Richard Landes
ARTICLES BY: Richard Landes
Lethal, Own-Goal War Journalism on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
JNS.org - The month of May 2021 taught us Israelis many unfortunate things — things we hoped were not true (and continue to hope are...
An Open Letter to Boston University’s President Regarding Antisemitic Professor Sarah Ihmoud
Dear President Brown, I was surprised by the letter you are sending out in reference to the Sarah Ihmoud case. Given my experience with you during...
A Case Study of Lethal Journalism: The New York Times and Marwan Barghouti
The New York Times recently ran an op-ed by Palestinian Marwan Barghouti in which he accused Israel of arbitrary arrests, kangaroo courts, systematic torture, brutal...
Who Is Really Betraying Jewish Values?
Eva Illouz wrote a dramatic New Year’s piece for Haaretz, in which she accused fellow Jews who support Trump of falling prey to messianic fantasies and “betraying...
Pessin, Ironic Prophet: The Liberal Emperor’s New Clothes of Humanitarian Racism
[In the spring of 2015, Connecticut College erupted into a bizarre frenzy of condemnation over philosophy professor Andrew Pessin’s Facebook post from and about the...
France is Losing Hearts and Minds of Native-Born Muslims
Granted that it's Ramadan, which skews the sample, but every day, certainly every week now, it seems, there's a new indication that France is losing...
Welcome, Refugee from rekaB Street: Shmuel Rosner’s Mea Culpa
In the flood of commentary and analysis of the Al Durah controversy, I've tried to fisk the most important typical responses. And of...
Lethal Journalists React to the Al Durah Report: Insights Into the NGO-Journo Matrix
It's well known here in Israel that the journalists, the NGOs and the UN folk party together, that within a few weeks of coming...
The Al Durah Affair: What Makes Journalists Behave so Badly?
The Israeli government finally came out with a report - thirteen years late - on the Muhammad al Durah affair. It's thirteen years late....
Palestinian Projections and the Workings of Jew-Hatred
The indispensable PMW has just published a translation of an article in Ma'an, the Palestinian news agency publication. PMW emphasizes the vicious anti-Semitism of the piece...
Goldberg and the Daniels: Of Sewage Pipes, Lethal Narratives, and DurahJournalism
A recent spat in the blogosphere raises issues worth considering. After Jeffrey Goldberg informed his ample readership that President Obama believed that Israel did not understand...
