This culminated in the Arab Revolt of 1936 to 1939, where thousands of Arabs refused to work, implemented a boycott of all Jewish products, and attacked Jewish communities and British soldiers. The British ultimately appeased the Arab street by severely limiting Jewish immigration during the Holocaust. Under the leadership of the supreme Arab religious and political leader in Jerusalem, Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini, a movement against Jewish national aspirations dominated Palestinian Arab politics, marginalizing and assassinating rivals who favoured more pragmatic approaches to coexistence. Husseini literally became a Nazi collaborator and war criminal. His influence did not end with the Second World War. He eventually became a mentor to the young Yasser Arafat — another pivotal leader in the Palestinian National movement entirely absent from the exhibit — who later described Husseini as “our hero,” said he took “immense pride” in being his student, and declared that the Palestine
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