Manfred Gerstenfeld

Extrapolating from a 2011 study that showed respondents agreed at a high rate with the statement of "Israel is carrying out a war of extermination against the Palestinians", Gerstenfeld concluded that some 150 million, out of 400 million, EU citizens espouse a view that demonizes Israel. According to Gerstenfeld, Holocaust inversion is a mainstream phenomena in the European Union.[6]

Norway has a population of approximately 700 Jews.[7] Gerstenfeld argues that it is a major purveyor of anti-Semitism.[8] and has posted on his blog an interview with Hanne Nabintu Herland which claims that Norway is the most anti-Semitic country in the West.[9]

In 2009, The Jerusalem Post carried a report asserting there was an increase in Norwegian antisemitism and cited a protest led by Minister of Finance Kristin Halvorsen in which chants of "Death to the Jews!" were heard. Gerstenfeld said that "It gets deep at the heart of Norway's emotional anti-Semitism. The current wave of anti-Semitism shows what people have been holding inside them". [7] Norway's TV 2 subsequently reported that Gerstenfeld said "Norwegians are a barbaric and unintelligent people".[10][11] Gerstenfeld also accused Erik Fosse and Mads Gilbert, doctors who served in Gazan hospitals during the 2008-2009 War between Israel and the Gaza Strip, of financing Hamas.[12]

Holocaust survivor Imre Hercz criticized Gerstenfeld's "propaganda war against Norway", querying his objectivity and noting that Gerstenfeld had visited Norway only once at that time.[10][13] When Gerstenfeld was questioned by Jewish community leader Anne Sender about the effect his book about Norwegian Anti-Semitism might have on the Jewish minority in the country, he is reported as replying," I couldnt care less about the Jewish Community in Norway, all I care about is to get your Jens, Jonas and Kristin off the back of my Prime Minister".[14]

In 2011 Gerstenfeld warned that an investigation into antisemitism in Norway by the Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities was likely to minimize the extent of the problem in Norway and that the center would lose credibility. In response, Odd-Bjørn Fure, genocide authority and the director of the center, said that Gerstenfeld "is not worth arguing against. I prefer to deal with serious people. We do not take this person seriously."[15]

After three Norwegian universities declined an offer by Alan Dershowitz (who agreed to waive his fees for the occasion) to deliver lectures on Israel, Gerstenfeld claimed that Norway's elite is permeated with Israel-haters.[16] Kristina Fumes writing in Ynet, responded that the topic of Scandinavian anti-Semitism in Israel's English-language media was being hijacked by extremists and that studies show Norway ranks between England and Holland. While 11% of Norwegians displayed anti-semitic attitudes, 92% thought children should be taught about the Shoah.[17] According to Gerstenfeld, the study itself is flawed due to the lack of inclusion of Muslim respondents and that while the English conclusions stated that a "limited" degree of antisemitism similar to the UK exists, the study's own data states that 38% consider Israeli actions as similar to Nazi Germany, which he takes to be an example of Holocaust inversion and, if so, would be antisemitic according to the Working Definition of Antisemitism. By his own extrapolation Gerstenfeld claims that Norway has approximately 1.5 million anti-Semites, whom he defines as 'ideological criminals'.[18]

In 2019, Manfred Gerstenfeld warned against growing "anti-Israel sentiment" in what he called "ideological" movements, including the human rights movement, feminism, the LGBTQ community, postcolonialism, intersectionality, “extreme veganism,” the anti-nuclear movement, and the climate movement.[3]

Against academics who support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel, Gerstenfeld has recommended a tactic of professionally discrediting them by publicizing flaws such as plagiarism in their academic works, rather than engaging them in political debates.[3]

Gerstenfeld has denounced Jews who criticize Israel, in particular US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, as "masochists" and "useful idiots for Israel’s enemies".[3]

• Revaluing Italy with Lorenzo Necci (Italian) (1992)
• Environment and Confusion: An Introduction to a Messy Subject (1993)
• The State as a Business: Do-It-Yourself Political Forecasting (Italian) (1994)
• Israel’s New Future Interviews (1994)
• Judaism, Environmentalism and the Environment (1998)
• The Environment in the Jewish Tradition: A Sustainable World (Hebrew) (2002)
• Europe’s Crumbling Myths: The Post-Holocaust Origins of Today’s Anti-Semitism (Foreword by Emil L. Fackenheim) (2003)
• The New Clothes of European Anti-Semitism (French)(2004), co-edited with Shmuel Trigano
• American Jewry's Challenge: Conversations Confronting the Twenty-first Century(Foreword by Jonathan Sarna) (2004)
• Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss? (2005)
• European-Israeli Relations: Between Confusion and Change? (2006)
• Israel at the Polls 2006 with Shmuel Sandler and Jonathan Rynhold (2008)
• Academics against Israel and the Jews. (Foreword by Natan Sharansky) (2007)
• Behind the Humanitarian Mask: The Nordic Countries, Israel, and the Jews (Foreword by Gert Weisskirchen)(2008)
• The Abuse of Holocaust Memory: Distortions and Responses (Foreword by Abrham H. Foxman) (2009)
• Anti-Semitism in Norway: Behind the Humanitarian Mask (Foreword by Finn Jarle Saele) (Norwegian) (2010)
• American Jewry's Comfort Level: Present and Future with Steven Bayme (Foreword by David A. Harris) (2010)
• Israel at the Polls 2009 with Shmuel Sandler and Hillel Frisch (2010)
• Het Verval. Joden in een stuurloos Nederland (The Decay. Jews in a Rudderless Netherlands) (Dutch) (2010)
• Judging the Netherlands:the Renewed Holocaust Restitution Process 1997-2000 (Foreword by Stuart E. Eizenstat) (2011)
• Demonizing Israel and the Jews. (Foreword by Rabbi Marvin Hier) (2013)
• Postwar Jewish Displacement and Rebirth (with: Françoise S. Ouzan) (2014)
• The war of a million cuts (foreword by Jose Maria Aznar) (2015)
• Israel at the Polls 2013: Continuity and Change in Israeli Political Culture. (with Eithan Orkibi) (2015)
• Israel at the Polls 2015: A moment of transformative stability. (with Eithan Orkibi) (2017)
• Anti-Israelism and Antisemitism. (Foreword by Edna Brocke) (German) (2018)
• Veerkracht [Resilience] with Wendy Cohen Wierda (Foreword by Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs) (Dutch) (2019)

• The Gaza War and the New Outburst of Anti-Semitism
• Symbolic and Other Roles of Jews in Dutch Society
• Ahmadinejad Calls for Israel's Elimination and Declares War on the West: A Case Study of Incitement to Genocide
• The Mahathir Affair: A Case Study In Mainstream Islamic Anti-Semitism
• Srebrenica: The Dutch Sabra and Shatilla
• The Mohammed-Cartoon Controversy, Israel, and the Jews: A Case Study
• European Politics: Double Standards Toward Israel
• The Twenty-first-century Total War Against Israel and the Jews Part One and Part Two
• Various articles on Jewish Environmental Perspectives.
• Continuing to Distort the Holocaust: 2009-2011*The Abuse of Holocaust Memory in 2011-2012.
• Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism in Western Schools
• Anti-Semitism and Anti-Israelism in Dutch Schools
• The Gaza Flotilla: Facts and Official Reactions

• Joop den Uyl 1919-1987: Dromer en doordouwer (Joop den Uyl 1919-1987: Dreamer and Pusher) by Anet Bleich
• Never Again, Yet Again by Stephen D. Smith
• The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative on Israeli Leadership, by Yehuda Avner
• Hugo Logtenberg and Marcel Wiegman, Job Cohen – Burgemeester van Nederland