Even stranger, though, is this passage: “It is particularly significant that the structure in question formerly was the house of the infamous Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseni who spent the war years in Berlin as a close ally of Hitler.” This follows the lead of Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who has told Israeli diplomats that to deflect critics of the project, they should circulate a photo of Husseini meeting Hitler. That the mufti supported Hitler is undeniable. The logic connecting that fact to moving settlers into Sheikh Jarrah is unfathomable. Though the competition for cynical use of the Holocaust is stiff, this surely deserves dishonorable mention.
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