This piece, in full below, appears at David Project founder Charles Jacobs' blog, as well as this week's Jewish Advocate:

Merely listening to Hamas should be enough to convince anyone that the Jewish state is seen by major segments of the Muslim world as a theological affront to Islam.

But the myth that the conflict is secular and solely related to real estate is deeply held. That’s understandable: Who wants to think that the Jews survived Christian theological hatred in Europe to find themselves at the center of a murderous Islamic hate-storm? A "border war with locals" feels so much better. It’s a palliative, a soporific.

There is a sign, however, that Israelis are beginning to re-think this matter. The Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, a research unit unofficially associated with the Israeli intelligence services, recently released an important report entitled 'Contemporary Arab-Muslim anti-Semitism, its Significance and Implications.'

The report rehearses well-known religious sources of Islamic Jew-hatred, and documents the vast extent of active anti-Semitism throughout the Arab/Islamic world. It concludes that Muslim anti-Semitism is a strategic threat to Israel and the Jewish people globally.
Meanwhile, in the States, a debate rages over just how Islamic Muslim anti-Semitism actually is. In the new book "Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11" Matthias Künzel blames Muslim anti-Semitism on the Nazis who invested considerable effort propagandizing to the Arab world. Kunzel’s discoveries of the intimacy and depth of the Nazi-Muslim alliance are fascinating. But Kunzel is being rebuffed roundly by Andrew Bostom, whose forthcoming book "The Legacy of Islamic Anti-Semitism," argues that the Koran itself, and early Islam, are sufficient to explain Muslim anti-Semitism.

Indeed, Bostom’s book is creating a major academic buzz. Pre-publication reviews by renowned scholars - Martin Gilbert, Steven Katz, Efraim Karsh, Richard Rubenstein, and the New Republic’s Martin Peretz - are preparing the public for a major re-think on Islam’s inherent views and treatment of the Jews.

A sample: Bostom quotes Sheikh Muhammad Tantawi, grand imam of Cairo’s al-Azhar University: "[The] Koran describes the Jews with their own particular degenerate characteristics, i.e. killing the prophets of Allah, corrupting His words by putting them in the wrong places, consuming the people’s wealth frivolously, refusal to distance themselves from the evil they do, and other ugly characteristics. [A]ll Jews are not the same. The good ones become Muslims, the bad ones do not." (Koran 3:113)

I know a Muslim scholar who refutes this: Sheikh Ahmed Mansour, leader of the "Quaranists," an Islamic reform movement in Egypt. But Mansour was kicked out of Al Azhar University (Islam’s "Vatican") for his teachings (and then was sued here by the Islamic Society of Boston).

The ITIC report calls for Israel to join with the international community, and for Jews and non-Jews alike to use political, media and legal tools and moral authority to fight Muslim anti-Semitism.

But first, we need a psychological breakthrough to Jewish denial that Islamic theology is a central problem, as Islam itself forbids non-Muslim self-rule in the "Arab Middle East." For starters, we’re inviting Bostom to Boston.