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The Arab discourse on the Holocaust displays various instances of economic antisemetic rhetoric. One such example is Shaykh Muhammad Sayyid al-Tantawi’s 1997 book The Israelites in the Qur’an. Tantawi was an integral part of the religious leadership in Egypt, a leadership that purported the idea that Jews had undermined Islam throughout history. In this book, Jews are characterized as a “swindler people,” starting both the Great War and WWII for selfish economic gain, and taking over the German economy as a result of their sinister fiscal techniques. Tantawi uses this perception of Jews as a justification for Hitler’s genocidal agenda, saying that it is “little wonder that the Germans rose against them several times and employed all the means of killing, expulsion, and pillage.”