Want to Buy an Arabic Edition of “Mein Kampf” or Read about the “Zionist Octopus”? Head to the Saudi Arabian Book Fair https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2019/08/want-to-buy-an-arabic-edition-of-mein-kampf-or-read-about-the-zionist-octopus-head-to-the-saudi-arabian-book-fair/

August 16, 2019 | Daniel Pipes
About the author: Daniel Pipes (DanielPipes.org, @DanielPipes) is president of the Middle East Forum.

“After 250 years,” writes Daniel Pipes, “the Saudi dynasty under Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman appears cautiously to be exiting the Wahhabi hammerlock. But books on display at the 2019 Riyadh International Book Fair gave no hint of this.” To Pipes the large number of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel titles—which contrast sharply with the thaw in relations between Riyadh and Jerusalem—suggest the slow pace of change in the kingdom.

Some of the titles include Zionist Terrorism and Arab Peace: Between Martyrdom and Extermination, The Role of Jews from Artaxerxes to Balfour, The Zionist Octopus and the American Administration, and, of course, The Holocaust Industry. That’s not to mention Hitler, two separate editions of Mein Kampf, and a book on the Freemasons.

Read more on Middle East Forum: https://www.meforum.org/59161/outrageous-covers-at-a-saudi-book-fair