Historians critical of Congresswoman Tlaib's statement about Palestinians and the Holocaust

Washington Examiner:

Israeli scholars have blasted Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan congresswoman and Democrat, for her comments that her Palestinian ancestors provided a “safe haven” for Jews during the Holocaust.

"Rashida Tlaib is either completely ignorant of the history or is a deliberate liar," professor Benny Morris, a leading scholar of British Mandatory Palestine and the formation of the country of Israel, told Haaretz.

He added that Palestinians "did nothing to alleviate the suffering of the Jews at Nazi hands. Rather the opposite: The Arabs of [British Mandatory] Palestine, during the whole period — and supported by the neighboring Arab states — did all they could to prevent Jews trying to escape Nazi hands from reaching the (relatively safe) shores of Palestine."

Morris noted that the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini "called for the massacre of Jews in the Arab world on Nazi radio stations — an anti-Jewish 'jihad' — and helped the Nazis recruit Muslims from the Balkans for the SS and Wehrmacht."

The transcripts of the meeting between Husseini and Adolf Hitler on Nov. 28, 1941 show that Husseini told Hitler: "The Arabs were Germany’s natural friends because they had the same enemies as had Germany, namely the English, the Jews and the Communists. Therefore they were prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to participate in the war, not only negatively by the commission of acts of sabotage and the instigation of revolutions, but also positively by the formation of an Arab Legion."

Husseini also told Hitler that he was "admired by the entire Arab world" for his help with the "Palestinian cause."

Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, claimed in an interview published Saturday that her ancestors provided a “safe haven” for Jews during the Holocaust.
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Why the Democrat leadership is defending her ignorant statements about the Holocaust and the Palestinian role appears to be defensive politics that will, in the end, hurt the party as a whole.  What is clear is that most of the Palestinian leadership during that period was rooting for Hitler and his mass murder of European Jews.

Even Palestinian scholars also challenged Tlaib's story about the Holocaust.