Post-1948 Arab intellectuals cited Hitler to validate antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Evidence

Even serious authors go in for this kind of theory. A well-known professor of political science, in a widely-read book on Zionism, quotes Hitler in support of the authenticity of the “Protocols,” which (he argues), is in any case demon­ strated by the whole course of modern history; he goes on to argue that the study of what Hitler wrote about “World Zionism” is a vital necessity for the Arabs after what happened in 1948. … Most other books dealing with Israel, Zi­ onism, or the Jews—and there are literally hundreds of them—bear to a greater or lesser extent in the same direction. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1280

Categorization

• SHARE: For someone studying the intellectual history of Middle East antisemitism — the detail that a diplomat who was consul-general in Jerusalem cited the Protocols as scholarship is a striking specific.
• XREF: connects to: Nazi-era speech patterns survive Hitler’s downfall as popular communicative forms — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 993