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Musa Kazim al-Husayni (1853-1934). One of the most prominent Palestinian figures in the first half of the twentieth century, he was the head of the Arab Executive Committee at the Third Palestinian Arab Congress in 1920. He died in Jaffa on March 26, 1934 and was buried at Bab al-Hadid, west of the Temple Mount.
His career
He studied in Istanbul , Turkey, and joined the Ottoman administration, which appointed him governor of Safad and Ajloun .
He was appointed as a responsible governor in Anatolia , eastern Jordan, Najd and Asir .
In 1918, he assumed the presidency of the Jerusalem Municipality .
He led demonstrations in 1920 denouncing Britain's separation of Palestine from Syria and the fight against Jewish immigration. As a result, the British governor dismissed him from his position and appointed Raghib al-Nashashibi in his place.
The Third Palestinian Arab Congress elected him as Chairman of the Arab Executive Committee in 1920 , a position he held until his death.
His family
His father was Salim al-Husseini , and his brother was Hussein al-Husseini , who in turn served as mayor of Jerusalem , and Musa Kazim al-Husseini was the father of Abdul Qadir al-Husseini . His wife chaired the Palestinian Arab Women's Conference in 1929 .
In politics
While Musa Kazim was mayor of Jerusalem, he took it upon himself to lead the Palestinian movement to thwart the British plans to establish a national homeland for the Jews in Palestine. He was clear and explicit that he was not inclined toward violence and armed resistance, but rather wanted to exploit his good relations with the Mandate government to dissuade it from its pro-Jewish tendencies. He wanted to convey the idea that it was not permissible to settle a people at the expense of a people already present on the land, and he categorically refused to use the Hebrew language in the official documents of the Jerusalem municipality . He remained mayor until 1920, when the British Mandate authorities dismissed him on the pretext of his incitement to the Nabi Musa uprising in April of the same year, and because they were not satisfied with his nationalist and patriotic tendencies.
The end of his life
As the conflict reached its peak in the early 1930s and the Palestinians prepared to launch their great revolution , Abdel Qader urged his elderly father to become more involved in protests and demonstrations. In October 1933, when a large demonstration broke out in Jaffa, the Sheikh was in the city. He was suffering from old-age ailments and wanted to excuse himself from going out. His son Abdel Qader went to him and urged him to go out. The Sheikh participated in this demonstration, which was violently and brutally confronted by the Mandate soldiers, who attacked the Sheikh with their clubs and rifle butts until they knocked him to the ground. He returned home wounded and suffering from severe injuries. He only survived for four months, after which he was martyred in March 1934. His will to Abdel Qader on his deathbed was: “My son, Palestine is a trust in your neck.” Upon hearing the news of his death, grief spread throughout the country, and all of Palestine went out to bid him farewell. He was buried next to Al-Aqsa Mosque , and the expatriate poet, Elia Abu Madi, mourned him from America in a poem, in which he said in some of its verses: “The misfortunes of the great are great.”
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