Islamist violence

Prof. Marc Knobel

As we can see, antisemitism has held a major place in Islamist ideology, both in the past and in the present. Thus, many of the Islamist terror attacks committed in the West over the past years have also targeted Jews. Some of the deadliest incidents have taken place in France.

Who are the main targets of Islamists today?

References

• Jikeki, Günther, “Antisemitic Acts and Attitudes in Contemporary France: The Effects on French Jews,” Antisemitism Studies, vol. 2, no. 2 (Fall 2018), pp. 297 – 320.

• Kepel, Gilles, Terror in France: The Rise of Jihad in the West (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017).

• Knobel, Marc, Haine et violences antisémites: une rétrospective 2000-2013 (Paris: Berg International, 2013).

• Küntzel, Matthias, Jihad and Jew-hatred : Islamism, Nazism and the roots of 9/11 (New York: Telos Press, 2007).

• Lewis, Bernard, “License to Kill: Usama bin Ladin’s Declaration of Jihad,” Foreign Affairs, vol. 77 (1998), pp. 14 – 19.

• Nesser, Petter, Islamist Terrorism in Europe: A History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).

• Rabasa, Angel and Cheryl Benard, Eurojihad: Patterns of Islamist Radicalization and Terrorism in Europe (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015).

• Webman, Esther, “Al-Aqsa Intifada and 11 September: Fertile Ground for Arab Antisemitism,” in Antisemitism Worldwide, 2001/2 (Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, 2003), pp. 37 – 59.