ABSTRACT
Radical Islam is the preeminent source of anti-Semitism in the modern world. As the founding father of radical Islamic anti-Semitism in the twentieth century, Haj Amin al-Husseini remains the inextricable and enduring link between the old anti-Semitism of pre-Holocaust Europe and the Jew hatred and Holocaust denial that now permeates the Muslim world. To be born a Jew has become, for many radical Islamists today as it was for Adolf Hitler and for al-Husseini, a mandate for hate. In recent decades, Jew hatred and the widespread circulation and distribution of anti-Semitic literature, such as The Protocols of the Elders of lion, have increased dramatically and exponentially throughout the Islamic Middle East. If the Protocols is the most popular anti-Semitic tract in the Arab world, Hitler's Mein Kampf could be considered a close second. Yasser Arafat and other Arab political leaders close to the mufti have also thrown their weight behind the blood libel and charges of Jewish ritual murder.
