Viscount Herbert Louis Samuel Who Chose Haj Amin al Husseini for the Sherif of Jerusalem

Nadene Goldfoot                                           

             Herbert Louis Samuel b: (6 November 1870–1963) in Toxteth, Metropolitan Borough of Liverpool, Merseyside, England , 1st Viscount Samuel of Mount Carmel and Toxteth, OM, Commoner (1889), High Commissioner for Palestine (1920–1925), Honorary Fellow (1935), Liberal Politician, Visitor (1946–1957).  He died on the 2 February 1963 in London.  He's buried at the Willesden United Synagogue Cemetery in London.  

Britain was given the 30 year mandate  to guard and patrol Palestine.  At the end of the period, they were to give the reins to the Jews for a Jewish Homeland.  First thing they did was give 80% of the land to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia who needed land as he was a king without land.  Then as it happened, they gave Arabs the right to enter the land but kept many Jews out.  Finally, they took the Jews 20% and made 50% of that into the West Bank-when it was Judea and Samaria-the original land of the Jewish empire.  

Samuel had chosen Haj Amin al-Husseini to be the Sherif of Jerusalem, the biggest mistake of his life.  Husseini went on to be the enemy of Emir Feisal who attended all the meetings after WWI with the Allies and was in on the discussion of awarding Palestine to the Jews for the Jewish Homeland.  He was for it, hoping his Arabs would learn skills from the Jews.  But Husseini but a stop to that.  He was the Jews' biggest enemy.  

Samuel was the official who first proposed the idea of a Jewish state to the British government, and the first high commissioner for British-ruled Palestine. And it was he who, just over a century ago, selected a 25-year-old Jerusalem effendi to be the most powerful Arab in Palestine, with consequences more profound than anyone at the time could conceive. That man was Amin al-Husseini.

                        Friendly with Nazis 

Mohammed Amin al-Husseini was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in Mandatory Palestine. Al-Husseini was the scion of the al-Husayni family of Jerusalemite Arab nobles, who trace their origins to the eponymous grandson of Muhammad.  Husayni is the name of a prominent Palestinian Arab clan formerly based in Jerusalem, which claims descent from Husayn ibn Ali. The Husaynis follow the Hanafi school of Sunni Islam, in contrast to the Shafi school followed by most of the Arab Muslim population of Palestine.  

I might mention that the king of Jordan is His Majesty King Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein who also claims descent from Mohammad, but supposedly they are not related to Amin al-Husseini.  He is a member of the Hashemite dynasty.   and is considered a 41st-generation direct descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. 

Giving the Heil Hitler to Hitler's troops is Amin al Husseini

Husseini received education in Islamic, Ottoman, and Catholic schools.

A viscount is the fourth rank in the British peerage system, standing directly below an earl and above a baron (Lord of Parliament in Scotland). There are approximately 270 viscountcies extant in the peerages of the British Isles, though most are secondary titles.

Herbert Louis Samuel was one of the Viscounts.  It was rarely given to  Jews, who were rare enough in the British population.  Herbert had become a British statesman and philosopher and was the first professing Jew to be a member of a British cabinet.  From 1909 he held office in the Liberal government that ran from 1905 to 1916.  

His father was Edwin Louis Samuel, a banker.   b: 1826 d; March 1877 and mother was Clara Yates.  His wife was Beatrice Mirium Franklin, his cousin.... Herbert Samuel was born in 1870 in Liverpool’s Toxteth neighborhood to a wealthy banking family. Raised in a traditional Jewish home — his great-grandfather had emigrated from Central Europe — his mother encouraged him to attend Oxford and dutifully sent him kosher meat by train. Yet by the end of his university days, the young Samuel had mostly given up religion. His calling, instead, was politics.

Edwin's father was Louis Samuel and mother Henrietta Israel.  

Herbert was the youngest son of Edwin and Clara Yates Samuel, and  he attended Balliol College at Oxford. In 1897 he married his cousin, Beatrice Franklin, with whom he had four children. He was elected to Parliament for the Cleveland division of Yorkshire in 1902 as a Liberal. He served as Parliamentary undersecretary to the Home Office from 1905 to 1909, and was responsible for legislation that established separate juvenile courts and the Borstal system of detention and training for youthful offenders.

 In 1909 he was appointed as the chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, making him one of the first Jewish members of the British cabinet. He was appointed postmaster general in 1910 serving until 1914, and then again in 1915 to 1916 during which time he he nationalized the telephone system. 

He served as the first British high commissioner for Palestine from 1920 to 1925. With his return to Britain, he acted as Deputy Liberal Leader in the House of Lords from 1931 to 1935.

 Created Viscount Samuel of Mount Carmel and Toxteth in 1937, he fell in line with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy towards German aggression. From 1944 to 1945 he led the Liberal Party in the House of Lords. He served as president of the British Institute of Philosophy from 1931 to 1959, writing works such as "Practical Ethics" in 1935, "Belief and Action" in 1937, "Essays in Physics" in 1951, and "In Search of Reality" in 1957.

Resource;

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Samuel-831

https://www.timesofisrael.com/uk-reveals-herbert-samuels-secret-1937-testimony-on-the-infamous-mufti-of-jerusalem/

ancestry.com 

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6133658/herbert-louis-samuel