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  • Islamism
    • and Antisemitism
    • and Nazism
    • and the Left
  • Antisemitism
    • in Europe
    • in the Middle East
    • in Iran
  • U.S. Foreign policy
  • United Kingdom
  • Israel / Middle East
  • Middle East History
  • Iran
  • Germany
    • and Europe
    • and the U.S.A.
    • and the Middle East
    • and Iran
    • and Islamism

Books

  • Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East
    • Reviews
  • Germany and Iran
    • Reviews
  • Jihad and Jew Hatred
    • Reviews
    • Events
  • Bonn & the Bomb
    • Reviews
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Texts by Matthias Küntzel

On Antisemitism in the Middle East

  • Hunting Jews: The radicalization of antisemitism since October 7

    Lecture from March 31, 2025 on the occasion of the Contemporary Antisemitism Conference in London

    London, March 31 2025

  • October 7th and the Shoah

    Are there lines of continuity linking the anti-Jewish terror of the Nazis with that of Hamas?

    Indiana University, Institute For The Study Of Contemporary Antisemitism: Research Paper 2024-5, November 2024

  • The Denial of Continuity: October 7 and the Shoah

    The months following the massacre have revealed the failure of previous Western Holocaust education, which has never wanted to know anything about the after-effects of Nazi ideology in the Muslim world.

    Hamburg, August 7, 2024

  • Broadcasting as a weapon: The Persian-language Nazi propaganda and its consequences

    I delivered this speech on June 4, 2023 on the occasion of the Klangteppich V - Festival for Music of the Iranian Diaspora in Berlin

    Hamburg, 04.07.2023

  • The 1948 Arab war against Israel: An aftershock of World War II?

    An introduction to some discoveries and arguments of my new book: “Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East: The 1948 Arab War against Israel and the Aftershocks of World War II”.

    FATHOM, JUNE 2023

  • The Lasting Impact of Nazi Germany's antisemitic propaganda in the Middle East 1945-1948

    Contribution to the conference “Lessons and Legacies XVI – The Holocaust: Rethinking Paradigms in Research and Representation” on November 12–15, 2022 in Ottawa

    Ottawa, November 13, 2022

  • 9/11 and the Globalization of Antisemitism

    Keynote speech on the occasion of the opening conference of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA) on September 13, 2022 in London

    London, September 13, 2022

  • Villa Wannsee

    80 Years Later the Echo of the Wannsee Conference Still Exists

    My contribution to a Webinar on the subject "80 Years Since Wannsee: An Alarm for Other Genocides?"

    Paris, London, Berlin, Hamburg, January 20, 2022

  • Contemporary Antisemitism Among Muslims

    Presentation on the occasion of "The 14th Tel Aviv University Seminar on Contemporary Antisemitism" in Ein-Gedi (Israel), November 25-27, 2019

    Hamburg, 5. Januar 2020

  • Tehran's War against Israel in a changing Middle East

    The decades-old taboo against Israelis meeting with Arab leaders had been broken. More and more Arab countries are willing to accept Israel as an ally in the defense against Iran

    Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A., March 26, 2019

  • Islamic Antisemitism: How It Originated and Spread

    About the meaning of the booklet “Islam and Jewry” and the Bludan Congress of September 1937

    Hamburg, July 3, 2018

  • The Battle of Khaybar

    How to challenge Islamic Antisemitism?

    Islamic antisemitism is a major foreign policy issue: Only governments can stop the flow of hate messages by denouncing and punishing state- and non-state actors.[1]

    Hamburg, March 2, 2018

  • Nasser’s Antisemitic War Against Israel

    It was not Israel or Zionism that provoked the 1967 war but the latent anti-Zionism and antisemitism in the Arab world and the fact that Nasser was gripped by the same destructive sentiments that he whipped up in the masses.

    FATHOM, BICOM's quaterly online journal, March 15, 2017

  • Global Jihad, Islamic Radicalism, and the Challenge to Europe

    Keynote speech, delivered at the seminar “Global Jihad, Islamic Radicalism, the the Challenge to Europe”, organized by the Stockholm Free World Forum (Frivärld) and the Institute for Security & Development Policy on May 25, 2016, at Timbro, Stockholm

    Hamburg, 18. März 2017

  • The Aftershock of the Nazi War against the Jews, 1947/1948

    Could This War Against Israel Have Been Prevented?

    JEWISH POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW, (2016), Vol. 26, No. 3-4

  • Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

    BY BARRY RUBIN & WOLFGANG G. SCHWANITZ, reviewed

    Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, 04 Feb 2015.

  • The Continuing Nazi Influence on Arab Attitudes

    Interview with political scientist, Dr. Matthias Küntzel: "Nazi influence upon the Middle East is nevertheless almost systematically overlooked by Middle East and Islam scholars." By Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld and

    Israel National News, November 10, 2013

  • The Roots of Antisemitism in the Middle East: New Debates

    While scholars agree that in no other part of the world is antisemitism as widespread as in the Middle East, the unanimity vanishes when it comes to explaining the causes of this antisemitism

    Indiana University Press, summer 2013

  • Joie de vivre and love of death - From the Arab Spring to the Gaza War

    Statement to the rally "Hamburg for Israel. Stop Hamas terror!

    Hamburg, November 26, 2012

  • The Wannsee Legacy: Lessons for Genocide Prevention

    Henry Jackson Society Event in the House of Commons, London, January 19, 2012

  • Blogger Maikel Nabil's Hunger Strike

    While Egypt's transitional government allows hatred towards Israel to run rampant in order to distract from its own failures, Maikal Nabil is among the blogger rebels advocating for friendship with Israel

    Deutschlandradio Kultur, September 20, 2011

  • In the Straightjacket of Anti-Zionism

    A critical review of Gilbert Achcar's "The Arabs and the Holocaust". By Colin Meade and

    Engage Homepage (UK), September 24, 2011

  • Matthias Küntzel was presented with the ADL Human Rights Award

    The Anti-Defamation League's statement and the acceptance speech

    Palm Beach, FL, February 11, 2011

  • New Coalition Raises The Alarm Against Globalized Antisemitism

    Last week the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism was founded in London

    Hamburg, February 22, 2009

  • Anti-Semitic Hate Speech in the Name of Islam

    Antisemitic messages from satellite channels like the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa are helping to bring a message of hate and intolerance to Europe. The effects of such hate preaching can already be felt in Germany.

    Spiegel-SPECIAL, 2/2008, April 2008

  • Islamist terrorism and antisemitism: The mission against modernity

    This paper was presented in March 2008 at Stanford University, at the University of California in Santa Cruz, in Los Angeles, in Irvine, at the University of Buffalo, at the Cooper Union in New York and at different conferences in D.C. and New York.

    U.S.A., March 2008

  • Nazi-Germany and the Antisemitism in the Muslim World

    Presentation at The Global Forum For Combating Antisemitism at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem

    Jerusalem, February 24, 2008

  • Interview with FrontPage Magazine

    About Jihad and Jew-Hatred, Islamism and Islam

    FrontPageMagazine.com, February 21, 2008

  • Judeophobia and the Denial of the Holocaust in Iran

    Posen Paper in Contemporary Antisemitism No. 8 of The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA)

    Hebrew University of Jeruslam, 2007

  • Why We Cannot Criticize Israel that Way

    A response to Alfred Grosser

    Internationale Politik - Global Edition, Summer issue 2/2007, Vol. 8

  • National Socialism and Anti-Semitism in the Arab World

    Jewish Political Studies Review, Spring 2005

  • Antisemitism in the Middle East: Abbas and Hamas

    How can a group determined to destroy Israel be a partner in the peace process?

    SPME, February 2005

  • The Roots of Delusion

    Many believe that there is a correlation between Islamic antisemitism and Israel’s policies. Are they right?

    February 2005

  • Islamic Antisemitism And Its Nazi Roots

    April 2003

Recent book:

Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East

Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East

  • Reviews

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