Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam (30 page)

44. Ibid., 81; and Collins and Lapierre,
O Jerusalem,
408.

45. Ibid.

46. Gilbert,
Israel: A History,
274.

47. Collins and Lapierre,
O Jerusalem,
82.

48. Gilbert,
Israel: A History,
274.

49. Ibid.

50. Elpeleg,
The Grand Mufti,
125.

51. Gilbert,
Israel: A History,
274.

52. Elpeleg,
The Grant Mufti,
126.

53. Lewis,
The Crisis of Islam,
78–79.

54. Ibid., 79.

55. Yehudit Barsky,
Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Muslim Brotherhood: Islamic Extremists and the Terrorist Threat to America,
an ADL Special Background Report (New York: Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, 1993), 5.

56. Dinesh D’Souza, “Osama’s Brain: Meet Sayyid Qutb,”
Weekly Standard,
April 29, 2002, 16.

57. Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
121.

58. Ibid., 50.

59. Ayatollah Khomeini, “Programme for the Establishment of an Islamic Government,” in Ayatollah Khomeini,
Islam and Revolution: Writings and Declarations of Imam Khomeini
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981), 127. Quoted in Robert S. Wistrich,
Anti-Semitism: The Longest Hatred
(New York: Schocken Books, 1991), 219; and Phillips,
Londonistan.

60. The reasons for his move from Cairo to Beirut are discussed in Jbara,
Palestinian Leader Hajj Amin al-Husayni: Mufti of Jerusalem,
190.

61. Bernard Lewis,
Semites and Anti-Semites,
157.

62.
The New York Times,
March 28, 1964.

63. Cobban,
The Palestine Liberation Organization,
31.

64. Elpeleg,
The Grand Mufti,
151.

65.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
June 15, 1974.

66. Janet and John Wallach,
Arafat
(Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Group, 1997), 280.

67. Elpeleg,
The Grand Mufti,
162.

68. Ibid.

69. Issa Naklel,
Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem,
vol. II (New York: Intercontinental Books, 1991), caption under first photo page.

70. Itamar Marcus, “Nazi Ally, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, Is Arafat’s ‘Hero,’”
Israel Report,
August 2002.

71. Quoted in Carlson,
Cairo to Damascus,
413–414.

CHAPTER
6:
MANDATE FOR HATE

1. Lewis,
Semites and Anti-Semites,
256; and quoted in Schoenfeld,
The Return of Anti-Semitism,
24.

2. As Abraham H. Foxman has put it, “As descendants of those who distorted God’s truth and opposed his Prophet, Jews would rightly be humbled before Muslims.” (Foxman,
Never Again?,
197.)

3. Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
81.

4. Ibid., 78–79 and 81.

5. Gerber, “Anti-Semitism in the Muslim World,” 78.

6. Ibid., 99. As Abraham H. Foxman has noted, while Jews were permitted to live in Muslim lands as
dhimmis,
and were often free to practice their religion, they were always “subject to the humiliation of second-class status.” (Foxman,
Never Again?,
196.)

7. Prager and Telushkin,
Why the Jews?,
117–118.

8. Foxman,
Never Again?,
197.

9. Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
100.

10. Wistrich,
Anti-Semitism: The Longest Hatred,
205.

11. Ibid., 205–206.

12. Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
100.

13. Wistrich,
Anti-Semitism: The Longest Hatred,
205.

14. Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
101.

15. Ibid.

16. Yehoshafat Harkabi, “On Arab Antisemitism Once More,” in Shmuel Almog, ed.,
Anti-Semitism Through the Ages
(New York: Pergamon Press, 1988), 231.

17. Bernard Lewis,
The Jews of Islam
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984), 185; and Lewis,
Semites and Anti-Semites,
208.

18. Lewis,
Semites and Anti-Semites,
208.

19. Quoted in Prager and Telushkin,
Why the Jews?,
125.

20. Gerald Posner,
Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-U.S. Connection
(New York: Random House, 2005), 45. As Posner has noted, foreign diplomats and titans of industry, whenever they had an audience with the king, “were accustomed to hearing at least a thirty-minute monologue on the evils of Jews and how their Zionist plots were about to destroy the world.”

21. Ibid.; and Wistrich,
Anti-Semitism: The Longest Hatred,
233.

22. Prager and Telushkin,
Why the Jews?,
125.

23. Alan Dershowitz,
The Case for Israel,
106, citing Article 32 of the Hamas covenant, which is found in Khaled Haroub,
Hamas: Political Thought and Practice
(Washington, D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2000), 288.

24. David G. Dalin,
The Myth of Hitler’s Pope
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2005), 142.

25. Alvin H. Rosenfeld, “
Progressive
”
Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism
(New York: American Jewish Committee, 2006), 2.

26. Ibid., 158–159.

27. Forster and Epstein,
The New Anti-Semitism,
159.

28. Foxman,
Never Again?,
198.

29. Forster and Epstein,
The New Anti-Semitism,
159–160.

30. Ibid., 2.

31. Bernard Lewis, “Muslim Anti-Semitism,” in Rosenbaum, ed.,
Those Who Forget the Past,
558.

32. Norman A. Stillman, “Anti-Semitism in the Contemporary Arab World,” in Michael Curtis, ed.,
Anti-Semitism in the Contemporary World
(Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986), 74.

33. Wistrich,
Anti-Semitism: The Longest Hatred,
235.

34. Prager and Telushkin,
Why the Jews?,
124.

35. Foxman,
Never Again?,
213. As the Islamic scholar Norman Stillman has noted, “One of the most disturbing features of the anti-Semitism now current in the Arab world is the ubiquity of the Blood Libel, and of the matter-of-fact discussions of Jewish ritual murder, some of which ‘dwell upon it at great length and in morbid detail,’ in ostensibly scholarly works by Egyptian and other Muslim writers.” (Stillman, “Anti-Semitism in the Contemporary Arab World,” 79.)

36. Ibid.; and Wistrich,
Anti-Semitism: The Longest Hatred,
235.

37. Stillman, “Anti-Semitism in the Contemporary Arab World.”

38. Foxman,
Never Again?,
213.

39. Robert S. Wistrich, “Islamic Judeophobia: An Existential Threat,” in David Bukay, ed.,
Muhammad’s Monsters: A Comprehensive Guide to Radical Islam for Western Audiences
(Green Forest, AZ: Balfour Books, 2004), 202.

40. Wistrich, “Islamic Judeophobia,” 202–203.

41. Quoted in Phillips,
Londonistan,
111.

42. Prager and Telushkin,
Why The Jews?,
124–125.

43. Foxman,
Never Again?,
213.

44. Cited in Prager and Telushkin,
Why the Jews?,
125.

45. Foxman,
Never Again?,
213.

46. Quoted in Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
71.

47. Foxman,
Never Again?,
213–214.

48. This conference is discussed in Paul Eidelberg, “A War America Can’t Win,”
Jewish Press,
October 5, 2001.

49. Green, ed.,
Arab Theologians on Jews and Israel.

50. Eidelberg, “A War America Can’t Win.”

51. Ibid.

52. Ibid.

53. Hassan Khaled, “Jihad in the Cause of Allah,” in Green, ed.,
Arab Theologians on Jews and Israel,
68.

54. Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
88; and Wistrich, “Islamic Judeophobia,” 207.

55. Deborah Lipstadt,
Denying the Holocaust
(New York: Plume, 1993), 14; Lipstadt’s statement is also quoted in Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
88.

56. Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate.

57. Lipstadt,
Denying the Holocaust,
14. Quoted in Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
88–89.

58.
Hitler’s Apologists: The Anti-Semitic Propaganda of Holocaust “Revisionism”
(New York: Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, 1993), 60.

59. Wistrich,
Anti-Semitism: The Longest Hatred,
233–234.

60. Robert Satloff,
Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust’s Long Reach into Arab Lands
(New York: Public Affairs, 2006), 163.

61. Rafael Medoff, “Palestinians May Get a Holocaust Denier as First Prime Minister,”
Jewish Bulletin of Northern California,
February 21, 2003, 19.

62. Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
88; and Dalin,
The Myth of Hitler’s Pope,
244–245.

63. Medoff, “Palestinians May Get a Holocaust Denier as First Prime Minister.”

64. Satloff,
Among the Righteous,
164.

65. Quoted in ibid.

66. Ibid., 165.

67. Interview with Mahmoud Abbas by Nahum Barnea and Ronny Shaked in
Yediot Aharonot,
May 30, 2003, as cited in Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
89.

68. In 1982, Issa Nakhleh published an article in
Journal of Historical Review,
a publication devoted to Holocaust denial. (Issa Nakhleh, “Memorandum to the President,”
Journal of Historical Review,
3, no. 3 [Fall 1982].)

69.
A Memorandum Submitted to the Summit Meeting at Camp David by Issa Nakhleh, Chairman of the Palestine Arab Delegation and Permanent Representative of the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine
(New York: Palestine Arab Delegation, 1978), 27.

70. Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
89.

71. Ibid.

72. Muhammad Kheir al-Wadi, “The Plague of the Third Millennium,”
Teshreen,
January 31, 2000. Quoted in Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
93.

73. Ibid.

74. Ibid. 90.

75. Ibid., 89–90.

76. Quoted in Wistrich, “Islamic Judeophobia,” 209.

77.
The New York Times,
March 26, 2000. Quoted in Wistrich, “Islamic Judeophobia.”

78. Dalin.
The Myth of Hitler’s Pope,
154.

79. Ibid. Quoted in Wistrich, “Islamic Judeophobia,” 218, footnote 70.

80. Timmerman,
Preachers of Hate,
94.

81. Ibid.

82. Ibid.

83 Foxman,
Never Again?,
222–223.

84. Ibid., 223.

85. Ibid.

86. Ibid., 223–224.

87. Ibid., 218, footnote 69.