Robert Satloff’s new book is sure to rankle Arabs who insist that the Holocaust never happened. In Among the Righteous: Lost Stories from the Holocaust’s Long Reach into Arab Lands, Satloff chronicles the persecution of North Africa’s Jewish community during the Axis occupation and the Arab reaction to it. From the Sahara desert to cosmopolitan Casablanca, he discovers much Arab cruelty and indifference to the Jewish plight, but also tells stories of Arabs who’ve risked their lives to save Jews. In an interview with Moment’s assistant editor Nonna Gorilovskaya, Satloff, the executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, discusses what the Holocaust’s Arab history means for the Arab-Jewish relationship today.
