18 Facts About Jamal al-Husseini

Jamal al-Husseini was co-founder and chairman of the Palestine Arab Party, established in Jerusalem in 1935, and in 1937 became a member of the first Arab Higher Committee, led by Amin al-Husayni, later becoming its chairman.

Jamal al-Husseini led the Arab delegation to the 1939 London Conference and was Palestinian representative to the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry.

Jamal al-Husseini was released at the end of World War II and returned to Palestine in 1946.

Jamal al-Husseini went to the Church of England school, St Georges, where he was the first pupil to wear western style clothes and where he became an enthusiastic player of the new sport – football.

Jamal al-Husseini agreed to proposals for a round table conference with members of the Jewish Agency.

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Jamal al-Husseini returned to Palestine, in January 1931, feeling progress had been made.

The notes indicate that Jamal al-Husseini argued that the committee had no influence over tribal leaders east of the Jordan and that the meeting should be ignored.

In December 1935 Jamal al-Husseini attended a memorial ceremony for Izz ad-Din al-Qassam in Haifa, and made a speech to the crowd of 6,000 in which he predicted that al-Qassam would become a symbol of Palestinian resistance.

Jamal al-Husseini later replaced Hadi as secretary following Hadi's internment at Sarafand military base in June 1936.

Jamal al-Husseini had some contact with the pacifist president of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, Judah Magnes, and was possibly involved in proposals that Magnus presented to David Ben Gurion in 1935.

Zionist archives record an Arab source saying that Jamal al-Husseini was the only member of the committee who would not accept bribes.

In 1937, following the end of the general strike, Jamal al-Husseini attempted to open negotiations with American Zionists with the help of the Brith Shalom group.

Jamal al-Husseini's priority was to limit the number of Jews arriving in Palestine and to end land sales to Jewish organisations.

Jamal al-Husseini was not allowed back into Palestine until February 1946 where he represented the Arab case to the Anglo-American Commission.

Jamal al-Husseini's presentation was poorly received, in particular when compared to that given by Henry Cattan.

Jamal al-Husseini merged the two main youth movements and took over the Land Bank set up by Ahmed Hilmi.

Two months later it was recognised by the newly created United Nations and Jamal al-Husseini travelled to Lake Success, New York, as the spokesman for Palestinian Arabs to the UN.

Jamal al-Husseini returned to Palestine where he was Foreign Minister for the short lived Palestinian Arab Government.