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  • Benjamin Netanyahu (R) walks with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi (L) during an official ceremoney at Ben-Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv on July 4, 2017. Modi is the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel, the result of growing ties that have led to billions of dollars in defense deals.
    Benjamin Netanyahu (R) walks with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi (L) during an official ceremoney at Ben-Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv on July 4, 2017. Modi is the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel, the result of growing ties that have led to billions of dollars in defense deals.
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    India’s New Crush on Israel

    How did Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s July visit with Benjamin Netanyahu fit into the last quarter-century of Indo-Israeli relations?

    byP.R. Kumaraswamy
  • Amin Al-Husayni, the former grand mufti of Jerusalem, living in Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1945, at the opening of the Islamic Central Institute in Berlin, Germany. World War II, German army photograph, December 19, 1942.
    Amin Al-Husayni, the former grand mufti of Jerusalem, living in Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1945, at the opening of the Islamic Central Institute in Berlin, Germany. World War II, German army photograph, December 19, 1942.
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    Fabricating Palestinian Responsibility for the Nazi Genocide

    How Benjamin Netanyahu could come to claim, and later retract, that the former mufti of Jerusalem, Hajj Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, led Hitler to the Final Solution

    byMichael Sells
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    Bibi: Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Told Hitler to Burn Jews in 1941

    The Israeli Prime Minister’s calculated claim at the 37th Zionist Congress in Jerusalem on Tuesday has been widely denounced and debunked. But it overshadows Haj Amin el-Husseini’s actual participation in the Holocaust.

    byJonathan Zalman
  • Soldiers of the 13th SS Division with a brochure about "Islam and Judaism," 1943.(German Federal Archive via )
    Soldiers of the 13th SS Division with a brochure about "Islam and Judaism," 1943.(German Federal Archive via )
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    The Nazi Romance With Islam Has Some Lessons for the United States

    Two new important histories look at Hitler’s fascination with Islam and Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey

    byDavid Mikics
  • The Shepherd Hotel is destroyed on Sunday.(Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)
    The Shepherd Hotel is destroyed on Sunday.(Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images)
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    New J’lem Building Has Weighty Symbolism

    Project gets its talents (and money) from South Beach

    byMarc Tracy
  • Professor Ramadan last May.(Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images)
    Professor Ramadan last May.(Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Live, From New York, It’s Tariq Ramadan

    Formerly banned from U.S., professor preaches limited reform

    byMarc Tracy
  • The Mufti of Jerusalem meeting with Hitler in 1941.(Wikimedia Commons)
    The Mufti of Jerusalem meeting with Hitler in 1941.(Wikimedia Commons)
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    Axis of Evil

    A new book examines how the Nazis tailored their message for Arab and Muslim audiences

    byAdam Kirsch
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