Landes, a medievalist and historian of apocalyptic movements, takes us through the first years of the third millennium (2000-2003), documenting how a radical inability of Westerners to understand the medieval mentality that drove Global Jihad prompted a series of disastrous misinterpretations and misguided reactions that have shaped our so-far unhappy century. These misinterpretations in 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2005, contributed fundamentally to the ever-worsening moral and empirical disorientations of our information elites (journalists, academics, pundits). So while journalists reported Palestinian war propaganda as news (lethal journalism), they were also reporting Jihadi war propaganda as news (own-goal war journalism). These radical disorientations have created our current dilemma of pervasive information distrust, deep splits within 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.
Professor Richard Landes was trained as a medievalist and taught in the Boston University History Department. He is now an independent historian living in Jerusalem. His work focuses on apocalyptic beliefs at the the turn of the first millennium (the Peace of God) and the second millennium (Global Jihad, Woke).
Title: Can �The Whole World� Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad (Antisemitism in America)
Author: Landes, Richard
ISBN: 9781644696408
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Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Publication Date: 2022-12-08
Number of Pages: 550
Weight: 0.9873 kg
(...) 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