Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis is Bat Ye’or’s groundbreaking 2005 study of how, after the oil crisis of 1973, the European Community and the Arab League began the Euro-Arab Dialogue, resulting in a series of agreements with the Arab League for political, economic, and cultural cooperation. The word “Eurabia” was used in the Euro-Arab Dialogue documents. These agreements were markedly one-sided, and paved the way for massive Muslim migration into Europe, without assimilation.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was a 1903 czarist forgery purporting to depict leading Jews plotting world domination. It became the basis and justification for the conspiratorial anti-Semitism of the National Socialists (Nazis) in Germany and others.
Now at Harvard’s Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, funded by Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, Associate Professor in History at King’s College London, will give a lecture equating the two. The object, obviously, is to discredit Bat Ye’or’s work by portraying it as conspiracy paranoia that leads to genocide.
Just a few obvious problems with this endeavor: Zia-Ebrahimi’s lecture is entitled “When the Elders of Zion Relocated to Eurabia: Conspiratorial Racialisation in Antisemitism and Islamophobia,” but neither Islam nor Islamophobia are races, as far as I know. Zia-Ebrahimi probably means, however, that Muslims are being “racialized,” i.e., treated as a racial category, by being discriminated against and harassed collectively in a racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic Europe, but this is sheer fantasy, as in reality European governments have been avid to appease and accommodate their restive and rapidly growing Muslim populations.
What’s more, Zia-Ebrahimi’s thesis ignores the fact that Muslim migrants in Europe have brought the Continent to a crisis that is a cause for genuine concern, and that concern can in no honest way be likened to the baseless stigmatizing of the Jews. All of the Islamic jihadis who murdered 130 people in Paris in a series of jihad attacks in November 2015 were refugees who had recently been welcomed into Europe. Germany’s domestic intelligence agency admitted in July 2017 that hundreds of jihadis had entered the country among the refugees, and that 24,000 jihadis were active in Germany. Muslim migrants in Europe have also been responsible for an appalling epidemic of rape, sexual assault, theft, petty crime, and looting. In the first half of 2016, migrants in Germany, who are overwhelmingly Muslim, committed 142,500 crimes, an average of 780 every day. This was a significant increase from 2015, during which migrants committed 200,000 crimes. On New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2015, Muslim migrants committed as many as 2,000 mass rapes and sexual assaults in Cologne, Stockholm, and other major European cities. Muslim migrants have made Malmö, once a peaceful city, crime-ridden and hazardous. In Sweden, Muslim migrants from Afghanistan are 79 times more likely to commit rape and other sexual crimes than native Swedes. Migrants and refugees commit 92 percent of rapes in Sweden. Rapists in Sweden come from Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Eritrea, Syria, Gambia, Iran, Palestine, Chile, and Kosovo, in that order; rapists of Swedish background do not exist in sufficient numbers to make the top ten, and all the nations on that list except Chile and Eritrea are majority Muslim. Even before the migrant influx, while on a speaking tour in Germany in 2011, I was told by the sixteen-year-old daughter of one of the event organizers that she was routinely harassed on the way to school: Muslims on the commuter trains would call her a “whore” and a “slut” because her hair and arms were not covered. This happened, she said, every day.
So is concern for all this just “Islamophobia” and “conspiratorial racialization”? So Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, Alwaleed bin Talal, and Harvard University would have you believe. But in reality, this lecture is just another example of the endeavor by the political and academic elites to stigmatize any concern for jihad terror and Sharia oppression as “Islamophobia” and “racism.” This is the phenomenon I discuss in my new book Confessions of an Islamophobe: preorder your copy here now. It also illustrates yet again how universities today are not centers of higher learning, but recruitment centers for Antifa and boot camps for hard-Left indoctrination.
From the Harvard Divinity School Public Events Calendar:
When the Elders of Zion Relocated to Eurabia: Conspiratorial Racialisation in Antisemitism and Islamophobia
When Thursday, November 30, 2017, 5:15 – 7pm
Where Common Room, CSWR, 42 Francis Ave.
Sponsor The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and the Center for the Study of World Religions
Contact CSWR: 617.495.4495Details
Zia-Ebrahimi builds on recent comparative research on antisemitism and Islamophobia to argue that the two display similar dynamics in representing their target population as a hostile race (a process referred to as ‘racialization’). His research suggests that conspiracy theories of the ‘world Jewish conspiracy’ type, and their Islamophobic equivalent, the ‘Islamisation of Europe’ type, are powerful enablers of racialization, something that the literature has so far neglected. To show the similar dynamics of what he calls ‘conspiratorial racialization’, Zia-Ebrahimi provides a textual comparison between The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1903) and Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis (2005).
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi is an Associate Professor in History at King’s College London. His work is situated at the juncture between global intellectual history and ethnic studies. He has worked on the development of dislocative nationalism in Iran in the period 1860–1979, focusing on the hybridisation of European ideas of nation and race by Iranian intellectuals. Currently, his research centers on a parallel study of antisemitism and Islamophobia from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. The incidence of conspiracy thinking on strategies of racialisation is at the heart of this new research agenda.
epistemology says
The comparison is absolutely moronic and Mr. Zia-Ebrahimi is the king of morons. He’s no figurehead for King’s College, I can’t fathom why the Brits accept an idiot like that in their universities. Britain and Germany are going down the drain. I think the French are more sensible, I hope they can save Western Europe, as for Eastern Europe I’m confident, the Czechs, the Poles and the Hungarians know what freedom is and cherish it.
I met Robert in Stuttgart in 2011, I can confirm the girl’s statement. It’s a nightmare, thanks a lot Robert for supporting Western Europe the sinking ship.
gravenimage says
I’m afraid he is not a moron–instead, he is a lying Muslim.
epistemology says
To all my American friends, please visit Europe as long as it is still existing.
Billy Chickens says
I will never go to Europe again. What’s the point? Been there, done that and I have no intention of getting beheaded. Cannot believe that Europeans are descendants of the iron men and saints of the Crusades.
One cannot be nice to the devil and win – in other words accommodate and appease Islam and you lose. You lose your religion, your heritage, your country, home, and family right down to your dog which will be killed because Islam even hates “man’s best friend.”
I have nothing but disdain for the pathetic European losers of today who are so weak that they allow Islam to run over them. Man up. Get some testosterone shots or something, but literally – for Christ’s sake – stand up for the truth beauty and goodness of your Christian heritage or be drowned by the demonic evil of wicked Islamic ideology.
Voytek Gagalka says
Europeans who were “descendants of the iron men and saints of the Crusades” killed each other during past few centuries, starting from religious war in 17th century (so called 30-years war), through Napoleonic wars at start of 19th century, and then devastating two world wars of the last century. And apparently there is almost no one left to defend them now.
Chand says
Ya, Europe is dangerous for sure. What about the United States, though? Crazies and pathological human haters of all kinds with assault rifles are hitting the headlines too often for comfort!
LB says
Keep in mind that when talking about Europe dying, make sure to emphasize that it is the *WESTERN* Europe the one that’s dying, otherwise people like Billy here will get the wrong idea. Central / Eastern Europe is doing just fine, no rapefugees here. Economically it is lacking in comparison sure, but if you live anywhere in the West where the living standard is high, you will find that everything is super cheap which makes it ideal for tourism.
In one century, Eastern Europe has fought off muslim turks, German Nazis and Russian Communists, so national pride and zero tolerance for Western PC bullshit is at the all-time high. (Source: I live there) If things continue to spiral down like this, In a decade or two, Eastern Europe will be the only sanctuary for white Christians all over the world.
Ernie says
” WHITE- Christians” , LB ? “Non white Christians ” EXCLUDED , LB ? You see LB , I’m a ” non white ” Christian , living ( and born ) in Western Europe , and because of the color of my skin you are excluding me beforehand . You are a WHITE SUPREMACIST LB .
Ernie says
LB , your RACIST comment here is damaging/compromizing the INTEGRITY of Jihad Watch . Your racist agenda is contrary to the values of Jihad Watch , LB . Jihad Watch is NOT A PLATFORM for the DISTRIBUTION OF RACIST CONTENT .
LB says
Where in my comment did I say that non-white Christians are not welcome? Stop accusing people of what they didn’t say, stop playing the victim, and stop race-baiting. That is how muslims and leftists do things. Maybe you are one, in which case stop trying to cause conflicts here, it’s not gonna work. You’re just wasting your time.
But to clarify, the reason why I specifically mentioned white Christians is because they are enemy #1 in the West and everyone here knows it. In today’s left-leaning mainstream society where people are judged based on their race, gender, religion and political orientation instead of their character; conservative, straight, white, Christian males are on the very bottom of the social pyramid, and are blamed for every single bad thing that ever happened in the history of mankind.
It’s the truth and you know it. Take your race-baiting PC bullshit out of here.
carol says
LB…here’s a great interview with Tommy Robinson after his visit to Poland (and it is WHITE countries that are the proven target of irresponsible immigration so most of us know what you mean):
Poland: Nationalism Rising | Tommy Robinson and Stefan Molyneux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYTsRpstpBY
Custos Custodum says
Use your tourist dollars to REWARD SANE COUNTRIES: Poland, Hungary, etc. will be happy to show you a good time, perhaps also Austria.
Switzerland is also still marginally sane about Muslim migrants, but is very expensive and for the most part overrated as a tourist destination.
cyrus basile says
By the Phoenicians to the Ottomans and Turks, none of them has ever set foot in the kingdom of Naples, and then Italy, we have always defeated, my ancestors died for these, now soros and the countries of the persian gulf are succeeding with the help of the left to invaderci without firing a shot
mortimer says
This is outrageous. Where is the academic protest?
Angemon says
Isn’t “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” perceived as true in the islamic world since it was mass distributed there by the KGB in the 50’s?
gravenimage says
Yup. You hear this all the time from Muslims. Muslim troll Ibrahim itace muhammed even spews this here at Jihad Watch.
carpediadem says
Yes and it features heavily in the Hamas Covenant as a sign of the Jews’ perfidy.
warren raymond says
Petrodollars rule. Not only in our institutions of higher learning. What Zia-Ebrahimi carefully conceals from his lectures is the fact that the “Elders of Zion” forgeries are believed by the overwhelming majority of Mohammedans. Bat Yeor’s writing is not based on a conspiracy theory, but based on actual, undeniable facts which have been superseded by the reality on the ground. The ‘Elders of Zion’ is clearly debunked rubbish that contributed, and still contributes, to the murder of Jews today. Deplorable.
Jack Diamond says
Bat Ye’or’s earlier groundbreaking work had to do with rediscovering the lost history of dhimmis under Islamic subjugation, what she called “dhimmitude”, in “The Dhimmi: Jews and Christians Under Islam” (1985) and “The Decline of Eastern Christianity: From Jihad to Dhimmitude” (1996). {The Wikipedia entry on her might have been written Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, it is so contemptuous of her work.}
In light of Islam’s very real persecution (and eradication} of the Middle Eastern Jews in their midst, and the Jew-hatred and conspiratorial mindset permeating the Qur’an and Sunnah, there is more than a little irony in using the Protocols to ridicule Bat Ye’or (and her admirers).
The Protocols of Elders of Zion is a perennial best seller in the Muslim world. It was made into a television series in Egypt. Those Muslims seem to have no problem believing that the Jews malevolently conspire to rule the world {and cause everything bad that happens i.e. “they (Jews) strive to do mischief on earth (and corruption in the land)” -Qur’an 5:64}. It continues to serve the same purpose in the Muslim world as it did in Nazi Germany, and in justifying pogroms against Jews in Russia before that.
Comparing a piece of incredulous filth (real filth, itface Muhammad), that has inspired mass murder for more than a century, to the meticulous scholarship of Bat Ye’or chronicling the suffering of Jews & Christians under Islam, and the makings of “Eurabia” from (non-forged) documentation, and whose predictions we have most certainly witnessed come to pass, illustrates “conspiracy paranoia” in a way Reza Zia-Ebrahimi does not intend.
He merely illustrates his own conspiracy paranoia (and that of his Saudi sponsors). That is assuming he believes anything that comes out of his mouth toward the kaffirs since the purpose is discrediting counter-jihad and any concern over the Islamic invasion of Europe, at all cost.
gravenimage says
+1
Wellington says
Let’s see here. Just since 9/11 there have been over 32,000 documented Islamic terrorist attacks worldwide, many in Europe (and this figure does not include the many tens upon tens of thousands of INTENDED such attacks that were not pulled off because they were thwarted by various security forces across the globe). By contrast, Jews in Czarist Russia, Weimar Germany, etc., weren’t systematically terrorizing or killing anyone, nor were they involved in some kind of secret cabal to run the world but, interestingly enough, running all the world has been one of the goals of Islam from its inception.
So, revulsion towards the Islamic world is rooted in realism while revulsion towards the Jewish world was (and still is) rooted in fiction (of course, when Israeli Jews, who have been willing to live in peace with their Muslim neighbors from the UN partition plan of 1947 onwards, fight back against the violence perpetrated against them by Muslims they are described in the negative and not the Muslims).
Thus, to compare a work like Bat Ye’or’s “Eurabia,” rooted in fact, with the completely fictional and despicable “Protocols,” as though these two works are equally worthy of blame, is to manifest to anyone of sense and knowledge (this would of course exclude, among others, many Stanford administrators and students) that only one of two possibilities exist respecting any person proffering such a comparison: 1) ignorance; or 2) mendacity. And, as Angemon mentioned above in his 11:47 A.M. post, in the Islamic world to this day the “Protocols” are widely looked upon as true, indeed admired, making a denunciation of them by this professor who is going to speak at Harvard an exercise, let’s see here, in ignorance or mendacity (I favor the latter). Hitler’s Mein Kampf is also still a best seller in many Islamic nations. Hmmm. Wonder if you get a discount if you buy both at the same time in sundry bookshops in Muslim countries?
gravenimage says
Spot on, Wellington.
Nosferatu Tepesh says
The hypocrisy is limitless !!! As an ex-muslim who used to live in Muslim lands I can attest that the stories of the Elders of Zion are preached in schools, mosques and even in movies and TV series in the middle east. So I find it ridiculous to see this monkey comparing Islamophobia with the Elders of Zion while at the same time spreading the falsehoods of the Elders of Zion.
Karen says
“Currently, his research centers on a parallel study of antisemitism and Islamophobia from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.”
It’s so curious how envious some are of the actual persecution and victim experience of the Jews. How does one compare the experience of 1.5 billion people, with 55+ Islamic majority nations, to a tiny group of Jews 1% the size of the Islamic world, who wandered the world stateless and reviled for centuries, now with barely 1 country they can call their own? The Jews have never rampaged across the desert, the world, or to the gates of Vienna, have never had an empire, and never demanded that whole populations convert to Islam, die, or become 2nd class citizens.
Well, I guess if you are trying to develop a victim narrative, you could hardly do better than to invoke the bittersweet Jewish experience.
J D S says
That little piece of land that the Jews have is not near the land that was given to them by, not the UN, but by the one who actually owns all the lands and waters of the whole world….GOD……
Peter says
Another example of the worthlessness of the Harvard, a Perversity where there is no distiction between an ever-growing reality (Eurabia, Eurostan) and a proven anti-Semitic fabrication.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
you people at JW are intellectually bankrupt. None of you has been able to point out why “protocols of Elder of Zion ” is a forged document.is document not the agenda of Jewish migrants to Europe in order to dominate, which gave rise to Jewish control of financial sytem with which they trickily control the economy?that is what gave rise to extreme capitalism where resources are confined to few hands of Jews. Learn more
Wellington says
Can you name one serious historian, Ibrahim, who has maintained that the “Protocols” are anything but a late czarist forgery to inculpate Jews in not only an unfair way but in a ludicrous way?
Next you’ll be telling us that Jews really do use the blood of Christian children to make their bread.
Karen says
I see the response to your request is crickets and tumbleweeds. What a surprise, LOL.
gravenimage says
What an idiot.
Ernie says
Dear Gravenimage , you are right . Ibrahim itace muhammed is an IDIOT . When reading his comment I wanted to say to him : YOU LEARN MORE , Ibrahim itace muhammed . When reading your comment I realized my reaction would be fruitless . Idiots are incapable of LEARNING . Thank you Gravenimage !
Karen says
Exactly. There is no point in addressing trolls directly.
Alain says
Mohamid, it is allah your father speaking, why don’t you be a good son and take your mother, that dear old goat,out for her nightly feeding. And while you’re at it, why not let the camel, out of the barn, for his nightly breeding.:)
Jack Diamond says
It’s not even a controversy, genius. The Protocols were a forgery disseminated around the outset of the Russian anti-Jewish pogroms (first published by Sergyei Nilus) at the beginning of the century. It is probably the most confirmed “literary” forgery in history. Part of it was forged from an attack on Napoleon III by a French lawyer, Maurice Joly, called “Dialogues in Hell” (itself plagiarizing a novel by Eugene Sue). Phrases and quotes are almost identical to the Protocols. Also, a chapter from an antisemitic German novel from 1868 by Hermann Goedsche. The Times of London exposed it as a fraud as earlier as 1921.
“Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu” by Joly:
“Like the god Vishnu, my press will have a hundred arms, and these arms will give their hands to all the different shades of opinion throughout the country.”
— Machiavelli, Dialogues, p. 141
“Protocols of the Elders of Zion”:
“These newspapers, like the Indian god Vishnu, will be possessed of hundreds of hands, each of which will be feeling the pulse of varying public opinion.
— Protocols, p. 43
“Now I understand the figure of the god Vishnu; you have a hundred arms like the Indian idol, and each of your fingers touches a spring.”
— Montesquieu, Dialogues, p. 207
“Our Government will resemble the Hindu god Vishnu. Each of our hundred hands will hold one spring of the social machinery of State.”
— Protocols, p. 65
Dialogues in Hell:
“You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity’servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes, incapable of supporting the contrariness of a liberal regime, and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violence of bold despotism, breaking thrones in its moments of anger, and giving itself masters whom it pardons for violations the least of which would have caused it to decapitate twenty constitutional kings.”
Protocols of the Elders of Zion:
“The unfathomable meanness of the Goyim (non-Jewish) peoples, crawling before force, merciless to weakness, without pity for mistakes and indulgent toward crimes, not willing to endure the contradictions of a free order, enduring to martyrdom before the violence of a bold despotism-this is what aids our independence. From contemporary premier-dictators they tolerate and endure abuses, for the least of which they would have beheaded twenty kings.”
This is a brief sampling of why it is called a forgery. An invention. A fake. To incite fear, hatred, and instigate the persecution and murder of Jews. Hitler believed in the veracity of the Protocols, as do you, and for similar reasons.
gravenimage says
Fine post.
carpediadem says
Terrific summary thank you.
Karen says
Yes, the entire point of the document was to dehumanize the Jews. Sort of like framing them as apes and pigs, and the greatest in enmity.
gravenimage says
Harvard to host lecture likening Eurabia to the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
……………………
Uh…yeah. It’s exactly like that–except that Muslims really are trying to violently conquer us.
gravenimage says
So this is just more Taqiyya.
BC says
The basic and glaring difference between Jews and Muslims is that Jews have always integrated into the societies in which they chose to live, becoming major contributors to the intellectual, scientific and artistic life of said cultures. They have never sought to impose their religion on the host country and in spite of what Hitler and other antisemites claim they have never sought to dominate.
Muslims on the other hand blatantly and aggressively seek to impose their religion on people of their host country and make quite plain their resistance to integration, demanding separate education for their children and enforcing non integartion on any Muslims who do wish to integrate. They also continually demand special arrangements to accommodate their religious practices.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
BC, Muslim brains also contribute in the development of the west as many muslim scientists are currently training young scientists in the west. my own mother taught many renown medical scientists in the United States after training many in Nigeria where I grew up and saw your god the Satan (Holy Spirit).
tgusa says
Your mother from Nigeria trained renowned Medical Scientists in the US (oh no) and you cant write or spell.
Ok.
You have to become much better if you want to have any chance of trying to fool us. You are not in Nigeria anymore
tgusa says
I find your islamist propaganda to be insufficient in convincing or converting any westerner. You should be immediately recalled and then have your head cut off for being a complete failure.
carpediadem says
So is he gong to convince his Islamic brothers and sisters and Hamas that the Protocols is fake?
Karen says
I would assume that he’s going to try to draw a parallel between the Protocols as an acknowledged ‘hate document’, and any book that truthfully examines history and the Jihad threat.
Karen says
That is a very interesting question! The Protocols is such a go-to source of hate for people who want to hate…..you have me wondering what his approach will be!
Jack Diamond says
I’m sure he has no interest in addressing his Islamic brothers and sisters about any such thing.
His audience is the kaffirs and his only interest is denouncing Bat Ye’or and the counter-jihad as “Islamophobia” and fake, crackpot, delusional paranoid conspiracy madness, perhaps a prelude to rounding up Muslims or gassing them (Muslims being the new Jews, at least for propaganda purposes).
Something the infidel students hearing his lectures should in all good conscience harshly repudiate, if they don’t already, as they should welcome more Muslim refugees and migrants to their neighborhoods.
He uses the Protocols as parallel because of how the kaffirs view it as having no credibility and anathema. Not as how the Muslims view it, as gospel. I somehow don’t see him touring Iran any time soon, disabusing Muslims of their belief in the Protocols and Jewish conspiracies {and might not Eurabia be concluded a Jewish conspiracy against Islam–Muslims being the new Jews and Jews the new Nazis–since Bat Ye’or is Jewish?}
Leon Kushner says
Note who the sponsor of the course is: The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and the Center for the Study of World Religions. Prince Alwaleed is a Saudi prince. The Saudis have been pushing their antisemitic agenda at universities in the West for years, thanks to their immense oil money. Any school who takes their blood money are complicit in their indoctrination of our youth.
Richard Paulsen says
Awful islam being spread in Europe. Depressing.
Richard Paulsen says
Hating islam being spread in Europe.
Theo Wallingford says
This same talk was given at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck, University of London in March 2017. This outfit seems incapable of differentiating between Antisemitism and “Islamophobia” … Jewish support for European Islam will ultimately lead to the demise of the former at the hands of the latter.