The Mufti and the Führer: When Arab Palestinian Leadership Aligned with Nazi Germany

Long before Israel existed, antisemitism drove Arab Palestinian leaders into alliance with Hitler. Their collaboration wasn’t about borders, it was about eradicating Jews. This is the chapter history textbooks often leave out.

When we speak of the Holocaust and World War II, most people focus on Europe. What often goes unspoken is the role Arab Palestinian leaders played in supporting Nazi Germany. This is not speculation or propaganda. It is documented history, and it reveals how antisemitism, even before the creation of Israel, shaped alliances in the Arab world.


The central figure in this history is Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and the most powerful Arab leader in British Mandate Palestine during the 1930s and 40s. Appointed by the British in 1921, al-Husseini spent decades opposing Jewish immigration and calling for the expulsion of Jews from the land. His hatred was not simply political. It was deeply antisemitic.


In 1941, al-Husseini fled the Middle East and made his way to Nazi Germany, where he was welcomed by the highest levels of the Nazi regime. On November 28, 1941, he met with Adolf Hitler in Berlin. The records of that meeting are clear: al-Husseini expressed support for the Final Solution and promised to rally Muslims in support of Nazi goals in exchange for Hitler’s promise to wipe out the Jews of the Middle East.


Al-Husseini did not just meet with Hitler. He collaborated with Himmler, Eichmann, and other top SS officials. He recorded Arabic-language propaganda broadcasts from Berlin, inciting Arabs to “kill the Jews wherever you find them.” His speeches were played across the Middle East on Nazi-funded shortwave radio.


More disturbingly, al-Husseini helped recruit tens of thousands of Muslims to fight for Hitler. He played a key role in creating Muslim Waffen-SS divisions in the Balkans, particularly the 13th SS Handschar Division, composed mainly of Bosnian Muslims. These units carried out brutal massacres of Jews, Serbs, and Roma civilians.


Al-Husseini also blocked the rescue of Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Europe. Historical records show that he lobbied both German and Romanian officials to prevent Jewish refugees from being allowed into Palestine. These were children who might have escaped the gas chambers, and he ensured they didn’t.


After the war, al-Husseini fled to France, then Cairo, evading prosecution at the Nuremberg trials. Despite his open collaboration with the Nazi regime, he was never held accountable. Instead, he was welcomed back into Arab politics and continued to oppose the Jewish state until his death.


This history matters. It reveals that antisemitism among Arab Palestinian leaders existed long before 1948, long before any so-called occupation, and long before the modern state of Israel was even born. The collaboration between al-Husseini and Nazi Germany wasn’t about borders or land. It was about the shared goal of exterminating Jews.


Even today, the legacy of al-Husseini is whitewashed by some in pro-Palestinian circles. But history is not on their side. The documents, broadcasts, meetings, and Waffen-SS battalions tell a very different story, one of complicity in genocide.


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