Abstract
Radical Jihadist and Islamic extremists are using anti-Semitic propaganda to rally domestic and foreign recruits to their terrorist networks—groups such as the so-called Islamic State, Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-Qaeda and many other terrorists use anti-Semitism as a cornerstone of their hateful ideology. With the ever-increasing impact of social media, terrorist groups have successfully adapted and used these tools in their efforts to reach a vast audience of potential recruits.
The narratives depicting Jews as the enemies of humanity and the abhorrent, but commonplace, call for their extermination are currently propelled by ISIS which perceives both Jews and Israel as the global enemy. This chapter argues that there is a historical link between the export of anti-Semitism from Europe to the Greater Middle East and its development into the ideological paranoia that feeds modern radical Jihadi terrorism and that this is essential to comprehend reality and in order to effectively combat contemporary Islamist terrorism.
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Conducted by the International Centre for Community Development of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and administered online to 314 respondents in 32 countries.
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Online Etymology Dictionary (2016), Anti-Semitism. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=anti-Semitism. Accessed 16 Oct 2016.
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Dr. Günther Jikeli is the author of European Muslim Antisemitism. Why Young Urban Males Say They Don’t Like Jews (Indiana University Press 2015) and, most recently, of an important chapter on “A Framework for Assessing Antisemitism: Three Case Studies (Dieudonné, Erdoğan, and Hamas).” In Deciphering the New Antisemitism, edited by Alvin H. Rosenfeld. He is the Visiting Assistant Professor and Justin M. Druck Family Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University and a senior ISGAP research fellow).
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Silva, M. (2017). Antisemitism and the Global Jihad. In: Casaca, P., Wolf, S. (eds) Terrorism Revisited. Contemporary South Asian Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55690-1_6
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