Antisemitism in Iran

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

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 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

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

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 Efforts to Mobilize Antisemitism: The Global Impact

Hamburg, 06.09.2017

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

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

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

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

The Roots of Iranian Antisemitism and its Current Consequences

Lecture, delivered on behalf of ISGAP at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambrigde, MA.

Harvard University, March 11, 2014.

Obama, the Senate and the psychology of appeasement

Counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger. A view from Europe

Hamburg, January 19, 2014

Surrender in Geneva

The five permanent members of the Security Council and Germany nullify the United Nations sanctions regarding Iran

Telospress, November 25, 2013

“Moderate” Holocaust Denial in Iran?

A statement on Holocaust Denial in Iran, presented on September 20th, 2013 at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH), September 20, 2013

Iranian Holocaust Denial and the Internet

Why Facebook’s permission to deny the Holocaust is wrong

The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, Vol. VI, 2012/5772, No.1

Iranian Antisemitism: Stepchild of German National Socialism

The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs IV:1, January 2010

New Coalition Raises The Alarm Against Globalized Antisemitism

Last week the Inter-parliamentary Coalition for Combating Antisemitism was founded in London

Hamburg, February 22, 2009

Defining Jew-Hatred Down

The curious response to Ahmadinejad at the U.N.

The Weekly Standard, November 17, 2008

Iranian Holocaust Denial

This paper was presented at Bangor/Maine under the auspices of the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Congregation Beth Abraham and at the Michael Klahr Holocaust Center of the University of Maine at Augusta on March 16 and 17, 2008.

Bangor/Maine and Augusta/Maine, March 16 and 17, 2008

Judeophobia and the Denial of the Holocaust in Iran

Posen Paper in Contemporary Antisemitism No. 8 of The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA)

Hebrew University of Jeruslam, 2007

Iran’s Obsession With The Jews

The Weekly Standard, February 14, 2007

The Booksellers of Tehran

Every book fair exhibits bestsellers. But anti-Semitic bestsellers? And in Germany, of all places?

The Wall Street Journal Online, October 28, 2005

The “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Transatlantic Intelligencer, October 2005