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Articles

  • 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
Deutsche Texte Textes en Français About the author
Texts by Matthias Küntzel

On Israel and 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Tehran’s Efforts to Mobilize Antisemitism: The Global Impact

    Hamburg, 06.09.2017

  • 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

  • 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

  • They want to turn Paris into a second Tehran

    After the 11/13 attack - what next?

    Berlin, November 21, 2015

  • 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

  • America’s Shifting “Red Lines” on Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions: A Wedge Issue in US–Israeli Relations

    Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs VII : 1 (2013) pp 37-44.

  • 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

  • Judith Butler and the new anti-Jewish discourse

    Speech at the rally against the award of the Adorno Prize to Judith Butler in front of St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt/M. (Germany) on 11 September 2012

    Frankfurt/Main, 11 September 2012

  • "Against those who want to destroy me, I must be strong."

    What is the connection between Shoah-remembrance and Iran? An Interview with Holocaust survivor Fanny Englard

    Jungle Word (Berlin/Germany), April 5, 2012

  • 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

  • "If I were not a Jew, my hair would stand on end with fear"

    Remarks, delivered at the second Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Ottawa/Canada on November 8, 2010

    Ottawa, November 8, 2010

  • Islamism, Antisemitism, and the political left

    A Democratiya Interview with Matthias Küntzel

    Democratiya no. 13, May 25, 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

  • Why We Cannot Criticize Israel that Way

    A response to Alfred Grosser

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

  • Why Israel's Reaction is Right

    SPIEGEL Online, July 24, 2006

  • Suicide Bombing “for a Higher Ideal”?

    Germany’s Central Office for Political Education on “Paradise Now”

    Transatlantic Intelligencer, October 2005

  • A Dubious Achievement: Joschka Fischer, the Road Map, and the Gaza Pullout

    Transatlantic Intelligencer, Fall 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

  • Brilliant Achievement

    Joschka Fischer, Yasser Arafat and the Road Map Peace Plan

    December 2003

Recent book:

Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East

Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East

  • Reviews

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