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Musa Kazim al-Husseini
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Person · Mayor of Jerusalem; leader of the national movement in the 1920s
Musa Kazim al-Husseini
موسى كاظم الحسيني1853–1934
Born in Jerusalem in 1853, he served the Ottoman state as an administrator across the Levant and was mayor of Jerusalem until the British dismissed him in 1920. He chaired the third Palestinian congress, which declared the Balfour Declaration null and void, and headed the Palestinian delegations to London in 1921 and 1930. In 1933 he led mass demonstrations in Jerusalem and Jaffa against British policy and Jewish immigration, and was injured by British police in Jaffa; he died there on 26 March 1934.
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Musa Kazim Pasha al-Husseini
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PersonMusa Kazim al-Husseini was born in PlaceJerusalem
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