Many people are keenly aware that certain famous verses in the Koran are highly antisemitic. Many people are also keenly aware of Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, and his famous November 1941 meeting with Adolf Hitler, to which we can trace the use of Nazi propaganda to amplify to escalate the pre-existing Koranic roots of Arab antisemitism.

However, a few other figures with strong ties to the Nazis who had equal or even greater impact in cementing lingering antisemitism in Arab society have been largely overlooked by historians. Watch our own Hussein Aboubakr Mansour who discussed certain figures who had crafted a brilliant, albeit evil, methodology of instilling and escalating Jew-hatred within the Arab population.

His critical intellect led him to find out more about Israel and Jews and to forge friendships with Israelis. As a result, he was arrested and tortured by the government of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak under suspicion of being an agent of the government of Israel.

Hussein received political asylum in the United States under President Barack Obama in 2012 and worked as an instructor for language and culture at the Defense Language Institute at Monterey, California. He then went on to work as an educator and public speaker for StandWithUs, educating students about cultural and geopolitical issues in the Middle East and helping them counter antisemitism.

Hussein wrote an autobiography, Minority of One: The Unchaining of the Arab Mind, and his articles have appeared in Commentary, Newsweek, the Jewish Journal, JNS.org, Times of Israel and Mosaic Magazine. Hussein has worked for EMET since September 2020, and has been integral in crafting the ideas behind the Israel Normalization Act of 2021, based on his own personal experiences.