order to keep the situation calm. My feeling is that this is a kind of censorship." Dr. Küntzel also said that the contents of emails described to him did not overtly threaten violence but "they were very, very strongly worded". He added: "It's stupid, because I also talk about Christian anti-semitism." Members of the German department at Leeds accused the university of "selling-out" academic freedom. Awards and honors In 2007, Küntzel's book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2007 London Book Festival. In 2008, Küntzel's book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 won the Gold Award for Religion at the 12th annual Independent Publisher Book Awards in Los Angeles. In 2011, Matthias Küntzel was presented with the Anti-Defamation-League's (ADL) Paul Ehrlich-Günther K. Schwerin Human Rights Award. In 2011, Matthias Küntzel was (together with Colin Meade) the recipient of the Best Book Review Award of the Journal for the Study of Antisemitism. In 2022, the German-Israeli Society in Hanover awarded him the Books Nazis und der Nahe Osten. Wie der islamische Antisemitismus entstand, Hentrich & Hentrich 2019, Germany and Iran: From the Aryan Axis to the Nuclear Threshold, , New York, 2014. Deutschland, Iran und die Bombe, , LIT Verlag 2012. آلمانی‌ها و ایران- تاریخ گذشته و معاصر یک دوستی بدفرجام. ترجمه مایکل مبشری(2012). ISBN 978-3-943147-18-6 Die Deutschen und der Iran, wjs-Verlag 2009. Islamischer Antisemitismus und deutsche Politik, LIT Verlag 2007 Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11, Telos Press, New York, 2007. Djihad und Judenhaß: über den neuen antijüdischen Krieg, Ça Ira, Freiburg, 2002 Der Weg in den Krieg. Deutschland, die Nato und das Kosovo (The Road to War. Germany, Nato and the Kosovo), Elefanten Press, Berlin, 2000 Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Goldhagen und die deutsche Linke oder: Die Gegenwart des Holocaust (Goldhagen and the German Left or: The Presence of the Holocaust), ed. Matthias Küntzel, Ulrike Becker, Klaus Thörner et al., Elefanten Press, Berlin, 1997 Bonn & the Bomb: German politics and the nuclear option, Transnational Institute (TNI), Pluto Press, London; Boulder, Colorado, 1995. Bonn und die Bombe: deutsche Atomwaffenpolitik von Adenauer bis Brandt, Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt/Main; New York, 1992 Notes External links Homepage English articles at matthiaskuentzel.de Interview with Matthias Kuntzel from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Anti-Germans (political current) German political scientists 1955 births Living people Scholars of antisemitism Islam and