Can The Whole World Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad

Can The Whole World Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad

by Richard Landes
Can The Whole World Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad

Can The Whole World Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad

by Richard Landes

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781644699942
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Publication date: 11/22/2022
Series: Antisemitism in America
Pages: 550
Sales rank: 531,534
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Professor Richard Landes was trained as a medievalist and taught in the Boston UniversityHistory 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).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Warning to the Reader: If I’m Right, We’re in Deep Trouble
Introduction: Reflections of a Heretical Medievalist

Part One—Selective History of the Disastrous Early Aughts (2000-2003)
1. Al Durah: Spreading a Jihadi Blood Libel (2000)
2. 9-11: Taking the World by Storm (2001)
3. Jenin: Cheering on the Jihadi Suicide Terror (2002)
4. Danoongate: The Muslim Street Extends Dar al Islam (2005-6)

Part Two: Key Players
5. The Premodern Mindset―Zero-Sum Honor
6. Caliphators: A Fifteenth-Century Millennial Movement
7. Liberal Cognitive Egocentrics and Their Demopathic Kryptonite
8. The Global Progressive Left (GPL) in the Twenty-First Century
9. Compliant, Lethal, Own-Goal War Journalism: The Bane of the West in the Twenty-First Century
10. Anti-Zionist Jews: The Pathologies of Self-Criticism

Part Three: Are We Really Going to Let This Happen (Again)?
11. 2000: The Launch of Global Jihad
12. Y2KMind: Oxymoronic Progressives
13. Preemptive Dhimmitude: Unwitting Submission
14. Woke Jihad: Contact Apocalyptic Highs
15. To Sound Minds: On Our Watch?

Glossary for Understanding Caliphator Cogwar in the Twenty-First Century
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index

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From the Publisher

“Few observers of present-day antisemitism have been as tenacious and tough-minded as Richard Landes in identifying the ideas and people responsible for the upsurge of Jew-hatred in recent years. Placing this hostility within the broader context of illiberal thinking and militant anti-democratic movements, Landes plunges readers into the midst of a high-stakes intellectual and political battle. Written by a knowledgeable, sharply judgmental, and deeply committed combatant in today’s ideological debates about Jews and Israel, this book will rouse strong feelings as well as offer bold and provocative insights into matters of great historical and contemporary consequence.”

– Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Professor of English and Jewish Studies and Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University

“If you stay awake pondering the insanity of woke culture, particularly in its virulent form of Israel derangement syndrome, Can ‘The Whole World’ Be Wrong? is likely to give you even more reasons to despair. Opening with a warning “If I’m Right, We’re in Deep Trouble,” Professor Richard Landes provides readers with a guided tour of twenty-first-century obsessions, from ‘liberal cognitive egocentrics’ to demopaths armed with post-colonial kryptonite. At each stop, the meticulously documented book systematically exposes the facades of the intersectional self-righteousness and pseudo-morality of NGO propagandists and narrative journalists.”

– Gerald M. Steinberg, Professor of Political Studies, Bar Ilan University, and founder, NGO Monitor



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