ABSTRACT

Muslim leaders in the West, have recourse to the same known themes of anti-Semitism which are either imported with them from their original lands of Islam or are acquired locally in their interaction with the native anti-Semites of old. To avoid the libel of anti-Semitism, the PA, in its media and textbooks, like in other Arab and Muslim entities, charge the Jews of the responsibility for the anti-Jewish sentiment that they cultivate around themselves, just like the Nazis who blamed the Jews for their misfortunes. Demonization of Jews in general and of Zionism and Israel as a corollary, seem to head the list of Muslim anti-Semitic speeches and deeds, closely followed by Holocaust denial and the conspiracies that the Jews are accused of weaving around the world. Holocaust denial by Muslim anti-Semites has been almost universal. Attitudes towards the Holocaust have emerged as one of the criteria by which Europeans test their Muslim immigrants.