Germany and the Middle East

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

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

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

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

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

They want to turn Paris into a second Tehran

After the 11/13 attack – what next?

Berlin, November 21, 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

Joie de vivre and love of death – From the Arab Spring to the Gaza War

Statement to the rally “Hamburg for Israel. Stop Hamas terror!”

Hamburg, November 26, 2012

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

The Wannsee Legacy: Lessons for Genocide Prevention

Henry Jackson Society Event in the House of Commons, London, January 19, 2012

Blogger Maikel Nabil’s Hunger Strike

While Egypt’s transitional government allows hatred towards Israel to run rampant in order to distract from its own failures, Maikal Nabil is among the blogger rebels advocating for friendship with Israel

Deutschlandradio Kultur, September 20, 2011

Are 500,000 Keys to Paradise Enough?

Germany “Confronts” Ahmadinejad

Transatlantic Intelligencer, January 2006

Suicide Bombing “for a Higher Ideal”?

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

Transatlantic Intelligencer, October 2005

A Dubious Achievement: Joschka Fischer, the Road Map, and the Gaza Pullout

Transatlantic Intelligencer, Fall 2005

Brilliant Achievement

Joschka Fischer, Yasser Arafat and the Road Map Peace Plan

December 2003