian Becker, The PLO. The Rise and Fall of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984), p. 15, 16.

[20 Howard M. Sachar, A History of Israel. From the Rise of Zionism to our Time (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1977), p. 170.

[21 Chuck Morse, op. cit., p. 20.

[22 Hans Jansen, Van Jodenhaat naar Zelfmoordterrorisme. Islamisering van het Europese Antisemitisme in het Midden-Oosten (Heerenveen: Uitgeverij Groen, 2006), p. 109.

[23 Howard M. Sachar, op. cit., p. 174; Jilan Becker, op. cit., p. 17.

[24 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husayni, Palestine Commission on the Disturbances of August 1929, Minutes of Evidence (London: 1930), Vol. 2, p. 527, 537.

[25 Ibid.

[26 Chuck Morse, op. cit., p. 30, 31.

[27 Klaus Gensicke, Der Mufti von Jerusalem und die Nationalsozialisten. Eine politische Biographie Amin el-Husseinis (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2007), p. 183. Gensicke’s book, originally a doctoral dissertation published in the 1980s but now fully updated, is one of the best German studies on the Mufti. It is partly based on German Foreign Office documents.

[28 Ibid., p. 29.

[29 Howard M. Sachar, op. cit., p. 211.

[30 Ibid., p. 211.

[31 Matthias Küntzel. Jihad und Judenhass. Über den neuen antijüdischen Krieg (Freiburg: ca-ira Verlag, 2003), p. 37.

[32 Howard M. Sachar, op. cit., p. 211, 228.

[33 Lukasz Hirszowicz, The Third Reich and the Arab East (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul/Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1966), p. 138 (“Haj Amin’s private secretary points to still another cause of the coup d’état: ‘Primarily as a result of the favourable news of the Berlin conversations, which I was able to convey, the Iraqi army decided to seize power and entrust Kilani (=Kailani. V.) with forming a new government.’”)

[34 Klaus Gensicke, op. cit., p. 48, 50, 51.

[35 Lukasz Hirszowicz, p. 139.

[36 Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, Vol. 3, The Grand Alliance (London: The Reprint Society, 1952), p. 214.

[37Lukasz Hirszowicz, op. cit., p. 154; Klaus Gensicke, op. cit., p. 29.

[3 Ibid., p. 151, 166.

[39 Winston S. Churchill, op. cit., p. 214, 215.

[40 F.H. Hinsley, E.E. Thomas, C.F.G Ransom and R.C. Knight, British Intelligence in the Second World War. Its Influence on Strategy and Operations, Vol. One (London: Her Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1979. p. 366, 367. (“The SIS claimed that the fault lay with the failure of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office to forward its reports to the Whitehall Service departments.”)

[41 Klaus Gensicke, op. cit., p. 88, 89.

[42 Gerhard Höpp (Ed.), Mufti-Papiere. Briefe, Memoranden, Reden und Aufrufe Amin Al-Husseinis aus dem Exil, 1940-1945 (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2004), p. 18, 19 (written in French). Letters to Von Papen (in French), see p. 15, 16.

[43 Klaus Gensicke, op. cit., p. 38 (“Wir werden weiterhin die Unruhe in Fernost und in Arabien schüren. Denken wir als Herren, und sehen wir in diesen Völkern bestenfalls lackierte Halbaffen, die die Knute spüren wollen.”)

[44 Henry Picker, Hitlers Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier (Stuttgart: Seewald Verlag, 1976), p. 355.

[45 Ibid., p. 403 (July 1942).

[46 Bernard Lewis, op. cit., p. 147.

[47 Klaus Gensicke, op. cit., p. 144-148.

[48 Ibid., p. 152.

[49 Lukasz Hirszowicz, op. cit., p. 184, 195.

[50 Howard M. Sachar, op. cit., p. 228.

[51 Klaus Gensicke, op. cit., p. 170, 180.

[52 Ibid., p. 51-56.

[53 NS-Archiv, Dokumente zum Nationalsozialismus, Der Gross Mufti von Jerusalem beim Führer, November 28, 1941 (http:www.ns-archiv.de/verfolgung/antisemitismus/Mufti/in_berlin.shtml; see also: Lukasz Hirszowicz, op. cit., p. 218, 219.

[54 Lukasz Hirszowicz, op. cit., p. 221, 222.

[55 Klaus Gensicke, op. cit., p. 76-90. Page 80: “Berlin war der ganze Konflikt zwischen den beiden arabischen Führern peinlich.”

[56 Claus-Ekkehard Bärsch, op. cit., p. 136-139.

[57 Bradley F. Smith and Agnes F. Peterson, Heinrich Himmler. Geheimreden 1933 bis 1945 (Frankfurt/M: Propyläen Verlag, 1974), p. 85, 86.

[58 Ibid., p. 15 (“Karma des Germanentums”).

[59 Ibid., p. 237 (“…des von Herr Gott gesandten Führers…”).

[60 Friedrich Heer, op. cit., p. 247 (“Wer nicht für mich ist, ist gegen mich. Mir mir, mit meiner Bewegung ist der Allmächtige.”); Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (London: Hurst & Blankett, 1939), p. 66 (“And so I believe to-day that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the handiwork of the Lord.”)

[61 Hans-Peter Raddatz, Allah und die Juden. Die islamische Renaissance des Antisemitismus (Berlin: WJS Verlag, 2007), p. 250; Klaus Gensicke, op. cit., p. 57. Gensicke mentions how a German ambassador, Dr. von Stohrer, also emphasized the importance of studying the Koran. Some Koran verses are “prophetic words which refer to the coming of the Führer,” von Stohrer said.

[62 Gerhard Höpp (Ed.), op. cit., p. 187.

[63 Telegram from Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler to “Gross Mufti Amin el Husseini,” November 2, 1943 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Himmler_to_Mufti_telegram_1943.png).

[64 Gerhard Höpp (Ed.), op. cit., p. 124-126.

[65 Ibid., p. 212, 123.

[66 Perry Pierik, Muitende moslims. De geschiedenis van de 13.Waffengebirgsdivision der SS ‘Handschar’ (kroat. Nr. 1), in: Derde Bulletin van de Tweede Wereldoorlog (Soesterberg: Aspekt Publishers, 2001), p. 28-32.

[67 Based on interviews the author made in Sarajevo with members of the Jewish community (December 1993). See also: Daniel Carpi, The Rescue of Jews in the Italian Zone of Occupied Croatia, in: Rescue Attempts during the Holocaust (Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, 1977), p. 465-525. Page 473: “Thus, for example, the Italian Chief of Staff in Mostar had only recently announced that he would not agree to the deportation of Jews form the city, since it was against the declared policy of the Italians, who granted full equality to all residents.”

[68 Perry Pierik, op. cit., p. 35-38.

[69 Noel Malcolm, Bosnia. A Short History (London: Macmillan, 1994), p. 190.

[70 Ibid., p. 191 (March 1943 must be March 1944).

[71 Klaus Gensicke, op. cit.. p. 154, 155.

[72Ibid., p. 155, 156. The Muslim Brotherhood also condemned the assassination and suddenly distanced themselves from the ex-Mufti.

[73 Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, Vol. 2 (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990), p. 704; Enzyklopädie des Holocaust. Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden (Munich: R. Piper, 1995), Band (Vol.) II, p. 631.

[74 Ibid. (Enlarged and updated German edition).

[75 Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem. A Report on the Banality of Evil (Harmondsworth/New York: Penguin Books, 1976, first published in 1963), p. 13.

[76 The Trial of Adolf Eichmann. Record of the Proceedings in the District Court of Jerusalem, Vol. IV (Jerusalem: State of Israel/Ministry of Justice. 1992), p . 1451, 1452.

[77 Ibid., Vol. V, p. 2028.

[78 Chuck Morris, op. cit., p. xvii (Introduction).

[79 Bericht über die Palestina-Ägyptenreise von SS-Hauptscharführer Eichmann und SS-Oberscharführer Hagen, Berlin, November 4, 1937, G II 112 26-3, Hg/Pi), p. 22 (“Die Flucht des Mufti wird aber entgegen den zuerst gebrachten Meldungen von den meisten national denkenden Arabern nicht gebilligt. Er soll deshalb auch erheblich an Einfluss verloren haben.”)

[80 The Trial of Adolf Eichmann. Record of the Proceedings in the District Court of Jerusalem,., Vol. I, p. 243, Vol. IV, p. 1456, Vol. V, p. 2168; Bericht über die Palestina-Ägyptenreise von SS-Hauptscharführer Eichmann und SS-Oberscharführer Hagen, op. cit., p. 1-3.

[81 Ibid., Vol. I, p. 243, 244. For a detailed study on the origins of the Final Solution, see: Christopher Browning, The Origins of the Final Solution (Lincoln: University of Nabraska Press, 2004), p. 36-43.

[82 Gideon Hausner, Justice in Jerusalem. The Trial of Adolf Eichmann (London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1967), p. 345.

[83 The Trial of Adolf Eichmann. Record of the Proceedings in the District Court of Jerusalem, Vol. IV, p. 1790.

[84 Ibid., Vol. II, p. 915.

[85 Ibid., Vol. III, p. 1141, 1354, 1355 (“The Arabic above the word ‘Eichmann’ is in the Mufti’s handwriting.”)

[86 Ibid., Vol IV, p. 1790.

[87 Ibid., Vol. V, p. 2028.

[88 Maurice Pearlman, The Mufti of Jerusalem (London: Victor Gollancz, 1947), p. 73 (quoting testimony given at the Nuremberg trials in 1946); Jilian Becker, op. cit., p. 28.

[89 Israel Nieuwsbrief (The Hague: CIDI), May 21, 2006 (21/7), p. 1 (interview with Dutch Auschwitz survivor Ernst Verduin).

[90 Klaus Gensicke, op. cit., p. 208, footnote 55.

[91 Ibid., p. 111.

[92 Ibid., p. 141 (speech by the Mufti on 2 November 1943).

[93 Gerhard Höpp, op. cit., p. 180, 181. The two Mufti letters were written in French and dated June 28, 1943 (translated from French by the author).

[94 Michael Bar-Zohar, Beyond Hitler’s Grasp. The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria’s Jews (Holbrook, Massachusetts: Adams Media Corporation, 1998).

[95 Martin Gilbert, Descent into Barbarism. A History of the 20th Century 1934-1951 (London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1999), p. 423.

[96 The Trial of Adolf Eichmann. Record of the Proceedings in the District Court of Jerusalem, op. cit., Vol. I. p. 244.

[97Ibid., Vol. III, p. 1138.

[98 Ibid., p. 1139.

[99Klaus Gensicke, op. cit., p. 107.

[100 Ibid., p. 106-108 (“Durch die Sonderstellung Bulgariens und die dadurch für Deutschland entstandenen Probleme kam die wiederholte Einmischung des Mufti in die ‘Judenfrage’ den Deutschen recht ungelegen.”)

[101 Gerhard Höpp, op. cit., p. 216; Joseph B. Schechtman, The Mufti and the Führer. The Rise and Fall of Haj Amin el-Husseini (New York/London: 1965), appendix 4.

[102 Gideon Hausner, op. cit., p. 147.

[103 The Trial of Adolf Eichmann. Record of the Proceedings in the District Court of Jerusalem, op. cit., Vol V, p. 2030; Gideon Hausner, op. cit., p. 101 (“At the end even Himmler, whom he adored, found it difficult to curb him when a halt was called to the killings.”)

[104]Hitlers Helfer, ZDF (German TV), April 7, 1998. (“Ich weiss der Krieg ist verloren, aber ich werde meinen Krieg noch gewinnen.”)

[105 Hans Safrian, Eichmann und seine Gehilfen (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1995), p. 304. (“Mit welcher Verbissenheit Eichmann und seine Männer bestrebt waren, noch mehr Juden ihrem Verderben auszuliefern, zeigte sich bereits im Juli 1944.”)

[106 Gideon Hausner, op. cit., p. 6 (“demonic personality”), 13 (“satanic principles”).

[107 Heinz Höhne, Der Orden unter dem Totenkopf. Die Geschichte der SS (Essen/Munich: Magnus Verlag/Bertelsmann, 1976).

[108 Klaus Gensicke, op. cit., p. 103; Lukasz Hirszowicz, op. cit., p. 311; Gerhard Höpp, op. cit., p. 211.

[109 Gerhard Höpp, op. cit., p. 114 (speech on the radio, November 25, 1942).

[110 Megilat Hajeshuah (Book of the Salvation of the Jews of Yemen in the year 1936), document provided to the author by Dr. Perry Pierik, historian, and W. Roosenblatt. All the information on the Mufti’s (possible) visit to Yemen is from this document.

[111 Bruce Lawrence (Ed.), Messages to the World. The Statements by Osama bin Laden (London/New York, Verso, 2005), p. 125.

[112 Ibid., p. 190.

[113 Khaled Hroub, Hamas. Political Thought and Practice (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies), p. 13, 14.

[114 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mohammad_amin_+al_Husayni#_note-11; Palestine Commission on the Disturbances of August 1929, Minutes of Evidence (London: 1930), Vol. 2, p. 527, 537.

[115 Konrad Heiden, Der Fuehrer. Hitler’s Rise to Power (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1944), p. 11.

[116 Ibid., p. 4, 31.

[117 Alfred Rosenberg, Die Protokollen der Weisen von Zion und die jüdische Weltpolitik (Reprint: Deutscher Volksverlag Dr. Boepple, Munich; first published in July 1923, third editon in October 1924), p. 2, 3.

[118]Hadassa Ben-Itto, op. cit., p. 398, 399. See also Kenneth Timmerman’s article in The Jerusalem Post, 25 November 1994.

[119 The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), 18 August 1988 (www.mideastweb.org/hamas.htm).

[120 Ibid.

[121 Emerson Vermaat, Dossier Irak Eenvandaag (Dutch TV), 19 January 2003 (an illustrated research paper on the history of Iraq available on the Internet, Google: www.eenvandaag.nl + dossier irak + emerson vermaat). See also: Con Coughlin, Saddam. The Secret Life (London: Macmillan, 2002), p. 6, 121 (“Having drawn on Stalins’ example to create a totalitarian regime, Saddam was now looking to Hitler for clues on how to improve his popularity.”)

[122 Con Coughlin, op. cit., p.13.

[123 Ha’aretz, 10 November 2002 (“Galloping Anti-Semitism”); NRC Handelsblad, 18 December 2002, p. 3 (“Ambassadeur Egypte berispt over tv-serie”), 20 December 2002, p. 4 (“Antisemiet heeft geen soap nodig”); Associated Press, 23 October 2002 (“Egyptian Television to air series based on Anti-Semitic book”).

[124] Jewish World Review. September 8, 2005 (“HBO’s ‘Protocols of Zion’”). Also several quotes from Arab media.

[125 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protocols_of_the_Elders_of_Zion; http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protokolle_der_Weisen_von_Zion; Bernard Lewis, op. cit., p. 211.

[126 Matthias Küntzel, The Booksellers of Tehran, in: Wall Street Journal Online, 28 October 2005.

[127 Der Reichsführer SS, Feld-Kommandostelle, 29 December 1942, Betr.: Meldungen an den Führer über Bandenbekämpfung, Meldung Nr. 61: Russland Süd, Ukraine, Bialystok, Bandenbekämpfungserfolge von 1.9 bis 1.12.1942, 2c: Juden exekutiert: 363211 (copy in author’s files on Nazi Germany). The deployment of SS Einsatzgruppen who were largely responsible for these mass killings, marked only the beginning – the first phase – of the Holocaust which culminated in the death camps.

[128 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_conference.

[129 Palestinian Media Watch, PA Holocaust Denial (www.pmw.org.il/new/holocaust.htm#holo7).

[130 Der Reichsmarschall des Grossdeutschen Reiches, Beauftragter für den Vierjahresplan, Vorsitzender des Ministerrats für die Reichsverteidigung (Göring), an den Chef des Sicherheitspolizei und des SD, SS-Gruppenführer Heydrich, Berlin, 31 July 1941 (copy in author’s files on Nazi Germany): “Ich beauftrage Sie weiter, mir in Bälde einen Gesamtentwurf über die organisatorischen, sachlichen und materiellen Vorausmassnahmen zur Durchführung der angestrebten Endlösung der Judenfrage vorzulegen.”

[131 Gideon Hausner, op. cit., p. 85, 86 (Görings signature, but denying complicity in mass murder), p. 87 (“It was Eichmann who drafted Göring’s historical directive.”)

[132 Werner Bergmann and Juliane Wetzel, Manifestations of Anti-Semitism in the European Union. Synthesis Report on behalf of the EUMC (Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, Technische Universität Berlin, 2003), p. 96.

[133 Ibid., p. 67.

[134 Ibid., p. 47.

[135 Tageschau (German TV), 4 December 2003 (“Strittige Studie zu Antisemitismus in EU veröffentlicht”). World Jewish Congres Vice President Elan Steinberg commented as follows: “Ich denke, der EU ist nicht bereit sich mit dem heiklen Problem des Antisemitismus unter Muslims auseinanderzustetzen die in Europa die grösste Minderheit bilden.” See also: NRC Handelsblad, 28 November 2003, p. 4 (“Tussen Islamofobie en Antisemitisme”).

[136 Hans Jansen, op. cit., p. 931.

[137 Pieter W. van der Horst, De Mythe van het Joodse Kannibalisme (Soesterberg: Uitgeverij Aspekt, 2006), p. 36.

[138 Ibid., p. 37, 38.

[139 Ibid., p. 42, 43.

[140 Trouw/Letter & Geest, 24 June 2006, p. 1-3 (“De Verboden Tekst”).

[141HP De Tijd, 7 July 2006, p. 22 (“Jaffé Vink: ‘Haar naam heeft een fascinerende klank, vind je niet?’”)

[142 Erich Fromm, Fear of Freedom (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960; first published in England in 1942), p. 229, 231.

[143 Erich Fromm, Ibid., p. 23