Islamism and Nazism

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

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

October 7th and the Shoah

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 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

Broadcasting as a weapon: The Persian-language Nazi propaganda and its consequences

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

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

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

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

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

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

Q & A: Küntzel on roots and develoment of the Iranian regime’s antisemitism

By Karmel Melamed

The JEWISH JOURNAL’S HOMEPAGE, Los Angeles, August 26, 2015

Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

BY BARRY RUBIN & WOLFGANG G. SCHWANITZ, reviewed

Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, 04 Feb 2015.

The Continuing Nazi Influence on Arab Attitudes

Interview with political scientist, Dr. Matthias Küntzel: “Nazi influence upon the Middle East is nevertheless almost systematically overlooked by Middle East and Islam scholars.” By Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld and

Israel National News, November 10, 2013

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

“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

The Wannsee Legacy: Lessons for Genocide Prevention

Henry Jackson Society Event in the House of Commons, London, January 19, 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

Iranian Antisemitism: Stepchild of German National Socialism

The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs IV:1, January 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

Interview with FrontPage Magazine

About Jihad and Jew-Hatred, Islamism and Islam

FrontPageMagazine.com, February 21, 2008

Jew-Hatred and Jihad

The Nazi roots of the 9/11 attack

The Weekly Standard, September 17, 2007

Hitler’s Legacy: Islamic antisemitism and the impact of the Muslim Brotherhood

Leeds University, October 10, 2007

Hitler’s Legacy: Islamic Antisemitism in the Middle East

Yale University, November 30, 2006

National Socialism and Anti-Semitism in the Arab World

Jewish Political Studies Review, Spring 2005

European Roots of Antisemitism in Current Islamic Thinking

Brown University (USA), November 2004

Islamic Antisemitism And Its Nazi Roots

April 2003