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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

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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

Recent book:

Germany and Iran

Germany and Iran

  • Reviews

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