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Jihad and the Spread of Islamism - Robert Wistrich

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Channel: FORA.tv · 2010 · News & Politics

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/01/04/A_Lethal_Obsession_Anti-Semitism_Then_and_Now

Robert Wistrich, author of A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad, warns of the seriousness with which many Muslims take the duty of jihad. Speculating about the implications of Islamism with regard to Iran, he says: "War is on the horizon."

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Hebrew University of Jerusalem professor Robert Wistrich and University of Maryland, College Park professor Jeffrey Herf trace the history of anti-Semitism from its earliest recorded roots through the present. Furthermore, they discuss the potential impacts of its modern-day resurgence. - Woodrow wilson International Center for Scholars

Robert Wistrich is director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism and Neuburger professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A prolific author, Wistrich has written extensively on the history of anti-Semitism, Jews and socialism, Nazi Germany, and related topics. Between 1999 and 2001 Wistrich was one of six scholars appointed to an international Catholic-Jewish historical commission to examine the wartime record of Pope Pius the XII.

More recently, in June 2003, he initiated and acted as chief historical advisor for a BBC film documentary on contemporary Muslim anti-Semitism, entitled "Blaming the Jews." Since 2003, he has edited the research journal Anti-Semitism International and the Posen Papers in Contemporary Anti-Semitism. Most recently, Wistrich is the author of A Lethal Obsession: Anti-Semitism from Antiquity to the Global Jihad.

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