The Historical Problem of Haj Amin al-Husseini, “Grand Mufti” of Jerusalem
The issue of the Mufti’s historical responsibility became a subject of controversy when Benjamin Netanyahu mistakenly argued that Husseini “was one of the leading architects of the Final Solution,”
Collaboration with the Third Reich: The Wider Historical Debate and the Role of Hajj Amin al-Husseini, Mufti of Jerusalem
How the problem of collaboration and awareness of the Holocaust have been purged from the collective memories of the countries of Europe.
The Postwar Career of Nazi Ideologue Johann von Leers, aka Omar Amin, the “First Ranking German” in Nasser’s Egypt
Abstract Johann von Leers, aka Omar Amin (1902-1965), was one of the foremost antisemitic propagandists of the Third Reich. He hated Jews and Judaism, as well as Christianity, which he regarded as a Jewish sect. As a young man, he had reached out to Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. In 1928, he […]
Alvin H. Rosenfeld (ed.), Deciphering the New Antisemitism
Alvin Rosenfeld’s formidable, encyclopedic, and terrifying collection of essays entitled Deciphering the New Antisemitism
Michel Houellebecq, Soumission (Submission)
Michel Houellebecq, Soumission (Submission), Paris: Éditions Flammarion, 2015, 300 pp. Designated as “the most important novel of 2015,” Soumission, by Michel Houellebecq , is a provocative French political cautionary tale. Houellebecq is a well-known, controversial French poet, film-maker and writer. His books include extremely graphic sex scenes and scathing attacks on French intellectual elites, thus […]
Manfred Gerstenfeld, The War of a Million Cuts
The War of a Million Cuts deals with the question of how antisemitism was able to attract a wide range of different types in the Western public sphere.
Günther Jikeli and Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun, eds., Perceptions of the Holocaust in Europe and Muslim Communites
The indiscriminate mass immigration of Muslims to Europe has brought extremely negative consequences for most of its Jewish communities.
Matthias Küntzel, Germany and Iran: From the Aryan Axis to the Nuclear Threshold
Küntzel’s book demonstrates that if Iran should acquire nuclear weapons and use them against the Jews of Israel, then Germany will have played a central role in paving the way for the Iranian perpetrators.
Edward Alexander, Jews Against Themselves
These remarkable essays by Edward Alexander bring intellectual precision, moral fearlessness and literary elegance to bear on a syndrome that could be called “Jewish suicidalism.”
Whitewashing Palestine to Eliminate Israel: The Case of the One-State Advocates
The one-state proponents systematically whitewash Palestinian political culture by denying or obscuring its antisemitic aspects.
The Aftershock of the Nazi War against the Jews, 1947–48:
Could War in the Middle East Have Been Prevented?
This article deals with the after-effects of Nazi anti-Zionist propaganda in the Arab world and the antisemitic campaign of the Mufti of Jerusalem.
Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Nazis and the Holocaust:
The Origins, Nature and Aftereffects of Collaboration
Husseini played a central role in shaping the anti-Semetic political tradition of Islamism.
