The next major step in deconstructing the makeup of the postmodern total war against Israel is to identify the main originators of current anti-Israelism and other types of anti-Semitism. The demonizers of Israel and the Jewish people come from many different backgrounds and fall roughly into a number of categories.

Much more information is available on hate-mongering among some originator groups than on others. For example, while much is known about anti-Semitic hate acts and incitement among European Muslims, very little has been written about the hate-mongering in Western schools. To properly analyze certain perpetrator categories requires books rather than essays. Thus hereinafter we will only offer examples of the demonization of Israel and the Jews by some major perpetrator categories.

The largest-scale, most frequent, and usually most virulent hate-mongering against Israel and the Jews comes from parts of the Arab and Muslim world. Extreme anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic incitement as well as other forms of dis- crimination are widespread in Arab and most other Muslim countries.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.”1 However, many outside the democratic world disagree in practice or even also in theory with part of this statement. In 1990, the Organization of the Islamic Conference adopted the

Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam.2 Among its many human rights flaws is that it discriminates against religious minorities.3

For its Global Terrorism Index, the Institute for Economics and Peace conducted a survey of terror and found that Muslim terror far exceeded that by other religious groups. “In 2013, 66 percent of all fatalities from claimed ter- rorist attacks were caused by four terrorist groups: the Taliban, Boko Haram, ISIL and Al-Qaeda. The primary targets of terrorist attacks are citizens and private property.”4

Anti-Semitic hatred issuing from the Muslim world comes from far wider circles than the over one hundred million supporters of the criminal Al-Qaeda and other jihadi ideologies, which seek to achieve Islamic rule over the world via jihad.5

Jihadis have killed many people in various countries, and they continue to do so in pursuit of their aim. A 2009 Pew study found that more than 20 per- cent of Muslims in Indonesia, Jordan, and Egypt had confidence that Osama Bin Laden was doing “the right thing in world affairs.” Among Nigerian Mus- lims the total came to over 50 percent.6

Although support for Al-Qaeda has plummeted across the Muslim world since the death of Bin Laden in May 2011, it remains high in several places in- cluding the Palestinian territories. In a September 2013 Pew Research Global Attitudes Project poll on Muslim extremist opinions, 35 percent of Palestinians viewed Al-Qaeda favorably. These were the highest levels of favorability, by over 12 percent, compared to any other Muslim society polled. Even in Paki- stan, which has heavy Al-Qaeda and Taliban influence, support was only at 13 percent, down from 21 percent the year before.7

The July 2014 Pew survey on concerns about rising extremism in the Middle East found that 28 percent of Palestinians believed that “suicide bombing can often be justified against civilian targets in order to defend Islam from its enemies.” This figure was higher than that for any other country polled. It was twice as high as that for Bangladesh, where 14 percent agreed with this statement. The only other countries with double digits were Egypt and the Shiite population in Lebanon.

The Palestinian territories scored second in terms of aggregate total of those who often and sometimes justified suicide bombings against civilian targets so as to defend Islam from its enemies, with 46 percent of Palestinians polled displaying this attitude. They followed Bangladesh, which had 47 percent of respondents taking this stance. Third in line were Shiite Lebanese and fourth in line were Tanzanians.

As far as views about extreme organizations are concerned, the Palestinian territories also scored very high. Thirty-two percent of Palestinians viewed Hizbullah favorably, surpassed only by 86 percent of Lebanese Shiites. Next in line were 28 percent of Bangladeshis and 26 percent of Tunisians and Malaysians. Additionally, Palestinians had the highest rate of approval of Al-Qaeda at 25 percent, followed by Bangladesh at 23 percent and Malaysia and Nigeria at 18 percent.

Hamas, however, is viewed far more favorably by various Muslim populations than Al-Qaeda. In 2014 Pew found that 39 percent of Jordanians, 38 percent of Egyptians, and 37 percent of Tunisians polled had a favorable opinion of Hamas. They were followed by 32 percent of Lebanese including 55 percent of Shiites polled, 29 percent of Bangladeshis, and 28 percent of Malaysians.8

The Palestinian attitude toward Hamas shifts rapidly and has to be viewed separately. According to a poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in September 2014, 55 percent of Palestinians polled said that if Palestinian elections were held that day they would vote for Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader in Gaza. Thirty-eight percent said they would vote for the current president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. The month before, at the height of Protective Edge, 61 percent polled said they would vote for Haniyeh, while 32 percent favored Abbas.9

The results of a 2011 study by the Pew Research Center, “Common Concerns about Islamic Extremism: Muslim-Western Tensions Persist,” reveal the magnitude of animosity toward Jews and Christians in large parts of the Muslim world. The questions asked concerned stereotypes. One was: “Who is most to blame for bad relations [between Muslims and Westerners]?” Participants could select from the options “Muslims, Western people, both, neither, Jews, or Don’t know, to describe who was to blame for bad Muslim-Western relations.” In some Muslim nations, Jews came in a close second to “Western people.” The highest figures for Jews were found in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, with 25 percent, 29 percent, and 35 percent responding respectively that Jews were most to blame.10

That same survey also asked participants if they had favorable views of Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Respondents in Muslim-majority countries had the least favorable opinions of Jews. Nine percent of Indonesians viewed Jews favorably, the highest number in the Muslim world. Favorability ratings for Jews were 4 percent in Turkey, 2 percent in Egypt, Jordan, and Pakistan, 3 percent in Lebanon, and 4 percent in the Palestinian territories. In sum, 96-98 percent of the Muslims interviewed in Middle Eastern countries viewed Jews unfavorably.11

The Muslim World

Many in the Muslim world do not differentiate in their hostility between Israel and Jews. In the Muslim world, anti-Semitism is manifested partly through state anti-Semitism.

A U.S. State Department travel advisory for U.S. citizens warns that they may not be able to enter Saudi Arabia if their passports indicate that they were born in Israel or have previously traveled to it.12 According to ADL National Director Abraham Foxman, “Saudi Arabia also bars anyone from bringing into Saudi Arabia religious ritual objects, including religious texts, from any faith other than Islam, effectively banning religiously observant Jews from entering the country.”13 Jordan and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are also marked by state- sanctioned anti-Semitism. Under Jordan’s Law for Preventing the Sale of Real Estate to the Enemy, also adopted by the PA in 1997, a Palestinian or Jordanian can face a death sentence for selling land to a Jew or Israeli. Although nobody has been officially executed for violating this law, extrajudicial killings have occurred in the West Bank for suspected land sales to Jews.14

Iran still has a signifi ant Jewish community of about ten thousand.15 Although Jews face no legalized state persecution they are confronted with many problems because of their religion, especially in light of Iran’s tensions with Israel. Jewish women are required to comply with Iran’s Muslim modesty laws, and in public have to wear a chador and other traditional Muslim garb. Furthermore, one rabbi insists that the faces of Iranian Jews be blurred in photographs out of safety concerns.16

Religious anti-Semitism, media incitement against Israel and the Jews, and many other sources of hate-mongering are widespread in the Muslim world. When analyzing this sphere, one should focus separately on three different parts of it: the Muslim world at large, the Palestinian territories, and Muslims in the Western countries.

The Mahathir Affair

Just how deeply the racist attitude toward Jews has permeated the predominantly nondemocratic Muslim countries was illustrated by what may be called the “Mahathir Aff ir” at the 2003 Organization of the Islamic Conference summit in Kuala Lumpur. Then Malaysian Prime Minister Mohamad Maha- thir, the conference’s host, portrayed relations between Muslims and Jews as a worldwide direct confrontation, offering some new examples of a “Jewish conspiracy.”17

As he said:

1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews. There must be a way. And we can only find a way if we stop to think, to assess our weaknesses and our strength, to plan, to strategize and then to counter-attack. We are actually very strong. 1.3 billion people cannot be simply wiped out. The Europeans killed six million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them.

Mahathir added:

We are up against a people who think. They survived 2,000 years of pogroms not by hitting back, but by thinking. They invented and successfully promoted Socialism, Communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so they may enjoy equal rights with others. With these they have now gained control of the most powerful countries and they, this tiny community, have become a world power. We cannot fight them through brawn alone. We must use our brains also.18

It was yet one more illustration of the classic anti-Semitic motif of the Jewish lust for world domination.

Mahathir was applauded by the attendants of the conference including top leaders of all Muslim nations. An editorial in the French daily Le Monde noted that “such words are common currency in the Arab Islamic world where they pass for evident truth . . . and this direct form of racism, purely and simply is practiced as a normal category of the ‘political debate.’”19

When subsequently criticized by Western leaders, Mahathir did not apologize and many Muslim leaders supported him. Few if any dissociated them- selves from his words. There was so much international public discussion of this incident that any of the attendants who had wanted to distance themselves from Mahathir’s assertions had ample occasion to do so. The Mahathir Affair showed the permeation of racism and anti-Semitism into the Arab and large parts of the Muslim world at its highest levels.

Two major elements of Muslim anti-Semitism were revealed at that conference and in the remarks that followed. One is support for this racist outlook by many senior Muslim statesmen. The second is that the attack focused on the Jews and not on Israel.

Other Muslim Statesmen

There are many examples of Muslim and Arab political leaders propagating anti-Semitism, racism, and hatred. Mustafa Tlass, Syrian defense minister from 1972 to 2004, has repeatedly stated that Jews “need blood for their religious practices.” The Syrian blood-libel accusations originate partly in a major nineteenth-century calumny against the Jews of Damascus, who were accused of having murdered a Christian priest, Thomas al-Kabushi, so as to use his blood for religious purposes.20

Major anti-Semitic incitement comes from many sources in the Muslim world, including government-controlled bodies and leaders of Egypt, which is officially at peace with Israel. In October 2012, a video showed then-Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi answering “Amen” to an imam who made a genocidal prayer request: “Oh Allah, destroy the Jews and their supporters.”21

So far in the twenty-first century, the most extreme source of anti-Israeli hatred and incitement is Iran. Its former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and various other leaders promote the destruction of Israel, which can only be achieved through genocide. Yet this has not prevented Western22 and other government officials,23 religious leaders,24 and academics25 from hosting Ahmadinejad in their countries.

Comparison of the Muslim World with Nazi Germany

Some of those who compare between attitudes of the sizable extremist movements in the Islamic world and those of the Nazis present weighty arguments. Israeli Holocaust scholar Yehuda Bauer points out:

Today for the first time since 1945, Jews are once again threatened openly by a radical Islamic genocidal ideology whose murderous rantings must be taken more seriously than the Nazi ones were two and more generations ago. The direct connection between World War II, the Shoah, and present-day genocidal events and threats is more than obvious. The Shoah was unprecedented; but it was a precedent, and that precedent is being followed.26

Wistrich writes that hard-core anti-Semitism in the Arab and Muslim world is comparable only with that of Nazi Germany. He explains that Muslim hatred for Israel and Jews is “an eliminatory anti-Semitism with a genocidal dimension.” As for common elements between Muslim and Nazi anti-Semitism, Wistrich cites fanaticism, the cult of death, the nihilistic wish for destruction, and the mad lust for world hegemony.27

Richard Prasquier, then head of CRIF, the umbrella organization of French Jewry, compared radical Islam with Nazism. He noted two important common features. The first is that Jews are the prime enemy for both movements and anti-Semitism is an essential component of their ideology. The other is that both Nazism and radical Islam dehumanize Jews.28 Landes remarked that “future historians will probably find that present anti-Semitism in Arab and Muslim societies reached an even higher fever pitch than that of the Nazis.”29

In 2013, during an interview on the Europe1 television program Télé, former French Education Minister Luc Ferry compared modern Islamism with Nazism in the 1930s. He said, “Terrorism today somehow represents the equivalent of Nazism. I don’t exaggerate by saying that radical Islam today, and of course I am not talking about the Muslim religion but radical Islam and anti-Semitism, are the bane of people, of human life. It is as atrocious as Nazism in the ’30s.” He also warned that radical Islam is not merely like an isolated “local guerrilla” but a global problem and a portent of a third world war.30

In 2015, before the seventieth anniversary of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, said, “In certain vital aspects jihadism is close to Nazism . . . one could say that they are two facets of the same evil.” He added that “radical Islam is the force to blame. The features of this phenomena are well known: arrogance, unshakable belief in your own righteousness, contempt for other faiths, creeds and ideals.”31 From time to time in anti-Israeli demonstrations, including outside of Muslim countries, swastikas can be witnessed. One such case occurred in The Hague in July 2014. Various Muslim participants carried flags and banners of the terrorist group ISIS and others, along with swastikas superimposed on Israeli flags and banners comparing Israel with Hitler. The Dutch police just stood by.32

World War II Nazi-Muslim Ties

Nazi Germany already attempted to gain influence in the Muslim world before World War II. German political scientist Matthias Küntzel says:

In April 1939, Germany began to broadcast anti-Semitic propaganda in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hindi. Its modern shortwave station Radio Zeesen, was received in the Arab world better than any other. From 1939 to 1945, it broad- cast professional anti-Semitic programs on a daily basis. They were mixed with quotes from the Koran and Arabic music. The Allies were presented as being dependent on the Jews, who were portrayed as Islam’s biggest enemy. The program would announce: “The Jew is our enemy and killing him brings pleasure to Allah.” In this way, German propaganda radicalized existing Jew-hatred among Muslims. Various testimonies from that period indicate that these broadcasts were widely heard.

He adds:

There are many indicators which prove the continuity of influence of Nazi thinking in the Arab world to this very day. Many Arab anti-Semitic cartoons are similar to those of the Nazi era. There are numerous large edition publica- tions of Hitler’s Mein Kampf with the accompanying veneration of Hitler. One frequently finds denial of the Holocaust or promotion of a new one there. This Nazi influence upon the Middle East is nevertheless almost systematically overlooked by Middle East and Islam scholars.33

Küntzel observes that before and during World War II it was quite fashion- able in certain Muslim circles to express pro-Nazi opinions. In a lecture to the imams of the Bosnian SS division in 1944, Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, noted the main points of similarity between the Islamic outlook as he saw it and National Socialism:

• Monotheism—unity of leadership, the Führer principle
• Sense of obedience and discipline
• Battle for honor, to die in battle
• Attitude toward community: common interest comes before private interest
• Valuing motherhood and prohibition of abortion
• Attitude toward Jews—“In the fight against Judaism, Islam and National Socialists are very close to each other”
• Glorification of labor and creation—“Islam protects and respects labor in what- soever form”34

Palestinian Anti-Semitism

Palestinian classic anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism contain many genocidal elements. These are not limited to the earlier-mentioned platform of Hamas, which emerged as the largest party in the only Palestinian parliamentary elec- tions—those of 2006—to have been held. In Hamas circles, one regularly hears genocidal voices speaking. However, they also come out of official PA sources and are broadcast in its media.

One example among many of calls for genocide from PA circles included an appeal for a genocidal war against the Jews made in 2000 by Dr. Ahmed Abu Halabiyah, rector of advanced studies at the Islamic University of Gaza. It was broadcast on PA TV, the PA’s official channel. Many similar statements can be heard or read in the Arab and Muslim world. Since Halabiyah spoke in a televised Friday sermon, his call belongs to the governmental, academic, and religious spheres of the PA and Palestinian society.

He said:

The Jews are the Jews . . . They do not have any moderates or any advocates of peace. They are all liars. They must be butchered and must be killed . . . The Jews are like a spring—as long as you step on it with your foot it doesn’t move. But if you lift your foot from the spring, it hurts you and punishes you . . . It is forbidden to have mercy in your hearts for the Jews in any place and in any land, make war on them anywhere that you find yourself. Any place that you meet them, kill them.35

The Mufti Muhammad Hussein is the PA’s highest religious leader, appointed by President Mahmoud Abbas. In 2012 at an official Fatah celebration—a movement headed by Abbas—he called for the killing of all Jews.36

Hamas

Many Hamas proponents mention their movement’s goal of committing geno- cide against the Jews. Sheikh Yunus al-Astal is a member of the Palestinian parliament and also a Hamas leader who heads the Clerics Association of Palestine, the most influential religious institution within the Hamas movement. Al-Astal also heads the Department of Islamic Law at the Islamic University of Gaza.

In 2008, for his regular column in the Hamas weekly Al-Rissala, he wrote an article with the headline “Suffering by Fire is Jews’ destiny in this world and next.” It said:

“. . . you will taste the punishment of Scorching Fire.” [Quran 3:181]

“This [Quran] verse threatens the Jews with the punishment of Fire . . . the rea- son for the punishment of Fire is it is fitting retribution for what they have done

. . . but the urgent question is, is it possible that they will have the punishment of Fire in this world, before the great punishment [of Fire in Hell] . . . many of the [Islamic] religious leaders believe that the [Jews’] punishment of Fire is in this world, before the next world . . . therefore we are sure that the Holocaust is still to come upon the Jews.”37

This was not the only time al-Astal made such remarks. In 2014, he said on Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV that not only should a special discriminatory tax on Jews be imposed, but also Jews must be massacred:

we will discuss the demand that the Palestinian people recognize Israel as a Jewish State, so that the occupation will graciously hand them out scraps. I would like to begin by quoting what Allah said about them . . . “If you gain mastery over them in war, use them to disperse those who follow them that they may remember.” This indicates that we must massacre them in order to break them down and prevent them from sowing corruption in the world . . .38

Other Hamas representatives make genocidal statements as well. For instance, Hamas spokesman Dr. Ismail Radwan said in 2007 on PA TV:

“The Hour [of the Resurrection] will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them, and the rock and the tree will say: ‘Oh, Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, kill him!’” We must remind our Arab and Muslim nation, its leaders and people, its scholars and students, remind them that Palestine and the Al Aqsa mosque will not be liberated through sum- mits nor by international resolutions, but it will be liberated through the rifle.39

Century of Hatred

The desire to commit genocide against the Jews has an almost century-old history in Palestinian society. Haj Amin al-Husseini was the leader of the Palestinian extremists before the War of Independence and supported Hitler’s actions against the Jews.

Küntzel says:

In the mid-1930s, moderate Palestinian Arab forces which were seeking coexistence with the Zionists had not yet been marginalized. That changed with the vast Nazi support for the Islamists. The Mufti destroyed or forced out moderate Palestinians in the Arab uprising of 1936-1939. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt used the riots in Palestine for anti-Semitic campaigns which enabled them to become a huge organization. Their membership jumped from 800 in 1936 to 200,000 in 1938.40

Shragai observes, “During the Second World War, Husseini planned to build an Auschwitz-like crematorium near Nablus. He intended to have Jews from Palestine and Arab countries gassed there. Husseini also helped create Muslim SS units in Bosnia and Kosovo.”41

For many years the leader of the Palestinian “moderates” was Ragheb bey al-Nashashibi, the mayor of Jerusalem. After the 1929 riots in Mandatory Palestine, the non-Jewish French writer Albert Londres asked him why the Arabs had murdered the old pious Jews in Hebron and Safed, with whom they had no quarrel. The mayor answered, “In a way you behave like in a war. You don’t kill what you want. You kill what you find. Next time, they will all be killed, young and old.” Later on, Londres spoke again to the mayor and tested him ironically by saying, “You cannot kill all the Jews. There are 150,000 of them.” Nashashibi answered “in a soft voice, ‘Oh no, it’ll take two days.’”42

Incitement of Children

Incitement against Israel and the Jews in Palestinian society occurs on a major scale and is largely neglected by Western media. Psychiatrist Daphne Burdman says:

In both the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas-ruled territory of Gaza there are carefully planned, widespread campaigns of incitement of children. Due to this indoctrination, children start viewing positively their involvement in terrorist actions in which they risk their lives. This incitement process has been poorly covered by the international media.

Thus, Westerners are largely ignorant of the sinister development of these profoundly “successful” programs. These are based on both familiar and innovative techniques of persuasion and indoctrination. Similar ones were used to maximum effect by totalitarian regimes including Nazi Germany, the Soviet KGB and Chinese intelligence services. There is increasing evidence that some of these sources have inspired and trained the Palestinian Authority.

Burdman observes:

Indoctrination in the Palestinian areas is far broader than textbook and television sources, encompassing general societal elements including newsprint, parents, teachers, methods of teaching with encouragement and praise for ad- herence, and strong disapproval for less devoted students. Imams are extremely influential in successfully emphasizing the goals of jihad and martyrdom. Summer camps, and the naming of streets, playgrounds, and soccer teams for martyrs, help maintain the ambience throughout society.43

Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) provides many examples of Palestinian anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic incitement. The PMW website divides these into categories such as “animalization,” “Jews/Israelis are evil,” “Jews/Israelis are cancer and other diseases,” “Jews/Israelis endanger all humanity,” and so on.44 One among many examples of extreme incitement occurred in 2013 on PA  TV where two young girls recited a poem that included the lines: “You who murdered Allah’s pious prophets [i.e., Jews in Islamic tradition], Oh, you who were brought up on spilling blood, You have been condemned to humiliation and hardship, Oh Sons of Zion, oh most evil among creations, Oh barbaric monkeys, wretched pigs.”45

Doubletalk

Israeli political scientist Michael Widlanski remarks:

Claims by many Israelis and Americans that the PLO has agreed to recognize and accept Israeli settlement blocs in return for ceding territory in Israel to Palestinian sovereignty, have been repudiated. This is also true about claims that the PLO leadership is willing to accept Israeli control of some holy places in eastern Jerusalem and that Ramallah or Al-Azzaria would serve as a Pales- tinian capital. Abbas repeatedly told Arab media—as late as August 2013—that there will be no Jews living in Palestinian territory and that Jerusalem will be the Palestinian capital.

Abbas told an Israeli interviewer that he did not want to return to Safed. Thereafter, he declared to Arab interviewers that all Arabs could decide where and when they would go. He specifically said all refugees would have the “right” to return to their homes.

Claims that the PLO has amended its charter are probably false as well. The “ceremony” in 1998 concerning this is deemed a stage act by Palestinians, even though it was sanctioned by Bill Clinton and Benjamin Netanyahu. Leading Palestinians—such as Palestinian National Congress speaker Salim Za’anoun —say that the PLO charter still stands.46

Notes

1. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations, December 10, 1948, un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml.
2. Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, www.oic-oci.org/english/article/humahtm.
3. Turan Kayaoğlu, “It’s Time to Revise The Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam,” Brookings Institution, April 23, 2012.
4. “Global Terrorism Index,” Institute for Economics and Peace, 2014.
5. Juliana Menasce Horowitz, “Declining Support for bin Laden and Suicide Bombing,” Pew Research Global Attitudes Project, September 10, 2009.
6. Ibid.
7. “Muslim Public Shares Concerns about Extremist Groups,” Pew Research Global Attitudes Project, September 10, 2013.
8. “Concerns about Islamic Extremism on the Rise in Middle East,” Pew Research Global Attitudes Project, July 1, 2014,
9. “Palestinian Public Opinion Poll No -53,” Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, September 29, 2014.
10. “Common Concerns About Islamic Extremism: Muslim-Western Tensions Persist,” Pew Research Global Attitudes Project, 13, July 2, 2011.
11. Ibid., 4.
12. “Saudi Arabia denies discriminating against Jewish passengers,” Haaretz, June 26, 2011.
13. “ADL to Delta Airlines: ‘Do Not Be A Party’ To Discriminatory Policies Against Jews And Israel,” Anti-Defamation League, June 24, 2011.
14. Khaled Abu Toameh, “PA affirms death penalty for land sale to Israelis,” The Jerusalem Post, September 20, 2010.
15. “Jews in Islamic Countries: Iran,” https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/ anti-semitism/iranjehtml (viewed July 17, 2014).
16. Kobi Nahshoni, “Iran’s Jews: Tolerance or veiled persecution?” Ynetnews, March 27, 2013,
17. Manfred Gerstenfeld, “The Mahathir Affair: A Case Study in Mainstream Islamic
    Anti-Semitism,” Jerusalem Viewpoints, 506, November 2, 2003.
18. “Dr Mahathir Opens 10th OIC Summit,” The Star, October 16, 200 (This article contains the full text of the speech.)
19. “L’editorial du Monde, Antisemitisme,” Le Monde, October 19, 2003. (French)
20. Raphael Israeli, Islamikaze: Manifestations of Islamic Martyrology (London: Frank Cass, 2003), 30
21. “Morsi answers amen to imam’s prayers for destruction of Jews,” JTA, October 22, 2012.
22. Haaretz Service and Barak Ravid, “Swiss leader’s offer to meet Ahmadinejad compounds crime with a sin,” Haaretz, April 19, 2009.
23. “Iran, Indonesia can counter unilateralism: Ahmadinejad,” Press TV, November 9, 2012.
24. Maureen Shamee, “Jewish leader outraged by Christian groups’ invitation to Ahmadinejad,” European Jewish Press, September 22, 2008.
25. Helene Cooper, “Ahmadinejad, at Columbia, Parries and Puzzles,” The New York Times, September 25, 2007.
26. Yehuda Bauer, “Reviewing the Holocaust Anew in Multiple Contexts,” Post- Holocaust and Anti-Semitism, 80, May 1, 2009.
27. Robert Wistrich, Muslimischer Antisemitismus, Eine aktuelle Gefahr (Berlin: Edition Critic, 2011), 101. (German)
28. Richard Prasquier, “Oui, l’islamisme radical et le nazisme sont deux idéologies comparables,” Le Monde, October 17, 2012 (French).
29. Manfred Gerstenfeld, interview with Richard Landes, “How Muslim Conspiracy Theories Affect Jews,” Israel National News, March 7, 2013.
30. Chloë Lebeau, “Pour Luc Ferry, ‘l’islamisme radical est aussi atroce que le nazisme dans les années 30,’” Rfr, November 4, 2013. (French)
31. Mati Wagner, “European Jewish leader: Islamic extremists are the new Nazis,”
    The Jerusalem Post, January 27, 2015.
32. “Vlaggen met hakenkruis bij demonstratie,” De Telegraaf, July 12, 2014 (Dutch).
33. Manfred Gerstenfeld, interview with Matthias Küntzel, “The Continuing Nazi Influence on Arab Attitudes,” Israel National News, November 10, 2013.
34. Matthias Küntzel, Djihad und Judenhass (Freiburg: ça ira-Verlag, 2003), (German)
35. Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, “Kill a Jew—Go to Heaven: The Perception of  the Jew in Palestinian Society,” Jewish Political Studies Review 17, 3-4 (Fall 2005): 127.
36. “PA Mufti encourages killing of Jews,” Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, January 9, 2012.
37. Sheikh Yunus al-Astal, “Suffering by Fire is Jews’ destiny in this world and next” “. . .you will taste the punishment of Scorching Fire,” http://www.palwatcorg/ main.aspx?fi=584.
38. “Hamas MP Al-Astal: We Must Massacre Jews, Impose Jizya Poll Tax on Them,” Al-Aqsa TV, March 6, 2014, http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/4202.htm.
39. Ismail Radwan, PA TV, March 30, 2007, http://www.palwatch.org/main. aspx?fi=584.
40. Gerstenfeld, interview with Küntzel.
41. Manfred Gerstenfeld, interview with Nadav Shragai, “Libel: Israel Intends to Destroy the Al-Aksa Mosque,” Israel National News, October 16, 2013.
42. Albert Londres, Le Juif Errant Est Arrivé (Paris: Arléa, 1997), 209 (French).
43. Manfred Gerstenfeld, interview with Dr. Daphne Burdman, “Indoctrinating Palestinian Children to Genocidal Hatred: A Psychiatrist’s Perspective,” in Demonizing Israel and the Jews (New York: RVP Press, 2013), 48-49.
44. palwatch.org.
45. palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=9308.
46. Manfred Gerstenfeld, interview with Michael Widlanski, “Deceitful Palestinian Statements as Strategic Weapons,” Israel National News, September 23,