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Islamism

  • Die Al-Azhar-Moschee in Kairo mit ihren Minaretten und Kuppeln im Abendlicht

    October 7 and Islam

    What does it mean when Hamas calls its attacks on Israel a “religious war”? And what do the countless cries of “Allahu Akbar” during the October 7 massacre signify?

    University of Haifa, July 7, 2026

  • Ein bewaffneter Hamas-Terrorist zielt mit einem Sturmgewehr auf einen bemalten Schutzbunker beim Supernova-Festival, 7. Oktober 2023

    The religious dimension of October 7

    Statement on the occasion of a discussion on Islamist antisemitism organized by the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at King’s College London on November 3, 2025

    London, November 3, 2025

  • Ein vermummtes Kind in Tarnuniform mit Hamas-Stirnband inmitten einer Menschenmenge bei der Feier zum 25. Gründungstag der Hamas in Gaza, 2012

    Propaganda for the educated

    About the book “Hamas – The Quest for Power” by Hamas experts Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell

    Hamburg, October 30, 2025

  • Gedenkstätte auf dem Gelände des Nova-Festivals: Fotos der Opfer auf Stelen, israelische Fahnen und rote Blumen auf sandigem Boden

    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

  • Vorder- und Rückseite einer arabischen Ausgabe von Hitlers „Mein Kampf“ mit Hitler-Porträt, Hakenkreuzen und Reichsadler

    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

  • Historical photo, November 1943: the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, gives a Nazi salute while inspecting a line of Bosnian Muslim Waffen-SS volunteers

    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

  • Demonstrierende halten gelbe Schilder mit der Aufschrift „Jin, Jiyan, Azadi – Woman, Life, Freedom“, Melbourne 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

  • Die brennenden Türme des World Trade Centers in New York am 11. September 2001, aus denen dichter Rauch aufsteigt

    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

  • Zwei Porträts nebeneinander: links Hassan Rouhani, rechts Joe Biden

    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

  • 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

  • People gathered in front of a black wall bearing the names of victims and the words “Memoria y Justicia, 18 Julio 1994” at the AMIA memorial in Buenos Aires

    Tehran’s Efforts to Mobilize Antisemitism: The Global Impact

    Hamburg, 06.09.2017

  • Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at a lectern, raising his right hand with four fingers extended in the Rabia sign

    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

  • They want to turn Paris into a second Tehran

    After the 11/13 attack – what next?

    Berlin, November 21, 2015

  • Obama’s New Iran Policy: Is America Drifting toward Appeasement?

    The Israel Journal Of Foreign Affairs, Vol. VIII, No. 2 (2014), pp. 25–36.

  • Hypocrisy and hope: How the media fool themselves about Iran

    The Times of Israel, February 9, 2014

  • 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

  • Save Asia Bibi! The Human Rights Debate and Pakistan

    Berlin, January 19, 2011

  • Suicide Terrorism and Islam

    Suicidal killing was not seen in the first 1360 years of Islam but invented only some decades ago

    American Foreign Policy Interests, Vol. 30, no. 4, July-August 2008

  • “Islamophobia” or “Truthophobia”?

    Berlin’s anti-Semitism center is going astray.

    Wall Street Journal, December 8, 2008

  • Islamism, Antisemitism, and the political left

    A Democratiya Interview with Matthias Küntzel

    Democratiya no. 13, May 25, 2008

  • Interview with FrontPage Magazine

    About Jihad and Jew-Hatred, Islamism and Islam

    FrontPageMagazine.com, February 21, 2008

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