Language:
English
Year of publication:
2012
Titel der Quelle:
Die Welt des Islams
Angaben zur Quelle:
52,3-4 (2012) 450-570
Keywords:
Küntzel, Matthias
;
Herf, Jeffrey,
;
Mallmann, Klaus-Michael
;
Cüppers, Martin,
;
Antisemitism
;
Jewish-Arab relations
;
Islam Relations
;
Judaism
;
National socialism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Anti-Zionism
Abstract:
Criticizes recent historical writings which contend that a massive majority of Arabs took a pro-Nazi stand during World War II and that present-day Arab Judeophobia is a continuation of and has the same character as the antisemitism brought to the Middle East by the Nazis. Focuses on three books that, each in its own way, try to demonstrate that present-day Arab antisemitism owes much to Nazi inspiration and Arab-Nazi collaboration during the war, and that there has been continuity between that origin of Arab antisemitism and the present form: Matthias Küntzel's "Djihad und Judenhass: Über den neuen antijüdischen Krieg" (2003); Jeffrey Herf's "Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World" (2010); and "Halbmond und Hakenkreuz: Das Dritte Reich, die Araber und Palästina" by Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Martin Cüppers. The main shortcomings of the three books are a disregard for the Arab reception of the Nazi propaganda and for the conditions in which antisemitism in the Arab world emerged, as well as a presumption that Nazi Germany was the only source and bearer of antisemitism. Contends that the Arabs were much less inclined toward Nazism than is generally assumed. Among the factors of antisemitism in the Middle East were European nationalisms that affected the Arabs, but the rise in antisemitism was a response, albeit a distorted one, to the Zionist project, which threatened to oust Palestinian Arabs from their soil.
DOI:
10.1163/15700607-201200A9
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