Israeli President Isaac Herzog revealed a hateful book at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday titled The End of the Jews that he said was written by a Hamas co-founder and praised the Holocaust.
Herzog said Israeli forces found the antisemitic book — which spouts Hamas’ ideology and justification for its hatred and slaughter of Jewish people — in a Gaza home.
He claimed it was written by Hamas co-founder Mahmoud al-Zahar to spread the terror group’s ideals across Gaza.
The book, whose cover features a dagger piercing the Star of David, glorifies the historic violence against Jews in Europe, specifically praising the Holocaust and Nazi Germany, Herzog said.
This book, first of all, says we should not recognize the fact that there are Jews and Jewish people, but most predominantly it hails the Holocaust. It hails what the Nazis have done and calls for nations to follow what the Nazis have done, Herzog said, according to a translation by Ynet.
The book Herzog showed the members of the conference in Germany included chapters that were titled The General Corruption of the Jews, The World’s Burning Hatred for the Jews and Reasons to Expel the Jews.
The book also perpetuated stereotypes of the Jewish people and claimed Jews used the blood of Christian children to conduct rituals.
Herzog said the book ultimately served as evidence that Hamas actively worked to spread its hateful ideology across Gaza and justify the need to destroy Israel, which he said was attempted during the Oct. 7 massacre.
Standing in Munich, just miles away from the Dachau concentration camp memorial site, Herzog called on global leaders to reject antisemitism and work with the Jewish state in fighting this ideology.
Along with presenting the antisemitic book, Herzog also discussed his recent meeting with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed Al-Thani. where the two leaders discussed the ongoing talks to broker a hostage exchange deal.
While Herzog touted Qatar’s help in pushing for a deal, the Israeli president expressed concerns about the lack of medical supplies reaching the hostages, as well as poor communications about their well-being.
While Israel allowed medicine for the hostages to enter Gaza last month, the IDF alleges that some of the shipments did not reach the kidnapped after boxes of the medication listed for some of them were found still sealed at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
Israel believes that 134 hostages still remain in Gaza after two Israel-Argentinian citizens were freed in a daring rescue operation last week.
