Antisemitism in the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Time to Confront the Elephant in the Room

Stone, David H.
Foreword by Colonel Richard Kemp

David Stone’s masterful account exposes how the root cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict lies in a continuing and virulent antisemitism cloaked in anti-Zionism. A depressing but essential message that deserves to be widely read, especially in the West where misinformation and misunderstanding are widespread.
Lord Turnberg

Anyone looking for an explanation for the Hamas massacre on October 7 should read this book. It not only provides an excellent introduction to the history and present of the Middle East conflict, but is also a committed plea to finally take note of this conflict’s main root - hatred of Jews and Israel – in order to combat it adequately.
Dr Matthias Küntzel, Political Scientist

I have been puzzled by the failure of the research into the phenomenon of antiZionism to see the wood for the trees, i.e. its larger global manifestation. Professor Stone’s very topical book offers a correction to this academic lacuna. His pioneering study is enhanced by his application of psychological insights, his use of a vast range of sources and the scope and clarity of his exposure. Stone does not let his academic rigour be affected by the legitimate repulsion of antiZionism and its antisemitic corollary.
Henri Stellman, Political Scientist and AntiZionism Researcher

If you’ve ever wondered why the Palestinians have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity for peace with Israel, David Stone has an explanation: the Arab world’s ingrained and enduring eliminationist antisemitism. He provides chapter and verse from Balfour to the present day about the anathema of Jewish sovereignty.
John Ware, writer and broadcaster

David Stone provides a masterly summary of the antisemitism that has for so long blighted the Arab–Israeli conflict and continues to make its resolution so difficult. This is a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in the current tragic state of affairs in the Middle East.
Colonel Richard Kemp

The Holocaust has become sanctified as a one-off historical tragedy that has little to do with our own times except as a warning of what could happen again in some theoretical dystopian future. There seems to be a large blind spot for the lethal antisemitism that has long blighted Muslim countries and remains prevalent today throughout the Middle East and the world. 
This failure of collective vision has been responsible for inflicting incalculable and avoidable suffering on generations of both Jews and Arabs – as was vividly illustrated by the Hamas massacre of 7 October 2023 and the war it triggered. Drawing on multiple scholarly sources, Professor David Stone summarises the overwhelming evidence that eliminationist antisemitism is the ‘elephant in the room’ – the underlying cause and principal driver of the hundred-year long Arab-Jewish (now misleadingly reframed as Israeli–Palestinian) conflict – and is the main reason it remains unresolved. Until that political and genocidal bigotry is confronted, the conflict is likely to continue.
The book concludes with a call to action. There is a moral obligation upon all of us – regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion or politics – to acknowledge this apparently immoveable obstacle to peace and to insist that the international community takes action. The most urgent priority is to alert the world to the existence of antisemitic antiIsraelism. The purpose of this book is to empower readers with the knowledge to take that crucial first step towards peace and justice not just for Israelis and Arabs, but for humanity as a whole.

248 pages 10 black and white illustrations

Copyright: 18/09/2024