Middle East History

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leeds University, October 10, 2007

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

European Roots of Antisemitism in Current Islamic Thinking

Brown University (USA), November 2004

Islamic Antisemitism And Its Nazi Roots

April 2003