Volume 4 No 2 - Journal for the Study of Antisemitism

2012] ISLAMIC ANTISEMITISM IN THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT 605it would have to mention that Palestinian and other Arabs, driven by murderousJew-hatred, initiated a genocidal war of extermination against theJews of Palestine in violation of the very UN resolution that Abbas sopiously invokes. Nor would it serve Abbas’ interest to mention that roughly800,000 Jews were driven from their homes in Muslim countries in retaliationfor the founding of the state of Israel—expulsions that Hajj Amin al-Husseini had encouraged in his radio broadcasts from Nazi Germany. 57HAMAS AND MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ANTISEMITISMNor, alas, is the threat of genocide against the Jews of Israel a thing ofthe past. Extreme antisemitism has spread like wildfire across the Arab andIslamic worlds since the mufti and the Nazis spewed their vitriolic propagandaduring the Second World War. Jeffrey Herf, Klaus Gensicke, MatthiasKüntzel, Bernard Lewis, Robert Wistrich, Ian Johnson, Itamar Marcusand Palestinian Media Watch, Yigal Carmon and the Middle East MediaResearch Institute, Yehoshafat Harkabi, Andrew Bostom, Neil J. Kressel,and others have exhaustively documented the phenomenon of Islamicantisemitism, both in recent decades and in history. 58 Indeed, several of57. On the violent mass expulsions that drove hundreds of thousands of Jewsfrom Islamic countries before and after the creation of modern Israel, see Morris,1948, 412-5; Maurice M. Roumani, “The Silent Refugees: Jews from Arab Countries,”Mediterranean Quarterly 14 (2003): 41-77; Jacqueline Shields, “Jewish Refugeesfrom Arab Countries,” in The Jewish Virtual Library, http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/jewref.html; Andrew Bostom, ed., The Legacy ofIslamic Antisemitism (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2008), 663-677; Ya’akovMeron, “Why the Jews Fled the Arab Countries,” Middle East Quarterly 2 (1995):47-55, http://www.meforum.org/263/why-jews-fled-the-arab-countries; and AdiSchwartz, “A Tragedy Shrouded in Silence: The Destruction of the Arab World’sJewry,” Azure No. 45 (2011), http://www.azure.org.il/article.php?id=581.58. Herf, Nazi Propaganda for the Arab World, 233-260; Gensicke, The Muftiof Jerusalem, 237-248; Matthias Küntzel, Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazismand the Roots of 9/11 (New York: Telos Press Publishing, 2007); Matthias Küntzel,“Das Erbe des Mufti,” Zeitschrift zum Verständnis des Judentums 46 (2007), 151-8,http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/contents/das-erbe-des-mufti; Bernard Lewis,Semites and Antisemites (New York and London: W.W. Norton and Company,1999); Bernard Lewis, The Jews of Islam (Princeton: Princeton University Press,1984), 154-191; Robert Wistrich, Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred (New York:Shocken Books, 1991), 195-267; Robert Wistrich, Muslim Antisemitism: A Clearand Present Danger (N.P.: The American Jewish Committee, 2002), http://www.ajc.org/atf/cf/%7B42D75369-D582-4380-8395-D25925B85EAF%7D/WistrichAntisemitism.pdf; Robert Wistrich, A Lethal Obsession: Antisemitism from Antiquityto the Global Jihad (New York: Random House, 2010); Yehoshafat Harkabi,Arab Attitudes to Israel, trans. Misha Louvish (Jerusalem: Israel Universities Press,