The Socio-Historical Background of Holocaust Denial in Arab Countries. Reactions to Roger Garaudy’s The Founding Myths of Israeli Politics
Goetz Nordbruch (2001). Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SISCA).
Rejecting the idea that Holocaust denial in the Arab world can be dismissed as merely an instrument used to de-legitimise the existence of Israel, the author suggests that its presence and vigour should be explained within the context of more general ideological developments. He therefore analyses elements of Arab antisemitism by tracing antisemitic thought back to its socio-historical interaction with nationalism, and contemporary Islamist thought, reviewing both content and cause.