Muslim Anti-Semitism: Historical Background

Abstract

Issue Title: Special Issue: Anti-Semitism the World Over in the Twenty-First Century

This article very briefly surveys and compares the history of Christian and Muslim anti-Semitism. Drawing on recent studies by German scholars and on newly declassified CIA records, the author focuses on the critical role of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini. Through his radio broadcasts and other work during World War II, Haj Amin instilled Nazi images of the Jew as the international power behind the scenes to Arab nationalists and to the Middle East generally.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]