The Denial of Continuity: October 7 and the Shoah

The months following the massacre have revealed the failure of previous Western Holocaust education, which has never wanted to know anything about the after-effects of Nazi ideology in the Muslim world.

Hamburg, August 7, 2024

The Lasting Impact of Nazi Germany's antisemitic propaganda in the Middle East 1945-1948

Contribution to the conference “Lessons and Legacies XVI – The Holocaust: Rethinking Paradigms in Research and Representation” on November 12–15, 2022 in Ottawa

Ottawa, November 13, 2022

9/11 and the Globalization of Antisemitism

Keynote speech on the occasion of the opening conference of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (LCSCA) on September 13, 2022 in London

London, September 13, 2022

80 Years Later the Echo of the Wannsee Conference Still Exists

My contribution to a Webinar on the subject "80 Years Since Wannsee: An Alarm for Other Genocides?"

Paris, London, Berlin, Hamburg, January 20, 2022

Tehran's War against Israel in a changing Middle East

The decades-old taboo against Israelis meeting with Arab leaders had been broken. More and more Arab countries are willing to accept Israel as an ally in the defense against Iran

Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A., March 26, 2019

Islamic Antisemitism: How It Originated and Spread

About the meaning of the booklet “Islam and Jewry” and the Bludan Congress of September 1937

Hamburg, July 3, 2018

How to challenge Islamic Antisemitism?

Islamic antisemitism is a major foreign policy issue: Only governments can stop the flow of hate messages by denouncing and punishing state- and non-state actors.[1]

Hamburg, March 2, 2018

Tehran’s Efforts to Mobilize Antisemitism: The Global Impact

Hamburg, 06.09.2017

Nasser’s Antisemitic War Against Israel

It was not Israel or Zionism that provoked the 1967 war but the latent anti-Zionism and antisemitism in the Arab world and the fact that Nasser was gripped by the same destructive sentiments that he whipped up in the masses.

FATHOM, BICOM's quaterly online journal, March 15, 2017

The Aftershock of the Nazi War against the Jews, 1947/1948

Could This War Against Israel Have Been Prevented?

JEWISH POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW, (2016), Vol. 26, No. 3-4

They want to turn Paris into a second Tehran

After the 11/13 attack - what next?

Berlin, November 21, 2015

The Roots of Antisemitism in the Middle East: New Debates

While scholars agree that in no other part of the world is antisemitism as widespread as in the Middle East, the unanimity vanishes when it comes to explaining the causes of this antisemitism

Indiana University Press, summer 2013

America’s Shifting “Red Lines” on Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions: A Wedge Issue in US–Israeli Relations

Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs VII : 1 (2013) pp 37-44.

Joie de vivre and love of death - From the Arab Spring to the Gaza War

Statement to the rally "Hamburg for Israel. Stop Hamas terror!

Hamburg, November 26, 2012

Judith Butler and the new anti-Jewish discourse

Speech at the rally against the award of the Adorno Prize to Judith Butler in front of St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt/M. (Germany) on 11 September 2012

Frankfurt/Main, 11 September 2012

"Against those who want to destroy me, I must be strong."

What is the connection between Shoah-remembrance and Iran? An Interview with Holocaust survivor Fanny Englard

Jungle Word (Berlin/Germany), April 5, 2012

In the Straightjacket of Anti-Zionism

A critical review of Gilbert Achcar's "The Arabs and the Holocaust". By Colin Meade and

Engage Homepage (UK), September 24, 2011

"If I were not a Jew, my hair would stand on end with fear"

Remarks, delivered at the second Inter-Parliamentary Conference on Combating Antisemitism in Ottawa/Canada on November 8, 2010

Ottawa, November 8, 2010

Islamism, Antisemitism, and the political left

A Democratiya Interview with Matthias Küntzel

Democratiya no. 13, May 25, 2008

Islamist terrorism and antisemitism: The mission against modernity

This paper was presented in March 2008 at Stanford University, at the University of California in Santa Cruz, in Los Angeles, in Irvine, at the University of Buffalo, at the Cooper Union in New York and at different conferences in D.C. and New York.

U.S.A., March 2008

Nazi-Germany and the Antisemitism in the Muslim World

Presentation at The Global Forum For Combating Antisemitism at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem

Jerusalem, February 24, 2008

Why We Cannot Criticize Israel that Way

A response to Alfred Grosser

Internationale Politik - Global Edition, Summer issue 2/2007, Vol. 8

Why Israel's Reaction is Right

SPIEGEL Online, July 24, 2006

Suicide Bombing “for a Higher Ideal”?

Germany’s Central Office for Political Education on “Paradise Now”

Transatlantic Intelligencer, October 2005

A Dubious Achievement: Joschka Fischer, the Road Map, and the Gaza Pullout

Transatlantic Intelligencer, Fall 2005

Antisemitism in the Middle East: Abbas and Hamas

How can a group determined to destroy Israel be a partner in the peace process?

SPME, February 2005

The Roots of Delusion

Many believe that there is a correlation between Islamic antisemitism and Israel’s policies. Are they right?

February 2005

Brilliant Achievement

Joschka Fischer, Yasser Arafat and the Road Map Peace Plan

December 2003