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Israel's Moment Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2022
In 1944 and 1945, in response to revelations of the Holocaust, support in American politics and public opinion gained momentum. Among its aspects were calls to indict Palestinian Arab leader Haj Amin al-Husseini for war crimes as a result of his collaboration with the Nazi regime. They came from members of the US Congress, journalists at liberal papers such as PM and the New York Post, and from the American Zionist Emergency Council. Their efforts to convince the US State Department to indict or investigate Husseini were not successful, despite the existence of significant American—and British—files on his activities during World War II and the Holocaust.
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