Gilbert Achcar

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Gilbert Achcar (Arabic: جلبير الأشقر; 5 November 1951) is a Lebanese socialist academic and writer.

[5] According to Tony Greenstein, writing in Holy Land Studies, the book is "based on a considerable body of research" and its strongest point is its treatment of the understanding of the Holocaust in Arab society.

[7] Anaheed Al-Hardan, in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, described the book as "a powerful and nuanced indictment of what is an essentialising and demonising discourse on the Arabs and the Holocaust".

[8] The Arabs and the Holocaust was reviewed unfavorably by Jeffrey Herf, who wrote in The New Republic that the book undermines its virtues with "superficial, unfair, and unreliable readings of those with whom he disagrees" and that such attacks do not contribute to scholarship.

"[10] Writing for Mondoweiss, Miriyam Aouragh reviewed it positively, calling it "a reasoned intervention that at once disputes anti-Arab racism and develops a strong set of arguments against the notion 'Arab anti-Semitism'.