Islamism and the Arab World

This volume presents a selection of the papers presented at the “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity” conference organized at Yale University by YIISA/ISGAP in August 2010.

It is one of five volumes reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the conference as well as the diverse nature of the subject of antisemitism in general.

These volumes will be of interest to students and scholars of antisemitism and discrimination, as well as to scholars and readers from other fields. Rather than treating antisemitism merely as an historical phenomenon, they place it squarely in the contemporary context. As a result, the papers presented in these volumes also provide important insights into the ideologies, processes, and developments that give rise to prejudice in the contemporary global context.

Volume IV on Islamism and the Arab world examines a form of antisemitism that has become especially virulent in recent times. It is also a form of antisemitism whose origins and manifestations are perhaps less well-known to academics and policy-makers due to the supposedly controversial nature of this topic. The following papers appear in this volume:

Introduction, Charles Asher Small; From Sayyid Qutb to Hamas: The Middle East Conflict and the Islamization of Antisemitism, Bassam Tibi; Conspiracy Theories, Antisemitism, and Jews in Turkey Today, Rifat N. Bali; Iranian Antisemitism: Continuity and Change, Meir Litvak; Muslim Demonization of Jews as “Pigs and Apes”: Theological Roots and Contemporary Implications, Neil J. Kressel; Nazi Propaganda to the Arab World During World War II and the Emergence of Islamism, Jeffrey Herf; Hitler, Hamas, and Jihadist Jew Hatred, David Patterson; Muhammad, the Jews, and Khaybar: Fantasy and Emotion in Contemporary Islamic Political and Religious Antisemitism, Paul Lawrence Rose; Antisemitism in Iran, Wahied Wahdat-Hagh; The Jihad Flotilla to Gaza: Provocative, Antisemitic, and Not Humanitarian, Jonathan Fighel.