So, the author believes that family relations leads to collective guilt?

It's interesting that my previous comments have been deleted for no apparent reason.

I concur with Prof. Tabak. It should also be noted for the record that even in the Balkans, the relationship between Jews and Muslims during World War II was often adversarial.

In 1943 Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Grand mufti of Jerusalem, travelled at Hitler's request to Sarajevo to bring muslim clerics into the Nazi war effort. Heinrich Himmler used him to raise an all-muslim 22,000 soldier unit of the SS called the 13th Waffen "Handschar" Division, which participated in the holocaust by hunting down Jews in Croatia, Serbia, and Kosovo. Himmler also recruited a partially-muslim SS division in neighboring Albania (the 21st "Skanderbeg") and a muslim Bosnian SS division (the 23rd "Kama").

Much to their credit, the people of Albania helped to protect thousands of Jews from persecution and extermination. But even there the picture was far from pretty, and the historical record conclusively demonstrates that anti-semites like Mufti al-Husseini contributed substantially to the nazi war effort and are responsible for the murder of thousands of innocents.

I know one of the posts deleted from this page talked about the cooperation a Jewish terrorist group called the Stern Gang tried to get from the Nazis, but is that a valid comparison?

The Stern gang was a fringe extremist group, but Mufti al-Husseini was a powerful and widely acknowledged spiritual leader. Now if Golda Meir or Ben-Gurion had asked help from the Nazis, then maybe a valid comparison could be established.

A member of the Stern gang, Yitzhak Shamir, later became Prime Minister of Israel. The Israeli government also pays for and maintains a museum dedicated to the Stern Gang in Tel Aviv complete with a sealed preservation of the room where its leader was killed by the British and photos of its "martyrs."

A member of another militant group, the Irgun, become prime minister of Israel as well, Mr. Menachem Begin.

As for the mufti, his influence over Palestinian affairs essentially was cut after he went into exile.

There seems to also be a conflation between religious identification and religious practice. However nominal or even non-existent an individual's religious practice or faith, if they are identified as a "Muslim" this term often is used to supercede all others.