Hatred Lies and Violence in the World of Islam

<p><em>Hatred Lies and Violence in the World of Islam</em> examines the torrential flood of anti-Israeli anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist propaganda that permeates many Muslim societies. Raphael Israeli locates the source of this anti-Semitic sentiment in the inadequacies and insecurities of Muslim states. By demonizing and delegitimizing Israel and Jews they seek to eliminate a successful counterexample of their own failures thus putting an end to their own humiliation.</p><p>Beyond mapping the distribution of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish propaganda in the Arab and Islamic worlds Israeli uses case-studies to illustrate the premises of this study: the Palestinians who have a direct stake in battling Israel; Turkey which now claims leadership of the Arab and Sunni Muslim worlds; and Shi'ite Iran which provides a more extreme example of both hatred and disregard for fact and history while threatening to destroy Israel.</p><p>Israeli documents the worldwide collaboration between Jew-haters of all sorts explaining the exponential growth of Jew-hatred on the Internet with thousands of new hate sites added every year outpacing Jew-hatred in the traditional media. He places anti-Semitism in a broader tradition of political lies and political deceit. In the final chapter Israeli considers the possibility of reversing anti-Jewish agitation in Muslim countries which he finds unlikely because so many of the region's regimes are built on foundations of anti-Semitism.</p>