* The Shi’a and Sunni are the two great branches within Islam. Their separation grew out of a dispute over who was the legitimate successor to the Prophet Muhammad (see Chapter 3). The Shi’a are a majority in four Muslim nations—Iran, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, and Iraq. The Sunni are the majority in the others.

1 Joe McCarthy, “GI Vision of a Better America,” New York Times Magazine, August 5, 1945, 10; E. Digby Baltzell, “Foreword,” in Murray Friedman, ed., Philadelphia Jewish Life, 1940–1985 (Ardmore, PA: Seth Press, 1986), ix, quoted in Leonard Dinnerstein, Antisemitism in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 151.

2 Quoted in Nora Levin, The Jews in the Soviet Union since 1917: Paradox of Survival, vol. 1 (New York: New York University Press, 1988), 1:444.

3 Levin, The Jews in the Soviet Union, 1:445.

4 Andrei Gromyko, United Nations General Assembly, 77th Plenary Meeting, May 14, 1947, http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/D41260F1132AD6BE052566190059E5F0.

5 Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament, trans. and ed. Strobe Talbott (Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1974).

6 Golda Meir, My Life (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975), 250.

7 Ibid., 254.

8 Levin, The Jews in the Soviet Union, 1:524.

9 “Tragicomedy in Prague,” New York Times, November 22, 1952.

10 V. A. Malyshev diary, Istochnik no. 5 (1997), 140–141, quoted in Geoffrey Roberts, Stalin’s Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939–1953 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006), 341.

11 Howard M. Sachar, A History of the Jews in the Modern World (New York: Vintage Books, 2005), 715.

12 Barukh Podolsky, “How I Became a Zionist,” Soviet Jews Exodus, accessed March 25, 2011, http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/soviet_jews_exodus/English/Memory_s/MemoryPodolsky.shtml.

13 Ibid.

14 Ibid.

15 Giuliana Tedeschi, interview by Nicola Caracciolo, Uncertain Refuge: Italy and the Jews During the Holocaust, trans. and ed. Florette Rechnitz Koffler and Richard Koffler (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995), 121.

16 James Parkes, “After the Eichmann Verdict,” Observer, December 17, 1961, 8, quoted in David Cesarani, Becoming Eichmann: Rethinking the Life, Crimes, and Trial of a “Desk Murderer” (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2006), 329.

17 Ariana Melamed, “The Year the Silence Was Broken,” Israel News, April 22, 2008.

18 Gideon Hausner, Justice in Jerusalem (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), 433.

19 Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer, Growing Up Jewish in America: An Oral History (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 122, 124.

20 Louis Rosenblum, “Involvement in the Soviet Jewry Movement,” Cleveland Jewish History, accessed March 25, 2011, http://www.clevelandjewishhistory.net/sj/lr-beginnings.htm.

21 Sayyid Qutb, essay reproduced in Ronald L. Nettler, Past Trials and Present Tribulations: A Muslim Fundamentalist’s View of the Jews (Oxford: Pergamom Press, 1987), 72–87, quoted in Matthias Küntzel, Jihad and Jew Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11, trans. Colin Meade (New York: Telos Press, 2007), 83.

22 Ibid., 85.

23 Thomas Mayer, Egypt and the Palestine Question, 1936–1945 (Berlin, 1983), 300, quoted in Norman A. Stillman, Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2003), 143.

24 Stillman, Jews of Arab Lands in Modern Times, 153.

25 Lucette Lagnado, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family’s Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World (New York: Harper Perennial, 2007), 92.

26 Quoted in Küntzel, Jihad and Jew Hatred, 70.

27 Walter Laqueur and Barry Rubin, eds., “The Palestinian National Charter, July, 1968,” in The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict (New York: Penguin Books, 2008), 119.

28 Quoted in Küntzel, Jihad and Jew Hatred, 72.

29 Charles de Gaulle, quoted in Jon D. Levenson, “Closeness and Its Enemies,” Commentary.

30 Colin MacInnes, Sunday Telegraph, June 18, 1967.

31 Raymond H. Anderson, “Soviet Again Excoriates Zionism As Instigator of Anti-Semitism; Anti-Zionist Brochures Racist Activity Charged,” New York Times, December 31, 1967.

32 Bertrand Russell, “Open Letter to Wladyslaw Gomulka,” in World Jewry 11, no. 6 (Nov.–Dec. 1968): 8, first quoted in Possony, Waking Up the Giant, 473.

33 Boris Kochubiyevsky, quoted in Allan Levine, Scattered among the Peoples: The Jewish Diaspora in Twelve Portraits (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Duckworth, 2003), 383.

34 “Protests Here and Abroad Continue on Soviet Jews,” New York Times, December 30, 1970.

35 Weekly News Summary, UN Press Release WS/760, April 30, 1976.

36 Chaim Herzog, “Speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations, November 10, 1975,” in Who Stands Accused? Israel Answers Its Critics (New York: Random House, 1978), 6–9.

37 “Hamas Charter (1988),” Selected Documents Regarding Palestine, The Jerusalem Fund, http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/carryover/documents/charter.html.

38 Ibid.