Raphael Israeli
Muslim antisemitism in Christian Europe
Transaction Publishers

Modern Arab and Muslim hostility towards Jews and Israel is rooted not only in the Arab-Israeli conflict and traditional Islamic teaching but also in Christian anti-Semitic attitudes brought into the Islamic world by Western colonial powers. In this volume, Raphael Israeli, professor of Islamic, Chinese and Middle Eastern history at the Hebrew University, examines how the worsening situation in the Middle East together with large waves of Muslim immigration to Europe and North America has brought about a commingling of two anti-Semitic traditions. Israeli lays out the nature and ideologies of the Muslim immigrant world and shows how in each European country they create their own ethnic sub-groups and religious communities, often in competition with each other.