Yardena Schwartz

Yardena Schwartz is an award-winning journalist who was based in Israel for a decade until 2023. Her latest book is Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine That Ignited the Arab-Israeli Conflict

How the first Palestinian leader became a Nazi war criminal

If the founding leader of the Palestinian national movement had been wanted for Nazi war crimes, you might assume this would figure in every modern debate about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Yet one of the darkest, most inconvenient facts of twentieth-century history has remained strangely peripheral: the intimate alliance between the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj