Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 - Softcover

"Bracing...startling...bold and consequential"-New York Times Sunday Book Review

"The most important work written in the wake of 9/11"-Jewish Political Studies Review

In this short, powerful, passionate and thoughtful book, Matthias Knntzel explores how and why radical Islam emerged as the most important political and ideological movement in world politics to place hatred of the Jews at the center of its ideology and policy following the defeat of the Nazi regime...Knntzel's reconstruction impels us to rethink the issue of continuity and break before and after 1945 and expand our horizons beyond Europe to encompass the trans-national diffusion and impact of Nazism and fascism on the Arab Islamic world. (From the foreward by Jeffrey Herf, Professor of History, University of Maryland.

Matthias Knntzel is a political scientist in Hamburg, Germany. He has served as senior advisor for the German Green Party caucus in the Bundestag and is currently a Research Associate at the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at Hebrew University in Jerusalem as well as a member of the Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. Knntzel's essays about Islamism and antisemitism have been published in The New Republic, Policy Review, The Weekly Standard, The Wall Street Journal and Telos and have been translated into ten languages.