The Arabs and the Holocaust The Arab-Israeli

An unprecedented and judicious examination of what the Holocaust meansand doesn't meanin the Arab world, one of the most explosive subjects of our timeThere is no more inflammatory topic than the Arabs and the Holocaustthe phrase alone can occasion outrage. The terrain is dense with ugly claims and counterclaims: one side is charged with Holocaust denial, the other with exploiting a tragedy while denying the tragedies of others.In this pathbreaking book, political scientist Gilbert Achcar explores these conflicting narratives and considers their role in today's Middle East dispute. He analyzes the various Arab responses to Nazism, from the earliest intimations of the genocide, through the creation of Israel and the destruction of Palestine and up to our own time, critically assessing the political and historical context for these responses. Finally, he challenges distortions of the historical record, while making no concessions to anti-Semitism or Holocaust denial. Valid criticism of the other, Achcar insists, must go hand in hand with criticism of oneself.Drawing on previously unseen sources in multiple languages, Achcar offers a unique mapping of the Arab world, in the process defusing an international propaganda war that has become a major stumbling block in the path of Arab-Western understanding.

Gilbert Achcar, who grew up in Beirut, has taught at the University of Paris-VIII and at the French-German Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin. He is currently professor of development studies and international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Among his many books are The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder and Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy, co-authored with Noam Chomsky.

Preface	p. 1
Introduction: Words Laden with Pain	p. 5
Shoah, Holocaust, Jewish Genocide	p. 5
Zionism, Colonialism, Uprootedness	p. 9
Nakba	p. 22
The Time of the Shoah: Arab Reactions to Nazism and Anti-Semitism, 1933-47
Prelude	p. 33
The Liberal Westernizers	p. 35
The Marxists	p. 51
The Nationalists	p. 64
The Baath Party	p. 65
The Syrian Social Nationalist Party	p. 74
The Lebanese Phalange	p. 76
Young Egypt and Egyptian Nationalism	p. 78
The High School Student Movement Futuwwa in Iraq	p. 85
Iraqi Arab Nationalists and Nazism	p. 87
Syrian Arab Nationalists and Nazism	p. 91
Arab Nationalism and Anti-Semitism	p. 94
The June 1941 Pogrom in Baghdad: The Farhud	p. 99
Reactionary and/or Fundamentalist Pan-Islamists	p. 104
Pan-Islamism and Fundamentalist Counterreformation	p. 105
The Religion of Islam and the Jews	p. 108
Rashid Rida	p. 111
Shakib Arslan	p. 120
ôMy Enemy's Enemyö: Alliances of Convenience, Affinity, and Complicity	p. 125
Amin al-Husseini: The Grand Mufti	p. 131
'Izz-ul-Din al-Qassam	p. 134
Amin al-Husseini and the 1936-39 Arab Revolt in Palestine	p. 137
Amin al-Husseini's Exile and Collaboration with Rome and Berlin	p. 145
Amin-al-Husseini and the Jewish Genocide	p. 150
Amin al-Husseini, Architect of the Nakba	p. 158
Amin al-Husseini's Divergent Legacies	p. 162
The Time of the Nakba: Arab Attitudes to the Jews and the Holocaust from 1948 to the Present
Prelude	p. 177
The Nakba as Seen by Benny Morris-a Symptomatic Trajectory	p. 182
The Nasser Years (1948-67)	p. 192
ôThrowing the Jews into the Seaö?	p. 195
Nasserism and Anti-Semitism	p. 201
The Eichmann Trial, Reparations, Comparisons, and Holocaust Denial	p. 208
The PLO Years (1967-88)	p. 221
The Programmatic Redefinition of the Palestinian Position toward the Jews	p. 223
Transposing the Image of the Holocaust: The Battle of Comparisons with the Nazi Past	p. 231
The Years of the Islamic Resistances (1988 to the Present)	p. 244
Hezbollah, Hamas, and Islamized Anti-Semitism	p. 248
From the Garaudy Affair to the Ahmadinejad Affair: Reactive Exploitation of the Memory of the Holocaust	p. 256
Conclusion: Stigmas and Stigmatization	p. 273
Of Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, Philosemitism, Islamophobia, and Exploitation of the Holocaust	p. 274
Of Zionisms, the State of Israel, Racism, the End of Denial, and Peace	p. 286
Acknowledgments	p. 297
Notes	p. 299
Bibliography	p. 343
Index	p. 359
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