Richard Landes on Jihad and the Apocalyptic Mind
A medievalist on apocalyptic movements, shame–honour cultures, and why he believes the Western press has spent twenty-five years reporting jihad backwards.
A collection of 34 posts
A medievalist on apocalyptic movements, shame–honour cultures, and why he believes the Western press has spent twenty-five years reporting jihad backwards.
Reflections on a morning that changed the world as we knew it.
Watching Gillo Pontecorvo’s film six decades after its release permits a nuanced understanding of the events that it portrays, which was unavailable when it first came out.
How Argentina became a front in Iran’s war against the Jews.
We have ignored, enabled, downplayed, and pandered to vicious antisemitism for too long. The victims of the Bondi massacre paid the price.
Bondi is Australia, Australia is Bondi Beach.
Why the Bondi attack was not an aberration, but the consequence of years of tolerated antisemitism across Australian public life.
The identity of the Bondi Beach terrorists reveals some uncomfortable but important truths about antisemitism within Australia’s Muslim population.
The massacre at Bondi Beach was shocking—but after years of denial and equivocation about antisemitism, it was inevitable.
Fifteen people are dead after gunmen opened fire at a Jewish Hanukkah festival on one of Sydney’s most iconic beaches.
A month after the lethal Manchester synagogue attack, the UK still refuses to take its number one terror threat seriously.
The Jewish state has secured its borders, recovered all living hostages, and put its enemies on notice as to what awaits them if they attempt a reprise of 7 October.
The Australian security services have confirmed that Iran orchestrated antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. This is not the first time leftist causes have been hijacked by Islamists. It is time we confronted this danger.
Pakistan is failing to control the terrorist groups that are headquartered within its borders and pose a serious threat to both India and the West.
A conversation about Iran, Israel, and Islamic terrorism with Iraqi researcher Suha Hassen.