Who was the Mufti of Jerusalem and why was he opposed to Zionism ?
Mohammed Amin al-Husseini was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in Mandatory Palestine. The mufti didn’t want the establishment of a Jewish state on his homeland. He didn’t want Zionist colonialism to expand ,and was aware of the Zionist meetings that called for the ethnic cleansing of his people.
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