The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict - Yardena Schwartz

About this episode

Yardena Schwartz discusses the 1929 massacre in Hebron and its implications for the Arab-Israeli conflict.

On August 24, 1929, 3000 Muslim men armed with swords, axes and daggers, marched through the ancient Jewish quarter of Hebron (the second holiest city in Judaism), and massacred every Jew they could find. In just a few hours, 67 unarmed Jewish men, women and children were dead. Families were burnt alive. Infants were slaughtered in their mother's arms. Children watched as their parents were butchered by their neighbors. Women and teenage girls were raped. Men were castrated. This horrific pogrom was incited by a disinformation campaign spearheaded by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini. Years later, he fled Palestine as a wanted man by the British and moved to Berlin where he lived from 1941 – 1945, met with Hitler and other SS officials, and became Head of the Arab Bureau of the Nazi's Ministry of Propaganda. For that, and his other activities, after the war, he was placed on the UN's List of Nazi War Criminals. He fled to Cairo then Beirut where he lived an open life. Haj Amin al-Husseini was never brought to trial. His cousin was Yasser Arafat whom he took on as his protégé. In her important book, Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited…

People in this episode

Host: Steven Shalowitz

Guest: Yardena Schwartz

Topics covered

• Arab-Israeli conflict
• historical events
• massacre
• disinformation
• Jewish history
• Middle East history

Keywords

• 1929 Massacre
• Hebron
• Arab-Israeli conflict
• Haj Amin al-Husseini
• Yasser Arafat
• disinformation
• Jewish quarter
• historical context

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Places: Palestine, Hebron

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