Date and time: Friday, June 26, 2020, 1 pm Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)
Link [1] to join just before the event at 1 pm.
You can also reply to Stacey McKenna at Stacey@meforum.org [2] or by phone at +1 215-546-5406 ext. 113.
From the time he became the mufti of Jerusalem in 1921, Amin al-Husseini (1897-1974) became the most toxic enemy of Jews. He initiated Palestinian rejectionism, had an important role in Hitler’s Final Solution, gave sanctuary to Nazis and loosed them against a nascent Israel, and urged the Muslim Brotherhood to fight Zionists. Even after his death his influence on Palestinians is still felt. Will his sway ever end?
Wolfgang G. Schwanitz [4], a writing fellow at Middle East Forum, is a German-American historian. He has written 10 books, edited 10 books, and published. He holds a Ph.D. from Leipzig University and was a visiting fellow at Princeton University.