These allegations aroused their hatred, so they obtained a testimony and persuaded “Kromi,” who had been Eichmann’s assistant, to sign it before a notary in Switzerland. It stated, according to them, that he had seen me meeting Eichmann in Berlin and that we were devising a plan to exterminate the Jews in the countries occupied by the German armies in Europe, where there were six million Jews. They promised Kromi that they would save him from the death sentence if he signed this false testimony. But they, who are notorious for lying, falsification, distortion, and cruelty (the testimony of the Holy Qur’an concerning them is the greatest testimony), did not keep their promise to the man. The Nuremberg court sentenced him to death. The Jews’ aim in this accusation was to demand that I be brought to trial before the Nuremberg War Criminals Court as a war criminal.
On this occasion I mention that when the Jews abducted Eichmann from Argentina, where he had lived in hiding after the Second World War, and drugged him and carried him to occupied Palestine, they tried him on the false testimony they had induced his assistant to give and tried to isolate him and make him support that fabrication. But Eichmann was a brave and honorable man. He denied meeting me and affirmed that he had no personal connection or acquaintance with me.
The truth is that when I sent those memoranda to the officials of the German Reich and the states mentioned, I did not seek to exterminate the Jews. I was striving to prevent the flood of hostile Jewish immigration intended to inundate Palestine and expel its inhabitants, as later happened with the assistance of Britain and the United States of America.
Jewish migration to Palestine was the greatest danger threatening it because it was the basis for building the aggressive Jewish state. Therefore, the Palestinian National Charter, drafted by the Palestinians in 1919 and approved by the seven Arab Palestinian conferences held during the period of the hateful and unjust British occupation and mandate of Palestine, amid the Palestinian national movement and its remarkable struggle over thirty years, placed prevention of Jewish migration among the foremost national demands. It was incorporated into the National Charter and was the basis and first and most important of those demands. No Arab or anyone else, especially Palestinians, may show any leniency regarding Jewish migration.
On this occasion I recall that the Palestinian delegation that traveled to London and arrived there on 29 March 1930, following the revolt that began on 9 August 1929 after the Jews attempted to attack the Western Wall of the blessed al-Aqsa Mosque, claiming it was the “Wailing Wall,” and after several hundred were killed and many times that number wounded, was headed by the late Musa Kazim Pasha al-Husayni, and I was one of its members. During the many sessions of negotiations, British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and Colonial Secretary Lord Passfield tried to persuade us to accept the British government’s policy in Palestine, including Jewish migration, even in small numbers, in return for meeting our demand to form a national government for Palestine. We rejected this firmly and did not accept the principle of migration, however small. We also rejected every proposal or solution that would affect the future of our cause and our country’s independence, and condemned the British Mandate and its unjust provisions, contrary to every right and justice.
MacDonald said that Britain was not responsible for the Mandate and that the League of Nations had drafted it. When the negotiations failed and we left London in early July 1930, I traveled to Geneva and met the League of Nations secretary-general, Sir Eric Drummond, accompanied by the late Emir Shakib Arslan and Ihsan Bey al-Jabri, members of the Syrian delegation resident in Geneva. We said to the secretary-general: how can you create, in this age, a mandate for Palestine containing an unparalleled injustice in history? He replied that the League of Nations had not created the Mandate, but Britain had. When I told him that MacDonald, the prime minister of his country, had said the League of Nations had created it, he categorically denied that statement.
The truth is that the British government drafted the Mandate in agreement with the Zionist Organization and Jewish leaders. Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann confirmed this in his memoirs, saying: “The American Jew Benjamin Cohen, together with Lord Curzon’s secretary, then British foreign secretary, was responsible for drafting the Mandate and agreeing on its provisions.”
After we returned to the country, the British government sent the Simpson Commission to study Palestine’s general conditions, especially its capacity to absorb immigrants. After several months of study, the commission reported that Palestine was crowded with its current inhabitants and that the number it could then absorb was already beyond its capacity. The number of Jews at that time was about 170,000, and the land barely sufficed for its inhabitants. On the basis of the Simpson Commission’s report and the Shaw Commission’s earlier investigation into the causes of the 1929 revolt, it issued