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Djihad und Judenhaß. Über den neuen antijüdischen Krieg.
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First published October 1, 2002
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Matthias Küntzel
24 books7 followersPolitical scientist and historian Matthias Küntzel, born in 1955, holds a tenured part-time position as a teacher of political science at a technical college in Hamburg, Germany.
In 2011, Matthias Küntzel was presented with the Anti-Defamation-League’s (ADL) Paul Ehrlich-Günther K. Schwerin Human Rights Award during the League’s National Executive Committee meeting in Palm Beach, Florida. “Matthias Küntzel has a long and distinguished record in speaking out against anti-Semitism and warning his readers in his native Germany and elsewhere about the dangers posed by this age-old virus that has no known cure,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, in presenting the award. “His work has been sorely under-appreciated in this country. With this recognition, we hope to acknowledge his ongoing efforts and also let the American public know of the implications of this disturbing trend.”
Küntzel is an external research associate at the Vidal Sassoon International Centre for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and served until March 2013 as a member of the Board of Directors of the German chapter of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME). He is a member of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), of the German Historians’ Association (VHD) and of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA).
Since 2001, his research and writing has focused on: Antisemitism, Antisemitism in current Islamic thinking, Islamism, Islamism and National Socialism, Iran, and German and Western policies towards the Middle East and Iran.
His essays and articles have been translated into twelve languages and published inter alia in The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, The Weekly Standard, Telos, Policy Review, The Jerusalem Post, Standard, Spiegel, Welt, Die Zeit and Internationale Politik.
In 2011, Matthias Küntzel was presented with the Anti-Defamation-League’s (ADL) Paul Ehrlich-Günther K. Schwerin Human Rights Award during the League’s National Executive Committee meeting in Palm Beach, Florida. “Matthias Küntzel has a long and distinguished record in speaking out against anti-Semitism and warning his readers in his native Germany and elsewhere about the dangers posed by this age-old virus that has no known cure,” said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, in presenting the award. “His work has been sorely under-appreciated in this country. With this recognition, we hope to acknowledge his ongoing efforts and also let the American public know of the implications of this disturbing trend.”
Küntzel is an external research associate at the Vidal Sassoon International Centre for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and served until March 2013 as a member of the Board of Directors of the German chapter of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME). He is a member of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), of the German Historians’ Association (VHD) and of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA).
Since 2001, his research and writing has focused on: Antisemitism, Antisemitism in current Islamic thinking, Islamism, Islamism and National Socialism, Iran, and German and Western policies towards the Middle East and Iran.
His essays and articles have been translated into twelve languages and published inter alia in The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, The Weekly Standard, Telos, Policy Review, The Jerusalem Post, Standard, Spiegel, Welt, Die Zeit and Internationale Politik.
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August 3, 2018
I was a little worried when I started reading Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 (2002). I thought Matthias Küntzel might be trying to do a Goldhagen thesis on Muslims.
A few chapters soon dispelled the concern. Küntzel gives us a close-up and fact-rich history of the start of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and its embrace of Nazi fascism. Küntzel also points up the continuity between the ideological rationalizations of Nazi Jew-hatred that continue to thrive in the anti-worker anti-democratic politics of organizations like Hamas.
Hard to believe that prior to the early 1930s Egypt was a nation comfortable with its Jews. A distinct layer of the Egyptian bourgeoisie thought their presence in the country could only be beneficial. A decade of Brotherhood racism and murder of "moderate" political opponents, coupled with successes in the region by German propaganda and diplomacy, changed the atmosphere completely.
A few chapters soon dispelled the concern. Küntzel gives us a close-up and fact-rich history of the start of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and its embrace of Nazi fascism. Küntzel also points up the continuity between the ideological rationalizations of Nazi Jew-hatred that continue to thrive in the anti-worker anti-democratic politics of organizations like Hamas.
Hard to believe that prior to the early 1930s Egypt was a nation comfortable with its Jews. A distinct layer of the Egyptian bourgeoisie thought their presence in the country could only be beneficial. A decade of Brotherhood racism and murder of "moderate" political opponents, coupled with successes in the region by German propaganda and diplomacy, changed the atmosphere completely.
February 14, 2018
Jihad and Jew-Hatred makes a major contribution to the understanding of radical Islamism by tracing the impact of European fascism on the Arab and Islamic world. Drawing extensively on German-language sources, Matthias Küntzel analyzes the close relationship that began in the 1930s between Nazi leaders and Muslim extremists, especially the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and the Mufti of Jerusalem. This path-breaking book provides compelling documentation of the Nazi roots of what became Islamo-fascism and jihadist terror.
This study demonstrates in historical detail how the Muslim Brotherhood has consistently placed the hatred of Jews at the center of its ideology and policies through an incendiary rhetoric that interweaves passages from the Koran hostile to Jews with elements of Nazi-style world-conspiracy theories. Ancient prejudice and modern fantasies have become a deadly combination.
Jihad and Jew-Hatred also explains how the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 led to the shift of the center of global antisemitism to the Arab world, laying the foundation for radical Islamist currents in and around the Muslim Brotherhood and more recent terrorist organizations.
Küntzel convincingly shows that antisemitism is no mere supplementary feature of modern jihadism, and certainly no afterthought but its defining ideological core. This hatred also goes far beyond questions of Zionism and Israel. For Islamism, not only is everything Jewish evil, but every evil is Jewish, as the writings of Sayyid Qutb and the Charter of Hamas clearly explain to anyone willing to read them. It was this Jew-hatred that fueled the Jihad of the 9/11 terrorists.
This study demonstrates in historical detail how the Muslim Brotherhood has consistently placed the hatred of Jews at the center of its ideology and policies through an incendiary rhetoric that interweaves passages from the Koran hostile to Jews with elements of Nazi-style world-conspiracy theories. Ancient prejudice and modern fantasies have become a deadly combination.
Jihad and Jew-Hatred also explains how the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 led to the shift of the center of global antisemitism to the Arab world, laying the foundation for radical Islamist currents in and around the Muslim Brotherhood and more recent terrorist organizations.
Küntzel convincingly shows that antisemitism is no mere supplementary feature of modern jihadism, and certainly no afterthought but its defining ideological core. This hatred also goes far beyond questions of Zionism and Israel. For Islamism, not only is everything Jewish evil, but every evil is Jewish, as the writings of Sayyid Qutb and the Charter of Hamas clearly explain to anyone willing to read them. It was this Jew-hatred that fueled the Jihad of the 9/11 terrorists.
October 20, 2025
A little dated, but scary, scary stuff. I can't see any way to possibly have peace in the middle east or anywhere else on earth as long as the West continues to deny, rationalize, excuse, it otherwise cover up Muslim antisemitism. Because the sad truth is that when they've finished killing the Jews, they'll come after Christians and everyone else until island is the only religion left. Don't believe me? Ask the Christians in Egypt, Syria, the PA, and Nigeria. almost all have been brutally murdered.
July 1, 2025
Disturbingly Insightful
Explores the history of scapegoating Jewry from Berlin to Baghdad; from the early 20th to the 21st. Still timely and useful over two decades after the events which kicked off the research.
Explores the history of scapegoating Jewry from Berlin to Baghdad; from the early 20th to the 21st. Still timely and useful over two decades after the events which kicked off the research.
i-get-the-picture
May 2, 2014Familiar stuff -- the book is fairly sober, fairly well researched, though it can hardly be called scholarly. Slightly polemical; fairly persuasive in tone and presentation.
August 3, 2018
I was a little worried when I started reading Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 (2002). I thought Matthias Küntzel might be trying to do a Goldhagen thesis on Muslims.
A few chapters soon dispelled the concern. Küntzel gives us a close-up and fact-rich history of the start of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and its embrace of Nazi fascism. Küntzel also points up the continuity between the ideological rationalizations of Nazi Jew-hatred that continue to thrive in the anti-worker anti-democratic politics of organizations like Hamas.
Hard to believe that prior to the early 1930s Egypt was a nation comfortable with its Jews. A distinct layer of the Egyptian bourgeoisie thought their presence in the country could only be beneficial. A decade of Brotherhood racism and murder of "moderate" political opponents, coupled with successes in the region by German propaganda and diplomacy, changed the atmosphere completely.
A few chapters soon dispelled the concern. Küntzel gives us a close-up and fact-rich history of the start of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and its embrace of Nazi fascism. Küntzel also points up the continuity between the ideological rationalizations of Nazi Jew-hatred that continue to thrive in the anti-worker anti-democratic politics of organizations like Hamas.
Hard to believe that prior to the early 1930s Egypt was a nation comfortable with its Jews. A distinct layer of the Egyptian bourgeoisie thought their presence in the country could only be beneficial. A decade of Brotherhood racism and murder of "moderate" political opponents, coupled with successes in the region by German propaganda and diplomacy, changed the atmosphere completely.
August 15, 2021
Θεωρώ το βιβλίο αυτό ως ένα χρήσιμο εργαλείο στην ανάλυση του παλαιστινιακού ζητήματος. Μια ιστορική τεκμηρίωση στην σχέση Αράβων και ναζι, καθώς και στην σταδιακή μετατόπιση πάνω στο φλέγον ζήτημα του κράτους του Ισραήλ. Πώς η ουδετερότητα, σπανίως, και η θετική στάση του αραβικού κόσμου απέναντι στην σιωνιστική αποστολή, μετατράπηκε σε μόλις 2 δεκαετίες σε έναν φανατικό αντισημιτισμό, κύριο γνώρισμα του ισλαμισμού. Με σωστές αποστάσεις χωρίς να ολισθαίνει σε ισλαμοφοβικες κραυγές, παρακολουθούμε την εξέλιξη του αντισημιτισμού η οποία δεν ξέφυγε ποτέ από τα κηρύγματα του συνεργάτη των ναζί, του μουφτή αλ-χουσεϊνή και του αλ-μπανα έμπνευστη της βίαιης τζιχάντ.
Παράλληλα περιέχει μια αποδόμηση των θεωριών συνωμοσίας του αντισημιτισμού και της συνεχούς θυματοποιησης των Αράβων.
Παράλληλα περιέχει μια αποδόμηση των θεωριών συνωμοσίας του αντισημιτισμού και της συνεχούς θυματοποιησης των Αράβων.
January 31, 2013
Like minds.......
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