From what I can see here.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jso … tihit.htmlThe mufti of Jerusalem simply didn't want Palestine taken over by the zionists.
The zionists had been agitating for Palestine to be given to them since 1919 at least, the Palestinians didn't want their country stolen from them, seems logical to ally themselves with the Germans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-HusayniMohammad Amin al-Husayni (Arabic: محمد أمين الحسيني, properly transliterated al-Husseini,[1] 1895/1897 - July 4, 1974), a member of the al-Husayni clan of Jerusalem, was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in the British Mandate of Palestine. From 1921 to 1948, he was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and played a key role in opposition to Zionism.
As early as 1920, he was active in both opposing the British in order to secure the independence of Palestine as an Arab State and opposing Jewish immigration and the establishment of their National home in Palestine. His oppositional role peaked during the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine. In 1937, wanted by the British, he fled Palestine and took refuge successively in Lebanon, Iraq, Italy and finally Nazi Germany where he met Adolf Hitler in 1941. He asked Germany to oppose, as part of the Arab struggle for independence, the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine. During the 1948 Palestine War he represented the Arab Higher Committee and opposed both to the 1947 UN Partition Plan and to King Abdullah's ambitions for expanding Jordan by capturing Palestinian territory.
After the 1948 Palestine War and Palestinian exodus, his claims to leadership were devastated and, quickly sidelined successively by the Arab Nationalist Movement and the Palestine Liberation Organization, he lost most of his remaining political influence.[2] Al-Husayni died in Beirut, Lebanon in 1974.
Historians debate to what extent his fierce opposition to Zionism was grounded in nationalism or antisemitism or a combination of both.
So its not thousands of years of anti-semitism, just a reaction to the actions of the jews themselves in attempting to steal what belongs to someone else.
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