Notes
- Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, “Egypt's Islamist Extremists Claim Landslide Win,” www.israelnationalnews.eom/News/News.aspx/150856#.Tu-w51bNSIU (December 19, 2011).
- Benny Morris, “Arab Spring or Islamist Surge?” Australia-Israel Review (December, 2011), 20–21.
- Dore Gold, “Diplomacy after the Arab Uprisings,” The Jerusalem Post, December 15, 2011.
- See Rachid al-Ghannouchi, “Secularism in the Arab Maghreb,” Islam and Secularism in the Middle East, Azzam Tamimi and John L. Esposito (eds.) (London, 2000), pp. 115–123. See also Azzam S. Tamimi, Rachid Ghannouchi: A Democrat within Islamism (Oxford, 2001).
- See Nicholas Kristof, “Joining a dinner in a Muslim Brotherhood home,” The New York Times, December 7, 2011. For a more critical analysis, see Uriya Shavit, “Islamotopia: The Muslim Brotherhood's Idea of Democracy,” Azure XLVI (Autumn, 2011), 35–62. See also Hillel Fradkin and Lewis Libby, “Egypt's Islamists: A Cautionary Tale,” Commentary (April, 2011), 17–21.
- Quoted by Fradkin and Libby, op. cit., p. 19. On Al-Banna, see Brynjar Lia, The Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt: The Rise of an Islamic Mass Movement, 1928–1942 (Ithaca, 1998).
- For example, on the Nasirist period, see the classic study by Y. Harkabi, Arab Attitudes to Israel (Jerusalem, 1972).
- Quoted by Or Avi-Guy, “Anti-Semitism re-emerges in the Arab Spring,” The Jerusalem Post, December 15, 2011.
- Andrew G. Boston, “Lara Logan and Egyptian Jew-Hatred,” American Thinker, February 16, 2011; Martin Krossel, “Western Media Ignore Anti-Semitism in Egypt,” Frum Forum, February 23, 2011, www.frumforum.com/media-ignores-anti-semitism-in-egypt.
- For an account of Qaradawi's unique status, see Jakob Skovgaard-Peterson, “Yusuf al- Qaradawi and al-Azhar,” Global Mufti: The Phenomenon of Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Bettina Gräf and Jakob Skovgaard-Peterson (eds.) (London, 2009), pp. 27–53; and Husam Tamman, “Yusuf Qaradawi and the Muslim Brothers: The Nature of a Special Relationship,” ibid., pp. 55–83. Also useful, though somewhat indulgent, is the Wikipedia entry, accessed on 15 March 2011, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/yusuf_al-Qaradawi/.
- See Alexander Smoltczyk, “The Voice of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood,” Spiegel Online, February 15, 2011. See also Oren Kessler, “Yusuf al-Qaradawi—a ‘man for all seasons’,” The Jerusalem Post, February 20, 2011. The quote is taken from Fradkin/Libby, “Egypt's Islamists,” op. cit., p. 21.
- “Yusuf al-Qaradawi tells BBC Newsnight that Islam justifies suicide bombings, www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/07_july/07/newsnight.shtml; also www.islamon/ine.net/servlet/Satellite?pagename=IslamOnline-English-Ask_Scholar/FatwaE/FatwaEcid=1119503543546.
- “Sheik Yusuf Al-Qaradhawi on Al-Jazeera Incites Against Jews, Arab Regimes and the US,” MEMRI—Special Dispatch No. 2183, January 12, 2009, www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archivesArea=sdID=SP218309.
- “Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi: Allah imposed Hitler upon the Jews to Punish Them—” (www.memritv.org/clip/en/2005.htm), MEMRI-TV, Clip no. 2005, Al-Jazeera TV (Qatar), January 28–30.
- Jeffrey Goldberg, “Sheikh Qaradawi Seeks Total War,” February 23, 2011, see www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/02/Sheikh-qaradawi-seeks-total-war/71626/. This anti-Jewish hadith appears in the Charter of Hamas (the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood) and ends: “The last day will not come unless you fight Jews. A Jew will hide himself behind stones and trees and stones and trees will say, “O Servant of Allah—or O Muslim—there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.”
- See Ronald L. Nettler, “Islam vs. Israel,” Commentary (December 1984), 26–30; and Nettler, “Islamic Archetypes of the Jews: Then and Now,” Anti-Zionism and Anti- Semitism in the Contemporary World, Robert S. Wistrich (ed.) (New York, 1990).
- Sayyed Qutb's seminal essay “Our Batttle against the Jews,” written in the early 1950s, was first published in Saudi Arabia in 1970, four years after his execution by Nasir. Ronald L. Nettler, Past Trials and Present Tribulations: A Muslim Fundamentalist's View of the Jews (Oxford, 1987) is a translation into English of Qutb's text with some additional comments by the translator. It was commissioned by the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
- See my A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad (New York, 2010), p. 807.
- Nettler, “Islam vs. Israel,” op. cit., p. 28.
- “Muslim Brotherhood Vows to Not Recognize Israel,” The Jerusalem Post, January 1, 2012.
- Robert S. Wistrich, A Lethal Obsession, op cit., pp. 809–811. See also Matthias Küntzel, Djihad und Judenhass (Freiburg, 2002), pp. 28–102 on the Nazi roots of Islamist antisemitism.
- See Rivka Yadlin, An Arrogant Oppressive Spirit: Anti-Zionism as Anti-Judaism in Egypt (Oxford, 1989), published for the Vidal Sassoon International Center.
- Ibid., pp. 103–129.
- Eldad Beck, “Cairo rally: One day we'll kill all Jews,” ynetnews.com, November 25, 2011. See also Or Avi-Guy, “Anti-Semitism re-emerges…,” op. cit.
- See Wistrich, A Lethal Obsession, op. cit., p. 235.
- Ibid.
- Josef Joffe, “Arabischer Frühling, Erwachen im Herbst,” www.zeit.de/2011/38/Israel/komplettansicht. See also Samuel Tadros, “One Nation for New Holocaust,” The Weekly Standard, October 4, 2011.
- Janet Doerflinger, “Whitewashing the Muslim Brotherhood,” FrontPageMagazim.com, May 20, 2011, www.meforum.org/2910/whitewashing-muslim-brotherhood.
- See Clemens Heni, Schadenfreude. Islamforschung und Antisemitismus in Deutschland nach 9/11 (Berlin, 2011), for an incisive critique of the willful failure of most German academics to grasp the nature of Islamism, jihad, and antisemitism in the Arab Middle East. Also relevant is my Muslimische Antisemitismus. Eine aktuelle Gefahr (Berlin, 2011).
- See Barry Rubin, “Islamism: 21st Century Communism,” The Jerusalem Post, December 11, 2011.