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October 21, 2015

Netanyahu Criticized for Claim Palestinian Mufti Inspired Holocaust 
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing criticism for saying
the Palestinian grand mufti of Jerusalem was the one who inspired Adolf
Hitler to exterminate European Jews. Netanyahu described a supposed
meeting between the mufti and Hitler in November 1941, when Hitler
"didn't want to exterminate the Jews ... he wanted to expel the Jew,"
but the mufti encouraged Hitler to "burn them" instead. The claim that
the mufti inspired the Nazi genocide of European Jews is a fringe theory
rejected by most historians. The Nazis' "Final Solution" was already
underway when the meeting took place.

 

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