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It seems as if the whole world has agreed: nothing that could possibly offend Muslims can be displayed, no matter how historically important or relevant to the contemporary scene.
“The missing photo of Hitler and the Mufti of Jerusalem,” by Shalom Pollack, Arutz Sheva, November 27, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
I would like to introduce a notorious Nazi SS general, a leading Muslim cleric and the father of a nation – all in one.
This person is Haj Amin al Husseini.
Husseini was the powerful patriarch of the leading Arab clan in Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. He used his political power and religious influence for his life’s motif – the murder of Jews.
In an attempt to “mainstream” the Mufti of Jerusalem ” the British appointed him to an official position of power and responsibility.It did not work. It only gave him the platform and prestige to pursue his passion of killing Jews.
This he accomplished on numerous occasions, most notably by instigating the barbaric Hebron massacre of dozens of Jewish families in 1929. (Note: in 1929, there was no Zionist “apartheid occupation”, no “occupied territories” nor “settlers”; just Jews of all ages living in Hebron and horribly killed by their neighbors)
A Nazi sympathizer, he fled British controlled Palestine during the war. He led a Nazi coup in Irag where he instigated the bloody “Farhud” pogrom against the Jewish community of Iraq.
He then fled to Germany where he was made an honorary SS general by Himmler and proceeded to do all he could in helping the Hitler regime kill Jews. He addressed the Arab world by radio from Berlin winning huge support for the Nazis. He raised divisions of Muslim that fought in the Nazi army. One of their tasks was to guard so that Jews do not escape the trains to death camps.
Husseini intervened in a deal that would have saved a train load of Jewish children for a bribe. Husseini would not allow one Jewish child to escape the gas chambers.
Together with Himmler he visited the death camps and drew plans to build a “facility” in the Dotan valley in Samaria where the half million Jews of Palestine would be gassed as soon as Rommel defeated the British. Eichmann was quoted as saying: “I am a personal friend of the Grand Mufti. We have promised that no European Jew would enter Palestine any more.”
After the war, SS general Husseini found refuge in Syria from war crimes judgment. Wherever he appeared in the Arab world he was received as a hero and mentor. His Nazi credentials together with his clerical position were the calling card that opened every door in the Arab world.
Yasar Arafat called him “the father of the Palestinian people”. PA authority president Abbas repeated this accolade.
Yad Vashem, the world’s foremost Holocaust Museum and memorial had a large photo of Husseini with Hitler on one wall. Opposite was a photo of Jewish soldiers from Palestine volunteering in the British army in the “Jewish Brigade” The contrast was clear.
I say had, because when Yad Vashem was refurbished and expanded in 2005, the Hitler – Husseini photo did not make it into the new museum.
As a tour guide since 1980, I have visited the old museum numerous times and remember clearly how my tourists were shocked by the duo in the photo.
In the new museum, instead of the Husseini – Hitler photo there is a far smaller one of Husseini and Himmler, in a dark corner that no one sees. I finally located it.
When I wrote to Yad Vashem and asked why they removed the photo from the new museum, I was told that the new museum “concentrates on the victims and less on the perpetrators”. However just a few feet from the small Husseini – Himmler photo is an entire wall of perpetrators – the architects of the “Wannsee Conference” that drew up the plans for the Holocaust.
I asked a number of local official Yad Vashem guides about the photo. They either did not know of it or said it was political and they did not discuss it with visitors. They were uncomfortable with my inquiry.
I wondered if associating Palestinian Arabs with Nazis was no longer politically correct since the Oslo accords with Arafat in 1993….
And here in NYC the powers that be have removed the Equestrian Statue of President Theodor Roosevelt from the Museum of Natural History due to a perceived notion of bigotry. I shall never enter it again!!!
When will we learn not to relegate out shared histories to the trash bin?
The Egyptian Pharaohs and Iconoclasts of old tried and did in fact eliminate some uncomfortable truths we all could have learned from.
Hegel continues to be relevant: we learn nothing from History (paraphrase)
How sad.
Living for 2000 years as disempowered persecuted refugees has taught us that kiss our oppressors asses increased our chances for survival.
Tragically this old habit is now working against us.
It would be much more rational to kick the enemy asses instead of kicking it. If we don’t heal this old habit, we’ll revert to being slaves.
Hysterical revisionism at it’s worst.
I am sure they were uncomfortable with the inquiry and I think we should all add to their discomfort with further inquiries.
Yad Vashem’s direct contact page is here:
https://forms.yadvashem.org/contact-us
I suggest each of us contact them to inquire about the judged context of the removal of this exhibit from the exhibition floor and add any input you might have regarding how this should be addressed.
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History is replete with living proof that those in authority who control the present are guaranteed the awesome responsibility of maintaining an accurate record of the past. It is an unfortunate reality that this responsibility is left in the hands of those unworthy of such a task, seeing the accuracy of past events as too unuseful to present political motives without a modern tweak or two. Hence, as we gaze back upon every age of the past, what we see is a modern perversion through a tinctured lens containing the layered edits of every age between now and then. It is with a rude comprehension of reading and understanding history that it be gauged in a context that what we see now of then must be necessarily interpreted with the context of every age whose finger added to that record through unfaithful edits and additions, due to momentary advantages gained by successive revisions thru the ages. It is an awesome responsibility to consider and it is too often that the past is ‘interpreted’ with a modern interest to serve a temporary political gain with such historical edits and inventions. In fact, it is the role of a historian to manage his own visions as best as possible to not posit an unintended bias upon his role in managing the historical record as he displays it for the modern reader. By doing so, it preserves the product as History, rather than merely his story. With this in mind, it should be needless to state that no historian or historical agency should place themselves in such a position to purposefully pervert the true record of past events for a modern political advantage, yet this is quite a common thing, all too common, in fact.
Still, no Jew should support such a standard of revisions upon the terrible age of the Holocaust as being malleable towards a political interest. With the knowledge that past proves prophecy, such short term perversions, while serving a particular political agenda of the moment, may come to be seen to have terrible consequences. Furthermore, it betrays the sacrifice made by the murder of millions of our people, while also minimizing the crimes and culpabilities of their murderers.
The specific role that Husseini played in the barbarity against the Jewish People throughout the entire 20th Century should actually be a specific focus of concern to a Jewish State which continues to be under constant attack by many groups, including the followers of Husseini’s barbaric organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, towards the goal of annihilating the Jews. This may require a steady hand as the scion of the local chapter of the Brotherhood currently sits as Deputy Prime Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister. Certainly, exhibiting the role that Husseini played in his alliance with Hitler, including both his plans and his actions, should not be swayed by political head winds, not by an institution such as Yad Vashem. It is with the utmost contempt of its stated purpose that such an adjustment to the exhibits at Yad Vashem has been made to advantage those who actually still persist and continue to support the undertakings of Husseini and his movement.
This is how Yad Vashem describes their purpose. The use of Yad Vashem and its agency of hallmarking the terrors and devastations visited upon the Jewish people during the Holocaust as a political tool denigrates the solemnity of its undertaking. Furthermore, by editing their exhibits to satisfy this political agenda, minimizing the role of Husseini’s connection with Hitler and the Holocaust, it actually betrays our history to the advantage of our enemies, even as this purposeful distortion manages a more useful political panorama to a current political alliance(refer back to the first paragraph above).
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