Journal for the Study of Antisemitism

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she considered herself at war with capitalism, there was no contemporaneous
anti-Jewish lunacy she would not seek to justify. With other RAF
members, she trained in Al Fatah military centers in Jordan. She applauded
the Palestinian-led massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
The woman even attempted to transfer her two children to a Palestinian
camp, a move her estranged husband intercepted with Stefan Aust’s
assistance. Additional connections between Palestinian and RAF terrorists
included the Entebbe hijacking, in which non-Jewish passengers were let
free while Jewish ones were held hostage to death threats.
A main reason extremists are so readily able to demonize present-day
Israel and, by extension, Jews everywhere, is the prevalent suppression of
the irrefutable documentation of Arab complicity in the Holocaust. The
world should not be allowed to turn its head, pretending it just doesn’t see
the history of The Grand Mufti al-Husanyi recruiting Arab support for Nazi
Germany and the extermination of Jews. That history includes detailed
plans for the extermination of all Jews from Morocco across northern African
and throughout the Middle East. Aust has admitted that the revisions of
his book to date do not take that history into account. Meanwhile, a surviving
RAF member, Horst Mahler, is today a vociferous Holocaust denier.
Aust should be persuaded to publish an article examining the RAF’s
antisemitism, and subsequently into incorporating a chapter dedicated to
that topic into his book. And it would not be out of place for him to publicly
acknowledge as grotesque any positive association between the RAF
and the music of Bob Dylan, whose Hebrew name is Shabtai Zisel ben
Avraham.