Islamism and the Left

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 quarterly 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 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

Judith Butler and the new anti-Jewish discourse

Speech at the rally against the award of the Adorno Prize to Judith Butler in front of St. Paul’s Church in Frankfurt/M. (Germany) on 11 September 2012

Frankfurt/Main, 11 September 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

Descending from Green Pastures into Hell

perlentaucher, April 2010

“Islamophobia” or “Truthophobia”?

Berlin’s anti-Semitism center is going astray.

Wall Street Journal, December 8, 2008

Defining Jew-Hatred Down

The curious response to Ahmadinejad at the U.N.

The Weekly Standard, November 17, 2008

Germany, Iran and the Party of the Left

A Commentary Commissioned by “Neues Deutschland”, which it Refused to Publish

WWW.TELOSPRESS.COM, June 15, 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

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

Why We Cannot Criticize Israel that Way

A response to Alfred Grosser

Internationale Politik – Global Edition, Summer issue 2/2007, Vol. 8

Is there still room for debate?

My experience with the University of Leeds

The Times Higher Education Supplement (London), March 23, 2007

Hitler’s Legacy: Islamic Antisemitism in the Middle East

Yale University, November 30, 2006

Suicide Bombing “for a Higher Ideal”?

Germany’s Central Office for Political Education on “Paradise Now”

Transatlantic Intelligencer, October 2005

National Socialism and Anti-Semitism in the Arab World

Jewish Political Studies Review, Spring 2005

The Roots of Delusion

Many believe that there is a correlation between Islamic antisemitism and Israel’s policies. Are they right?

February 2005

German Silence

Nazis, Jihad, and the Left

April 2003