Maqusi was quoted telling students: “You know, again, these are things that you read and again, as I said: do investigate, draw your own narrative.” Excerpt from the recording The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum describes the “Damascus affair” as having “marked the spread of the blood libel charge in the Arab world”. Maqusi was also quoted referencing the claim that the “Jews pretty much controlled the financialisation” during the time of Napoleon and that, in return for funding the French emperor, “he would erect the Jewish kingdom”. The lecture, it was claimed, referred to Sir Moses Montefiore, a British...