Hitler’s Legacy: Islamic Antisemitism in the Middle East

Speaker: Matthias Kuntzel Affiliation: Technical College, Hamburg; Research Fellow, Vidal Sassoon Institute, Hebrew University, Jerusalem Title: Hitler’s Legacy: Islamic Antisemitism in the Middle East (YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series) Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Location: Location: The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), Yale University, New Haven, CT Date: November 30, 2006 Description: Matthias Kuntzel examines Islamic antisemitism from a historical perspective and compares the hate speech and antisemitic propaganda of Nazi Germany to that of Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran. He questions the reason for this hatred and asks whether it stems from Zionism and Israeli policies or whether Judeophobia is an integral part of Islam and epitomize modern manifestations of antisemitism.