»he focuses instead on “the promotion of anti-Semitism among Japanese intellectuals, politicians, and laypersons.”
Really hilarious to focus on it for, as I assume, a native Arabic speaker.
Found your article while browsing to check his educational background (couldn’t believe he had a MA with history major), as his fresh vicious “good and bad Jews” tweets emerged in my feed. But actually I cannot absorb that a 3rd year PhD student published nothing but this article.
Luckily, I learned more reading this post about Nazi propaganda in MENA and Asia than about this toxic guy.
Alexander, thank you for this essay. I found it very informative, especially in light of the current disorder in online discourse. My personal feeling (not based on any information) is that if Nazi plans for extermination of Jews outside their control were not well formulated, it was more a feature of lack of ability rather than a lack of desire. As with the Italian Army refusing to surrender Jews in their areas of responsibility, I'm not sure the Vichy authorities in Tunisia where the Germans had a military presence were willing to surrender them either. Also, until Torch and following El Alamein, I think there was more German control in Western Libya than in Tunisia. But I don't know that for a fact.
»he focuses instead on “the promotion of anti-Semitism among Japanese intellectuals, politicians, and laypersons.”
Really hilarious to focus on it for, as I assume, a native Arabic speaker.
Found your article while browsing to check his educational background (couldn’t believe he had a MA with history major), as his fresh vicious “good and bad Jews” tweets emerged in my feed. But actually I cannot absorb that a 3rd year PhD student published nothing but this article.
Luckily, I learned more reading this post about Nazi propaganda in MENA and Asia than about this toxic guy.
Good, solid critique. Your points are well-taken.
Alexander, thank you for this essay. I found it very informative, especially in light of the current disorder in online discourse. My personal feeling (not based on any information) is that if Nazi plans for extermination of Jews outside their control were not well formulated, it was more a feature of lack of ability rather than a lack of desire. As with the Italian Army refusing to surrender Jews in their areas of responsibility, I'm not sure the Vichy authorities in Tunisia where the Germans had a military presence were willing to surrender them either. Also, until Torch and following El Alamein, I think there was more German control in Western Libya than in Tunisia. But I don't know that for a fact.
Well said, and good comparison. Definitely worth considering.