{"id":1087339,"date":"2021-12-05T17:58:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T22:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1087339"},"modified":"2021-12-05T17:58:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T22:58:31","slug":"exclusive-zoa-accuses-holocaust-museum-of-appalling-censorship-of-palestinian-mufti-ties-to-hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-zoa-accuses-holocaust-museum-of-appalling-censorship-of-palestinian-mufti-ties-to-hitler\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: ZOA Accuses Holocaust Museum of \u2018Appalling\u2019 Censorship of Palestinian Mufti Ties to Hitler"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-zoa-accuses-holocaust-museum-of-appalling-censorship-of-palestinian-mufti-ties-to-hitler%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1087339&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>Following a published letter by the head of \u201cYad Vashem\u201d \u2014 Israel\u2019s premiere Holocaust museum and research center&nbsp;\u2014 defending its refusal to display an infamous photograph of leading Palestinian \u201cMufti\u201d [Islamic legal authority] Haj Amin al-Husseini meeting with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during the Holocaust, Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) head Morton Klein slammed the museum and its head Dani Dayan for the \u201cappalling\u201d censorship of history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Klein blasted Dayan on Friday, calling his defense of the infamous image\u2019s absence \u201cabominable\u201d and criticizing his denials of its removal, while urging him to \u201creinstate\u201d the picture.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"7\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1987-004-09A2C_Amin_al_Husseini_und_Adolf_Hitler.jpg\" alt=\"Adolf Hitler talking to Grand Mufti Haj Amin el Husseini\" width=\"792\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>This image was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the German Federal Archive<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>After years of pressure and a recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/317677\"><span>op-ed<\/span><\/a><span> by a longtime tour guide at the site attacking the museum\u2019s stance, Dayan <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yadvashem.org\/blog\/adhering-to-the-historical-truth-about-the-mufti-during-the-holocaust.html\"><span>addressed<\/span><\/a><span> the issue on Thursday, claiming the notorious Mufti\u2019s role in the Holocaust was \u201cmarginal,\u201d his meeting with Hitler having \u201ca negligible practical effect on Nazi policy,\u201d and thus the famous image depicting him with Hitler \u201cwas never displayed\u201d in the museum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dayan said the museum would not fall prey \u201cto any political agenda,\u201d while warning that demands to expand focus on the Mufti are tantamount to forcing the museum to \u201cpartake in a debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,\u201d and may even \u201clegitimize Holocaust distortion\u201d by others.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Speaking with Breitbart News on Friday, Klein, who has headed the nation\u2019s oldest pro-Israel organization for nearly two decades, called out the museum for attempting to \u201cappease\u201d Palestinians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs a child of Holocaust survivors born in the displaced persons camp in Germany who lost most of my family to Hitler, I find it really appalling for Dani Dayan to actually be censoring out a part of Holocaust history at the major Holocaust museum in an attempt to appease the Palestinian Arabs,\u201d Klein said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He also accused the museum of seeking to placate \u201ca Palestinian Authority that pays Arabs to murder Jews, names school streets and sports teams after Jew killers, promotes hatred and violence in every aspect of their culture, and has refused offers of statehood, clearly showing the issue is not land, but Israel\u2019s destruction.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAppeasement always fails, and it\u2019s obviously failed with the Palestinian Authority who won\u2019t even sit and negotiate [with Israel], let alone act in a civilized manner,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is just an atrocious mistake.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During the Holocaust, Al-Husseini, dubbed the \u201cfather of the Palestinian people\u201d by both former Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat as well as current Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, met with Hitler, SS officer Heinrich Himmler, and other Nazi leaders in an effort to persuade them to extend the Nazis\u2019 anti-Jewish program to the Arab world.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Calling the Muftis\u2019 part in Holocaust history \u201ccritical,\u201d Klein blasted the museum\u2019s \u201cintolerable\u201d censorship of the associated events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cTo blot out and censor a critical part of Holocaust history: that the religious leader of the Palestinian Arabs met with and encouraged Hitler is simply intolerable,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Holocaust Museum and Dani Dayan should be ashamed,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>History of the Image in the Museum<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite Dayan\u2019s denials that the photograph had ever been featured in the museum, Klein was insistent that it was \u201cvery prominently displayed\u201d during his previous visits.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019ve been in the museum,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s a famous picture of the Mufti with Hitler.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI can vouch and state as a matter of fact that I, Morton Klein, personally saw that picture on Yad Vashem\u2019s wall when I was there,\u201d he asserted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Though photography is forbidden in the museum itself, the author of the recent op-ed attacking the museum gathered twenty signed testimonies of veteran guides over the last month attesting to the photo\u2019s original presence, before it was allegedly removed and never returned during renovations in 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem David Cassuto, a longtime <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yadvashem.org\/sites\/default\/files\/yv_magazine19.pdf\"><span>member<\/span><\/a><span> on the museum\u2019s council, told Breitbart News on Sunday that the photograph was absolutely part of the museum\u2019s previous exhibition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI remember it; I saw it there,\u201d Cassuto said, as he expressed his bafflement as to why it was ever removed.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey have to bring it back and out it in a prominent point in the exhibition,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Cassuto, who met with Dayan over the issue last month, disregarded Dayan\u2019s denials.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[Dayan] has no idea because he was not there at the time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ephraim Kaye, who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yadvashem.org\/magazine-featured\/an-unbreakable-bond.html\"><span>served<\/span><\/a><span> as the director of international seminars for educators from abroad at the museum for over 25 years, also confirmed the prior display of the photograph and its subsequent removal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cEveryone remembers the picture of the Mufti and Hitler, it was towards the end of the museum \u2014 it was there,\u201d Kaye told Breitbart News. \u201cIt was up until 2005 when we closed the old museum and opened the new one.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kaye, who stressed that he trusted those who decided to remove it, believed Dayan\u2019s denials were \u201can honest mistake.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cDani Dayan just got to Yad Vashem 5 minutes ago,\u201d he said. \u201cHis knowledge of what existed and what was where \u2014 even people that surround him haven\u2019t been there for long either.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In addition, Professor Robert G. Kaufman, a political scientist specializing in American foreign policy, dedicated an entire <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/opinion\/op-ed-contributors\/the-missing-mufti-334012\"><span>essay<\/span><\/a><span> to lament the playing down of the once \u201cextensive exhibit\u201d on the Palestinian Mufti\u2019s role in the Holocaust, calling the missing \u201ciconic photo\u201d of his meeting with Hitler a \u201cglaring omission\u201d from the little that remains documenting the affair in the museum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, Klein argued that even if the picture had never been displayed, its significance would still warrant its display.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cEven if in fact it wasn\u2019t on the wall \u2014 which it was \u2014 it should be put up there,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople should see who supported Hitler publicly and openly to massacre and murder millions of Jews.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAny important leader that supported Hitler should be up there on that wall,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Though a photograph of the Mufti with Himmler is still on display, Klein noted that its place in the museum is obscure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Himmler picture is a tiny picture hidden in a corner,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can\u2019t even find it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The earlier op-ed also described the size and location of the Himmler photo as insignificant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn the new museum, instead of the Husseini \u2013 Hitler photo there is a far smaller one of Husseini and Himmler, in a dark corner that no one sees,\u201d it claims.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The Mufti\u2019s Significance<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Klein noted the Mufti\u2019s \u201csignificant\u201d role during the Holocaust, particularly his plans to construct a concentration camp while claiming that painting his \u201chistoric\u201d role in the Holocaust as \u201cmarginal\u201d is \u201cturning a blind eye to the truth of history.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Mufti helped train the SS Waffen [Nazi military] battalion to kill Jews, and he and Himmler were planning a concentration camp in Samaria [the West Bank],\u201d he said. \u201cIt didn\u2019t happen because Germany lost the war, but he was planning with him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s all history,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s not a secret.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Calling the Mufti \u201cone of the monsters in Jewish history,\u201d Klein reiterated that having \u201cone of the leading figures in the Arab world praising Hitler and urging him to kill Jews\u201d is \u201cnot a minimal, trivial part of Holocaust history.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOne of the leaders of the Arab world was working with and promoting Hitler,\u201d he said. \u201cHe was so close to Hitler and his plans to murder Jews that [SS officer Heinrich] Himmler made the Mufti an honorary SS general.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat\u2019s not trivial,\u201d he added. \u201cThat\u2019s part of history.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He also noted the Mufti\u2019s involvement in \u201ctraining Bosnian forces to kill Jews.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe was involved in that training,\u201d he said. \u201cI am horrified that he would refer to this as \u2018marginal.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Klein claimed that a leading figure \u201cmeeting with a monster and giving honor to Nazi troops that were going to murder Jews\u201d set \u201ca tone of support\u201d and provided \u201ccomfort\u201d to Nazis and Hitler, noting that \u201cany support that Hitler got from prominent figures only emboldened, encouraged and gave him strength.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf the Pope had met with Hitler, would that be of marginal significance?\u201d he asked. \u201cIt would have legitimized his monstrous program to the Christian world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Mufti meeting with him gave Hitler\u2019s plans credibility to the whole Muslim world, and knowing that a Muslim leader supported him gave him strength,\u201d he added. \u201cThat\u2019s not marginal.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Klein specifically blasted Dayan and other museum figures for \u201cwhitewash[ing]\u201d the Mufti\u2019s role during the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFor Dani Dayan and the leaders of the Holocaust museum to try and whitewash this important part of Holocaust history of the religious and other leadership of the Arabs supporting Hitler and urging him to murder Jews is inexplicable and intolerable,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cEven before there was an Israel, Palestinians were promoting murdering Jews and that has nothing to do with land or statehood because there was no Israeli state when [the Mufti] was meeting with Hitler,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He also highlighted the significance of displaying the picture as \u201calmost every world leader \u2014 one of the first things they do when they come to Israel for meetings is to go to Yad Vashem \u2014 the Holocaust museum.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHow important would it be for those leaders to understand that the Arabs have had murderous hostility toward Jews even before there was a state?\u201d he added. \u201cBecause this is before there was an Israel, [it shows] the Arab war against Israel is about a murderous hatred of Jews and the destruction of the Jewish state.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Accusations of Political Agendas&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>In response to Dayan\u2019s claim that the museum needs to remain apolitical, Klein expressed bewilderment over the assumption that the push to display the photo was political.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis has nothing to do with politics,\u201d Klein argued. \u201cThis has to do with Holocaust history.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cEvery part of Holocaust history should be in that museum,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Emphasizing its historical significance, Klein claimed the picture\u2019s significance should remain regardless of Israel\u2019s current standing with the Palestinians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf Israel and the Palestinian Authority had a peace deal and they were at peace now, that picture should still be there because that was part of history,\u201d he said. \u201cThat a leader of the Arab world was working with the Hitler, Himmler, and the Nazis to kill Jews is hardly unimportant to the history of the Holocaust.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is censoring an important part of history, showing the brutal hatred of the Arabs towards the Jews even during the Holocaust,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd for him to whitewash an important part of Holocaust history where the lead religious and other leaders of the Arab world were embracing Hitler and encouraging him is an abomination.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Klein also accused Dayan, who became the museum\u2019s chairman in August having served as the consul general in New York to Israel prior, of being \u201cvery interested in appeasing the left of center Jewish leaders \u2014&nbsp; since they are the source of the main power in the Jewish world in America \u2014 even as they were pressuring Israel to establish a Palestinian state and unilaterally give away land.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Speaking with the <\/span><i><span>Jewish Week<\/span><\/i><span> last month, Dayan <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/m.jpost.com\/israel-news\/yad-vashem-chair-wants-to-build-firewall-between-politics-holocaust-684538\/amp\"><span>stated<\/span><\/a><span> he would continue to lead the museum \u201capolitically\u201d by creating \u201ca virtual firewall\u201d between him and political issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuaklein_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoshuaKlein<\/a><\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a published letter by the head of \u201cYad Vashem\u201d \u2014 Israel\u2019s premiere Holocaust museum and research center\u00a0\u2014 defending its refusal to display an infamous photograph of leading Palestinian \u201cMufti\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1087339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1087339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1087339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}