Recent book:
Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East
Here you will find both my old and my more recent essays on antisemitism, Islamism and the Middle East conflict, as well as papers about Germany’s foreign policy and relationship with its Nazi past. Feel free to distribute these essays online
Please send questions and criticism to mail@matthiaskuentzel.de.
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 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
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
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
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
This is the speech I gave on November 17, 2022 in Gainesville, University of Florida
University of Florida, November 17, 2022
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
My contribution to a Webinar on the subject "80 Years Since Wannsee: An Alarm for Other Genocides?"
Paris, London, Berlin, Hamburg, January 20, 2022
What will the new American administration and its European allies do to prevent Iran from getting the bomb?
TELOSscope, February 8, 2021
Das neue Unbehagen. Antisemitismus in Deutschland heute, edited by Olaf Glöckner and Günther Jikeli. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2019. 264 pages. €19.80 (paper).
Hamburg, January 29, 2020
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
The European-German policy toward Iran has definitively failed with Tehran's gradual exit out or the nuclear agreement. But this is still not recognized in Berlin
TELOSscope (www.telospress.com), May 24, 2019
Berlin's split with Washington on Iran long predates Trump - and it speaks to a dangerous naivety in German strategic thinking.
The American Interest, May 15, 2019
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
About the meaning of the booklet “Islam and Jewry” and the Bludan Congress of September 1937
Hamburg, July 3, 2018
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