Awards

• Joint winner of Bernard Lewis Memorial Prize 2023

Overview

A Winner of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa 2023 Bernard Lewis Prize Landes,a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements, takes us through thefirst years of the third millennium (2000-2003), documenting how a radicalinability of Westerners to understand the medieval mentality that drove GlobalJihad prompted a series of disastrous misinterpretations and misguidedreactions that have shaped our so-far unhappy century. These misinterpretationsin 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2005, contributed fundamentally to the ever-worsening moraland empirical disorientations of our information elites (journalists,academics, pundits). So while journalists reported Palestinian war propagandaas news (lethal journalism), they were also reporting Jihadi war propaganda asnews (own-goal war journalism). These radical disorientations havecreated our current dilemma of pervasive information distrust, deep splitswithin the voting public in most democracies, the politicization of science,and the inability of Western elites to defend their civilization, and instead,to stand down before an invasion.

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(...) Landes's new work makes a distinctive and valuable contribution to the large body of existing literature on antisemitism and the global jihad. This is especially evident when he... brings his excellent skills of close reading, textual analysis, and attention to detail to bear on the material. At its core, this is a compelling critique of the various journalists and public figures -especially in France, Britain, and the United States-who managed to be consistently wrong about the facts and their causes. - Jeffrey Herf, Quillette From the moment Yasser Arafat launched his long-planned second intifada against Israel in 2000, the most brazen lies about both Jews and Israel were relentlessly told and widely believed. ... Richard Landes's new work ... fearlessly, carefully, relentlessly and brilliantly documents this history. ... This book is an important history lesson... - Phyllis Chesler, Jewish News Syndicate Landes dwells upon the al-Durah hoax in his new and magnificent book Can the Whole World be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism and Global Jihad. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand today's lunacies. - Melanie Phillips, Jewish News Syndicate

(...) Landes's new work makes a distinctive and valuable contribution to the large body of existing literature on antisemitism and the global jihad. This is especially evident when he... brings his excellent skills of close reading, textual analysis, and attention to detail to bear on the material. At its core, this is a compelling critique of the various journalists and public figures -especially in France, Britain, and the United States-who managed to be consistently wrong about the facts and their causes. - Jeffrey Herf, Quillette

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Professor RichardLandes was trained as a medievalist and taught in the Boston University History Department. He isnow an independent historian living in Jerusalem. Hiswork focuses on apocalyptic beliefs at the the turn of the first millennium (the Peace of God) and the second millennium (Global Jihad, Woke).

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