A Lethal Obsession : Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad
Robert S. Wistrich [Wistrich, Robert S.]In the case of the Nazi movement, there is by now a consensus among most serious historians concerning the axial role of “eliminationist” anti-Semitism in the domestic and foreign policies of the Third Reich. However, much less attention has been given to the postwar aftermath. Hitlerism did not really die in April 1945 nor, unfortunately, was Auschwitz truly “liberated.” In the mid-1980s, I had occasion to point out that the Nazi poison was by no means extinguished, having infiltrated the former Soviet Union and especially the Arab-Muslim world—where hard-core anti-Semitism systematically defaming Israel and the Jews was widely (and officially) propagated. These pages expose the intensity of the “culture of hatred” that currently permeates books, magazines, newspapers, sermons, videocassettes, the Internet, television, and radio in the Middle East on a scale unprecedented since the heyday of Nazi Germany. Indeed, the demonic images of Jews
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