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Genealogy of Evil, A: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad


Genealogy of Evil, A: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad

Paperback by Patterson, David (Hillel Feinberg Chair in Holocaust Studies)

Genealogy of Evil, A: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad

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ISBN:
9780521132619
Publication Date:
18 Oct 2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Pages:
312 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 23 - 24 Apr 2024
Genealogy of Evil, A: Anti-Semitism from Nazism to Islamic Jihad

Description

Based on extensive scrutiny of primary sources from Nazi and Jihadist ideologues, David Patterson argues that Jihadist anti-Semitism stems from Nazi ideology. This book challenges the idea that Jihadist anti-Semitism has medieval roots, identifying its distinctively modern characteristics and tracing interconnections that link the Nazis to the Muslim Brotherhood to the PLO, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda, the Sudan, the Iranian Islamic Republic, and other groups with an anti-Semitic worldview. Based on his close reading of numerous Jihadist texts, Patterson critiques their antisemitic teachings and affirms the importance of Jewish teaching, concluding that humanity needs the very Jewish teaching and testimony that the Jihadists advocate destroying.

Contents

Introduction: the essence of the Jihadist evil; 1. Nazi ideology and Jihadist echoes; 2. Modern Jihadist ideological foundations; 3. The Nazi seed in Islamic soil; 4. The evil spreads: the Muslim Brotherhood; 5. Jihadist brothers: the Sudanese National Islamic Front, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas; 6. 'Religious' offshoots: the Islamic revolution, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda; 7. 'Secular' offshoots: the Baath Party and the PLO; 8. Concluding thoughts: humanity's need for Israel.

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