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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

  • Germany and Iran
    • Reviews
  • Jihad and Jew Hatred
    • Reviews
    • Events
  • Bonn & the Bomb
    • Reviews
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Texts by Matthias Küntzel

English articles

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.

  • 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

  • The Iranian Uprising and the Nuclear Threat: How Should the West Respond

    This is the speech I gave on November 17, 2022 in Gainesville, University of Florida

    University of Florida, November 17, 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

  • Biden, Berlin, and the Iranian Bomb

    What will the new American administration and its European allies do to prevent Iran from getting the bomb?

    TELOSscope, February 8, 2021

  • Book review: The New Unease. Antisemitism in Today's Germany

    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

  • 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

  • The Nuclear Deal Crumbles

    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

  • Strategic Delusions: Why Germany Coddles Iran

    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

  • 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

  • After Trump's Iran Decision: Is the West Going to Split?

    In the Conflict Over the Nuclear Deal, Germany and the EU Take Iran's Side Against Washington

    TELOSscope, May 16, 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

  • Donald Trump

    Trump’s Iran ultimatum has startled the European Union

    The White House is blackmailing the Europeans to stop them from allowing themselves to be blackmailed by Iran

    Hamburg, January 31, 2018

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

    Hamburg, 06.09.2017

Recent book:

Germany and Iran

Germany and Iran

  • Reviews

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