Mein Kampf sales in the Arab world and Israeli propaganda

Nurit Modai, Deputy Israeli Ambassador to Ireland, claims that the “Middle East is the only region in the world where Mein Kampf is a best-seller” (Letters, Jul 6).

One has to wonder how Ms Modai discovered this ‘fact’ when there are no official best-seller lists in any Arab country.

No doubt what she is referring to is an AFP report from 2001 in which a Ramallah bookseller claimed he had sold less than 10 copies of said book per week during Aug 1999, immediately after a ban on the publication of the book had been lifted by the Palestinian Authority. Compare this with Amazon.com, which has over 400 English language translations of Hitler’s vile works.