Professor Claims Anti-Semitism and 'Islamophobia' Are Equal Threats

Professor Claims Anti-Semitism and ‘Islamophobia’ Are Equal Threats

Reza Zia-Ebrahimi

Are “Islamophobia” and anti-Semitism comparable? King’s College London senior lecturer Reza Zia-Ebrahimi argued as much at Harvard University by equating the Czarist forgery, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” with Israeli author Bat Ye’or’s book, “Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis.” Campus Watch West Coast representative Cinnamon Stillwell’s report is posted at the Algemeiner:

Zia-Ebrahimi recently made this argument with a talk co-sponsored by Harvard University’s Saudi-funded Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and titled, “When the Elders of Zion Relocated to Eurabia: Conspiratorial Racialisation in Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.”

Speaking to a largely middle-aged crowd of about twenty,contended that both the Protocols of the Elders of Zion—a Czarist forgery published circa 1903 alleging that Jews were plotting world domination—and Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis—a 2005 book by Israeli author Bat Ye’or declaring the demographic and political transformation of Europe into “Eurabia"—employ conspiracy-theories that incite hatred for Jews and Muslims, respectively.

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Winfield Myers

Winfield Myers is managing editor of the Middle East Forum and director of its Campus Watch project, which reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North American universities. He has taught world history and other topics at the University of Michigan, the University of Georgia, Tulane, and Xavier University of Louisiana. He was previously managing editor of The American Enterprise magazine and CEO of Democracy Project, Inc., which he co-founded. Mr. Myers has served as senior editor and communications director at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and is principal author and editor of a college guide, Choosing the Right College (1998, 2001). He was educated at the University of Georgia, Tulane, and the University of Michigan.